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Looking for success in all the wrong places. This is the description of 95% of those wanting to be full-time traders.

August 6, 2024/by Peter Brandt

Sorry novice traders, but there is no magic sauce or quick fix on the way to a career as a full-time trader Novice and wannabe traders believe that successful market speculation is all about knowing where markets are headed or about having a secret formula or about skill or about finding that one “killer” trade […]

Join The Exclusive Macro Trading Community With Factor’s Own Jonathon King

July 25, 2024/by Peter Brandt

In February 2023, we launched the PeterLBrandt NFT via @ChartWizardsNFT as both a Discord community and a comprehensive research service. Since then, we have witnessed remarkable growth and engagement, thanks to the outstanding contributions of our very own Jonathon King (JK) (@jonbking – see bio below). While the full NFT service will not be reopening, we believe the quality of Jonathon’s monthly research report is too valuable to remain limited to NFT holders alone. Starting July 25th, we are thrilled to announce the launch of the ChartWizardsNFT™ monthly macro letter as a standalone service, available to everyone.

The “We-Fund-You” Prop Trading Industry should be immediately shut down

July 17, 2024/by Peter Brandt

It’s time for the CFTC/SEC/FTC and state attorneys general to do their jobs In recent years there has been an explosion of “fraudulent” Prop Trading firms (herein, “Sham Shops”). I define how I use the term “fraudulent” herein. A new Sham Shop seems to be popping up weekly — I estimate that Sham Shops […]

The beautiful symmetry of past Bitcoin bull market cycles

June 2, 2024/by Peter Brandt

The “Halvings” have represented the half-way points of past bull market cycles The Bitcoin Halvings are those dates when the mining rewards are cut in half from the previous halving cycles. Remarkably, the Halving dates have also represented almost perfect symmetry within past bull market cycles. More specifically, the number of weeks from the […]

Bitcoin — a once in a lifetime trade, never to be equaled

May 3, 2024/by Peter Brandt

There has never been and may never be another market like Bitcoin $BTC 2024 is my 50th year anniversary of the first futures market trade of my life — it was for contracts of bags of pre-1964 Silver quarters and dimes. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/02/archives/futures-in-silver-coins-traded.html I have traded a best-guess 35,000-plus futures contracts in my life covering everything […]