The domain has been parked at “work in progress” for too long. Today I put a real site on it.
Why this site
I needed a place to write that wasn’t Twitter, wasn’t a private notes app, and wasn’t whatever the latest Substack-shaped thing was. I trade with my own money, I build my own tools, and I want a public record of decisions I made under real uncertainty. Writing them down at the time keeps me honest.
Most of what lands here will be trader notes — what I’m watching, what I bought, what I sold, what worked, what didn’t, and the patterns I keep noticing. Occasionally: writing about how I work, what I’m building, and the stack of tools I use day-to-day.
Nothing here is investment advice. I’m writing about my own practice as a record of what I’m doing, not telling you what to do. Markets can take any amount of money you give them.
What “up on volume” means
If you’ve spent any time looking at weekly stock charts, you’ve probably noticed: the biggest moves are paired with the biggest volume bars. Volume confirms intent. A breakout on weak volume gets sold; a breakout on heavy volume keeps going. It’s one of those things that’s almost too simple to teach but takes years to actually trust.
I named the domain uponvolume because every trade I’m proud of has been one where the chart said yes, finally, and the volume said me too. And every trade I regret has been one where I ignored the second half of that sentence.
What’s next
I’ll post when I have something to say. No schedule, no email list nag. If you want to subscribe, RSS and JSON feed both work; they always will.
See you on the next one.