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

Exclusive Story: A single tweet. Sixty seconds of chaos. The AXIA desk swings from deep drawdown to a multi–seven-figure day—told across traders.

Mar 22 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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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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A Field Guide to ‘When Tools Become the World’

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Mar 7 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Trading What Is About to Matter

Part IV(b): Trading what is legible is not the same as trading what is about to matter. A study in expectation, judgement, and career durability.

Mar 1 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Dispatches: Exclusive Trading Floor Stories

After Minutes of Madness: A Desk’s Debrief

(Iran War: Part II) A Desk’s Debrief—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 Story: A single tweet. Sixty seconds of chaos. The AXIA desk swings from deep drawdown to a multi–seven-figure day—told across traders.

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

The Will To Perform: Liberation Day Fallout, Part II

Gothic dread, gallows humour, and the daily theatre of the dauntless.

Apr 23, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Of Fumes and Fury: Liberation Day Fallout, Part I

Liquidity anaemic. Rumours flying. Systems failing. This was Monday.

Apr 10, 2025 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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A Field Guide to ‘When Tools Become the World’

Different Ways to Read and Work with the Series

Mar 7 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Trading What Is About to Matter

Part IV(b): Trading what is legible is not the same as trading what is about to matter. A study in expectation, judgement, and career durability.

Mar 1 • Bogdan Stoichescu

The Career Abdicated to Method

Part IV(a): how confusing tools for markets reshapes identity, constrains strategy, and erodes trading careers.

Feb 22 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Erasing the Exceptional

In a non-linear domain, trading the normal is fatal.

Feb 15 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Trading in a Snow Globe

Part II(b) of 'When Tools Become the World'. On self-sealing systems, false coherence, and trading yesterday’s markets.

Feb 8 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Living Library

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

Recorded before the Sunday open—a real-time exercise in judgement, positioning and uncertainty as escalation unfolds in Iran.

Feb 28 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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#02: Where You Point the Cannon

Listen now | Living Library: Strategic orientation, non-linear conviction, and dissolving the technical trader

Feb 25 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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#01: Between the Headlines

Listen now | Regime shifts, trader development, and the danger of installed thinking

Jan 28 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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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

A LiveStream Book Club on The Warrior from Traders of Our Time, exploring trading psychology, myth, and irreducibility.

Feb 4 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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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

Where do trading decisions actually occur? A first-principles lecture on complexity, emergence, and the Singularity of Now.

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

Live Tomorrow: Discussing The Warrior, P.II

'Traders of Our Time' Book Club—Ch.6

Mar 13 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Publication Cycle 1: Between Headlines and Judgement

Early Reader Offer, Book Club Date Change, and Everything Published Since January

Feb 27 • Bogdan Stoichescu

Live Saturday 31st: Discussing The Warrior

Reflective questions for rereading The Warrior

Jan 24 • Bogdan Stoichescu

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