So many traders are told to disconnect from their emotions. “Detach. Suppress. Stay neutral.” But when you disassociate from emotion, you lose its intelligence — the signal pointing to what needs fixing in your game. The best traders don’t run from emotion — they lean into it.

Why do successful quant-style poker players struggle in trading? Because in markets, pocket Aces can turn into a weak pair in seconds. Poker players cling to probabilities — Top traders operate in possibilities. The best opportunities are emergent — They’re not captive to

Chess has been conquered by the machine Fixed rules. Fixed distributions. No emergence. Markets are the opposite. Rules shift. Distributions morph. Patterns emerge, evolve, then vanish. That’s why humans still navigate markets better than machines. Imagination > computation.

Fresh Dispatches from Axia Futures floors! Why buy S&Ps and Sell WTI/Brent on missiles and explosions? >asymmetrist.com/p/stage Oh, yeah btw—big Fedspeak trade in the middle of it all. #trading #futurestrading #markets

Setting up a trading desk — remote or physical — is really about nailing the pattern of team design and human interaction. Think of it as the feng shui of trading. A few things I look for when building or assessing team architecture: •The design and flow of interactions

Top traders know how to adapt and stay present when markets move outside the data distribution, trading the novel instead of freezing when models break.

A trading floor is still one of the most powerful decision-making systems in the world. Why? It works like a multiscale competency architecture in biology. Each trader — like a cell — navigates their own problem domain: execution, timing, narrative, liquidity. These traders

How do you 10X a team of Great traders? It’s not about more individual brilliance — it’s about designing the right collaborative mechanisms The more effective and innovative those tools are, the greater the delta for accelerated knowledge acquisition and monetisation — for both

At AXIA our goal, with a kind yet firm heart, is to be an assiduous nourisher of talent

AI is the endgame of logic— the final crescendo of Aristotle’s Organon. It’s maxed out the left brain: big data, computational efficiency, relentless infrastructure. But the next leap isn’t logical. The future is right-brain: Learning to be wildly human. Imagination. Emotion.

A trader is always made in the next cycle! Asymmetrist A new trader needs to survive till the next opportunity cycle and then that’s when the trader becomes. asymmetrist.com/p/qr2-part2

Every trader needs a twist in their story. That moment it didn’t go to plan. Because the twist isn’t the failure — it’s the signal. The turning point. The growth lives there. No twist, no edge.

Well‑designed collaboration scatters edge across the team, turning individual insights into collective alpha. The sum becomes greater than the parts.

Why do junior traders start closing the gap on the veterans? Because when the markets sleep, they wake up. The weekend mind is a reflective beast — creative, expansive, unburdened by noise. It’s Sunday, 5:30pm in Cyprus. The juniors are still here, igniting the collective