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How We Built the Fastest Swimmer in History

Ostensibly the video below is about how to swim really really fast and for a sports science geek like me it is fascinating watching. Dig a little deeper and you find it is about revering from failure, rebuilding and staring down an established orthodoxy that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary refuses to accept that…

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The Arrival Fallacy

The arrival fallacy is the illusion that achieving a long-sought goal will deliver lasting fulfilment. For traders, this fallacy is particularly insidious. Many believe that once they hit a specific profit target, build a consistent track record, or finally make it, they’ll reach permanent satisfaction. In reality, the arrival often feels hollow. The dopamine surge…

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US Mid Term Market Review

Wall Street did its own thing after the US midterms, and the result was far more interesting than the political headlines suggested. The Dow surged roughly 3%, but beneath the rising indices, a cluster of companies supplying the AI boom took a hammering. A quick recap of the overnight action shows the following – Interestingly,…

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Ten Minutes With Tate Has AI S^*t The Bed?

This episode breaks down the market psychology, corporate hype, and underlying financial risks driving the current AI investment bubble. It explores how Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) creates inflated expectations across individual traders and massive corporations, examines severe cash burn and obligation risks in major AI startups, draws key lessons from historical tech manias like…

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Ten Minutes With Tate The Silent S&P500 Crash

Apparently, 84% of S&P 500 stocks are below their all-time high. Most have interpreted this as a silent crash unfolding in the index. This has been accompanied by the usual amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Fortunately, those who simply looked at the headline number and made a pronouncement are WRONG. Looking at the…

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Take A Good Look In The Mirror

Trading doesn’t require you to be a superstar every second of the trading day. It does require that you pay attention to what you are doing before your impulses overwhelm you. You can recite the rules of your system chapter and verse and still break them. Here is a simple question for those whose system…

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Artificial Intelligence, Real Debt

The AI Stocks Most Exposed When Bond Markets Bite Last week I dropped this video – The $40 Trillion Milestone in which I posited that rising yields are definitely a bad thing for AI and AI-related stocks because of their sometimes stratospheric borrowings. Over the weekend, I did a deep dive into which stocks had enough…

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Careful What You Wish For

Traders often describe periods when “nothing is working.” Every breakout fails, every exit appears poorly timed, and every missed opportunity seems to confirm that they have lost their touch. This is a universal complaint among all traders – there do seem to be times when absolutely nothing works – or so it seems. The difficulty…

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Ten Minutes With Tate The $40 Trillion Milestone

In August, the global financial architecture didn’t just stumble; it slammed into a $40 trillion wall. For an American economy that has long feasted on the “exorbitant privilege” of the dollar, this isn’t just a sobering milestone—it is a staggering signal that the era of easy fiscal expansion is over.

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