The Epstein saga has caused quite the uproar — as folks are learning that the world is controlled by a bunch of billionaire perverts that have their dirty hands in everything (including the “news” so you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what's really going on).
The politicians work for them, not us.
Anyhoo…
I went digging through the Epstein files looking for his “Bitcoin connection” the other day. Some say he's Satoshi, the founding father of Bitcoin.
Wouldn't THAT be something?
It took about five minutes to realize the punchline: in the emails I was reading, he couldn’t even write Bitcoin correctly — more like “bit coin” — and he had to be introduced to the early coders (described as “radicals” who didn’t care about making money).
So, whatever else that thread proves… it’s that he’s 1,000% not Satoshi.
But that dead end led me to something far more relevant to anyone who actually trades.
Because buried in that same document dump was a quote from Daniel Kahneman…
…forwarded to Jeffrey by Dr. Boris Nikolic, that explains why so many traders (even smart ones) torch perfectly good capital.
Here it is:
“…The quality of the story determines how we predict, and it determines the confidence we have in our predictions. We judge it by the quality of the story, but you can take a wonderful story on the basis of evidence that is false or unreliable or very, very sparse…. We are not wired properly for statistics. We're really good at telling stories, but we're not wired properly for statistics… The extent of that overconfidence is actually quite remarkable.”
(Epstein replied with “I know kahnemsn well” whatever that means. Like I said, he can't spell for shit)
If you trade with statistics, you already feel the truth of this in your bones.
The market has a special way of punishing the exact thing humans are best at.
Why stories feel like certainty (and why that’s dangerous)
A story does something your brain loves: it takes messy reality and makes it coherent.
It ties together unrelated dots, smooths out randomness, and gives you a neat, satisfying “because…”
And the moment your mind gets that clean narrative, it quietly swaps one word for another:
“This makes sense” becomes “This is likely.”
That’s the trap Kahneman is pointing at.
The quality of the story doesn’t just shape your prediction… it shapes your confidence in the prediction.
Which is why the biggest blow-ups don’t start with bad intentions.
They start with a story that feels too good to be wrong.
And then you do the thing that stories seduce you into doing:
You size up.
You lean in.
You get emotionally invested in being right.
Now the trade isn’t a probability bet anymore… it’s a personal referendum.
That’s when stories make you go broke.
The market doesn’t reward storytellers… it rewards operators
Markets don’t pay you for a brilliant explanation.
They pay you for:
– a quantified edge you can measure
– a process you can repeat
– risk controls that assume you’ll be wrong sometimes
– execution that doesn’t depend on your mood, your schedule, or today’s narrative
That’s why, over time, the best traders I know become less “interesting” and more systematic.
They stop chasing the most persuasive idea…
…and start living inside distributions, expectancy, and repeatable signals.
That’s exactly why Alpha Autopilot exists…
Alpha Autopilot is built for people who want to trade like Kahneman’s warning actually matters.
No bedtime stories.
No narrative gymnastics.
No “this time is different” as an operating system.
Just statistical edges packaged to run on autopilot… so you’re not a slave to the market’s clock and you don’t have to plan your life around trading every day.
If that’s your lane, go here and read the details:
https://portfolioboss.com/sp/alpha-autopilot/
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