Why I Sold My Etsy Yesterday

  Hey trader, Tuesday morning, I fired off a burn signal position. Friday, I blew out for the quickest 10%-12% I ever made with very little risk (over 250% if you played the options). Then I nailed another burn signal at 186 on the same broadcast. The stock was already trading at 183 by the time I walked members through the setup. The burn signal is on fire right now. But the bigger lesson landed somewhere else entirely. I sold some of my Etsy yesterday. They report next week and I refuse to care what the numbers say. This weekend, I want to show you why the whole point of this business is selling. Buying is the easy part that every retail trader already figured out. The Burn Signal identifies the precise moment when institutions stop accumulating and retail starts chasing. That is when smart money exits and the signal

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The Safety Net Under Your Stocks Just Broke

Hey trader, For two years, every dip got bought. Companies bought back their own stock, insiders loaded up, and the floor held. That floor is gone. I’m going to show you exactly how it broke, who proved it, and what it means for the next leg down. Disney’s board bought shares all the way down and blew out their own investors. Nike’s board did the same thing. CoreWeave insiders did it too. EVERY one of them accelerated the losses on the people they were supposed to protect. The insiders learned the lesson the hard way. You don’t buy back stock at highs. You wait until it crashes and burns, then you support it. That means the buyback put that held this market together for two years is not coming back at these levels. I told my audience this morning that this is a new thought process on Wall Street. The

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Wall Street Has a Name for This

Hey trader, CarMax beat earnings this morning. They reported 34 cents a share. The stock dropped $7. On the same day, the S&P 500 was up 63 points. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs’ own flows desk was tracking higher oil prices, war, out-of-control inflation, and supply chain disruptions. EVERY fundamental signal pointed toward a selloff. Prices went higher anyway. There’s a name for what you just watched. It’s called cognitive dissonance. Leon Festinger identified it in 1957 in a book called “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance.” When beliefs conflict with actions, the brain doesn’t change the behavior. It rationalizes the conflict away instead. This market is doing exactly that right now. Trying to make sense of this with “logic” will only put you on the wrong side of the trade. BUT…irrational behvior won’t last forever. People will eventually wake up to reality. And when cognitive dissonance finally breaks, capital rotates fast into

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I’d Mortgage My House for One Stock…But I Wouldn’t Touch the Other

Hey trader, Everyone is watching the same stocks. They’ll all miss the fastest moves of the year. And I can prove it. Strip out semiconductors and AI from the S&P 500 and the index is down 2,000 points. Every single thing in between has already crashed: Hardware, software, retail, industrials…all of them. But you’d never know that by watching the popular names on your screen. Managers keep chasing 52-week highs in two sectors while liquidating everything else at 52-week lows. There are zero healthy rotations. That’s where you want to be. One of the easiest ways to find them is to follow the Burn Signal. But we’ll get to that in a minute. Because right now, I want to explore the stocks that have the best value popping up on my radar. Nobody Is Doing the Math I told my audience this morning that this market is a cat and

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While You Were Watching Nvidia…

Hey trader, Friday’s March CPI report landed at 3.3% annual inflation. Energy prices surged over 20% in a single month…and the government just glossed right over it. The S&P 500 barely blinked. Semiconductors ripped higher on a blowout quarter from Taiwan Semiconductor… …Retail stocks got absolutely pounded…Cybersecurity names like CrowdStrike cratered because AI is eating their lunch. Two completely different realities played out in the same market, on the same day. Stocks with single-digit P/E ratios are getting annihilated while parabolic names keep getting chased to the sky. The machines don’t care about value… they don’t care about economics… they don’t care about news. It’s buy the chart and screw everything else. I rest my case. I’ve been in this business for 38 years. I have never seen bifurcation this extreme. The weekly MACD turned bearish, the algorithms sniffed it out, and they just dismantled the thing. THAT is what

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The One Indicator That Exposed Today’s Rally

Hey trader, The S&P 500 went lock limit up overnight, and institutions used the rally to sell every major name on my screen. I can prove it. There is one indicator I have tracked for 39 years that shows whether institutions are buying or selling behind the price action. It is called money flow, and it has never lied to me. Today, it told me this rally is a mirage. When institutional capital leaves the crowded names, it does not sit in cash. It rotates into neglected stocks, and it moves fast. That rotation is where the biggest opportunities in this market are forming right now. I call the early clue that tips it off the BURN SIGNAL, and tomorrow I am pulling the curtain back on how it works. But first, let me show you what money flow revealed today. My value longs lifted $4 to $5 per share

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Four Retailers Have Wall Street Saying the Naughty Word

Hey trader, What happens when you add rising costs, falling demand, and a central bank with no bullets left? Stagflation. Both the bull playbook and the bear playbook stop working in stagflation.  The market may not crash, but it won’t rally either. And the market has not come to terms with it yet. What I do know is that if you don’t adjust, you will chop yourself to death on both sides.  Thankfully, it’s not too late to make those changes.  This weekend, we got the clearest signs that’s where the economy is headed. Effective April 17th, Amazon will add a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge for sellers in the US and Canada.  That means in less than two weeks, Amazon is going to bump up its margins by pushing costs directly onto sellers. Walmart, Costco, and BJ’s Wholesale also announced similar charges. Those sellers will pass it right to

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The Energy Trade Is Over

Hey trader, Money managers walked into the first day of Q2 and bought energy with both hands.  Yet, by midday, the XLE was down 4%. I called it out on today’s broadcast: The XLE is in a topping formation. It is an over-owned, fully priced index. If you bought this morning, you are already underwater.

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How Every Rally Feeds the Trap

Hey trader, The S&P 500 popped 50 points at the open this morning. I Skyped Blake Young two words: “Day’s done.” Sellers showed up within minutes and crushed it. This has happened every session for weeks, and most traders still have no explanation for why. I do.  I created a framework called the Hourglass Effect.

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Every Crash Has a Trigger. This One Is Already Here.

Hey trader, Friday morning was a “cell program”…as in a prison cell. Private credit funds are trapped in a $5 billion cell right now as investors rush for the exits.  That headline alone told me everything about where this market is heading. Most people think the market is falling because of the war. The war

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