___________________ The story is written in the third person, but it’s a true story about my experience trading the 2010 flash crash. # FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT May 6, 2010 4:55AM The Connecticut air is cold and damp. The trader moves in silence. He steps quietly through the pitch-black darkness of…

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A short piece of speculative financial fiction December 4, 2053 Jack Donnelly kneeled on the faux-distressed leather recliner and looked across the upscale Manhattan hospital room at his withering grandfather. Grampa was awake, staring into nowhere, thinking about who knows what. Jack looked around. He looked outside. Dark clouds hung…

MacroTactical Crypto #33 This is an excerpt from my weekly crypto newsletter: MacroTactical Crypto. You can sign up here. Here is something I have been thinking about a lot recently… One impact of crypto winter is that interest from non-crypto people cools off. With very few useful mainstream applications ready…

About TradFi vs. crypto, gumption, and The Battle for the Ring Listen to this as a podcast on the web here. Listen to this as a podcast on Spotify here Listen to this as a podcast on Apple here Welcome to MacroTactical Crypto #16. Today, for your listening and/or reading…

Sometimes I am blown away by the fact that I can still have new thoughts about trading after so many years. You would think that at some point… you just know what you know… after living and breathing trading and macro for 25 years… There must be nothing left to…

Trade 1: Short XAUEUR. Selling gold, buying euros. Let’s get this party started! Hi. You can sign up for this Substack here: https://50in50.substack.com/ Welcome to Fifty Trades in Fifty Weeks, Volume 1, Number 1. Thank you reading! …

The Magazine Cover Indicator Today I look at the empirical evidence in support of The Magazine Cover Indicator. With Elon Musk gracing Time’s cover as the 2021 Person of the Year, it seems like a good time to revisit this topic. Anecdotes can be useful indicators You will notice that…