The Doctor's Dose

ICE’s $2 Billion Bet on Polymarket Could Bring Prediction Markets Into the Mainstream TraderInsight • October 2025 • Fintech, Crypto, Market Microstructure Focus keyphrase: ICE Polymarket prediction market Wall Street Meets the Betting Market Intercontinental Exchange...

What the Hard-to-Borrow Warning on NNE Really Meant By Adrian Manz • TraderInsight When a stock suddenly appears on the hard-to-borrow list, veteran traders pay attention. That change in market microstructure often precedes volatility, signaling that borrowing shares...

Trump Administration Takes 10% Stake in Trilogy Metals, Approves Alaska Ambler Road TraderInsight • October 2025 • Energy, Metals, U.S. Policy A New Era for U.S. Resource Security The Trump administration announced a $35.6 million investment for a 10% ownership stake...

U.S. Banks Missed the Tricolor Warning Signs. Now Traders Are Watching the Fallout. TraderInsight • October 2025 • Financials, Risk, Credit What Happened Tricolor Auto Group — once hailed as a model for “social impact” lending — collapsed into Chapter 7 liquidation...

AMD OpenAI Partnership: What the Deal Means for AMD Stock TraderInsight • September 2025 • Chip Stocks, AI, Trading Shares of **AMD** ripped on Monday after the company announced a long-term deal to supply OpenAI with GPUs across a 6-gigawatt deployment. The **AMD...

AI Jobs Impact: What Yale and Brookings Say About Generative AI’s Effect on Employment TraderInsight • September 2025 • Labor, AI, Trading A new study from Yale University’s Budget Lab and the Brookings Institution finds that the AI jobs impact has been modest so far....

US Government Shutdown and Jobs Data Shock Markets: What Traders Should Watch TraderInsight • September 2025 • Macro, Jobs, Trading The US government shutdown and jobs data are rattling Wall Street. ADP reported a surprise loss of 32,000 private-sector jobs — the...

Weak U.S. Job Market Flashes in ADP Data: What Traders Need to Know October 2025 • Jobs, Fed, Trading The weak U.S. job market was evident again in the ADP data, which showed a loss of 32,000 private-sector jobs in September, contrary to forecasts for a gain of...

Caterpillar Stock Outlook: Rate Cuts, AI Power, and a Technical Setup TraderInsight • September 2025 • Industrials, AI, Rate Cuts After lagging earlier in the year, Caterpillar's stock outlook has turned sharply higher. Shares are up 22% in the past three months as...

Smarter Lot Sizing: How Scaling Into Trades Improves Consistency One of the most overlooked skills in trading is scaling into trades. Many traders either go all-in at their first entry point or wait too long, missing the best opportunities. But by learning how to...

The Psychology of Jumping the Gun in Trading A friend and fellow trader called me on Monday and asked me to look at the chart of Robin Hood (HOOD) and “explain why the short was losing money.” I responded as I have many times in the past: if it were me, I would be...

US Pharma Tariff Cap: Relief for Drugmakers Amid Trump’s Trade Moves TraderInsight • September 27, 2025 • Pharma, Policy, Tariffs The Trump administration will honour a US pharma tariff cap of 15% on imports from the EU and Japan — far below the 100% levy initially...

The U.S. soybean trade crisis: Market Shifts, Risks, and Opportunities The U.S. soybean trade crisis is deepening as China—historically the dominant buyer of American soybeans—has effectively halted imports just as the fall harvest ramps up. Government data indicate...

Conquering FOMO in Trading: A Performance Psychology Perspective Conquering FOMO is one of the biggest challenges traders face on their path to consistent performance. Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) can appear as a simple emotional nudge, but research in performance...