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I’m writing this from the ICU where I’ve been since 3:00AM this morning with an expiring relative. Obviously, the market is a shit show. I’ll try to get an update up later today/tonight. We will see a massive bear market rally at some point but when is anyone’s guess.

It was a horrible week, yet fully and completely dwarfed by the loss of my friend Stan. Market Strategy Video: After clicking the video below, make sure to maximize it and change the definition to 1080HD. Please read the disclosures at the bottom of the page.

“Homelessness isn’t just about not having a job or an apartment. Too often homelessness is due to a disordered mind.”― Danielle Steel, A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless “One of the symptoms of senile dementia is suspicion and the other is paranoia.”― Nien Cheng,

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

Way back in the day, I used to use static charts to highlight setups in the weekend newsletter. However, as the scope of the Lund Loop grew, I found I could cover more ground and do deeper analysis with video, so the charts went bye bye. Some subscribers have told me they don’t always have time to watch the ‘Market Strategy’ video, and they miss the convenience of the charts.

The Lund Loop Discord is now live and you will find a link to the room at the bottom of this email. First, a few quick things. Go here if you need to download Discord. If you want to participate while mobile, there is an iPhone version here and an Android version

It’s December 1914, you’re a 23-year-old soldier, and for the last five months, you’ve been engaged in trench warfare all across Belgium. You’re British, Irish, or Scottish, but from whatever region of the Commonwealth you hail, it’s likely the poorest part.

Join 6,500+ smart investors and traders who get the Lund Loop newsletter delivered to their inbox each week. Sign up for free by clicking the button below. It began with a whimper. Hello world! Okay, first blog so be patient with me (as if anyone is actually reading this). Check my profile section to learn a bit about me and please send me any comment you have on anything.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

Tomorrow's worries become yesterday's (forgotten) memories.

My hope is that this Discord will be an extension of the Lund Loop community, where ideas and information can be exchanged to help make us all better traders and investors. Where EVERYONE feels free to share and participate. But as we know, there are lots of potential pitfalls with a venture like this, so I want to take a moment both to level-set and to g…

You are currently viewing Lund Loop Basic. To get all the benefits of the Lund Loop, upgrade to Lund Loop Plus. In yesterday’s ‘Daily Update’ video, I said I was cautiously optimistic that we had a bottom in place and that the market, though not yet out of the woods, looked like it would resolve this latest consolidation area higher.

Crypto continues its meltdown so I thought I would shoot out some updated charts as the ones I covered in the ‘Market Strategy’ video - done less than 24-hours ago - are now woefully out of date. Enjoy! Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH) Helium (HNT) Solana (SOL)

Because the Lund Loop weekend newsletter is so long, some Internet Service Providers “filter” it out as spam. So going forward, when I send out the Saturday newsletter Friday night/Saturday morning, I will also send this “Subscriber Access” email with a link to the full newsletter to thwart those bastard ISPs.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

This past week in Lake Tahoe was amazing. I highly recommend a visit. I spent most of my time doing this… I haven’t looked at charts or market news since I left, but cursory glances at my long-term positions tell me it was a tough week. A trader friend texted me on Friday and said something that echos what I’ve been thinking for at least a decade now.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,500+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

It’s November of 2012. Barack Obama has just been elected to his second term. The cultural phenomenon that was ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is in the middle of it’s fifth, and some would say apotheotic season. And a ragtag bunch of British scamps billed as ‘One Direction’ dominate the American pop charts.

If you're not in the Lund Loop Discord you should be. After clicking the video below, make sure to maximize it and change the definition to 1080HD. Please read the disclosures at the bottom of this page.

Some Quick Housekeeping Market Strategy Video After clicking the video below, make sure to maximize it and change the definition to 1080HD.

Just a reminder for all of you who live in the Southern California area, I will be hosting the StockTwits OC Meetup this Thursday night from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The event is open to EVERYONE and not only will I be giving away free swag, but StockTwits has kindly agreed to pick up the tab for food and beverages - both adult and non-adult.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

Having been on both sides of the aisle; the trader side and the brokerage side, I think I have a different perspective on the issue of stop placement than most. During my time on the brokerage side, I got to see a lot of what goes on in the soft underbelly of the trade execution world, and I also talked to a lot of traders who initiate those executions.

Substack now allows charts to render in full-screen mode. Just click the title of the Lund Loop post in your email, then scroll down and you’ll see what I mean.

You are currently viewing Lund Loop Basic. To get all the benefits of the Lund Loop, upgrade to Lund Loop Plus. Because we are in such a precarious market right now, I’m giving Lund Loop Basic subscribers access to the ‘Daily Update’ video for the rest of the week.

Yeah, I said it.

Just a quick note for subscribers. I rarely take breaks from the Lund Loop but this year I will be taking a much-earned post-covid vacation from July 10th to the 17th. This means I will likely have a modified Lund Loop on the 10th and no Lund Loop at all on the 17th.

It’s that time of year again, time for the Lund Loop President’s Day Sale. For a limited time only, you can get 20% off an annual subscription to Lund Loop Plus. That’s 20% off the already ridiculously low price of $100 a year - only $0.28 a day. Click the button below to take advantage of this offer.

This month marks my twenty-first year of therapy. Spoiler Alert: I’m still fucked up. To be perfectly honest, 1999 wasn’t my first time on the couch. I’d gone once before, sometime in the late 80s, when my then girlfriend suggested we attend couples therapy.

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

Kenneth Kelly Lund was my grandfather, and he enjoyed a long if somewhat fractured life. Born into a jack-Mormon family in the badlands of Salt Lake City, he lived through two world wars, missing combat in both by dint of age; ten years too young for the “war to end all wars” and ten years too old for the one that made a mockery of that name.

It’s the rainy season in SoCal, which means venture outside unprepared and you run the risk of getting caught in a violent sprinkle, a driving drizzle, or even a relentless sun shower. But this year things are different as December brought us a record amount of precipitation, delivered by a series of events that in less dramatic times would be called “storms” but now are referred to as “atmospheric rivers.”

Here is your link to today’s Lund Loop newsletter. Using a Hammer to Dig a Hole Have a great weekend! -B

Today, social media and trading chat rooms are blowing up with reports about Thinkorswim, Robinhood, Merrill Lynch, Schwab, Vanguard, and other platforms going down (again), making it impossible to place trades or close positions. Frantic statements like, “I’m missing out on the biggest rally ever” and “I’m losing thousands right now,” were flying left and right.

This week, personal commitments and a health scare (don’t worry, it turned out to be nothing), conspired to rob me of enough time to write the hilariously insightful, entertaining, and pithy intro to the Lund Loop. For the 12.38% who look forward to it, my apologies. For the 87.62% who loathe it, just wait until next week, when…

To get the weekend newsletter, as well as daily charts and market commentary, delivered directly to your inbox, join over 7,000+ other traders and active investors by subscribing to the Lund Loop. The ‘Daily Update’ includes a review of the day’s market action, updated charts, from the Saturday ‘Market Strategy’ video, and setups ready to trigger.

Early one evening in the summer of 1975 there was a knock at our front door, a not uncommon event of the era. Upon answering I expected to see a friend, neighbor, or random relative who found themselves in the area and decided to drop by. What I didn’t expect to see was Don Pate.