The same Fed decision sends gold one way, tech another, and the broad index nowhere — and it's not random. Real rates, the dollar, and the risk-on/safe-haven regime, explained the way a trader would explain it to a friend.
Asia, London, the overlap, and New York are four different markets wearing the same ticker. What lands in each window, how volatility actually behaves, and why the NY open and NY midday demand opposite playbooks.
Loss aversion, FOMO, revenge trading, and the overconfidence that shows up right after a win streak — what the research says, and what your own logged data says louder. The edge most traders never bother to measure.