🥷 Former Goldman Sachs executive starts prison sentence over 1MDB scandal

Tim Leissner, a former top executive at Goldman Sachs, has begun serving a 2-year prison sentence for his role in a massive financial fraud.

Leissner admitted helping siphon about $4.5B from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

The case took 8 years to reach sentencing and ultimately led to the collapse of Malaysia’s government. Goldman Sachs paid over $5B to settle related charges.

Leissner cooperated with prosecutors and became the key witness in the 2022 trial of his former colleague Roger Ng. The scheme was orchestrated by Malaysian financier Jho Low, who continues to deny wrongdoing and has been a fugitive since 2018.

One of the largest financial scandals of the decade is still not fully closed.


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JUST IN: Alphabet is looking to issue a 100-year bond

Last time this happened was Motorola in 1997


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If you skip one trade signal because "it doesn't feel right," you've broken the entire system.

Big lesson.

Either trust the model or don't deploy it.


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Trading may just be the most boring career path in the entire world.

You literally do NOTHING 99% of the time.

And in that waiting period is where the majority throw everything away.


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🌍 How global economic power shifted from 1980 to 2025

This chart tracks the world’s top economies over the last 45 years using nominal GDP. The hierarchy changed a lot, but some patterns stayed surprisingly stable.

The US has remained the largest economy the entire time. GDP grew from about $2.9T in 1980 to over $30.6T in 2025, keeping a clear lead despite cycles and shocks.

China is the biggest structural shift.
🗄 Ranked 7th in 1980 with ~$300B GDP
🗄 Still outside the top 5 in 2000
🗄 Now firmly 2nd at ~$19.4T

Japan tells the opposite story. It peaked in the late 80s and early 90s, briefly closing the gap with the US, then slowed. By 2025 it sits in 4th place.

Europe stayed relevant but stagnant. Germany, the UK, and France never dropped out of the top 10, yet none managed a breakout like China or India.

India quietly climbed the ranks. From under $200B in 1980 to over $4.1T in 2025, now inside the top 5.


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🥇 Gold exploration hits an unprecedented pause

Crescat says that for the first time in its long tracking history, data shows zero major gold discoveries between 2023 and 2024.

This has never happened before in the recorded dataset.


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Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth vs. Her Salary.


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🥈 COMEX silver inventories keep shrinking

Registered silver on COMEX sits near 102M ounces, while open interest in the March contract is about 366M ounces. The delivery gap is large, even if it never fully closes in practice.

The March contract is now rolling fast. In the last 24 hours:

📊 Open interest fell by 2,943 contracts, about 15M ounces

📊 May contracts increased by 3,589, roughly 18M ounces

At this pace, March open interest could fall to registered inventory levels in about 18 trading days, around March 6. First Notice Day is February 27.

Silver can still move into vaults or be reclassified, but registered inventory keeps trending lower. Even after last week’s sharp selloff, that trend did not reverse.

That’s the signal.


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Monday range setup


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JUST IN: U.S hiring rate hits recession levels at 3.3%, matching 2020 crisis and near 13 year low.


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Building a trader is deeply weird early on.

One day you crush it and you're convinced you've cracked the code. The next day you're wondering if you ever knew how to trade.

You're risking real capital, real years and effort on uncertainty.

Dealing with it takes a lot of time.


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🌐 How a $100 domain turned into a $70,000,000 sale

In 1993, Arsyan Ismail registered AI.com for $100. He was 10 years old. The letters matched his initials. He held the domain for 32 years.

Ismail built early internet projects in parallel. He released Orenscript as a teenager, shipped popular mIRC tools, launched a local social network, founded 1337 Tech, and became an early Bitcoin user with marketplace experiments.

Over time, AI.com became one of the rarest domains online. Two letters tied to the most valuable tech narrative. By 2023, it was redirecting between giants like ChatGPT and xAI, watched as a digital trophy.

In 2026, the sale closed. Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek bought AI.com for $70,000,000, paid fully in crypto. The deal was brokered by Larry Fischer.

$100 became $70M. Time did the work.


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📉 Big Short investor Michael Burry warns of Palantir $PLTR stock plunging to $50.

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JUST IN: Trump is privately discussing a potential U.S. exit from the USMCA ahead of a July 1 joint review of the trade pact


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JUST IN: January Nonfarm Payrolls rise 130,000, above expectations for 66,000.

The U.S. Unemployment Rate fell from 4.4% to 4.3%, beating estimates.


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❕ The AI trade is bigger than $NVDA

Everyone keeps framing AI as a single stock story. But the actual spend moves through a long supply chain.

Big Tech capex flows in stages. It does not go straight to GPUs.

🖱 Tools and equipment first
ASML
Lam Research
Applied Materials

🖱 Then the fabs that make the silicon
TSMC
Intel
GlobalFoundries

🖱 Then the real choke points
Broadcom
Marvell
Credo Technology
Amphenol
Coherent
Lumentum

🖱 Servers ship at the end
Super Micro Computer
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Dell

Many of these stocks trade as if AI spending slows soon. Capex plans across Big Tech point the other way.

The middle of the chain looks underwatched.

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📉 Why more trades don’t mean more money

More activity feels productive, but in trading it usually does the opposite. Most losses don’t come from missing opportunities. They come from taking too many low-quality trades.

Here’s what actually matters:

📊 The activity trap
Being busy hides the lack of edge. Overtrading slowly bleeds accounts through bad entries and stress.

📊 Selectivity wins
Profitable traders make money by saying no to 90–99% of setups. Capital goes only where the advantage is clear.

📊 A+ setups only
The best trades don’t need convincing. Structure, trend, and risk are obvious. Execution feels calm, not forced.

📊 Asymmetric risk–reward
Trades with 5:1 or 10:1 potential allow a few winners to cover many small losses. Frequency without asymmetry just multiplies mistakes.

📊 Patience is the edge
Waiting is not inactivity. Waiting is discipline. It keeps you out of marginal trades that quietly drain accounts.

📊 Quality over frequency
One well-timed, high-conviction trade can outperform weeks of random activity. Fewer trades often mean better results.

📊 Timing matters
Big gains usually come in short, explosive phases. You don’t need to trade all the time. You need to be ready at the right time.

📊 Boredom trades are expensive
Trading just to feel involved is costly. If the setup isn’t there, doing nothing is the correct decision.

📊 The obvious moments
The best opportunities feel clear. When everything aligns, hesitation disappears and execution becomes simple.

📊 The real secret
Trading success doesn’t come from constant action. It comes from patience, preparation, and the courage to wait.

Trading is not a game of constant action.
The traders who last are not the most active ones, but the most selective.
Doing less, at the right moments, is what actually moves the needle.


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The trader who loves getting better at trading will always beat the trader who wants to get rich.


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‼️ Large US Bankruptcies Spike to Pandemic Levels

9 large US companies filed for bankruptcy last week.

The 3 week average now stands at 6, the highest since 2020. At least 18 firms with liabilities of $50M+ have gone bankrupt over the past 3 weeks.

Historically, only the post-2001 slowdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020 pandemic saw higher readings.

The peak this century was a 3 week average of 9 in 2009.


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Politicians vs. Average Person’s Net Worth.


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