The Doctor's Dose

Why Nvidia’s Stock Isn’t Partying Like Other Parts of the Chip Sector This Year The strange setup: strong AI signals, weaker relative performance Nvidia shares moved higher following strong semiconductor earnings and bullish AI-related guidance — yet they still lagged...

Verizon Gets Final California Approval for Frontier Deal — Intraday Trading Implications Verizon (VZ) received final approval from California regulators to acquire Frontier Communications (FYBR), clearing the last major state hurdle for its $9.6B deal (valued around...

Trump’s Iran Tariff Threat: What It Means for Markets and Traders President Donald Trump escalated tensions with Iran this week by announcing that any country doing business with the Islamic Republic would face a 25 percent tariff on trade with the United States,...

Train the Body, Strengthen the Mind: How Exercise Builds Trading Discipline Trading is a performance discipline. If you want steadier execution, better emotional control, and cleaner decision-making, you can’t only train your charts — you have to train your body too....

Why Intel’s Stock Surged as the AI Trade Broadened — and What Traders Should Watch Next Intel surprised the market by jumping to the top of the S&P 500 leaderboard as the AI narrative broadened beyond the usual “GPU-only” winners. For traders, this wasn’t just a...

Boredom in Trading: Why Doing Nothing Is One of the Hardest (and Most Profitable) Skills One of the least discussed — yet most destructive — forces in active trading is boredom in trading psychology. Not fear. Not greed. Boredom. Sitting in front of a screen, watching...

Nvidia’s “Tremendous” AI Demand Message: What Traders Should Watch as Vera Rubin Heads Toward Launch Nvidia didn’t need an earnings surprise to move the conversation this week. At CES, the company reinforced a simple narrative: Demand for AI and accelerated computing...

Plan the Trade. Trade the Plan. Why Discipline Is the Real Edge (ATI Case Study) One of the biggest advantages in markets isn’t a new indicator, a faster feed, or a better opinion. It’s trading discipline and execution—the ability to follow your plan to the letter...

How to Stop FOMO in Trading: When a “Right Trade” Becomes a Losing Trade Sometimes the trade idea is right… and the trader still loses. The culprit is often simple: entry discipline gets replaced by urgency. How to Stop FOMO in Trading Starts With One Truth: The Entry...

The Impact of Venezuela Sanctions on Traders: What Markets May React to This Week Geopolitical headlines don’t need to trigger a crisis to matter. Often, the real impact of Venezuela sanctions on traders comes from how uncertainty alters expectations, volatility, and...

Trader Psychology for the Week Ahead: A Weekend Reset for Clarity, Energy, and Expectation Control The best trading weeks don’t start on Monday — they start with how you recover on the weekend. Trader psychology for the week ahead is about arriving at the opening bell...

Tesla Loses Its Crown: What BYD’s Rise Means for TSLA Traders Focus keyphrase: Tesla sales decline trading impact Tesla is no longer the top global EV seller. After posting a second consecutive annual decline in deliveries, Tesla has been surpassed in EV sales by...

Over the last couple weeks I’ve been talking with several traders who all said the same thing in different ways: patience is hard for me. Whether it showed up as: Moving stops up too quickly (because being wrong feels worse than missing a bigger win) Not letting...

China’s AI Advances Are Back — and Traders Should Care Just as U.S. markets were waiting for the next leg higher in AI leadership stocks, China has reintroduced a familiar wildcard. Reports of a photon-based computing chip for AI training and inference—dubbed...

The Hidden Perils of Pre- and Post-Holiday Trading Why the Open Is the Only Liquidity That Matters Holiday trading weeks lure traders into a dangerous illusion. The screens are on. The market is open. Prices are moving. So it feels like opportunity. But in reality,...