Important concept @NickSchmidt posted about a while back, especially for new traders. You get bombarded with content focusing on setups when it's really mostly just risk management. Also an important concept to grasp when building AI trading bots.

my @bot's are now experimenting with auto-tracking sector rotation along with sector ranking, RS etc.

$NOW showing a lot of RS today. its been trucking higher for a while now. There is a potential gap fill above where it could be hunting LQ.

$NFLX guiding lower and puking. @netflix let go Dan Lin the other day amid rumored friction with @BenAffleck and David Fincher, among others. I don't have all the facts so this is speculation based on "news" and personal experience... A June 2026 New York Times profile described Lin as not fawning over talent and lacking a “soft touch when telling filmmakers they have to compromise on their vision.” He was positioned as an implementer focused on quality, consistency, and cost control rather than blank-check auteur deals. -⁠NYTimes He gave notes and intervened on major projects. Fincher’s reshoot disputes are another indicator of limited willingness to fully defer on expensive creative changes. In the same Times profile, Lin said he couldn’t impose his personal taste across a huge slate but could “impose a way of making movies” and “a way of how we want to work with filmmakers,” emphasizing genre focus, variety, and quality over unrestricted freedom. This illustrates an interesting conundrum I've seen from my own time in the film industry as well as watching other filmmakers dealing with executives/studios. On one hand you have the business side of things. Film is a risk-on game. It's all about taking risks. When executives and marketing took over studios, movie fans suffered and still suffer today. We've endured sequel after sequel of mostly garbage films that were seen as "low risk". While interesting films that were highly entertaining were seen by executives as apparently too risky to even market properly (Edge of Tomorrow was a memorable one). Now you have AI, TikTok, YouTube and more all competing for attention. Making films is expensive business, margins thin out, and there is pressure each quarter to deliver EPS and time on platform. A few poorly performing expensive films can really destroy earnings. Its easy to understand. In this environment, studios become even more risk averse. This leads to more crap on platform, and eventually less time on platform. It can start a death spiral of poor performance and more risk aversion. Creativity is king. Creativity is risk. I don't believe a studio that stifles creativity and lacks the balls to take risks will be competitive in this business. You sort of live and die by the sword. If a studio starts to focus on self-preservation and profits over creativity, it will hire nutless executives with the same ethos who will then produce garbage by constricting creativity. This leads to the next point. A good executive's job is actually fairly simple: find the best talent, give them what they need, let them rock and roll. Yes, its true, you can't have everyone making Apocalypse Now, but that gets decided upfront. Put the time into pre-pro, get a script locked that's gold and figure out your budget before hand with ample buffer, then step back and let them make magic. Time and time again I've seen execs, (some of them also filmmakers), unable to let their director's work. Often down to telling them what shots to shoot- basically directing the film themselves...this is bullsh*t and its unfortunately not uncommon. When an exec does this, he/she has failed. You either failed to hire the best talent to make the film, and/or you are also a horrible executive in that you can't step away and let your director work- you're a micromanager. Which boss do people hate the most? Micromanagers, because they worry about themselves to the point they don't trust anyone they hire. Essentially nutless. Good executives need an eye for talent- par for the course....but they also need balls. They need to be able to take risk. You're not just spotting talent, you are investing in talent, nurturing it and letting it shine. Your work is all done upfront. You set the framework, then you largely step away. Yes Final Cut is rare. There are only a handful of directors that get it. But in this environment (IMHO) taking less risks is suicide. Netflix will end up with a portfolio of mediocre content at best, but the business model doesn't compete on, or support mediocre the way other platforms can. My favorite Netflix film in recent memory was Train Dreams. But Netflix didn't make it. If the goal is to compete on mediocre content and squeeze EPS out of it, the model likely has to change. If the goal is to compete on quality, creatives need to be free to create. Stamping star talent names on the film wont be enough in the long run, and they wont want to work with you again.

Still very much in beta, but some nice moves off #theStrat triggers with the @bot today. Lots of gates still need tightening up in the market health metrics, stock scans, and discretionary engine, but its slowly coming along

basically, inside bars on HTF (in this case the Q TF. You can scan for these setups that way.

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$MAT, what's going on at the toy shop? 🤔

$BSP blast off You'll come to realize the truth, that there is no spoon...

$FIGS, right to target and shooter at the top of the BF #theStrat

@bot workin hard. Had to fix a bunch of bugs in the Strat logic. Results are a bit better now but there could be more bugs resulting in crappy/invalid setups. Still in beta so view with caution. Experimenting with some dynamic breadth weighting for market internals to go along with the Strat TFC Risk On/Off signal. LARGE $VIAV — inside week, M and Q already 2u, entry 48.19 / W stop 43.40, target 57.50 (mag 26%) $ENTG — inside week, 2.4% from taking the Q, entry 169.30 / W stop 157.55, target 186.94 (mag 13%) $FORM — inside week, 3.2% from the Q high, entry 151.17 / W stop 134.54, target 160.27 (mag 15%) $ONTO — inside week under a Q inside bar, entry 330.00 / W stop 288.16, target 386.46 (mag 31%) $MRK — W 2d green under a Q hammer, entry 146.68 / W stop 138.80, target 156.92 (mag 8%) SMALL / MID $PI — inside week inside a Y 3-1, M and Q already 2u, entry 192.20 / W stop 180.86, target 215.25 (mag 14%) $EFXT — inside week, M and Q already 2u, entry 25.60 / W stop 23.39, target 29.15 (mag 21%) $ROG — inside week under a Q inside bar, entry 161.46 / W stop 145.71, target 165.94 (mag 13%) $PLXS — inside week under a Q inside bar, entry 277.53 / W stop 259.31, target 307.06 (mag 17%) $SYNA — inside week under a Q inside bar, extended, entry 121.00 / W stop 118.30, target 149.11 (mag 24%) Next up: $CRDO $AMAT $KLAC | $DGII $ACLS $VECO No trigger, no trade. Research only, NOT financial advice! #TheStrat #Stocks #Trading #SwingTrading