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After the Screenshot Parade
Friday felt like a dare answered. All week (and also the one before), the timeline was a confetti cannon: record P&Ls, victory screenshots, everyone suddenly fluent in genius. Then the market did the rude thing it always keeps in its pocket.
One giant red candle, stocks and indexes, and crypto the same shade, billions erased in the time it takes to finish your coffee. Stairs up, elevator down. No apology, no lesson plan, just the drop.
If you need a scale: twenty days of up carved out by a single bar. Twenty. If that doesnāt reset your posture, youāre not trading, youāre gambling with borrowed luck.
Do yourself a favor this week: leave the storylines to the people who need them. Trump, China, Rare Earth, Aliens, whatever the media pins to the board to explain why you feel sick, theyāre props. Price is the plot. Follow it. Then wait. And wait. And wait some more. The urge to mash buttons is how red candles turn into red weeks. Use your head.
Anyone can push: professionals pause.
Weāre early for shorts and late for hero longs. Thatās the honest map. Utilities are the only sector with a clean halo: respectable, defensive, not exactly the soundtrack to a bullās greatest hits album. We scan thousands of tickers a week; patterns usually hum before they sing. Right now, the hum is faint. A few biotechs show relative strength, enough to circle but not enough to bet the house.
We ended the week mostly in cash. BLDR is the last holdout, and even that might meet the exit door on Monday if it forgets why weāre in it. This isnāt cowardice. Itās a craft.
What mattered most was the boring thing: we managed risk like it pays our rentābecause it does. We closed everything with profit, gave back only the imaginary kind they print on your screen to make you reckless. Maybe we underperformed the mania the last couple weeks. Fine. Weāre still sitting at or near performance highs without donating sanity back to the house. Mental capital is a position. Guard it.
The gauges are not serenading us. T2118 sits at 8.72; if it dips under 5 this week, expect at least a deadācat bounce, maybe better. Itās been sliding for thirty days straight. T2108 at 25.53 says thereās room to rot further. Mixed signals. Mixed signals breed bad decisions if you force answers out of them.
So hereās the gospel for the moment: brake lights on. Give it a week. Let the chart add color, let the tape show its next trick. Volatility is on the schedule; you donāt need a press release to know that.
There will be days that look like salvation and nights that taste like copper.
Stand down from the need to be first. Be right enough, late enough, with capital intact.
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