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Hello, my Friends!
⚡️ We embraced Wall Streets late week whiplash.
🏦 A cocktail of risk-off headlines - Fed officials hinting at downgrades, renewed tariff talk from President Trump, and fresh EU friction - pressed equities lower into the holiday weekend.
🚨 Volatility spiked, sentiment slipped, and screens flashed red… but how will you carry that energy into your downtime?
Its long weekend in U.S markets, so important to take this time and embrace the "Not yet" mindset and find positivity throughout your process.
Enter the “Not Yet” Mindset
In a world where P&L swings can feel like a roller-coaster, “Not Yet” is the psychological seatbelt that keeps you grounded.
Coined by growth-mindset pioneer Dr. Carol Dweck, the phrase reframes every setback as a temporary waypoint, not a permanent verdict.
🔹 Missed a breakout? Not Yet.
🔹 Still refining your position-sizing formula? Not Yet.
🔹 Haven’t hit your annual target? Not Yet.
Each excuse turns frustration into fuel, keeping your perspective future-focused and your confidence intact.
Icon | “Not Yet” in Action | Key Takeaway |
|---|---|---|
💡 Thomas Edison | 10,000 “failed” filaments led to one bright idea. | Data beats discouragement. |
✍️ J.K. Rowling | Dozens of rejections before Harry Potter’s debut. | Keep pitching, keep polishing. |
📈 Ray Dalio | Early career blow-ups birthed Bridgewater’s principles. | Analyze, adapt, ascend. |
These stories remind readers that greatness often comes after persistence through countless trials. In markets, the same applies - every trader who’s succeeded has endured losses and moments of doubt before finding their edge.
Application To Your Journey
Ready to turn your goal list into a living, breathing GPS for greatness?
Whether you’re scaling a start-up or managing Nasdaq’s Impulse, the magic happens when you embed each objective directly into your daily workflow.
In this flash guide, we’ll fuse entrepreneurial vision with trader precision, mapping concrete action steps to your boldest targets.
Reframe Every Trade as Data
Wins & losses feed the feedback loop - journal them.
Set Process-Driven Goals
“Review my trades every Friday” > “Make $10 K this month.”
Celebrate Micro-Wins
Stuck to your stop? No revenge trade? Mark that victory.
Keep a Trading Diary
Turn emotions into entries; patterns will emerge.
Pause, Breathe, Say “Not yet”
A simple mantra that cuts the adrenaline spike in half.
💪 Challenge: Rename one recent setback “Not Yet.”
Identify the single factor that derailed it, then create one concrete action you can finish within 48 hours to close that gap (e.g., add a volume filter, revise messaging, code a position-sizer). Schedule the task on your calendar and share your plan with the community. Reframing reduces emotional drag; a tiny, time-boxed step converts stalled momentum into forward motion.
Long weekends are the perfect sandbox for mindset work. Power down the charts and embrace the progress you haven’t made…yet. The market will still be there on Tuesday; arrive refreshed and ready!
Market Rundown
Nasdaq100
Tech titans just endured a three-day bruiser - with Nasdaq failing 21,500.
Beneath our feet yawns an unclosed price gap - so what comes first: a record-shredding breakout or a gravity check to seal that void?
The index is carving a textbook lower high beneath its all-time peak, and every minute spent south of 21,500 tightens the bearish vise. Yet fresh volume can rewrite sentiment in a heartbeat.
🗞️ Headlines:
Trump Floats 50 % EU Tariff, Markets Tank – Dow futures −1.2 %, S&P −1.4 %, Nasdaq −1.8 % pre-mkt.
Apple Warned: “Build in the USA or Face 25 % Tariff” – Shares slide 3.3 % pre-market.
Volatility Pops – VIX surges to 24.6, highest in 2+ weeks.
Mega-Caps Under Pressure – Amazon & Nvidia off ~3 %; AMD, Intel, and airlines drop ~2 %.
Deckers Plunges 20 % – UGG maker pulls annual guidance amid tariff uncertainty.
Intuit Bucks the Trend – Stock +7 % on upbeat Q4 outlook.
Treasury Yields Retreat – 10-year down to 4.48 % as investors seek safety.
Debt & Policy Jitters Weigh – House passes $3.8 T tax-and-spend bill; Moody’s downgrade still looms.
Holiday Week Wrap – Indexes finish pre-Memorial Day week in the red despite early loss trimming.
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Until next time,
Steve B
Founder, The Daily Impulse
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