Markets rarely move for one reason. Several forces act at once, some aligned and some opposed. Understanding a market is mainly a matter of sorting which ones carry weight. That sorting is often done badly, because explanation drifts into prediction. A statement about what has happened becomes a statement about what will happen. The second …
bonds, demand, gold, risk, silver, structural, trajectories
Leopold Aschenbrenner: Rise, Overreach, Collapse of an AI Visionary’s Hedge Fund
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Abstract Leopold Aschenbrenner, a German-born former OpenAI researcher who graduated as Columbia University valedictorian at age 19, rose rapidly as a public intellectual on artificial general intelligence (AGI) timelines after publishing his influential June 2024 essay series Situational Awareness. He founded the AI-themed hedge fund Situational Awareness LP later that year. The fund delivered extraordinary …
The Cannabis Pivot – Factual Breakdown of the Schedule III Shift
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After 56 years of federal gridlock, the “Schedule I” era is officially over. On Thursday, April 23, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed the historic order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance—a shift that fundamentally alters the financial DNA of every cannabis company operating on US soil. For traders, this isn’t just …
pivot, ETF, news, early, stocks, trading, investing, cannabis
The Mechanics of Money: Unravelling the Japan-US Debt Spiral
Global finance often feels like a closed loop of jargon, but beneath the complex terminology lie simple, brutal mechanics of supply and demand. Nowhere is this clearer than in the current standoff between the Japanese Yen and the US Treasury market. This post deconstructs the “conundrums” of sovereign debt and currency intervention, using practical analogies …
The Japan Macro Survival Guide (2026 Edition)
Introduction: The Gravity-Defying Experiment Japan is currently attempting an economic feat that defies conventional gravity: maintaining near-zero interest rates in a world of inflation, while trying to prevent its currency from collapsing. For the average trader, this creates a landscape filled with counter-intuitive traps—where “good” economic news crashes the stock market, and a dying currency …
What is technical analysis?
When I first started off learning TA, I thought it was ‘technical’. There is nothing technical about it. Technical tends to mean something very complex. It’s not that. TA is a strange two words. Actually, there is little in the way of analysis with pen and paper. Almost never is a calculator required. Basically you …