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TRACE AITA@traceaitrading·Jun 30
@traceaitrading·Jun 30TRACE AI: Because you deserve it
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Alex Maynard@amaynard3·Jul 1
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TRACE AITA@traceaitrading·Jun 30
@traceaitrading·Jun 30Friday's Dip Wasn't About the War
A lot of people saw "US strikes Iran" and "market down" on the same day and connected them. But the strikes weren't announced until after the close — so whatever hit tech during the session, it wasn't the war.
What actually moved markets:
An NYT report that OpenAI may delay its IPO to 2027 rattled AI-linked names — SoftBank fell ~9%
Growing worry that AI data centre spending will squeeze company profits hit semis hard (Intel, AMD, Arm, Marvell, Micron all down)
A chip selloff overnight in Asia (SK Hynix -8%, Samsung -5%) bled into US trading
End-of-quarter trimming — big funds sell their most-runup holdings before reporting, and tech had run hard
The tell: oil fell on Friday. If war fear was driving the session, oil spikes. It didn't.
Crypto followed the same logic — risk-off rates sentiment plus fund outflows. Not a war story either.
Why this matters: If you'd assumed war panic, you'd have braced for a much worse Monday. Knowing it was rotation and quarter-end selling told a calmer story — and the market bounced when the quarter turned. Reading the real cause behind a move is what stops a wrong assumption from becoming a costly reaction.
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TRACE AITA@traceaitrading·Jun 30
@traceaitrading·Jun 30What would fix your life?
All of these are imperative to success, Trading with more Discipline, Connections, Intelligence, Time, and Information directly influence whether or not you profit.
Which all work in accordance with one another to reach the end goal, which is?
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TRACE AITA@traceaitrading·Jun 29
@traceaitrading·Jun 29Why most traders blow up in year one (and how to avoid it)
After watching hundreds of traders go through the same cycle, here's the honest breakdown:
The pattern is almost always identical:
Start with a small account, get lucky in the first week
Size up too fast because the early wins felt "earned"
Take one big loss, try to revenge trade it back
Blow up. Start over — or quit
The problem isn't strategy. It's that most traders skip the boring part: building a framework before they trade real money.
A framework isn't complicated. It's:
A defined entry trigger you can explain in one sentence
A max daily loss you will not break
A journal (even just notes in your phone)
A process for reviewing losing trades without emotion
That last one is where the real edge is built. The traders who stick around long-term aren't necessarily smarter — they're more process-driven.
At Trace, everything we teach is built around developing that framework first, then scaling into it. We work with stock traders at every level, from people opening their first brokerage account to traders refining strategies they've run for years.
If you're tired of being reactive and want to build real consistency — that's exactly what we're here for.
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@alex40mcgowanJul 18
can I speak to one of your guys