For generations, retail stock traders have been conditioned to follow a specific script when earnings season rolls around. The routine is always the same: you pull up the economic calendar, analyze consensus estimates, obsess over EPS (Earnings Per Share) forecasts, track revenue growth, and wait for management guidance with fingers crossed. The underlying assumption is...
Every time a major geopolitical event occurs, financial media follows the exact same script. Analysts rush to television studios, newspapers publish dramatic headlines, and social media becomes flooded with predictions about where oil prices are supposedly headed next. The latest tensions involving Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and global energy supplies are no different. Traders...
Let’s be honest for a second. If drawing a couple of colourful lines on your chart and waiting for two moving averages to cross like a pair of clumsy star-crossed lovers actually worked, every single person with an internet connection would be sipping champagne on a superyacht in Puerto Banús (Marbella city, where I live)...
Let’s be entirely honest with each other for a moment: your five-minute chart is lying to you, and your trading account is paying the price. Every single day, I watch retail traders sit in front of their monitors, sweating over a 15-minute chart of Nvidia, convinced they’ve discovered some hidden secret of the universe. They...
Look, I watched you try to short the Japanese Yen last week, and frankly, it was embarrassing. If you are going to treat your trading account like a charity donation to institutional hedge funds, at least get a tax receipt for it. If you are tired of watching your stop-losses get hunted like sport, congratulations....
Why Alibaba Stock Keeps Rallying Despite Negative Earnings Most traders believe stock prices move because of earnings. It sounds logical. A company reports strong results, the stock should rally. If a company misses expectations, the stock should fall. Financial media has repeated that narrative for decades, and many investors accept it without questioning it. The...
Let’s be honest for a second: your trading chart looks like a dopamine-addicted gambler’s computer screen. You’ve got five different lagging indicators screaming at you, you’re staring at a 5-minute candle like it’s a matter of life and death, and you’re wondering why your account balance keeps moving down and to the right. Here is...
Most traders are essentially dopamine-addicted gamblers masquerading as professionals. They sit in front of their screens, eyes glazed over, chasing every flicker of a one-minute candle as if it were a divine revelation. It’s pathetic, really. If you’re wondering why your account looks like a crime scene, the answer isn’t your strategy; it’s your lack...
If you’re still chasing “moon shots” on Reddit while your portfolio looks like a crime scene, you might want to pay attention. I’ve taken the liberty of deconstructing the German stock market for 2026, because frankly, most of you are looking at the wrong map. At Set and Forget, we don’t gamble on news; we...