Genie: I'll grant you one wish Me: SPY to finally break this 6 month range Genie: Done Circuit breaker

WTI Oil is gonna renamed to WTF Oil today

I feel fucking physically sick right now. A cautionary tale if anyone bothers to read. I timed the war "black swan". Last week, I dont remember which day, US announced the Crude Oil Inventories data. It came 16.5M vs 1.5M expected. Oil went down but I saw this as war prep. With the week also being the end of Donnie's ultimatum I full ported USO calls. About 35K worth. War broke out and I felt like a god. Watched news and weekend Oil all weekend. Come monday morning, Oil was reasonably up sbout 7.5% at open. This is where my trading PTSD and psychology comes in. This is the second black swan I timed. I was there at Video Game Store Stock. Turned 150$ in to 150K$. Then I watched the buy button turn off, thinking "it will go back", I eventually got out with 10K profit. I said to myself with USO, "Not this time". I closed it all at open. Oil did drop during the monday session so I felt I did good. Was looking at 30K profit. That same position is worth 220K$+ right now. Worst of it all I overtraded and reduced that 30K to 10K with bunch of different trades. The lesson here is, do not compare apples to oranges. Every trade is different. If your thesis is working manage risk and see it through. Dont doubt yourself when you are right about something big.

THERE IS A WAR IN IRAN??!

The gulf states are a creature of the United States. They are tremendously vulnerable yet generate tremendous wealth , half of which is invested in the US. (And is going to go bye bye thanks to trump's ingenious forward planning /s) They have no food or water. Probably half their food comes through the strait. Their water comes from desalination plants. Iran can bomb them with cheap drones. It can bomb the water plants, the US Navy in UAE or Bahrain (?), it can starve them by closing the strait. The US can't prevent it. Israel and someone in the US, if not our stable genius, knew all of this before we started this. I have to assume it suits Israel's interests, in their extremist view of things. So, the Arab states will not be investing as much.

BREAKING: Three of the four largest Gulf economies -- Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait -- are reportedly discussing withdrawing from U.S. and other international investments as the economic toll from the escalating war with Iran grows, according to the Financial Times. Officials say "budget strains" are mounting as energy revenues decline and disruptions hit shipping and tourism across the region. As a result, some Gulf governments are considering reassessing major foreign investment commitments, including those in the United States. Sources described the potential shift as a "precautionary measure," but the implications could be enormous. Gulf sovereign wealth funds collectively hold more than $2 trillion in U.S. investments, meaning any pullback could send shockwaves through markets and financial institutions.

I thought these tech companies kept saying that AI would bring more jobs. Also, he now needs to fund his son's purchase of WBD, so I hope the shares tank even more.

In an alternate timeline, President Kamala Harris is judging a spelling bee while SPY tops 800

And to have a track record of at least 6 months winning counter-trend Lots of people look like geniuses in a bull market spamming the buy button But can you win in a falling or sideways market? I trade professionally and am up 6% this year making only long trades in QQQ and IBIT, which are flat/way down as instruments YTD.

RIP to those two guys who bought 1,000 SPY 700c for tomorrow LMAO