The Rational Blog

We recently launched our Battlestations Day Trading Room at TRi and it’s been picking up steam over the last couple of weeks. Every morning traders jump in a meeting 1 hour before the NY Open and trade right up into the Daily Brief 3 hours later. It’s an invaluable resource to the professionals in the room, but it has also become a great way for aspiring day traders and new people t... Read More

Our new school term starts May 10th and students are already piling in and ready to get their trading journey started. We’ll be announcing the winner of our flash raffle on the Daily Brief Recap Show today at 11am PST. If you’re reading this before that there’s still time to sign up for a chance... Read More

Coinbase has been trading for a little over a week now and it looks like it’s recent public offering was a “sell the news” event triggering a sell off in Bitcoin as well. $COIN began trading on April 14th at $381 and rallied up to $429.65 before closing down on the day at $320. Since then it has most recently traded at $294.50 on Friday the 23rd, losing about -23% of its value... Read More

Quarter 2 of 2021 is underway and it’s time for another Sector Rotation Two Weeks Study. In general, I’m getting mixed messages from the data with no real solid grasp on what sectors might benefit from capital inflow this quarter. As projected in our Q1 study, Energy did outperform for... Read More

Coinbase is going public this week on Wednesday the 14th and the hype machine is running on all cylinders. They reported some pretty stunning earnings last week and people are certainly taking notice. Of course the current crypto bull run is fueling all of this with BTC up near all-time highs while DeFi and NFTs are capturing enough media attention to have your grandma asking about them. We sho... Read More

Yesterday we wrapped up our final session of the current school term and another group of TRI’ers will be taking their exams and getting ready to move on to the next level. Trading is difficult and the learning process is challenging so congratulations to everyone who put in the work this term. I think by now all of them have realized the value in TRI methodology and I hope that they will... Read More

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have become trendy over the last couple months with insane art valuations, Read More

Last week we talked about what an edge is and how we might create one for ourselves. That’s a really important conversation and process that every trader should be working on. But in reality you can only start looking for your edge after you’ve laid a proper foundation for being a trader. Today I want to take a look at the building blocks of that foundation from a bigger picture per... Read More

A trading edge is the process of identifying market conditions where a trader can execute trades in a way that increases the statistical probability of having a profitable outcome.  A casino has an edge. Overtime they will win more than they lose and it’s in their best interest to roll the dice as many times as possible and let probability run its course. Yes their patrons... Read More

DeFi is a name given to cover all aspects of Decentralized Finance. The advance of crypto currency and blockchain technology has opened the doorway for new ways of thinking about financial products and services we’ve grown accustomed to using. It’s now possible to bypass traditional centralized banking with a decentralized ecosystem that removes both the middle man and geographical... Read More