Price tells you what happened. Flow tells you who made it happen and whether they’re likely to keep doing it. I learned to separate those two questions the hard way, watching indexes grind higher on…
Every few months I get some version of the same message from a reader: “I want the safest possible way to generate income from my portfolio, and I don’t want to babysit it.” My honest…
My First Week on IBKR Mobile Nearly Cost Me a Position I had been with Interactive Brokers for my main trading account for about 4 years now, primarily for the commission structure of the accounts,…
Tesla is the most discussed stock in retail investing and is also one of the stocks where retail investors lose money more consistently by doing the things that “make sense” at the time. This is…
Editor’s note: After interviewing a lot of retail investors over the years, I can tell you that the ones who are making money don’t have any great story to tell. The stories are great, the…
It took me 4 hours to research the first stock I ever did “seriously”. I read the annual report and saw the P/E ratio, I saw what a few analysts had to say and I…
On a Friday afternoon, try opening Interactive Brokers, watching the Baidu options chain for 45 minutes and debating with yourself whether to trade or not, whether you want to trade more or less, whether you…
I’m going to start this with a confession that makes me a little less credible, but I’ll be honest with you: For the first four years I was a subscriber to Seeking Alpha, I paid…
Back in October 2019, I had $4,200 sitting in a brokerage account doing absolutely nothing, waiting for Boeing to drop to a price I actually liked. It never did. Not that month, not that quarter.…
I sold too early once before. 2021. Called the market frothy at 35x CAPE, moved a chunk to cash, felt very smart for about six weeks before the index climbed another 18% without me. That…
The Federal Reserve chairman spent much of 2024 and 2025 carefully engineering what looked like a textbook soft landing — six rate cuts totaling 175 basis points, inflation gradually retreating, the labor market slowing without…
There is a number floating around Wall Street right now that has the quality of a fever dream. Seven hundred billion dollars. That is the combined capital expenditure that Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle…
Here’s a scene I’ve watched play out too many times. A new investor opens a brokerage account, discovers the dividend yield column, sorts it from highest to lowest, and immediately feels like they’ve found the…
