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Last year, if a stock had ANYTHING associated with AI, it would just rip. |
Slap "artificial intelligence" in a press release and watch it run 20% in a week. The whole sector was on fire. Trend followers were printing money left and right. |
This year? Those same stocks are getting absolutely punished. |
AI spending concerns, rising yields, profit-taking... doesn't matter the reason. What mattered THEN doesn't matter NOW. |
The market evolved. And if you're still running the same playbook you used in 2025, you're in for a LONG year. |
This week proved it. |
Thursday, tech got massacred. Over a trillion dollars wiped out in hours. The Nasdaq dropped 1.7% and AI stocks led the carnage. |
If your entire strategy is built around riding tech trends up... you had no play. You just watched your positions bleed or sat on the sidelines completely paralyzed. |
Then Friday flipped the script. Semis ripped 7-8%. The S&P posted its best day since May. That trillion came roaring back... but into completely different sectors. |
Energy ripped 7.7%. Value outperformed growth by over 400 basis points. The Dow broke 50,000 while tech was still licking its wounds. |
Same week. Completely different conditions. Multiple opportunities to make money. |
But if you only know ONE way to trade... if your whole system is designed for the conditions we HAD instead of the conditions we HAVE... you sat out most of it. |
Look, I've been doing this for 34 years. I've watched this pattern repeat thr |
Traders find something that works, they master it, they build their entire approach around it. Then the market shifts and suddenly that edge disappears. |
It's not that your strategy is bad. It's that it was designed for a different environment. |
The trend system that crushed it during last year's AI bull run? It's chopping you to pieces in this whipsaw volatility. |
The premium selling approach that generated consistent income when the VIX stayed low? It's getting blown out by these sudden spikes to 22. |
The breakout plays that used to run for days? They're fading within hours now. |
And if that's the ONLY tool you have, you're stuck watching opportunities pass because your playbook doesn't have an answer for what's happening NOW. |
Thursday, I banked on 0DTE trades in TSLA… made 365% on low-risk/high reward setup. |
Not because I predicted some massive move... but because I had frameworks ready for high-volatility intraday conditions. |
That's a completely different skillset than trend following. Different rules, different execution, different timeframe. |
But it's what worked THIS week. In THESE conditions. |
The VIX spiked twice this week... if you don't trade volatility, you had nothing. |
Sectors rotated 400+ basis points... if you don't understand cycles, you missed it. |
Tech reversed from panic to euphoria in 24 hours... if you don't have contrarian frameworks, you watched both moves happen with no way to capitalize. |
The market doesn't care about YOUR preferred strategy. It does what it does. And you either adapt or you bleed. |
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So when the market shifts like it did this week... you're not stuck. You're not paralyzed. You're not watching from the sidelines. |
You just pivot to the framework that fits the current environment and keep executing. |
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There's no shame in having a strategy that worked last year but isn't working now. |
That's just how markets work. Conditions change, edges evolve, what printed money 12 months ago can bleed you dry today. |
The traders who survive aren't the ones who found ONE perfect system. They're the ones who can recognize when the game changed... and adapt their approach to match. |
You can keep running your 2025 playbook and hope the market comes back to you... or you can add the frameworks that are working RIGHT NOW in 2026. |
Your call. |
To your success, |
Don Kaufman |
P.S. Today's the Super Bowl. Two teams. Two completely different strategies and playbooks. Only ONE is walking away with the trophy. |
The one that couldn't adapt to what the other team was doing? They're going home empty-handed. |
Same thing happens in trading. The market doesn't care about your favorite playbook. It's going to do what it does. And if you can't adapt... you're watching from the sidelines while others collect. |
This week proved it. Next week will prove it again. |
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