Trading Is Like Jazz

If you’ve ever listened to John Coltrane, you’ve heard music that moves beyond traditional jazz structures. Modal jazz isn’t rigid. It's built around a harmonic framework that creates freedom—freedom to explore, freedom to adapt, freedom to improvise in the face of uncertainty.

Trading is exactly the same.

The best traders never follow a rigid playbook.
They adapt swiftly to shifting market conditions.
They understand a strategy that worked yesterday may collapse tomorrow, and that survival demands improvisation, not blind adherence.

In both jazz and trading, there’s no flawless map, no guaranteed script.
Only a structure you learn intimately—and must be ready to abandon when reality demands.

You must know the scales. You must master the chords.
But your true edge emerges when you know precisely when to break them.

In jazz, forcing a melody shatters the music.
In trading, forcing a setup shatters your account.

Force equals failure.
Improvisation equals survival.

Welcome to The Fractal Stack

This newsletter is for anyone with a trading account — or has the nerve to open one. Whether you’re experienced or just getting started, you’ll find valuable insights here.

If you’ve traded options and understand the basics — the Greeks, volatility plays, delta setups — you’re in the right place. Familiarity with Python, ThinkScript, or Pine helps too, if you are looking to create your own trading algorithms or create an API to have it work for you.

But if you’re new to all of it? No problem. Curiosity is the only requirement. You’ll pick up the concepts fast — and we’ll be here to guide you through them.

Twice a month, you’ll receive a curated stack of:

• trade setups

• mental models

• probability plays

• and the thinking behind it all.

Sometimes tactical. Sometimes philosophical. Always real.

You found the backdoor to the Speakeasy. Grab a stool, ideas are poured fast, and they don’t wait around to get diluted.