💸 Bill Lipschutz: From $12,000 to $2 Billion

🇺🇸 One of America's wealthiest forex traders, Bill Lipschutz, turned a $12,000 inheritance into a $2 billion fortune, showcasing the power of patience and discipline in trading.

📈 His remarkable career is built on risk management and avoiding over-leverage — which have helped him thrive in the highly competitive forex market.

Lipschutz's trading philosophy:
🟢 Day trading style using short-term trades, relying on technical and fundamental analysis.
🟢 Focus on risk management as the foundation for success.
🟢 Patience is crucial — avoid trading when market conditions are unclear.
🟢 Caution over excessive risk-taking for long-term profitability.

🧠 Lesson for Traders: Consistency and discipline, not excessive risk, are the keys to financial success.

Hit 👍 if you are inspired by the stories of successful traders!

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☄️ A record $112 billion gap between reported US and China cargo data points to widespread tariff evasion, as phantom importers and underpriced shipping schemes exploit steep duties and distort trade flows.

🛢 Rising US-Iran tensions could disrupt roughly 17–20 million barrels per day flowing through the Strait of Hormuz—about 25% of global seaborne oil—risking sharp price spikes.

💰 UBS Group AG now warns private credit default rates could climb to 15% in a worst-case scenario, up 2 percentage points from its forecast just weeks ago.

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📆 CALENDAR FOR TODAY - 25.02.2026

🇺🇸 Crude Oil Inventories – 18:30 GMT+3;

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🥈 Silver is at a critical resistance zone, although a break of structure has already occurred and the price is above MA200.

🔼 We are considering buying XAGUSD ONLY if it consolidates above 91.500;
🎯 Target: 97.500.

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👉🥇🇻🇦🛸👈XAUUSD ALERT!

🥇Gold is actively testing the upward trend and MA50, and a divergence has formed on the RSI.

🔽 We are considering selling XAUUSD in case of a break below the trend line at 5170;
🎯 Target 1: 5120;
🎯 Target 2: 5080.

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🈁 US30 broke through the upper boundary of the falling wedge on the H2, and Tenkan crossed Kijun. If the price breaks out of the cloud, a bullish scenario will begin.

⤴️ We are considering buying US30 only in the case of consolidation above 49400;
🎯 Target 1: 49600;
🎯 Target 2: 49850.

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😐 Well...Maybe its time to rest from the markets a bit?

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👁️ Nvidia Corp. shares fell as much as 1.5% despite a revenue forecast topping estimates, reflecting investor caution over a potentially overheated AI cycle.

🇪🇺 The EU estimates about €4.2 billion ($5 billion) of exports will face tariffs above the 15% cap set in the EU-US trade deal, raising duties on goods from cheese to chemicals under the new US policy.

🇩🇪 Deutsche Telekom AG forecast 2026 adjusted Ebitdaal of €47.4 billion, topping the €46.4 billion estimate as growth in Germany and the US lifts earnings outlook.

🪙 UBS Securities Asia Ltd. sees up to 20% upside for the MSCI China Index as reflation lifts pricing power, earnings growth and valuations.

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📆 CALENDAR FOR TODAY - 26.02.2026

🇺🇸 Unemployment Claims - 16:30 GMT+3;

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🆕 US100 continues to move sideways and has broken through the downward trend, actively testing MA200. Bullish sentiment is growing, and there is an imbalance at the top.

😛🤓😜Consider buying US100 when it consolidates above 25400;
🎯 Target: 25900.

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🛢 Brent seems to have started to correct, and the price is ready to cover the imbalances below. The lips have crossed the jaw, confirming the possibility of a decline.

⤵️ We are considering selling XBRUSD if it falls below 69.90;
🎯 Target 1: 68.30;
🎯 Target 2: 67.50.

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🔥TRADING STOCKS

↗️ #MICROSOFT has reached our previous target and is rebounding from the lower trend line after crossing the lower Bollinger Band. The RSI confirms oversold conditions.

🔼 We are considering buying #MICROSOFT if it rises above 405.00;
🎯 Target 1: 450.00;
🎯 Target 2: 468.00.

Click ❤️ if you are trading stocks

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🔓 Locked position in trading

👀 Many beginners, facing losses, reach for a so-called “lifeline” — the lock. They open a buy trade, the market drops — they open a sell. Now they think the drawdown is “frozen” and they can just wait it out safely.
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❓ What is a lock? It’s when a trader holds two opposing positions on the same instrument:

🟢 Bought EURUSD expecting it to rise.
🟠 Price fell — so they opened a sell.
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Now both trades are floating. The loss isn't closed — it's just postponed.
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🌪 Why a lock is a trap:
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🔢 The drawdown is still there. A lock doesn’t fix anything — it just pauses the pain. The loss still weighs on you — financially and mentally.
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🔢 Fees eat up your balance. Swaps, spreads, the cost of maintaining two positions — even in a flat market, your balance drops daily.
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🔢 Getting out is a guessing game. To exit a lock profitably, you have to perfectly predict the market’s next move.
But if you could do that — you wouldn’t be in a lock in the first place.
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The result?
➖ Loss remains open
➖ Capital is frozen
➖ Emotional pressure builds

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🎬Netflix Inc. exited the bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., clearing the path for Paramount Skydance Corp. to secure its $111 billion deal for the studio.

🔍 Google LLC won conditional approval from South Korea to transfer high-precision map data overseas, easing long-standing restrictions tied to security and trade tensions.

⚫️ BlackRock Inc. says long-dated Japanese government bonds can deliver about 6% to dollar investors—roughly 4% in yield plus 2% from currency hedging—calling it a “golden age” for fixed income.

🔪 Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to automate about 5,000 clerical roles over 10 years using AI, aiming to lift productivity at Japan’s third-largest lender without cutting overall headcount.

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📆 CALENDAR FOR TODAY - 27.02.2026

🇨🇦 GDP m/m – 16:30 GMT+3
🇺🇸 Core PPI m/m – 16:30 GMT+3
🇺🇸 PPI m/m – 16:30 GMT+3

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🈁 US30 took our previous target, continuing to move sideways. The price is ready to overcome a large imbalance after crossing the lower Bollinger band.

🔼 We are considering buying US30 if it rises above 49330;
🎯 Target: 49500.

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💰 Bitcoin is testing extremely strong support and MA200. +DI crossed -DI on ADX.

🔽 In case of consolidation at 66500, BTCUSD will continue to fall;
🎯 Target 1: 65400;
🎯 Target 2: 64900.

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⚡️ US PPI Release

🇺🇸 Core PPI m/m
Actual — 0.8%
Expected — 0.3%
Previous — 0.7%

🇺🇸 PPI m/m
Actual — 0.5%
Expected — 0.3%
Previous — 0.5%

Hit ❤️ if the PPI report is on your radar!

💻 The Dotcom Bubble!

📆 In the late 1990s, internet companies witnessed an explosive rise. Everyone was investing, speculating, and hyping up the "new economy" — but it couldn’t last. The bubble burst in 2000, triggering massive losses and a market crash.

What triggered it?
🔴 Overhyped internet stocks with little to no profit.
🔴 Venture capital flooding untested companies without solid business plans.
🔴 Investors were chasing growth, not profitability.
🔴 The dream of endless tech profits — until reality set in.

What followed:
🔢 The NASDAQ lost nearly 80% of its value from 2000 to 2002.
🔢 Dotcom companies like Pets.com and Webvan collapsed.
🔢 Some companies, like Cisco’s shares, still haven’t reached their all-time high since 2000.
🔢 The crash set the stage for the sustained growth in technology that we see today in companies like Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, etc.

What it taught us:
❌ Speculation can create bubbles, but only a few can survive the crash.
✅ Sustainable growth and solid business plans always win in the long run.

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☄️ Iran said it “will not negotiate” with the US as Middle East strikes pushed Brent up as much as 13% before easing to a 4% gain, while S&P futures and Asian equities trimmed earlier risk-off losses.

🚗 French new car registrations fell 14.7% to 120,764 in February, dragging the year-to-date total down 11.1% to 227,921 as sales at Renault SA and Stellantis NV declined.

📈 Toyota Motor Corp. raised its offer for Toyota Industries Corp. to ¥20,600 per share, a 9.6% increase valuing the buyout at ¥6.7 trillion ($42.8 billion) after pressure from Elliott.

👁️ Nvidia-backed Firmus Technologies signed a multibillion-dollar data center deal covering about 18,400 Nvidia Corp. GB300 GPUs in Melbourne, bolstering growth ahead of a planned IPO.

#MarketNews

📆 CALENDAR FOR TODAY - 02.03.2026

🇺🇸 ISM Manufacturing PMI – 18:00 GMT+3;

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⛽️ So, guys, let's start the day with natural gas. XNGUSD broke through the upper boundary of the falling wedge amid the news, and the lips crossed the jaw on the Alligator.

🔼 We are considering buying XNGUSD if it rises above 3.000;
🎯 Target 1: 3.130;
🎯 Target 2: 3.350.

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💶 EURUSD bounces off the lower trend line of the rising wedge after crossing the lower Bollinger Band. CCI confirms oversold conditions.

🔼 Further growth could bring EURUSD back to the upper trend line;
🎯 Target 1: 1.1770;
🎯 Target 2: 1.1790.

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😱 Fear and Greed

💰 Every trader faces them — not on the chart, but in the mirror. Fear and greed are not emotions. They are behavioral forces that quietly rewrite your trading plan mid-session.

😬 Fear makes you exit too early. You see a red candle and think “What if I lose everything?”
🤑 Greed keeps you in too long. You're in profit, but whisper to yourself “Just a bit more…”

❗️ These emotions pretend to protect you — but in reality, they sabotage your trades. They make you overreact, second-guess, and break your own system.

✍️ Emotional discipline is the foundation of any serious trading strategy. You can have the best indicators, the cleanest setup — but if you panic at every dip or chase every pump, your edge is gone.

💡 So what do you do?

🔢 Build emotional checkpoints into your system. Before entering or exiting a trade, ask: “Is this part of my plan — or am I reacting emotionally?”
🔢 Use journaling — not just for trades, but for tracking emotional states. Over time, you’ll spot patterns and triggers.
🔢 Practice "planned detachment." Treat each trade like a statistical event — not a personal victory or failure.

🧠 Fear and greed won’t vanish — but you can neutralize them. Turn your emotions into data — and your edge becomes psychological as well as technical.

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