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What Trading Finally Taught Me About My Own Wiring

Jun 5 · 6 min read · Hey traders, I got my monthly recap this week, and it sent me back through the last nine months. Not the start of my trading. I have been at this a long time, longer than I would like to admit. I put

Why "IQ" Is the Wrong Measure for Traders

Jun 3 · 6 min read · There's a trader in every prop firm who can solve logic puzzles faster than anyone on the floor, aces every cognitive test HR has ever thrown at him, and cannot hold three moving parts in his head dur

The Cognitive Lens of George Soros: When the Body Becomes the Best Risk Signal

May 21 · 8 min read · George Soros broke the Bank of England in 1992. The trade made him an estimated billion dollars in a day and made his name beyond hedge-fund circles. What makes Soros the right closing case study for

The Cognitive Lens of Jesse Livermore: Ability Without Regulation Blows Accounts

May 19 · 7 min read · Jesse Livermore could call the market and still lost everything. Multiple times. The boy plunger who became a multimillionaire by reading the tape at fifteen, who made an estimated hundred million dol

The Cognitive Lens of Michael Burry: When Cognitive Difference Becomes Edge

May 17 · 7 min read · Michael Burry spent months reading mortgage prospectuses while everyone else dismissed them. The Big Short fame is the result. What makes Burry the right case study for this framework is not the trade