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Huge dim reservoir: a dark silent torrent pours out through a breach in the wall, while from a small pipe on the opposite side a thin thread of glowing amber liquid trickles in, tiny by comparison
Crypto

The flip happened, just not where you were looking

Ether ETFs beat bitcoin ETFs for the first time: 365 million against 205. What those numbers really say, and why the price…

Continua a leggere →21 Aug 2026 · 9 min
Monumental wall of stacked glowing amber blocks emerging from the dark, its top sliced perfectly flat, with a faint scaffolding of light hovering above the cut like a job left half done
Trading Operations

Poor high and poor low: the extreme that never finished the job

Poor high and poor low, or bad high and bad low: how to spot an extreme where the auction never closed, excess…

Continua a leggere →19 Aug 2026 · 10 min
Vertical wall of glowing amber blocks resembling a volume profile, crossed by a completely empty band through which a streak of light races without meeting any obstacle
Trading Operations

Absorption, exhaustion, imbalances: how you pick the price of your order

Absorption, exhaustion and imbalances on the footprint, and how a setup is built: why an FVG is a volumetric void, with two…

Continua a leggere →11 Aug 2026 · 16 min
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Macro

Friday’s NFP: this time bad news is not good news

Preview of the US payrolls on 7 August: consensus +80K, unemployment 4.2%, wages +3.5%. With this Fed the reaction runs backwards: the…

Continua a leggere →6 Aug 2026 · 10 min
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Trading Operations

Bid/ask candles: what a normal candle doesn’t tell you

What bid/ask footprint candles are and how to read them: volume at every price, delta, and who was really aggressive. With a…

Continua a leggere →4 Aug 2026 · 13 min
Clessidra incandescente con sabbia d'ambra che cola, concetto di opzioni a scadenza zero giorni
Trading Operations

0DTE: the options that expire same day, and why they move you too

Hi trader, in the first piece of this series I left you with a promise. I told you that the clean picture…

Continua a leggere →31 Jul 2026 · 9 min
Fed funds rate path chart showing hold versus hike scenario, July 29 meeting
Forex

Fed today: almost nobody expects a move, and that’s exactly where the risk hides

Hi trader, today is one of those days. At eight in the evening, our time, the Federal Reserve has its say on…

Continua a leggere →29 Jul 2026 · 7 min
Nucleo di cristallo che emette un campo di forza con candele di vetro in orbita, concetto di gamma exposure
Trading Operations

GEX Explained Simply: Why Some Days the Index Sits Still and Others It Crashes

Hi trader, let me tell you about two days, take the same index, put it in the exact same context. Day one.…

Continua a leggere →27 Jul 2026 · 11 min
Red liquidation cascade: 253 million in leveraged positions closed by force
Crypto

Leverage and liquidations: how you get wiped out

Hey trader, let me tell you how you burn 253 million dollars in a single day. You don’t need an epic crash,…

Continua a leggere →24 Jul 2026 · 5 min
Rising US dollar index with Fed, ECB and BoJ rates compared
Macro

The strong dollar and what it really does to your trades

Hey trader, let me ask you a blunt question. When you take a trade, on gold, on the DAX, on EUR/USD, do…

Continua a leggere →22 Jul 2026 · 4 min
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Pillole di Trading

Trading journal: without one, you’re trading blind

Your memory is lying to you. Ask a trader how the month went and the answer comes from feeling: “bad”, “so-so”, “I…

Continua a leggere →20 Jul 2026 · 5 min
Crypto

Ethereum, the Brother Left Behind: Can It Still Catch Up?

🤓 Nerd Mode While Bitcoin grabs all the spotlight, the spot ETFs and the “digital gold” narrative, Ethereum has been left behind.…

Continua a leggere →17 Jul 2026 · 4 min
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