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Don Kaufman: The Slop Trader's Confession
I'm sitting here getting frustrated, waiting for my reversal, and I'm just not getting it.
But you know what? I'm not gonna force anything in what is a fairly slop marketplace.
That's the thing nobody tells you about professional trading - sometimes the best trade is no trade, and it pisses you off.
Right now, I'm looking at my screen and it's pure slop. Tech is slopping around.
The advance decline line could probably be six stocks.
Hell, it could literally be Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and then we're done counting. Even Broadcom isn't exactly moving things out there.
And here I am, admitting something that'll probably shock you: I just paid a dollar nine for a 682 put in the XSP, knowing absolutely nothing.
Yeah, you heard that right.
A professional trader just told you he made a gamble based on gut feeling. Does this mean the market has to reverse?
Hell no.
But if it does, it would be something spectacular.
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Brandon Chapman: NKE Showed How to Profit from Earnings Trades
Nike reported stellar earnings. Beat by 43%.
Stock crashed anyway.
Most traders watching CNBC scratched their heads. The Ghost Prints community walked away with 140% overnight.
I want to show you what you can learn from this, and how you can be ready for the next big trade.
Let's walk through the progression.
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Gianni Di Poce: 2026: A Year for the Consumer Comeback
As major stock indices continue to chop around near their all-time highs, the sector rotations underneath the surface have been telling a compelling story.
You better not be betting against the consumer going into 2026.
The CPI data from earlier in the week came in way cooler than expected. Crude oil prices are breaking down. Important consumer bellwether and retail stocks are hitting multi-year highs.
Does the market know something the public hasn't caught onto yet?
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Jeff Bierman: What Shaq Knows About Trading That You Don't
I finished my last undergrad class this semester.
Done teaching at Loyola until January when the grad course picks back up.
Walking through campus in that freezing wind, I kept thinking about something Shaquille O'Neal said.
An interviewer asked him about being worth half a billion dollars.
Shaq said he would not tell them exactly how much he had. But he could tell them this. It is not how much money I make that makes me wealthy. It is how much money I keep.
One of the greatest lines ever.
I have friends who brag about making three hundred thousand a year and they are broke. I know traders who post screenshots of winning days but cannot show you their account at year end.
This weekend I want to talk about the lesson that took me 38 years to really understand…
…The lesson that separates people who build wealth from people who just make money.
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Blake Young: Trading Traditions and Holiday Magic
I want to flip the way I write this weekend article. I will talk about trading first and personal at the end.
As we enter the full swing of the holiday season, I was thinking of traditions both new and old. I found a parallel between tradition and trading rules.
Tradition creates the often-unsaid rulebook that we follow. In life, we may follow a tradition without knowing where it came from or why we do it.
In trading, those traditions could be a rule set or indicators that we once heard work in a specific way. Now we have them as our core methodology without knowing their origin.
Traditions shape us. When we have a rule set, we may think it is hard and fast law.
But it really should not be. It may have brought us success in the past, but we need to be willing to adapt as our knowledge increases.
Market conditions change. We can adjust our system to different indicator values and different options strategies without abandoning the entire plan.
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Tony Rago: The Framework That Replaces Guessing
Wednesday morning, CPI data dropped and the NQ was sitting at a critical inflection point.
Traders in my room wanted to know what to do.
Buy the level because it's on the chart? Short into strength? Wait for confirmation?
I walked them through exactly how I think about these moments.
"I don't ever just like blind buy stuff. I put a thesis together."
That thesis has a simple structure: If X happens, then Y follows.
The market gives you a condition, and that condition tells you what comes next. Not prediction. Not hope.
Just logical sequencing from one level to the next.
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