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When Brett writes a new book, we read. Congrats, Brett Steenbarger!

Everyone's buying supplements. Nobody's eating sardines. Cheap, nutrient-dense, omega-3 loaded. Sound familiar? The best trades are always hiding in plain sight. 🐟

Want to become a better trader? Read more fiction. I'm serious. Cormac McCarthy, Amor Towles, John Steinbeck, Philip Roth, Paul Auster — these writers will do more for your trading psychology than any course, any webinar, any guru. A calm mind survives the chaos. Fiction

amazon.com/Invisible-Trad… Carter's face flushed. "The VRS methodology is statistically robust. It's used by professional traders—" "Is it though?" Ryder turned to leave, then paused. "Here's a free tip, Carter: when the stock market and your spreadsheet disagree, the market's

It was yesterday's disaster playing out in slow motion—his position still bleeding, his face carefully blank, his hands moving too much. The whole desk could see it happening. No one said anything. That was the etiquette when someone was dying in public.

amazon.com/Invisible-Trad… Vivian's expression could have frozen water. "Johnny, their input costs just spiked 40%. Their margins are evaporating. Consumer demand is irrelevant if they're losing money on every pig they sell." She paused, letting it sink in. "You bought a company in

It’s that hour of the morning when I find myself in the kitchen, pressing a lime. A trader’s ritual—one I highly recommend.

"Maybe. Maybe not." His father was quiet for a moment. "You know what the difference is between the traders who make it and the ones who don't? It's not intelligence. It's not instinct. It's humility. The ability to admit when you're wrong, cut your losses, and move on. You've

A successful lawyer. A woman falling off a bridge. One moment of inaction that unravels everything he thought he was. Camus's last novel is a confession nobody asked for — and the most honest book you'll ever read. The Fall. 📖

Champions train when they don't feel like it. Traders who last do the same thing — just with backtests instead of balls. h/t: Rafa Nadal

Watch Hard Lessons, as legendary investor Stan Druckenmiller sits down with Morgan Stanley’s Iliana Bouzali, sharing how he would construct a portfolio if he had to start over today, why contrarianism is overrated, and which stock he regrets selling too early.

War-driven headline risk is brutal. Trading through it is deeply frustrating. #iran

amazon.com/Invisible-Trad… Carter slumped back into his chair. On his screen, GIBO ticked up to $37.40. His loss expanded to $2,480. "Ms. Steele," he said quietly. "What should I do?" "Close the position. Take the loss. Study market regimes—trending versus ranging, high volatility

A blueberry milk smoothie at breakfast is one of my favorite dietary rituals on trading days.

I had assumed the USO ETF distributed its exposure along the futures curve. It turns out, however, that it's highly concentrated in the front-month contract and the second month. $USO #iran #crudeoil

Yo-yo trading in crude oil.

amazon.com/Invisible-Trad… A friend read some of my work recently and said something that stuck with me: "Thirty years of trading floors gives your fiction something no amount of research can replicate. The technical detail feels lived rather than explained, and the psychology —