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Truth or Skepticism

24 Sep 2025

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Truth or Skepticism

17 Sep 2025

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Truth or Skepticism

10 Sep 2025

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Truth or Skepticism

03 Sep 2025

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Truth or Skepticism

27 Aug 2025

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Truth or Skepticism

20 Aug 2025

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Truth or Skepticism

13 Aug 2025

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Numbers Don't Lie

06 Aug 2025

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President Trump ignited backlash after firing BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer in the wake of a disappointing jobs report and major downward revision...

Artificial Is Still Artificial

30 Jul 2025

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From headlines to hype, AI is everywhere—and so is the fear that it's coming for your job. It's faster, cheaper, tireless. But can it truly replace ...

Free Speech?

23 Jul 2025

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This week, Tom and Dylan unpack a troubling trend: media figures who speak out—especially against Trump—are increasingly facing lawsuits. What doe...

You're Fired

16 Jul 2025

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Markets sold off quickly Wednesday morning following reports President Trump was planning to fire Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. A couple hours later, Tr...

Borrow, Default, Rinse, Repeat

09 Jul 2025

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It sounds unthinkable—America defaulting on its debt. Yet here we are, seriously debating what was once considered absurd. This week, Tom and Dylan ...

Soft Power and How it Leads to Strength, Profits and Loyalty

02 Jul 2025

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This week, Tom and Dylan unpack the concept of soft power—how goodwill, credibility, and trust shape influence. They reflect on the original vision ...

Ain't Nothing But a G Thing

18 Jun 2025

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This week, Tom and Dylan unpack the surprising twist in the Nippon Steel–U.S. Steel merger. The U.S. government has secured a powerful new "G" share...

Who Are the Adults?

11 Jun 2025

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When a business or country is run by someone surrounded by sycophants, you lose the adults in the room. Without dissenting voices, it's hard to proper...

Divorce Was Inevitable, The Bromance Is Dead

04 Jun 2025

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It wasn't long, but it was intense. The bromance seems to be over between Trump and Musk. The question is, what will the fallout be? Who keeps the hou...

Teflon Markets

21 May 2025

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The last decade has seen a political bifurcation of the United States. We've endured a pandemic. Despite all that, equity markets seem unfazed. The qu...

The Impact of Unintended Consequences

14 May 2025

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The corruption has hit a new high. Or low. Investments in construction projects. Meme coins. Airplanes. The White House may need a new color because t...

Grifter and Thief

07 May 2025

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The crypto space is still in its early stages, as users and investors try to understand its purpose and long-term potential. That process isn't helped...

What Exactly Is The Plan Here?

30 Apr 2025

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Earlier this week, reports emerged that Amazon planned to display tariff costs directly to consumers. But after backlash from the White House, the com...

I'm Breaking Up With You

23 Apr 2025

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Alphabet and Meta are facing regulatory consequences for becoming monopolies. It's not something we see happen often in the U.S. and it begs the quest...

The Real Risk

16 Apr 2025

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Nations have different types of power. One is economic. Another is influence or soft power that comes from goodwill. We attract the best and brightest...

Tariffs and Tweets

09 Apr 2025

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Tariffs on. Tariffs off. They didn't even last a full 24 hours before Trump gave most countries a reprieve but raised tariffs on China to 125%. Market...

Unintended Consequences

02 Apr 2025

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When you change economic policy as dramatically as we have in the last two months, there are bound to be unintended consequences. What are those conse...

Integrity Is Worth More Than Any Asset

26 Mar 2025

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MicroStrategy was the first company to change their business model to rely on investing in bitcoin. Yesterday, GameStop became the second. At the same...

The Cost of Education

19 Mar 2025

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When Russia invaded Ukraine, there was a brain drain from Russia. The best and brightest left for better opportunities. The U.S. was a beneficiary of ...

Just The Facts Ma'am

12 Mar 2025

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Over the past year, crowdsourcing has increasingly replaced facts backed by proof, while regulatory enforcement has declined. This shift allows for ne...

Exit Political World Stage Left

05 Mar 2025

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The U.S. is the financial epicenter of the world. A big reason for that is the political role we have historically held. The current administration se...

We Mean Business

25 Feb 2025

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Can you put a successful CEO in the White House and get a good outcome? It's a fair question. And, it's one with which we're experimenting right now. ...

The Cinderella of Regulation

19 Feb 2025

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This administration has too much regulation. This administration has too little regulation. Which administration is just right? That's the question To...

Why AI Isn't As "Intelligent" As We Thought

12 Feb 2025

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How do we define what is ethical and what is corrupt? There are clear lines for solving math problems or questions that rely on agreed upon principles...

Bark or Bite?

05 Feb 2025

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One of the most important aspects of success is being able to tell a great story. Donald Trump is a great storyteller. Whether he's a good politician ...

How Deepseek Just Shook The Big Tech Monopoly

29 Jan 2025

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Are monopolies something we need regulators to break up or can we rely on the marketplace to do it? The answer depends. According to Tom, if the marke...

Why Markets Might Be About To Change (Potentially More Than 2008?)

22 Jan 2025

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A free-market economy is reliant upon a competition and ambition. What happens when the playing field tilts, and you need to bow to political powers? ...

Why Tik Tok Won't Get Banned in 2025

15 Jan 2025

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Fires in LA are still burning, but as we begin looking forward and toward the rebuild, there are important things we need to consider. One is homeowne...

Are We As Over Bought as We Were in 2007?

18 Dec 2024

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Why The Most Important Trades Are The Losers

11 Dec 2024

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More CEOs Were Fired in 2024 Than Ever Before... Why?

04 Dec 2024

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President-elect Trump nominated Paul Atkins for SEC Chairman. Atkins has previous experience with the SEC during the George W. Bush years. Could this ...

Does Qualification Matter In 2024?

20 Nov 2024

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Is Jake Paul a successful boxer? Or is he a successful promoter? Is Donald Trump a good politician or a successful promoter? It seems the traditional ...

What Does Trump Becoming President Say About America

06 Nov 2024

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We Accidentally Started the Only Truthful Media Company in America

30 Oct 2024

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Earlier this week, The Washington Post decided not to endorse a candidate for president. The Post's owner, Jeff Bezos claimed it was because people do...

Should You Trade The Election?

23 Oct 2024

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We're getting to crunch time with elections less than two weeks away. Interest rates are rising. Commodities are rising. Betting markets are saying on...

You Don't Want To Retire in America… This is Why

16 Oct 2024

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Top 5 Skills For Leadership

09 Oct 2024

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What makes for a good leader? It's a fair question to ask and election cycles tend to bring that question to the forefront. Whether it's a political l...

Will AI Take Your Job?

02 Oct 2024

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Throughout history, we've experienced periods of exponential growth as a result of technological advancement. AI stands to be the next revolution in g...

The Message or the Messenger?

25 Sep 2024

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What happens when the messenger lacks credibility? When messengers can't be trusted, the message, not matter how accurate, isn't listened to. At the s...

Can You Fix The Internet?

18 Sep 2024

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Our society is more polarized than ever. While it's been a growing problem, it has become exponentially worse since social media use grew. How do we g...

Does America Have A Problem?

11 Sep 2024

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Countries around the world have sovereign wealth funds which are used to invest in various industries. That opens the question as to whether or not th...

Is There is No More Free Speech in America?

04 Sep 2024

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Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram was recently arrested on allegations he failed to adequately monitor the illegal activity taking place on the app. Ac...

Tom Thinks We Can Control AI.... Dylan is Doubtful

28 Aug 2024

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Video may have killed the radio star, but the internet killed print journalism. Google recently pledged to invest over a hundred million dollars to su...

Are Price Caps Good For Democracy?

21 Aug 2024

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We're all familiar with the pie-in-the-sky promises of political campaigns. There may be no greater oxymoron than, campaign promise. However, while th...

How Much Is a CEO Worth?

14 Aug 2024

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On Tuesday, Starbucks stock soared 25% on the news it was hiring Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol. The news sent Chipotle lower by nearly 10%. The notional v...

Do We Need A Reason Why The Market Corrected?

07 Aug 2024

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Who can explain why the market fell on Monday? What about how Kamala Harris became the nominee? People can't seem to move on without a reason as to wh...

Are The Olympics Profitable?

31 Jul 2024

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Paris is in the spotlight as host of this summer's Olympic and Paralympic games. Over the course of several weeks, countless spectators will visit Par...

Our Nation is in Turmoil... How Is It affecting The Market?

24 Jul 2024

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The events of the last week are enough to last a year. The biggest news was the change at the top of the ticket for Democrats. Was the reason for Bide...

The Selloff is Here?

17 Jul 2024

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We haven't seen many heavy selling days this year, making today a bit of an outlier. The question is, what's causing the today's action? Is it as simp...

Does the Market Care?

10 Jul 2024

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One could argue the country has never put forth two less desirable candidates for president. The divide in politics has never been more polarizing. Tu...

Is Roaring Kitty A Hero Or a Villain?

05 Jun 2024

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When does "talking your book" cross over into stock manipulation? On this week's podcast, Tom and Dylan discuss the recent price action in GameStop an...

This Is My Greatest Fear

29 May 2024

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Is the American Dream Dead?

22 May 2024

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A good job, marriage, 2.5 kids, house, car and a trip to Disneyworld. That was the American Dream. Is it still? Have the things we want out of life ch...

Regression to the Meme?

15 May 2024

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We thought the chapter on meme stocks was complete. It was written off as people fed up with being stuck at home from Covid, taking their government c...

Why AI Doesn't Actually Make Money?

08 May 2024

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Is Tenure Corrupting Education?

01 May 2024

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Tenure is unique to academia. Teachers are afforded protection once granted tenure so they can research and discuss topics that might otherwise jeopar...

Are Noncompete Clauses Fair? | Truth or Skepticism

24 Apr 2024

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The FTC recently ruled noncompete agreements can no longer be used for employees making less than $151K in non-senior leadership roles. On this week's...

We Created tasty So You Don't Have To Watch Them

17 Apr 2024

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We're unique. Or maybe special is a better way of putting it. Unconventional. We take the other side of what the general public thinks, says or does. ...

Financial Media Is One Big Conspiracy Theory | Truth or Skepticism

10 Apr 2024

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Was it a single shooter that killed Kennedy or were there more? What about the moon landing? Conspiracy theories have and always will exist. Improveme...

Are You Be Too Rich?

03 Apr 2024

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If Patrick Mahomes were told the most money he could make playing football is $1 million, would he quit? If a net worth limit were imposed, what would...

Big Tech Has Gone Too Far... Here Is Why

27 Mar 2024

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Last week, news was made when a quadriplegic man with a chip implanted in his brain allowed him to manipulate the chess pieces on a computer game. Mov...

Fuel for the Optimistic Fire?

20 Mar 2024

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'The Front Page of the Internet' and the potential strengths and drawbacks involved in Reddit's upcoming IPO. On this week's episode, Tom and Dylan de...

Degree Or Debt | Is College Worth It?

13 Mar 2024

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For many college graduates, they enter the workforce and are unable to land a job related to their field of study. The jobs they end up with often pay...

Apocalypse How

06 Mar 2024

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You have to take risk to make progress or be successful. One of the unique aspects of success in the business community is the reliance it creates. Co...

You'll Never Be As Good a Trader as Nancy Pelosi

28 Feb 2024

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When politicians buy options or stock and those trades are profitable, it's natural to wonder if they are trading on non-public information and gain...

The Financial Media Money Pit, Explained

21 Feb 2024

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There is no place in life where being passive leads to success. Finance is no different. However, there are plenty of people out there who will tell y...

Did We Just Replace Tom With an AI?

14 Feb 2024

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Artificial intelligence is improving at a pace we can no longer really control. It's evolution on steroids. Today, there are companies that can use pu...

Adam Neuman: The Smartest Failed Entrepreneur?

07 Feb 2024

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Elon Musk Is In For a $56 BILLION Reckoning

31 Jan 2024

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Tom Sosnoff and Dylan Ratigan dissect Elon Musk's recent legal tussle, in which he sought a hefty share compensation from the Tesla board, a request p...

Bitcoin ETF: The Ugly Truth for Retail Traders

24 Jan 2024

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There's a perception out there that individual self-directed investors need to be protected from themselves. Take the recent bitcoin ETFs. Mainstrea...

Did Elon Musk Just Blackmail Tesla Investors?

17 Jan 2024

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If you invest in a company because you believe in the founder, are you investing in a company or are you investing in the person? Take it a step furth...

Time to Short $META... For Ethics?

10 Jan 2024

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Is social media really a threat or is it just a scapegoat? Each generation thinks the next generation is being dumbed down by media consumption. Socia...

Are Story Stocks in For a Correction?

03 Jan 2024

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We all like a good story. There's nothing wrong with that. However, when we trust the story at the expense of the facts, we have a problem. Markets ar...

Finance Insiders: The Market Is Overhyping AI. Look At This Instead.

27 Dec 2023

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Employment is Hitting a New Paradigm

20 Dec 2023

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Does the Housing Market Need an Overhaul?

13 Dec 2023

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Finance's Most Powerful are About to Be Outsmarted

06 Dec 2023

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Buffett, Munger and Bogel Don't Have as Much Edge As You Think

29 Nov 2023

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We're in the midst of a transformative era of personal finance. Whether it's sports betting, crypto, or equity and futures markets, self-directed reta...

Tom Sosnoff Explains The Biggest Risk to Fintech

15 Nov 2023

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How to Predict The Future

08 Nov 2023

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Is Your Social Media Data The Most Precious Commodity?

01 Nov 2023

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Insider's View: Finance is Shifting (here's how to prepare)

25 Oct 2023

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In a recent Bloomberg column, a startling revelation emerged: Financial institutions now generate a staggering 90% of their new revenue from asset pri...

You're Thinking About This Market Completely Wrong

18 Oct 2023

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Why are bonds down so much this year when stocks are up? If they're both looking at the same world, you would think they would trade similarly. On thi...

The Truth About the "Risk Free" Path | Truth or Skepticism

11 Oct 2023

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The most common reason we hear about people being passive investors is fear of risk. Risk of the unknown. However, we've dedicated our professional ca...

Tom Can't Get Enough of Taylor & Travis

04 Oct 2023

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An Economic and Political Tipping Point

27 Sep 2023

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Mea Culpa

20 Sep 2023

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Scan a handful of newspaper headlines and you might thing the world is worse off than it's ever been. Now look at a chart of the stock market over the...

The Wolves of Wall Street

13 Sep 2023

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If you have a set of unique talents, there's no better time to look for a job or ask for better compensation than at a time when the labor pool is nea...

Whose Way? Huawei

06 Sep 2023

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We're seeing governments intervening in markets on multiple continents. In China, state employees have been banned from using foreign mobile phones. I...

How Much Can Wells Fargo Get Away With?

30 Aug 2023

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 If financial institutions had a three strike rule, Wells Fargo would have been out a long time ago. The bank is back in the news this week after bei...

Skin In The Game

24 Aug 2023

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The housing crises of 2008 was in large part caused by mortgage lenders approving loans to people they knew couldn't afford them. The lenders then tur...

One And Done

16 Aug 2023

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There's a financial graveyard of fund managers who made a right call on the market which paid off huge. Maybe it was the housing crisis. Maybe it was ...

The Lie At The Center of Tom Sosnoff | Truth or Skepticism

09 Aug 2023

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A basic tasty tenant is to put time on your side. Trade small, give yourself time to be right, and recognize that markets are random. Dylan Ratigan wa...