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Trader, friend, learner
Sep 8 11 tweets 2 min read
Rules of Trading:
1) Don't lose money
2) Make money

Lots of small positions with a special focus on options with decent sized premium representing a lot of non-recourse leverage (mentally treating ATM options as their notional implied exposures)
Wide universe of trading Account has crypto, options, international stocks, US stocks, sometimes bond ETFs, occasionally currency options
Sep 3 20 tweets 4 min read
Trading crime assets: the anatomy of a griftcycle
Given we're in the Golden Age of scams, grifts, and presidential rugs, it's timely to write about how to trade "crime assets" - assets related to specific crimes (corruption, mainly, but sometimes outright pump and dumps) The genesis of the modern crime asset belongs to a mix of the crypto 2017-era ICO pumps & 2018 marijuana boom and the 2020-2021 meme stock hype cycle, where the common denominator of both is a retail induced hype cycle, spread via social media, using modern psych ops --