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#MastertheMarket Market downturns create fear, panic, and uncertainty. Yet history's greatest investors have built their fortunes not by fleeing these conditions, but by embracing them.
"What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history," Warren Buffett famously observed. When markets plunge, most investors forget the fundamental truth that these cycles are inevitable and temporary. Buffett and his longtime partner, Charlie Munger, repeatedly emphasized that they made most of their money during bear markets—not by timing the bottom perfectly, but by remaining rational when others succumbed to emotion.
Mastering your emotions during market turbulence isn't just about psychological resilience—it's about creating wealth. Here are five essential rules to transform market panic into profit:
1. Know What You Own: When the market drops sharply, uninformed investors panic because they don't truly understand their investments. If you own high-quality businesses with strong fundamentals, market volatility becomes an opportunity rather than a threat. Develop deep knowledge about each company in your portfolio—its business model, competitive advantages, and financial health. This knowledge creates conviction that withstands temporary price swings.
2. Know Your Views on What Makes a Good Business: Develop clear criteria for what constitutes a great business. Is it high margins? Strong free cash flow? Network effects? Market leadership? When you have established standards, you'll recognize quality amid the chaos. Without these principles, you'll find yourself chasing whatever seems safest in the moment—a recipe for buying high and selling low.
3.Develop Your Own Understanding Of Business Value: The market offers prices every day, but only occasionally offers value. Learning to calculate what a business is truly worth—through discounted cash flow analysis, comparable company evaluation, or other methodologies—allows you to recognize genuine bargains when they appear. As your valuation skills improve, so too will your confidence in acting contrary to market sentiment when opportunities arise.
4.Establish A Disciplined Holding Period:
This often-overlooked factor provides enormous advantage. Most investors constantly react to market movements, news cycles, and quarterly reports. By committing to a longer timeframe—thinking in years, not months—you escape the tyranny of short-term volatility. This discipline transforms market downturns from emergencies into opportunities.
5.Research The CEO And Management Team:
The leadership steering a company through turbulent times often determines its ultimate success. Consider Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase. With a significant portion of his net worth invested in company stock, he has led the bank to market leadership in its key sectors while building a deep management bench.
When the NASDAQ drops 4% in a day, remember: JPMorgan didn't lose 4% of its customers, nor did its employees put in 4% less effort. The underlying business remains largely unchanged despite the market's dramatic reaction.

#TradingAnalysis101 Trading analysis refers to the process of evaluating financial markets to make informed decisions about buying and selling assets. There are two main types of analysis used in trading: fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Here’s a breakdown of both:
1. Fundamental Analysis
This approach involves evaluating the intrinsic value of an asset by analyzing economic, financial, and other qualitative and quantitative factors. Fundamental analysis is often used for long-term trading or investing.
Key components include:
Economic Indicators: GDP, unemployment rates, inflation, interest rates, etc.
Company Health (for stocks): Earnings reports, revenue, profit margins, debt levels, etc.
News & Events: Geopolitical events, central bank decisions, or company news (like mergers).
Traders use these factors to predict the long-term value of assets.
2. Technical Analysis
Technical analysis is based on the belief that historical price movements and trading volume patterns can predict future price movements. It’s more commonly used for short-term trading.
Key components include:
Charts: Candlestick charts, line charts, bar charts, etc.
Indicators: Tools like moving averages, Relative Strength Index (RSI), MACD, Bollinger Bands, etc.
Patterns: Chart patterns like head and shoulders, triangles, and double tops/bottoms.
Volume: The number of shares/contracts traded, which can confirm trends or reversals.
Basic Concepts in Technical Analysis:
Support and Resistance: Levels where the price tends to reverse direction (support is where prices tend to stop falling, resistance is where prices tend to stop rising).
Trend Lines: Used to identify the direction of the market (uptrend, downtrend, sideways).
Moving Averages: Smooth out price data to create a single flowing line, which helps identify the direction of the trend.
3. Risk Management
Proper risk management is essential in trading to protect capital. Some key techniques include:
Position Sizing: Determining how much to risk on a single trade.
Stop Loss Orders: A tool used to automatically sell an asset once it hits a specific price, limiting potential losses.
Risk-to-Reward Ratio: Traders aim for a favorable risk-to-reward ratio, where the potential reward outweighs the risk (e.g., risking $100 to make $300).
4. Trading Psychology
Trading psychology plays a significant role in decision-making. Common psychological traps include:
Fear: Avoiding trades or selling too early due to fear of losing.
Greed: Holding onto a trade for too long, hoping for bigger profits.
Overconfidence: Taking excessive risks after a string of successful trades.

#TexasBTCReserveBill
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The Texas Senate on Thursday passed a measure that would establish a state-controlled cryptocurrency reserve. The move comes just days after President Donald Trump announced plans to create a U.S. crypto strategic reserve.
Senate Bill 21, authored by Republican Sen. Charles Schwertner of Georgetown, would allow the state comptroller to buy, hold and manage Bitcoin and other digital assets as "a hedge against inflation and economic volatility." The reserve would be funded through legislative appropriations and donations from private citizens and corporations.
The bill would also create a committee to provide investment recommendations for which cryptocurrency to buy to the comptroller. If signed into law, Texas would become the first U.S. state to create its own cryptocurrency reserve.
"This bill will allow Texas to diversify our investment approach, participate competitively in the evolving digital, financial economy and leverage the benefits of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies," Schwertner said.
Schwertner says his proposed crypto reserve would be subject to regular third-party audits, the findings of which would be released in a report to the state legislature every other year.
The bill passed out of the Senate with 25 legislators in favor and five against. It now heads to the Texas House for consideration.
Before passing, the proposed bill led to a heated debate between Schwertner and Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio, who raised concerns about Bitcoin's volatility and the potential risks associated with allocating state funds to cryptocurrency.
"When the economy is down, Bitcoin is down, and the fluctuations on this stuff is insanity," Gutierrez said. "We have so many real concerns in this state, and so many of our citizens that're asking for real help, and the last thing that we need to do is go benefit some techno bro."
Gutierrez argued that the use of crypto was "completely unregulated" — a claim that Schwertner pushed back on, saying cryptocurrency was regulated by blockchain technology, which is essentially a digital ledger that records transactions. Schwertner added that a blockchain is decentralized, meaning the data it's not owned or operated by one single entity.
"In some ways, it is more accountable because it has that decentralized nature," Schwertner said. However, Gutierrez was not convinced.
"All I've heard is it's a blockchain and it's a computer, it's an algorithm," Gutierrez asked. "We're supposed to allow that algorithm, that computer and ... some crypto bros to regulate themselves?"
Despite Gutierrez's continued pushback, the bill was fast-tracked out of the Senate by a majority of lawmakers who moved to skip a third reading of the bill, which is the last step before a proposed law can move onto the next chamber for discussion.
Gov. Greg Abbott has previously expressed interest in making Texas a hub for the use of crypto. On Sunday. Trump announced a proposed national crypto reserve, signaling a significant federal endorsement of digital assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Cardano.