Somewhere on the internet, a man with a Bloomberg terminal screenshot as his profile picture is writing a thread about the yield curve. He has used the word “macro” four times in three sentences. He will not stop until you understand that he saw the recession coming. He is FinTwit. Somewhere else on the internet, […]
Nobody has ever gone viral for buying an index fund and waiting thirty years. There is no comment section war over the merits of a consistent savings rate. No one has built a million followers by telling you to automate your investments and then go live your life. And this is precisely the problem. The
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There is a strange new ritual in modern investing. A person finds a company they like, builds a model, writes up their reasoning, and then, instead of quietly buying shares and going about their life, they post the whole thing on Twitter. Sometimes it is a thread with twenty posts. Sometimes it is a screenshot
Imagine trying to meditate inside a nightclub. That is roughly what it feels like to practice value investing while scrolling through financial social media. The two activities are not just different. They are actively working against each other, like trying to read poetry during a fire drill. This is not a small complaint about distraction.
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There is a question that almost nobody in the trading world wants to answer honestly. If you had to choose between making real money in private and losing money in public while being celebrated for your takes, which would you pick? Most people would say the first. Most people would be lying. This is the
Scroll through Financial Twitter for an hour. You will see charts, macro takes, options strategies, hot stocks, cold stocks, Federal Reserve speculation, and at least three people claiming they saw the last crash coming. What you will almost never see is someone talking about how they refinanced a duplex in Tulsa. Now open any real
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There is a reason you have never seen a dividend growth investor go viral. It is not because they are wrong. It is because watching paint dry does not trend. Every quarter, millions of investors receive small deposits into their brokerage accounts. Coca Cola pays them. Johnson and Johnson pays them. A utility company in
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There is an unwritten rule in finance that the louder someone is about their strategy, the less likely they are to be following it. Crypto investors figured this out early. Not because they are smarter than anyone else. But because they come from a culture that was built on distrust, and when you are already
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There is a peculiar ritual on financial Twitter. Every morning, somewhere between the coffee and the market open, thousands of accounts post screenshots of their dividend income. Monthly totals. Quarterly payouts. Year over year growth charts with little green arrows pointing up. They do this with the regularity of a rooster greeting the sun. Welcome
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There is a question nobody in traditional finance wants to answer honestly. It is not about interest rates or valuations or whether the market is overpriced. It is simpler and more dangerous than any of those things. Who gets to shape how millions of people think about money? For most of the twentieth century, the
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