Cracked.Market University

Welcome to Cracked.Market University!

This section contains useful articles to help you decipher the market’s quirks, tips on how to avoid common mistakes, and strategies to turn knowledge into profits.

These posts are a culmination of nearly three decades of trading experience and knowledge. Many ideas were borrowed from other savvy investors, others I had to learn the hard way. I hope these concepts and strategies jumpstart your trading career and help you avoid pitfalls that trip up so many other investors.

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CMU Archive
How savvy traders deal with their mistakesJanuary 10, 2023
Is smart money betting the eighth time is finally the real one?December 5, 2022
I was wrong and it wasn’t so badSeptember 21, 2022
Why buying bounces is a lot easier and safer than most people thinkMay 17, 2022
Why I’m buying the bounce off of 4,450 support even though it probably won’t holdApril 7, 2022
Why buying something that feels so wrong almost always turns out so rightMarch 22, 2022
Why this week’s big bounce was inevitableMarch 18, 2022
The market gods answered your prayers. What are you waiting for? Plus the next profit opportunity in TSLAJanuary 25, 2022
Why smart money was buying Thursday morning’s bounce. Plus, why NFLX owners only have themselves to blameJanuary 20, 2022
When chasing your tail is the smart trade. Plus what to do with TSLAJanuary 14, 2022
Is smart money buying or selling this dip?December 14, 2021
A smart mistake, a smarter correction, and TSLA to the MOON!November 1, 2021
If you missed this bounce, use this simple and reliable trick next timeOctober 21, 2021
Turning mistakes into dollarsOctober 14, 2021
Why overnight market moves are so misleadingOctober 6, 2021
Why everyone will be right about GME, but still end up losing everythingJanuary 28, 2021
The smartest way to trade this volatilityOctober 29, 2020
CMU: How I traded Monday’s tumbleSeptember 21, 2020
CMU: How savvy traders look at the marketSeptember 15, 2020
CMU: Was buying Wednesday’s bounce dumb?September 10, 2020
CMU: How a savvy trader buys the dip.September 8, 2020
CMU: The real life dangers of holding leveraged ETFsAugust 13, 2020
CMU: Three Traders on a Mountain RoadJune 26, 2020
CMU: Why headlines don’t really matterMay 18, 2020
How much risk are you holding?May 9, 2020
CMU: How to trade a market that doesn’t make any senseMay 5, 2020
CMU: Don’t fall victim to binary thinkingApril 29, 2020
CMU: When to buy and when to waitApril 27, 2020
CMU: If you don’t know how to be wrong, you shouldn’t be in the marketApril 22, 2020
CMU: The Art of the TradeApril 14, 2020
CMU: Always have a plan to be wrongApril 6, 2020
CMU: The importance of having a plan to be wrongMarch 30, 2020
CMU: The criticality of timeframe in tradingMarch 25, 2020
CMU: Trading plan for markets in turmoilMarch 9, 2020
CMU: Why everyone is right about this market but they are still losing moneyMarch 6, 2020
CMU: Lesson 6: Sometimes the best trade is to not tradeMarch 5, 2020
The right way to predict the marketMarch 3, 2020
Lesson 2b: What it really means to trade proactivelyMarch 2, 2020
CMU: The biggest way people screw up market meltdowns (besides freaking out)February 28, 2020
CMU: Where’s the bottom?February 27, 2020
CMU: How to Trade Emotional MarketsFebruary 26, 2020
Bulls or Bears, who’s right?February 25, 2020
Making money with TSLA vs the S&P 500February 19, 2020
CMU: The easiest thing you can do to improve your trading right nowFebruary 13, 2020
CMU: Is the market rigged?February 10, 2020
CMU: Always have a plan to take profits, TSLA editionFebruary 6, 2020
CMU: Lesson 2: Trade proactively, not reactivelyFebruary 5, 2020
CMU: How to make money when your gut is wrongJanuary 29, 2020
CMU: Did you sell? Always be ready to get back inJanuary 23, 2020
CMU: Lesson 1: Trading is hardJanuary 21, 2020
CMU: You have profits, now what?January 17, 2020
CMU: When to take profitsJanuary 7, 2020
CMU: When the calendar matters and when it doesn’tDecember 27, 2019
CMU: How to trade the news in our current environmentAugust 21, 2019
CMU: Bad Luck Brian buys the dot-com bubbleDecember 19, 2018
CMU: How much worse will this get?October 23, 2018
CMU: Are you addicted to stock quotes?April 4, 2018
CMU: The dangers of trading sentimentDecember 20, 2017
CMU: Why it is too late to buy the tax cut rallyDecember 18, 2017
CMU: The part of Technical Analysis no one talks aboutDecember 13, 2017
CMU: The fallacy of “more buyers than sellers”December 11, 2017
CMU: How much money should you keep in your trading accountDecember 6, 2017
CMU: How many stocks you should tradeDecember 4, 2017
CMU: Why most people will lose money in BitcoinNovember 29, 2017
CMU: The only way to make moneyNovember 27, 2017
CMU: Either you sell too early, or you hold too long. November 15, 2017
CMU: Why experienced traders don’t bragNovember 13, 2017
CMU: Timing is everythingNovember 8, 2017
CMU: Money Management and Position SizingNovember 6, 2017
CMU: Why most traders screw up counter-trend tradesOctober 18, 2017
CMU: Are You a Victim of Beginner’s Luck?October 16, 2017
CMU: The obvious trade everyone screws upOctober 4, 2017
CMU: Why popular investing strategies don’t workSeptember 27, 2017
The most powerful technique for analyzing the marketSeptember 25, 2017
Contrarian Investing: Why most people screw it upSeptember 20, 2017