Collective Mood: Follow the Crowd, Join the Carnage July 17, 2025 Introduction: The Illusion of Consensus Every bubble starts not with data, but with a feeling—warm, collective, and dead wrong. The crowd doesn’t analyse; it absorbs. And once the emotional temperature hits a boiling point, logic melts. Markets become mirrors, not machines—everyone staring at each … Read more
Hemline Index: Short Skirts Signal Tops and Investor Greed July 17, 2025 There’s something about peak euphoria you can’t fake. The champagne flows. So do the skirts. We’ve all felt it—that eerie vibe when everyone’s making money, everyone’s partying, and the market’s up only. It’s in the music, the fashion, the runway—it’s everywhere except caution. … Read more
Roaring Twenties Fashion: Sexy Looks, Stupid Bets, Brutal Ends July 17, 2025 “When even the shoeshine boy is handing out stock tips, it’s time to get out.” — paraphrased from Jesse Livermore. The year is 1920. America’s roaring, jazz-blaring, automobile-pumping, radio-crackling economy is on fire. Everyone from industrial tycoons to maids and milkmen … Read more
Intelligent Investors Don’t Chase—They Wait, Watch, Strike Jul 16, 2025 The market opens. Tickers flash red and green like slot machines. Twitter erupts with hot takes about the latest momentum play. Discord channels buzz with screenshots of overnight gains. Everyone’s moving, reacting, chasing the next trade that might finally be “the one.” The noise is … Read more
What Is a Fractional Share: Smart Access or Hidden Trap? Jul 16, 2025 Click. Five dollars of Apple stock lands in your portfolio. The app celebrates with confetti and congratulations. You’re now an investor, it says. A shareholder. Part owner of one of the world’s most valuable companies. But are you really? Or have you … Read more
The Death of the Dollar: Mirage or Meltdown? July 14, 2025 The “Death of the Dollar” has become a liturgical chant—a ceremony of collapse endlessly rehearsed but never performed. We’ve heard it before. We’ll listen to it again. And yet the dollar persists, not as a phoenix, but as a cockroach—resilient, unfazed, crawling over … Read more
Historical Market Cycles: Learn the Pattern or Pay the Price Jul 14, 2025 The market crashes, and suddenly everyone’s a student of history. The talking heads dust off their charts, the books on past panics fly off the shelves, and the crowd wonders how nobody saw it coming. But the clues were there long before … Read more
S&P 500 Advance/Decline Line: Indicator or Illusion? Jul 14, 2025 The S&P 500 is climbing to new highs, but something feels off. Beneath the triumphant headlines, the advance/decline line is whispering a different story—fewer stocks participating, momentum narrowing, internals rotting while the index puts on a brave face. You pull up the chart, see the … Read more
When Might the 50/30/20 Rule Not Be the Best Saving Strategy to Use? Let’s See Jul 14, 2025 The rule says save 20%. But what if 20% isn’t enough—or isn’t even possible? What if your rent eats 70% of your income? What if you’re drowning in student loans at 8% interest while dutifully stashing away … Read more
What Is Analysis Paralysis? Overthinking Yourself into a Corner July13, 2025 Trapped by Thought: The Market’s Invisible Straitjacket Picture this: an investor planted in front of a sea of monitors, surrounded by charts, alerts, and nonstop data streams. Minutes turn into hours. Nothing happens. No trades. No action. The moment passes—and so does the … Read more
