Red Market Playbook: Fortress Covered Calls, Bearish Watchlist, and Bullish Setups
When the market turns red, a lot of traders try to be heroes. They try to pick bottoms. They guess. They hope.
That’s usually how people get hurt.
In this update, Mark Yegge walked through what he showed his fri...
Tariff Refund Chaos and Market Volatility: A Clear Way to Think About Your Portfolio
$166 billion. That’s about how much U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) collected from a set of tariffs that courts have now said should be refunded. (AP News)
Here’s the wild part: CBP told the court they...
Most investors spend their entire careers chasing the market.
They buy late when things feel “safe.”
They panic sell when things feel scary.
They hope this year is finally the year everything clicks.
But there’s a different way—a systematic way. A method that turns your portfolio into something...
There’s a time of day most traders don’t respect enough: the first 45 minutes to an hour after the market opens.
Some call it “amateur hour.” Not because you’re dumb—because the structure of the open is emotional, messy, and dominated by players with deeper wallets, better tools, and more patien...
Oil is pushing higher. War headlines are flashing. Tariffs are kicking in. Open any financial news app and it’s easy to feel like the sky is falling.
Most investors respond the same way: they do nothing. They sit on cash, refresh headlines, and wait for someone to say it’s safe.
In a recent mar...
If you’ve been investing for more than five minutes, you already know the truth: every market feels like a crazy market. One week it’s tariffs. The next week it’s a headline that shakes the world. There’s always something.
That’s why I like systems that don’t rely on predicting the next news cyc...
A few weeks ago I ran a “10K DARE” challenge: five nights in a row showing how covered calls can produce serious income (depending on account size).
After the challenge, a student emailed me. He said he ran seven positions in stocks (like Nvidia, Philip Morris, and Micron) and finished the week ...
It’s a rough day on Wall Street.
Major indexes are sharply lower. The Dow dropped roughly 850 points at one stage. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ are down close to 2%. Fear is rising. Selling pressure is broad.
But here’s what’s interesting:
Given the geopolitical backdrop, markets are not down as muc...
Insider Tips — March 02, 2026
In this week's Insider Tips I’m staying cautiously optimistic because the market is green, but a lot of tech still doesn’t feel healthy. My core message is risk management: protect your account with “circuit breakers” (stops/defensive rules) so one ugly move doesn’t wr...
Insider Tips — February 23, 2026
In this week’s Insider Tips, I walk through why the market can stay in an uptrend longer than most people expect: when you “follow the money,” you can see liquidity supporting asset prices even when headline shocks hit (like the court decision on tariffs that briefl...
Insider Tips — February 2, 2026
This week’s Insider Tips comes with a clear message: the market is technically green, but if you’re holding the wrong stocks (or you’re heavy in metals/crypto), it probably doesn’t feel green at all. We’re now about two months into this melt-up, and while the major i...
Insider Tips — January 26, 2026
This week’s Insider Tips comes to you from Ecuador — and while headlines keep whipping around (tariffs… “Greenland”… you name it), the market continues to do what strong markets often do: ignore the noise and keep melting higher.
We’re still sitting in four green l...
