This has to be one of the worst rules I've ever seen; they're not even hiding it anymore. Someone sent me this; it's from the 5ers, a CFD firm. So what do you do if Gold or the Indices are just trending up? Do you sell to make sure you're not getting banned? What?

Those fucking rats banned me from Discord and deleted my 200k account, changing the execution date of my transaction to deny me a 9k payment. I've been with them since they started and were called Quantekel. Here's the proof.

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🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

I condemn the deadly attack on a mosque in San Diego. My thoughts are with those affected. I know many Muslims in the UK will be shaken by this, worried about their safety when going about their lives and attending mosque, and what it says about the times we’re living in. I understand those fears. Violence like this does not happen in a vacuum. It grows in an environment where division and anti-Muslim hostility are normalised. That is intolerable. We must all come together against it.

"AI can cost more than human workers now," per Axios

I want to debunk this idea because I see it repeated on X way too often. The belief that “if you don’t use a ladder, you don’t understand order flow” is simply not true, DOM is just one tool. Traders can read liquidity, participation, absorption, and aggression through footprints, time & sales, volume profile, and broader market context without watching a ladder all day. I use the DOM myself and I think it’s valuable, but it is not some magical edge that invalidates every other form of order flow analysis. Reading the ladder is also highly subjective. Two traders can watch the exact same movement and come away with completely different conclusions. The argument that “if you can see the orders, institutions want you to see them” is also overused. Spoofing and hidden liquidity exist, but that does not make resting liquidity and heat maps useless. Price reaction around those areas still provides valuable information. At the end of the day, the market does not care which tool you use. What matters is whether your process is consistent, repeatable, and profitable.

BREAKING: Nvidia and PulteGroup are partnering with startup Span to install mini data centers on the walls of new homes Each unit packs 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, 4 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 3TB of RAM - and taps unused home electrical capacity to run AI inference workloads

🚨BREAKING: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Scott Trieste Over Alleged Unlicensed Money Transmitting Operation from 2020–2021.

my god. anthropic casually going after bloomberg terminal and every single data tracking provider under the sun 😂 bloomberg terminal charges $24K per seat this could affect major data platforms like DataDog, Google analytics, CRM dashboards and sooo much more Anthropic is building the control center for every single enterprise company unbelievable

Very disappointing first experience with @TheTradingPit_ Decided to trade with them because @truenorthtradr and @AshleyGPT spoke well of them to me previously Failed a couple of challenges and then got funded and made profits of 10k on 2 x 150k accounts on futures, which I requested for the max payout of 4k on the 9th and 10th of April. Was told that payouts take 1-2 business days to process. On 13th April, I was being told that my payouts would be reviewed after I asked for the updates. Still nothing throughout the whole week, and I just kept getting replies of more delays. 16th April, told me I would be getting an update (not even telling me payout would be processed) by 17th afternoon. It is now the 18th and weekends already and I'm fed up with the empty promises. Most futures firms take less than a couple of hours to approve payouts, and none actually take more than 24hours throughout all my experience trading with future firms. I am actually max funded with 5 x 150k , with 2 of them in profits of more than 6k each as well and the remaining 1 being ungraded. In fact, I've stopped trading all of them because I don't want to get myself to be eligible for 5 x payout cap, which is 20k and would probably give this firm more reasons to find excuses not to pay me lol @dani3laE @IngmarMattus is @TheTradingPit_ having liquidity issues? Because it certainly looks like it at this point of time Also, just want to be clear that I do not blame @truenorthtradr @AshleyGPT for recommending the firm to me. Both have tried to help me with this and I appreciate them for all the help

Our most popular eval is under $100 and has no consistency in funded. It is not sustainable for us to pay out 6 figures in sim payouts to traders before sending them live. The whole industry is moving this way. It's why we made LucidMaxx.