Ten years ago, the thing that separated a professional from a retail trader was information. They had terminals, analysts and speed. You had a delayed quote and a forum. That gap is gone. You can now ask a machine to read every filing, summarise every earnings call and scan every chart before your coffee is […]
Have you ever watched a central bank raise rates for the first time in three years, the 10-year Treasury yield climb to a level last seen in 2007, oil gain 14%, and the Nasdaq still set a record close? That was September 2026. The S&P 500 slipped about half a percent to 7,651, the Dow […]
August 2026 presented investors with an unusually contradictory market environment. U.S. equities continued to advance despite weakening labor-market conditions, elevated long-term Treasury yields, persistent inflation pressure, and an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 gained approximately 2.6% during the month and the Nasdaq Composite rose close to 4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]
July was the month the argument that started in June finally got settled, and the market did not like the answer. June cracked the AI trade and then patched it up in the final two sessions. July reopened the wound, poured salt in it, and only stopped the bleeding on the very last day. When […]
June was the month the market finally started arguing with itself. The first two days printed fresh record highs across the board, the middle of the month brought a hawkish new Fed chair and a savage AI selloff that wiped more than a trillion dollars off the chip names, and the final two sessions clawed […]
