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Claughtdeck Day trading and the long hold

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Essays are where the briefings get a voice. They are still educational. A scene is labelled as a composite when it is one. A table of figures is labelled as arithmetic when it is one. Nothing here is a record of a client’s profits, because we do not take clients in that sense.

A person working at a bright desk with abstract charts on two screens

12 October 2026 · Essay · 9 minutes

The London open is not a personality test

Between 08:00 and 08:30 the market is busy being the market. A lot of UK writing about day trading treats that half-hour as a moral exam. It is mostly inventory being passed around by people who were paid to show up.

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Morning table with a notebook, glasses, and a blurred newspaper

28 September 2026 · Illustration · 11 minutes

A decade inside an ISA, without a miracle

£250 a month, two constant rates, twenty rows. We show the arithmetic in full so the shape of compounding is not a slogan, and then we list every way a real ISA refuses to behave like the table.

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A coastal lighthouse under a broken sky

9 September 2026 · Composite · 8 minutes

The session that should have ended at lunch

A fictional afternoon assembled from patterns people describe when they write to a desk like this. No profit and loss is offered as evidence. The only evidence is the shape of the excuse.

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