The Record

These get updated when the evidence changes — if something turned out to be wrong, you'll find the correction here, not a new post pretending the old one never happened. Everything started with someone losing money.

• And the only limit order is yourself established Why you keep making the same mistakes and how to fix it with modern portfolio theory and three practical indicators that matter.
• And you're failing the test established The marshmallow test is a useful analogy for trading time horizons and self-control.
• And you're ignoring your failures. established Why most retail traders ignore losing data and pay for it repeatedly.
• The Pipeline Nobody Warns You About developing How profitable retail traders drift into regulated activity before they realize it.
• The Rules Don't Apply to Me developing The most expensive belief in retail trading is thinking compliance is only for big firms.
• The Trap Was the Product seed The 401(k), gig work, and AI subscriptions all run the same play: subsidize access, shift risk downward, and raise the toll once dependence sets in.
• What Insiders File (And Retail Ignores) seed There's one category of public market data that doesn't require speed, licensed feeds, or institutional infrastructure. Almost nobody uses it.
• You Were There: Friday the 13th Mini-Crash established October 13, 1989 — The day the LBO dream died. What it felt like to trade from home when the UAL buyout collapsed.
• You Were There: The Flash Crash established May 6, 2010 — The day the plumbing exploded. A first-hand account from inside a trading technology company.
• Your Backtest Doesn't Know You Exist developing Backtesting, paper trading, and market replay all share the same flaw — they simulate a market that doesn't know you're in it.