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Price makes news, not the other way around

By Markus · October 4, 2023 · 4 min

The US stock market has been in a drawdown for almost 2 years since the start of 2022, when it made the last all-time high. There’s still a lot of…

By Markus · August 24, 2023 · 2 min

The title originates from Walter Deemer who had a 52-year career as a market analyst in Wall Street. I haven’t read his books, but the quote gave me…

By Markus · July 3, 2023 · 2 min

Wise words by Annie Duke, whose book “ Thinking in Bets ” I read and reviewed in the blog several years ago. What she means with this quote is that…

By Markus · March 27, 2023 · 4 min

At the beginning of my trading journey I was fond of trading quotes and I used to write them down in a file together with an explanation of how I…

By Markus · January 1, 2023 · 4 min

The stock market is not a friendly place, where everyone is guaranteed to make money by having exposure in securities. It’s a highly competitive…

By Markus · November 30, 2022 · 3 min

I remember listening to traders speak on podcasts about trading having finally clicked to them, and being in a starting phase during my first six…