How Algorithms Quietly Broke Your Old Investing Playbook

Something strange has been happening in the market — and if you've felt like the old rules don't apply anymore, you're not imagining it. Algorithms now account for roughly 70% to 90% of daily U.S. equity volume. Add a surge in retail participation — with stock cash flows running more than 50% higher last year — and you get a market wired for speed and sharp reversals. The human beings you picture on a trading floor are mostly the last visible ...
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Substack Is Becoming Wall Street’s Worst Nightmare (And Retail Traders Love It)

Remember when investment research was locked behind a $24,000-a-year Bloomberg Terminal paywall? Those days are dying faster than a meme stock in a bear market. Substack has quietly become the Bloomberg Terminal for people who can't afford Bloomberg—or who just think the whole gatekeeping thing is ridiculous. And honestly? It's working. Last month, a research outfit called Citrini Research dropped a dystopian thought exercise about AI's future on Substack, and it tanked the Dow by 800 points. Not because it was ...
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Wall Street Is Quietly Ditching Tech for Stocks You Can Touch

Something interesting is happening beneath the surface of this market: investors are dumping "asset-light" darlings and buying things that exist in the physical world. Railroads, oil rigs, copper mines, defense contractors. The stuff you can kick. The rotation has been building for weeks, but the data is now undeniable. Hard-asset sectors — energy, materials, industrials, utilities — are crushing the S&P 500 in 2026. Energy alone is up 24% year-to-date. The VanEck Gold Miners ETF has surged over 26%. Meanwhile, the ...
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Oil Just Had Its Biggest Week Since 1983 and Nobody Was Ready

West Texas Intermediate crude broke above $90 a barrel on Friday and posted a 35% weekly gain — the largest since oil futures trading began in 1983. Brent crude briefly touched $94. And the shockwave is just getting started. The catalyst is the U.S.-Iran conflict, which has escalated from saber-rattling to active military engagement. When you take shots at the world's fourth-largest oil producer, the commodity market doesn't wait for diplomatic channels. It prices in disruption immediately. And with global spare ...
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Jack Dorsey Just Fired 40% of Block and Wall Street Loved It

Thousands of people lost their jobs last week. And the stock market threw a party. Block — the fintech company formerly known as Square — announced it would eliminate 4,000 employees, roughly 40% of its entire workforce. The stock surged 24% after hours. Billions of dollars in market cap appeared out of thin air. All it took was erasing 4,000 paychecks. But here's the part that should keep every knowledge worker awake at night: CEO Jack Dorsey didn't blame a downturn. He ...
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The Substack Revolution: How Retail Traders Cracked Wall Street’s Paywall

Remember when getting serious market intel meant either working at Goldman Sachs or dropping $24,000 a year on a Bloomberg terminal? Yeah, those days are basically over. Substack has quietly become the people's Bloomberg—and Wall Street is having a minor existential crisis about it. The shift hit critical mass last month when a research outfit called Citrini Research dropped a dystopian thought exercise about AI's future on Substack. The report was basically financial fiction, but it tanked the Dow by 800 ...
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Why Dollar General Might Be Your Secret Weapon in a Messy Market

When the market gets weird, some stocks get weirder—and not in a bad way. Dollar General (DG) is basically the cockroach of retail: it thrives when everything else is getting stepped on. Here's the thing: while the Nasdaq has been taking a beating (down over 10% since mid-February), Dollar General is up about 7% this year. That's not just beating the market—that's beating it while the market is actively on fire. The S&P 500? Down 2%. DG? Up 7%. Do the ...
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When AI Layoffs Become the New Normal: Block’s 4,000-Person Bet on the Future

Jack Dorsey just dropped a bomb on the fintech world, and Wall Street loved it. Block announced it's cutting 4,000 employees—roughly 40% of its workforce—and the stock popped 24% after hours. Thousands of people lost their jobs, and investors threw a party. Welcome to the AI economy. Here's the thing: this wasn't a desperate restructuring. Dorsey didn't blame the economy or pretend it was temporary. He basically said, "AI made these jobs unnecessary, and honestly, we'd rather admit it now than ...
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