The Practitioner's Desk · 15 years in the markets
Macro, indices, US stocks, commodities, and FX — written for the time-constrained trader who already knows the difference between a setup and a story.
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Four straight weeks higher on SPX into declining breadth. The path of least resistance is still up — but I'm cash up into Wednesday's CPI. Position size for what you can sleep on, not what you can dream about.
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Edge is the most over-used word in retail trading. Here is the working definition I use after fifteen years — and the four questions that separate a real edge from a story you tell yourself.
I took a swing short on NQ this week. It didn't work. Here's the entry logic, the invalidation, what I actually did when it failed, and why the process was still correct.
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A short orientation to how I think about markets — and what kind of reading you can expect from this publication.
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