Day Trading for Beginners: The 5 Mistakes That Blow Up New Traders Last updated: 12 August 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe New day traders lose to professionals for five repeatable reasons, and none of them is a lack of talent. They trade without a written plan, they skip the practice reps, they hold losers […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 10 August 2026 A triangle pattern is a chart pattern where price gets squeezed between two trendlines that slope towards each other, until it breaks out, usually in the direction of the trend that came before it. There are three types. The ascending triangle has a flat top […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 11 August 2026 The head and shoulders is a reversal pattern that shows up at the end of a long uptrend. Price makes three peaks: a high called the left shoulder, a higher high called the head, and then a lower high called the right shoulder, which fails […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 13 October 2026 The cup and handle is a bullish chart pattern built from two bases. First comes a wide, rounded U called the cup, where price slowly climbs back to an old high, and then a small, shallow dip called the handle forms just under that high […]
Die With Zero: The Book That Made Me Rethink Money, Time, and Why I Stopped Chasing More Last updated: 20 August 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe “Die with Zero” by Bill Perkins argues that the goal of money is not to accumulate as much as possible, but to convert it into life experiences before […]