After a 20% loss, why does it take a 25% gain to break even?
Because after a loss, your principal is smaller, so any subsequent gains must be built on a smaller capital base.
A few key figures:
* After a 10% loss, you need a gain of about 11.1% to break even.
* After a 20% loss, you need a gain of 25% to break even.
* After a 30% loss, you need a gain of about 42.9% to break even.
* After a 50% loss, you need a gain of 100% to break even.
* After a 70% loss, you need a gain of about 233.3% to break even.
The larger the loss, the greater the gain required to recover your original principal.
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Recently, I’ve been building an EA that tries to catch gold options as they expire in real time.
Its performance isn’t great, but it’s holding up fairly well.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Brent Crude Oil crashes 5% after reports of US and Iran nearing a deal.

11.2$BTC Evening Analysis
On the four-hour chart, the price has stabilized and recovered around the Bollinger midline. MACD remains positive with green bars, and short-term bullish momentum continues to build, marking a consolidation phase after the pullback. On the news front, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, lifting expectations of looser liquidity ahead and boosting sentiment toward risk assets overall. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen consecutive net inflows, with institutional funds continuing to buy the dip during the correction, showing that demand for medium- and long-t

AULA has launched the GS8 Bluetooth speaker, a JD.com exclusive in Dream Purple, with an introductory price of 179 yuan. It measures 409x84x68mm and features a full-width mirrored front panel, around 16.8 million colors of dynamic RGB lighting, and four lighting modes. It supports wired USB and Bluetooth 6.0, comes with a detachable 360° microphone, and packs a 3600mAh battery.
With RGB lighting and 14 hours of battery life with the lights off in one product, are you buying a speaker with lights included or lights with a speaker included? The longer you use the lights, the closer you get to th

Today is “All Souls Day” and we pray for all the souls of the departed that they may receive Gods mercy and join Jesus and all the saints in heaven
Pray for your dearly departed 🙏

📚 The market is a voting machine short-term and a weighing machine long-term.
Most people keep voting with their emotions and wonder why the weight never matches.
Time is the only thing that forces the scale to correct.✍🏻

The agent economy needs more than agents talking to each other. They need to find work, agree on terms, deliver results and settle payments.
That is what @termix_ai is building through AACP
Every agent gets an onchain identity through ERC-8004, giving it a verifiable record. Client agents can post jobs, provider agents can submit quotes, and accepted jobs move through onchain escrow.
Payment is secured before work begins, delivery is recorded, and disputes can go through an evaluator process.
TermiX also brings staking and reputation into the system, giving agents a track record tied to their

$BTC buy the dump

There should be a bounce around 77k
Try to break through the pivot point again?

🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Michael Saylor's Strategy reportedly buys another $63 MILLION worth of Bitcoin!
Saylor says $BTC is DEFINITELY heading back above $100,000, signaling strong confidence in Bitcoin's recovery!

Never forget, this is who controls Super Intelligence while forcing you to pay for woke and censored AI.

Polymarket is overwhelmingly betting on the Democrats, but my gut says the Republicans will pull off an upset
Looking at the odds on Polymarket, Democrats have a 95% chance of winning the House and 73% for the Senate—the market is almost entirely bullish on Democrats holding on.
With both the data and the money leaning one way, I inexplicably have a strong sixth sense that the Republicans will pull off an upset.
When expectations get too high, a black swan event is more likely.
Odds reflect how money is voting, not the final result.
Anyone else, like Jiu Gongzi, betting on the Republicans agai

When S&P 500 hit its 4-year bull market anniversary on October 12, only Tech and Communication Services had outperformed the index for that 4-year period; in October, those were the only 2 sectors that were down
@SPDJIndices

#AppleQ3EarningsInFocus
Apple Q4 FY2026 Earnings Deep Dive (Reporting after close Monday, November 2, 2026)
Original structured analysis focused on results expectations, guidance, AI momentum, stock levels, and a practical trading framework. All figures drawn from current consensus and market data as of late October/early November 2026.
1. Revenue & EPS: Will Apple beat $113.4B revenue and $1.99 EPS expectations?
Wall Street consensus sits near $113.3–$113.5 billion revenue (roughly +10.5% to +10.7% year-over-year from last year’s ~$102.5 billion) and EPS of $1.98–$1.99 (+7% to +7.6% from $1.

Time is tight and there’s a lot to do! I accidentally wrote the short at 3,950 as 4,950! But no big deal! Currently up over 15 points! This rally is mainly driven by news that the two sides have made peace! Short-term traders should take profits promptly! Trend traders’ target remains unchanged!

Canada is trading decades of peaceful diplomacy for “Fortress Canada,” putting guns and growth first. The signal is there, but one confirmation is still missing—is this a strategic shift or just election rhetoric? I set my stop-loss too tight and got stopped out twice. Lesson learned: save this for now and come back tomorrow to verify.

Nov 2 Update:
#Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -7,919 $BTC(-$614.26M)🔴
7D NetFlow: -2,292 $BTC(-$177.81M)🔴
#Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -44,837 $ETH(-$102.12M)🔴
7D NetFlow: -147,585 $ETH(-$336.15M)🔴