The cold hit Chicago hard this week. Thirty-five degrees Monday morning…Twenty-nine Wednesday night. I walked out the door Monday in a turtleneck because I had to lecture downtown at Loyola. The wind chill made it feel like thirty. No snow yet, but the kind of cold that reminds you winter is coming
General Electric Aerospace sat at $190 for three weeks straight. The same pattern happened over and over… higher highs…pullback…rinse and repeat… …Then suddenly nothing. The stock just parked itself in a tight range between $185 and $195. Every attempt to push higher got rejected immediately. Most t
The S P opened up 120 points this morning. Nvidia crushed earnings. The delayed September jobs report came in at 119,000. Every technical indicator screamed bullish. The advance-decline ratio hit 21 to 4. I watched my account go vertical as shorts covered and call buyers rushed in. Then I checked th
The ES needs to hold $6575. That’s what I told Gianni Di Poce. Otherwise, we’re heading to $6300. I track the Genesis COG across three timeframes: Weekly, daily, and intraday. For seven months, all three pointed up. Algorithms defended every dip. Systematic buying rescued every selloff. That ended y
Peter Thiel dumped his entire NVIDIA position last weekend. All of it. His macro fund liquidated 537,742 shares worth over $100 million during the third quarter. The 13-F filing hit the wires this past weekend. Ten days earlier, SoftBank bailed on $8.5 billion in NVIDIA holdings. Two massive exits i
I started grading exams at three in the morning Tuesday. Forty-nine students. Corporate finance midterms. Questions about capital budgeting. Breakeven analysis. Degree of operating leverage. Most of them got it right. The math, anyway. The formulas. The technical mechanics of how businesses calculat
You'll get one day to exit when this breaks. One massive down day where everyone tries to sell at once. No bounce after...No recovery...No second chance. Just a straight drop through every support level while you watch your positions bleed out with no bid. That's not fear mongering. That's mechanica
The S P just touched 6,800. New all-time highs. Everyone's celebrating. But pull up the daily chart and look at what's actually happening. The market isn't climbing. It's dancing. Tippy-toeing on razor-thin candles that barely touch each dip before bouncing higher. This is what traders call "trip th
The market hasn't corrected in six months despite every reason it should. That's not bullish strength. That's algorithmic defense. Right now, the algos are watching three specific thresholds holding this entire structure together. When all three break simultaneously, it won’t be a gentle decline…it’
