📊📉 In markets, one old rule almost never fails traders:
“Buy the rumor, sell the news.”
The logic is simple, yet most people realize it too late.
When a bullish story first starts circulating:
• Expectations move first
• Capital positions early
• Price begins to reflect a future that hasn’t happened yet
By the time the news becomes official:
👉 The upside is often already priced in
👉 There’s no new marginal surprise left to push prices higher
That’s why a familiar pattern keeps repeating:
The event unfolds exactly as expected,
yet the stock stalls, pulls back, or even drops.
This isn’t the market being “wrong.”
It’s the market doing what it always does.
Markets don’t trade facts.
They trade changes in expectations.
For traders, this creates a counterintuitive truth:
• The most profitable phase is when uncertainty is highest
• Risk quietly builds when consensus feels safest
When everyone agrees the outcome is “obvious,”
the market has usually already paid for it in advance.
That’s why:
The moment something becomes universally understood,
it often marks the beginning of volatility—not stability.
The real question is never:
“Is the news good or bad?”
It’s this:
👉 How much optimism has already been embedded in the price?
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