Takeoff is the part that gets me. Not turbulence.
I have serious flight anxiety, but not the part you'd think. I'm fine once we're in the air. I love landing.
It's takeoff — the moment we commit and leave the ground — that's what I white-knuckle through.
I flew overnight to France last week, and yesterday I was trackside at the Monaco Grand Prix with a glass of champagne at rooftop party, watching cars commit to corners most people would brake into.
Somewhere between the flight over and that race, it hit me that this is exactly how most people trade.
They're not afraid of being in the trade.
They're afraid of getting in. So they wait for a stock to feel safe, and "safe" usually means they wait for it to fall.
Here's what I see constantly, and I want to talk you out of it. We're in bullish conditions right now.
The summer's handed us a nice tape. And when conditions are good, the temptation is to go bargain-hunting in the names that already got crushed. "Oh, this one's taken a beating lately. Let me buy the dip." The logic feels smart. Bullish market, beaten-down stock, it has to come back, right?
That right there is me trying to be smarter than the market. And every time I try to be smarter than the market, the market reminds me I'm not.
Let me be clear, I'm not knocking research.
I have friends who do serious homework, who'll tell me a stock is on a fire sale and have the work to back it up. You do you, if you've actually done the work.
But buying something just because it's at the lows, just because the market's bullish so surely it'll bounce — that's not a setup.
A stock that was once loved sitting at the lows does not become a buy because you're feeling optimistic.
The market doesn't owe it a bounce. It definitely doesn't owe you one.
So what do I actually want?
Strength that dipped. Not weakness that's hoping.
I want a stock that's been winning, takes a breath, pulls back into weakness near its highs with the pattern lining up underneath it — and sets up to keep going.
That's a setup.
So back to the racetrack.
The strong stock setting up near its highs — the one you're scared to enter because it already ran — that's the corner you commit to. Yeah, it's the scary part.
It's also the only part that gets you anywhere. The safe-feeling trade, the beaten-down name you bought because it couldn't possibly go lower? That's the one that spins you into the wall.
Getting in is only half of it.
The other half — the half almost nobody teaches — is knowing the exact moment to take the money and walk.
Commit to the right setup, then get out with the profit before the move reverses. That's the whole game.
Rock On,
Voz
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