We Study Markets, an introduction

About us

After thinking long and hard for a few days, finally we made a decision on the domain name. You might find this one a little bit odd, but this name fits great for the following reasons;

• There are no teachers here, just students of the market.
• What we do everyday, since we’ll never know everything, is studying the market.
• What you do everyday, since we share the market’s lessons with you, is studying the market.
• This platform is made to connect all of the market its students, to spread even more knowledge and improve our market studies.
• When all communities are connected, the plan is to study the markets all together, so we’ll study markets. 

I think I made my point, but if you’d like me to I could go on for a few more pages.

So that clarifies our name, but the question about what we are or at least try to become has not been answered yet. WeStudyMarkets.com is supposed to become one huge community. We plan to do this by putting bridges between many other communities. Most communities have their own categories, so we’ll aim to categorise our bridges too. But the reason we didn’t specify ‘markets’ is mainly because we want to broaden our intel. For example, at the moment we’re “specialised” in the Crypto market. We know our stuff about the stock market, forex market and the commodity market too, but we’re no (self proclaimed) experts (yet). By making ties with watch expert groups, option traders, angel investors, nft scalpers or even Computer scientists that are up to date with the newest tech developments we are sculpting an enormous network of intel, making our websites and servers a hub of investment knowledge, tips and opportunities. If all goes accordingly we are paving our path towards an elite community.

Why now?

For this section I’d like to shift my writing perspective to ‘first person point of view’, since I want to make this as personal as possible.

For multiple reasons I have to write in a political way. I can share my opinion on stuff, but in documents like these I prefer to deliver factual statements. This section is tagged to an assumption, being that the markets and the economy are in for some dark times. During these dark times investing can be very very hard, both mentally and also in reality. Some companies fail and some thrive, but still almost every single stock will plummet to an extend that you’ll lose all hope in its potential revival. I was listening to an interview just yesterday, where this ETF manager with over 40 years of market experience was telling about The Great Recession back in o’8 and 9. I witnessed the recession myself too, but I was too young back then to actually understand the situation at hand. This investor I just mentioned was talking about 25 to 30% surges in the market followed by lower lows, for more than 2 years. As a crypto investor, we tend to get familiar with situations like these pretty quickly, as most crypto investors get in during bull market peaks, so before the gains actually start to boom we find ourselves in the middle of a crypto bear market, which looks pretty much like what this intelligent ETF manager was describing. I’m trying to link this discouraging price action to the market’s sentiment. Most of us start of as “HODLER’S”. After a while we make up excuses to sell during worsening market conditions. Please note, I’m not judging or saying that any of this behaviour is wrong. I’m just elaborating on some fases most investors go through. After selling, and missing out on the bounce, you try to learn from your mistakes and try to trade, but obviously if the market’s not booming trading for profit suddenly seems like an impossible job, especially when you realise you would’ve been better off just holding bitcoin all the time, so you become a Buy and Hold guy (or girl) again, but then the bear market starts…
In these market conditions holding starts looking very hard, especially when you calculate how large the drop was during previous bear markets and what would happen to your capital if these price declines would occur again. You justify selling by explaining how much more you could buy if you’d exit the market right now and get in again at the bottom and then you actually start to believe it and sell everything you have at a huge loss. Now again, this isn’t necessarily wrong, but there are better ways. I hope we can all agree on that. 

So now let’s get to the answer of the question at hand, “Why now?”.

After taking an enormous loss of capital most people will be frustrated and filled with some sort of hatred for the source of their loss. Now this could be the asset they lost their money in, a person that might have caused their loss, for example Elon Musk back in May 2021 or just trade in general. The ones that stay mad and feel like never wanting to take these types of risks ever again are victims. This is what all these large investors warn us for, when they say “be careful”.

Now, the ones that take their loss and view this loss as an enormous course, filled with lessons are the ones that will most likely thrive in the next bull market. Me for example, I can tell you that I have made and lost tens of thousands of dollars on these markets. The reason I never hung my gloves is very simple. I just quickly realised that this isn’t a get rich easy scheme. As soon as I lost, I tried to figure out what I did wrong. Sometimes this was extremely hard to figure out, especially when you don’t have anyone to teach you or explain what it actually was you did wrong. After a lot of frustration, many losses and many attached lessons you finally start to see what is going on. That’s where you pick up your strategy, stick to it, get rid of emotions and eventually become a successful trader. If you’re reading this paper, that probably is a pretty accurate description of your journey. If you read the whole thing I’m pretty sure you’ll be one of the thriving investors during the next bull market. 

We are doing this now, because this is when and where the investors that understand the game will be found. We’re all here to prepare ourselves for the gains that are ahead.

Our plans

I would like to present you our roadmap and everything that we’re planning for our platform.

I have already share a little bit of information about our website goals, but that doesn’t even summarise 10% of what the site is going to offer. Obviously if we summarise the intended purpose of our platform in a word, then it would be a hub. But what we actually do in order to make it to that point is what I’d like to elaborate on.

Website

• A huge service we aim to offer is linking online communities. Community owners can contact us and request to join our network, after an easy but thorough screening proces, we’ll decide wether the community meets our guidelines and quality threshold. If so, we’ll proudly present this community on our webpage and start the linking proces, by granting the community its members acces to our own community which we like to call the financial markets hub. 
• Information is everything and sharing information, teaching others stuff that we know is some sort of a passion we share here. For that reason the website will be flooded with blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, courses, live events and referrals to experts on particular topics, so that you can write them your questions.
• There will be a personalised environment for people that have accounts, which will come in handy when you want to save articles or mark articles as read. Also this account will help distinguish premium members from free members. Premium members get acces to certain communities, certain articles, special services like personal calls and guidances and so forth.
• One thing I like is a Live portfolio tracker, that shows exactly what assets I posses. This is some sort of transparency I love to have with my members. If you talk the talk, you should walk the walk, right?
• We love to share stock, and crypto picks now and then too. So this will be a category on our site too. In these articles we will thoroughly cover or point of view and vision for the company or project.
• Something else that we can not forget is the developments in the world of business and finance, for that reason we also want to share financial news articles and opinion pieces.
• We read books and share the messages.

Instagram

• We’re going to be publishing financial news on a daily basis, like what @Bloombergbusiness does.
• I aim to share my most valuable market lessons on this account. For example, what is the best way to enter a short after a huge pump, or what is the best way to enter a long position after we broke horizontal resistance somewhere, like many forex pages do too.
• There are a lot of fun facts about rich people, businesses and their founding stories. This is content that we’d like to share.
• The market has an enormous history, one that is maybe even too large and broad for me to ever fully cover. I look at this information as a source for content. History repeats itself, so sharing facts on market history is what I’d call valuable content.
• I love sharing my thoughts, I think a lot about developments in the space and what everything means. Showing people my way of thinking and my way of constructing theory’s could be very valuable content aswel.
• Obviously I read a lot of books, I have to, since my own experiences doesn’t stretch a long enough horizon. These books are worth so much, potentially. I will be sharing short summaries on my favourite books every month. 
• I share trade signals in in my discord and teleram, break downs of those trades are very valuable for every single trader. Also market updates are a nice add on, on a weekly basis.
• One of the most important events every quarter are the earnings reports, but not many young and new investors look at those reports. Sometimes because they don’t understand them, other times because they just aren’t interested. I want to develop a clear, short and amusing way of explaining those reports. This is something that should be really unique.

TikTok

• One of the topics I’m going to cover in my Tiktoks will be market updates. In these tiktoks I cover macro economic developments, important charts and more.
• Earlier I explained my plan for book summaries on instagram. I’m planning to post the same content here, but this time in the form of a video. 
• Also earnings reports will be share on Tiktok. It’s going to happen in the same way as on Instagram, just delivered differently.
• Important developments in business will also be shared on TikTok in the form of a cool video which grabs the attention of our viewers.
• Every now and then I am going to share one of my team’s stock and crypto picks.

Our gem at the moment and hopefully also in the future, is our Discord Server. The Financial Markets Community is the home to 23 informative channels, covering stocks, crypto, monetary policy, financial news, education on markets and some engagement chats. The group is inactive at the moment, but that’s also because the free version is not being utilised. I am planning to boost the free chat, together with my team. To get some more engagement and community building. Eventually this server should become the financial markets hub.

Discord

• All of my thought, predictions and analysis on crypto I share in ABA™ Crypto.
• We provide daily stock market updates and monetary policy developments in ABA™ Stocks.
• At the moment we are developing a forex trade signal channel called ABA™ Forex.
• Everyday we share financial news in the Financial News channel.
• Our crypto engagement channel is called Crypto Market Engagement (multiple languages).
• Our stocks engagement channel is currently called Stock Market Engagement.
• We also have an engagement chat for forex that is called Forex Market Engagement.
• Since NFT’s were such a hype we also made one called NFT Market Engagement.
• The premium members have acces to the Elite Chat, guidance and personal attention is our main focus in this channel.
• We are working on a Golf and Silver market place in the server.
• At the moment we are planning to also discuss Old timer vehicles that we can buy as investments.
• In the past couple of years Luxurious watches have become really booming. We love watches and are definitely discussing those wonderful ticking gold mines.
• In the expansion we really want to discuss OTC trading. This is where you can get those crazy 100x’es in the stock market, by getting the stock before it’s IPO.

A big part of our plan is to buil a huge following on YouTube, like MMCrypto for example did in the previous bull market. They actually deliver quality content, that people need. People like viewing these videos, because it gives them hope, certainty and less doubt. I actually used to watch MMCrypto his videos myself too. So I speak from experience when I say this.
That is exactly why I want to improve what they did in the previous bull market and do it myself, in a very professional way. 

YouTube

• One thing that I love to do is teaching people how to chart. Mostly because it is extremely easy and some people tend to make a huge deal out of it. I think every investor should know the basics of charting and reading charts. That is why I’m going to make a tutorial series!
• I have mentioned earlier that history repeats itself. People don’t change, that is a huge reason for that. History lessons on monetary policy, rate hikes and crashes are valuable content. It isn’t necessarily rare content, but it is pretty valuable.
• We love engagement with the community, so live events will occur pretty often. We usually film those live events and upload them to YouTube for our members to review whenever they feel like it.

On Whatsapp we have a lot of free engagement chats. The Crypto Market Engagement Chat probably was the biggest succes, especially during the bull market when there actually was a lot of conversation. This still is a nice starting point, and members in the engagement chat should be rewarded for their loyalty.

Whatsapp

• We have an engagement chat on crypto, in which we used to discuss all crypto related topics. This place is where I built up my first audience. This group is called Crypto Market Engagement.
• Back in 2020 we started a Stock Market Engagement group on Whatsapp. Back then we were discussing stock picks for the long term, so actual investing. I look forward to reviving this channel.
• The current premium chat, which still is active is Crypto Market Elite. The members in this chat benefit from top notch intel, tips, education and signals.

For clarity we also have Telegram channel in which we solely sent trade signals. This is in order to keep a clear overview of the signals. The channel we have is called ABA Crypto.

Telegram

• ABA™ Crypto is a signal only channel at the moment, but we might add a free channel too, in order to build an audience the same way CryptoBullet, The Bull, Klondike, Crypto Cove and Kim did. By offering valuable content in free channels and adding a payed service with specific calls.

What will this look like for our members?

You might have noticed that I have spoken a lot about ‘valuable content’ in the earlier paragraphs. Now I hope you understand that this is not just about putting content out there and staying consistent, like GaryVee always says. This is about actually putting out value. For both free and premium members. The goal is to actually educate everyone and have them form a ‘valuable’ perspective of their own. This perspective I’m talking about now will be our reward.

I would like to use this section to further explain what the member journey will look like.

As mentioned previously there are free and premium members in our community. These members will be categorised in the following ranks for now;

• Everyone can become a member for free. Members can follow us on our socials, join our free communities and enjoy our free content, which there will be a lot of.
• Premium members have acces to both free and premium content, they will also get the personal attention and guidance they need in order to grow and become an independent trader or market analyst. You don’t necessarily need to pay with money in order to become a premium member. We actually prefer essay’s and papers on certain assets in exchange for a membership. The length of your membership will be determined by the quality of your paper.
• It’s a little bit more complicated to become an elite member. Elite members have free acces to the premium content, since they’re a valuable addition to our group, but in order to have acces to our elite network they have to prove that they are worth elite status. What exactly makes you worth elite status still has to be determined, but for starters your net worth, knowledge, experience, network and skills are big factors. Elite members do have a fee to pay, but this is something that needs more development.

Premium membership will be divided in ranks as well;

• Silver, this rank will give you acces to our read only channels.
• Gold, this rank gives you complete acces to all of our premium content.