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#06: In the Slipstream

Living Library: nine observations on learning through action, mastery through pruning, human judgement in the age of AI, and markets as the sublime.

Aug 22 • Bogdan Stoichescu

I Contain Multitudes, Part II: The Trader You Must Be, the Person You Need Not Become

Giving yourself permission to become what you must

Aug 6 • Bogdan Stoichescu

I Contain Multitudes, Part I: Trading in the Future Perfect

A trading-floor cross-section on Market Profile, branching futures and composing a position before the day’s facts are complete.

Jul 25 • Bogdan Stoichescu

In Search of an End: A Trading Firm’s Q2 2026 Review

Learning to Leave a Theme

Jul 9 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Publication Cycles Two & Three: From the Iran War to the Space Between Headlines

A Trader’s LIFFE, the Q1 Review, Cyprus Floor Notes, the Living Library, and Everything Published Since March

Jun 15 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Most Popular

From Minimum Viable to Always Viable

Oct 30, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

A Trading Firm’s Q2 2025 Review: Horizontal Learning (Part II)

Jul 30, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Tilting At Windmills

Oct 9, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

A Trader’s LIFFE: Thirty Years Across Pits, Screens, and Racetracks

May 3 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Dispatches: Exclusive Trading Floor Stories

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From Systems to Situations: A Junior Trader Through the Iran War

From suppressed markets to headline trading: adaptation, modelling seniors, constraint, and shedding the linear mindset (Iran War Dispatches, Part IV)

Apr 21 • Bogdan Stoichescu

A Decade Comes Due: Four Traders on the Desk’s Biggest Day

March 23 reconstructed: positioning, execution, missed millions, fatigue and Tuesday’s spin-off (Iran War Dispatches, Part III)

Apr 18 • Bogdan Stoichescu

After Minutes of Madness: A Desk’s Debrief

(Iran War: Part II) Decisions, distortions, and what March 9 required of the trader

Mar 29 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Minute’s Madness: A Trading Team’s Multi–Seven-Figure Day.

Exclusive: How the AXIA team navigated “War is very complete, pretty much”—through multiple perspectives. (2026 Iran War: Part I)

Mar 22 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Warrior’s Gambit: Trading The Greenland De-escalation

Exclusive: Paying Up, Playing to Win, and Why a Near Seven-Figure Day Was a Miss

Feb 10 • Bogdan Stoichescu

All The World’s A Stage: How Traders Navigated the Iran–Israel June ’25 Flashpoint

And the Hidden Big Fedspeak Trade That You Might Have Missed

Jun 26, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Where It Began: Liberation Day Fallout, Part IV – Prelude

A Young News Trading Specialist Navigates The Day That Started It All.

May 19, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Be Cool: Liberation Day Fallout, Part III

In our theatre... relief is a false promise.

Apr 25, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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Long-Form Features

I Contain Multitudes, Part II: The Trader You Must Be, the Person You Need Not Become

Giving yourself permission to become what you must

Aug 6 • Bogdan Stoichescu

I Contain Multitudes, Part I: Trading in the Future Perfect

A trading-floor cross-section on Market Profile, branching futures and composing a position before the day’s facts are complete.

Jul 25 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Quality of Your Questions, and Questions of Quality

From chart-reading and trade ideas to market profile, disconfirmation, negative capability and the cognitive frameworks of accomplished traders.

Jun 7 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Answer to a Trade Is Another Trade, or: 46 Mid-Year Field Notes from the Trading Desk

On market transitions, trader development, D+1 flows, risk-taking, and the limits of strategy

May 18 • Bogdan Stoichescu

A Trader’s LIFFE: Thirty Years Across Pits, Screens, and Racetracks

Simon Harris on the FTSE 100 pit, hedge funds, championship motorsport, and the neuroscience-based performance work that followed a life spent under…

May 3 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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Living Library

50:50

#06: In the Slipstream

Living Library: nine observations on learning through action, mastery through pruning, human judgement in the age of AI, and markets as the sublime.

Aug 22 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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#05: The Shape of Things To Come

Living Library: mature markets, transition phases, and the difference between trade ideas and execution

May 27 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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#04: Don’t Trade Yesterday’s Markets—The Iran War Continues

Living Library: observation over strategy, navigating nonlinear markets, and building from the ground up.

Apr 5 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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#03: Before the Sunday Open—Iran Escalation & The Singularity of Now

Living Library: Special Spin-Off (For All Subscribers)

Feb 28 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Stream-of-Consciousness Book Club

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How To Read The Warrior Part II (Ch.6) | Traders of Our Time Book Club

Examining The Warrior Part II through the unfolding Iran–Israel–US conflict and market story

Mar 16 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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How To Read The Warrior (Ch.5) | Traders of Our Time Book Club

Live reflection on character, irreducibility, and elite trading performance

Feb 4 • Bogdan Stoichescu

2:10:09

How To Read The Adventurer (Ch.4) | Traders of Our Time Book Club

How success reshapes a trader’s edge: constraint, dynamic sizing, and finding your place in the market cycle and career.

Dec 19, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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How To Read The Collector (Ch.3) | Traders of Our Time Book Club

How a trader sheds single-market identity, navigates hostile environments, and shapes an edge through patience, constraint, and the extended mind of the…

Dec 5, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

2:10:32

How To Read The Razor | Traders of Our Time Book Club (Stream 2)

Exploring constraint-shaped mastery, the limit-down story, precision under pressure, and the trader’s evolving judgment.

Nov 21, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Idea Index

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The Singularity of Now

Node 006 | The Idea Index (Lecture)

Feb 13 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Time: The Overlooked Resource, The Implacable Force

Node 005 | The Idea Index

Dec 2, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Minimum Viable Trader (MVT)

Node 004 | The Index

Sep 18, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Trader’s Language: Framework, Learning, Attention.

Node 003 | The Index

Jul 22, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Markets Can Only Be Navigated, Not Solved

Node 002 | The Index

Jul 3, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Updates

Publication Cycles Two & Three: From the Iran War to the Space Between Headlines

A Trader’s LIFFE, the Q1 Review, Cyprus Floor Notes, the Living Library, and Everything Published Since March

Jun 15 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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Jun 10 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Live Tomorrow: Discussing The Warrior, P.II

'Traders of Our Time' Book Club—Ch.6

Mar 13 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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