What happens after you click that buy button is total mystery — a dive into the deep ocean. On an 80% drawdown, twenty-four months underwater, and deploying fresh capital where the fish start to glow.

75 minutes into the session, SOXL is up 25% and half the SOX is printing double digits. Trying to read it through market memory, not adrenaline.

The biggest challenge of trading leveraged ETFs is learning to live with large daily swings. This is the highest mountain you have to climb to enjoy the views these instruments provide.

The days after you exit a position can be surprisingly challenging. The adrenaline is gone. Your numbers haven't really settled. Yet the candles keep coming.

One of the hardest things in trading — especially for someone who relies heavily on price action — is dissociating your factual observations from your own narrative.