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Tuesday, July 29th
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus
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Markets Today
🌏 Asia-Pacific: Up
🇪🇺 Europe: Up
🇺🇸 United States: Up
🛢️ Oil: Up
⚡Crypto: Up
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A Simple “X” Could Be the Most Powerful
New BUY Signal You’ll Ever Use!
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Major Market Events
- Novo Nordisk sinks up to 30% — the drugmaker cuts guidance as knockoff versions of its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy start to eat into sales
- Dollar strengthens ahead of U.S.-China trade talks — Traders are watching this week’s meetings and economic data closely for clues on the Fed’s next move
- Meme stock chaos hits serious names — Retail-driven surges are dragging big names like Spotify (SPOT) and UnitedHealth (UNH) into volatile swings
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🤔 My Thoughts
I Built a Trading App in 5 Hours — And That’s a Warning
AI is coming for every job
Over the weekend, I built a trading app from scratch.
Not a toy.
A real, working app that pulls live options flow data and displays every ticker where unusual activity is hitting the tape.
It took me five hours.
No team. No codebase. No $500K Apple engineer.
Just me and Claude — an AI assistant you can talk to like a coworker.
Here’s the kicker: this kind of project used to require a full-stack dev team and a few months of runway.
Now it’s almost stupidly simple — if you know what to ask and what to build.
So yeah, it’s exciting. But it’s also a warning.
Because this is what disruption feels like.
Suddenly, the barrier to entry isn’t capital. It isn’t connections. It’s curiosity.
And the first wave of people who figure that out are going to create massive advantages for themselves — whether they’re traders, investors, engineers, or entrepreneurs.
But here’s the flip side:
📉 This also means the speed of market saturation just hit Ludicrous Mode.
📉 It means the edge you build today might get commoditized by Thursday.
📉 It means you can’t afford to sit back and wait for someone else to package this for you.
We’re entering what I’d call the DIY Quant Era — where anyone can build tools, analyze markets, and automate workflows that used to be reserved for institutions.
If you’re not experimenting with this stuff yet, I’d urge you to start.
Don’t worry about building the “perfect” thing.
Just try something small.
Scrape data. Visualize it. Connect to an API. Run a backtest.
Or build a tool that answers a question you ask every week.
The edge isn’t just in the data anymore — it’s in what you do with it.
And now? You don’t need permission — just curiosity.
If you want to see how I’m actually using tools like this in real time — including the setups I’m watching and the flow I’m tracking — I break it all down each morning.
Register your spot here to join us next time we go live!
To Better Trading,
Alex Reid
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