Chris Schunk

Ok here’s my movie. I made it with my wife last weekend

New interview with Spikeet. Still my most used tool since I started trading. We talk about everything from the beginning to now. If you want spikeet, you can use the code SCHUNK for a discount.

Nice trading recap with Tim this past summer back when all the China black swans and pre-market swans were fresh in mind. $SPRB shows it's not limited to China or PM. Short-selling death is a part of small caps.

Invest in your own destruction. One piece of logic I tell to my non-finance friends that are worried about AI and humanoid robots taking their jobs is that maybe they should invest in it. If technology grows to the level of job taking, it will balloon your investments. If government regulation stunts the the technology, you won’t have ballooned your money but you’ll still have your job. Is that facts or nah?

In 2016 I started reading conservative literature because I wanted to be better at proving them wrong. Trump won and I was a devastated liberal. I needed to analyze their arguments. One of the first writers I read was Thomas Sowell. He stuck out because a black conservative shouldn’t exist. A Stanford professor and leading conservative thinker, how had I never heard of him in my 6 years of higher education? I asked around and none of my friends had heard of him. For the first time I realized I was in a bubble. My university experience was completely one-sided. So I read. The first book is now covered in writing, my own attempts at making counter arguments. Still not being fully convinced of his logic, I was at least convinced of one thing: he wants to better people’s lives, including the lives of what liberals call “oppressed peoples”. He wants it just as much as I, or any leftist, wants it. I still wasn’t conservative after book 1, but I reached an important milestone. I no longer thought conservatives were stupid or malicious. To me, that’s a missing piece in places like my hometown, Los Angeles. There’s a hostility because in their minds they are fighting pure evil. I’ve seen Charlie Kirk’s death celebrated by people I personally know. That type of response proliferates in bubbles. If you’ve never done so, i urge you to create a new social media account and follow only conservative thinkers for a few months. Watch their algorithm. Read Thomas Sowell. Get their perspectives from their mouths not from your leftist memes. Watch full interviews, not soundbites. Prove them wrong. Deep dive as an intellectual challenge. I promise you it’s not bad enough to cheer assassination. It’s not bad enough for war.

Seeing lots of records from other traders and finally had a record day as well. Small caps has been exploding for longs and for shorts. Congrats to all

Crossing 4M this month. More than half of my career profits have been made in 2025. Celebrating in Positano with a great group of traders. I also had a career record loss this week while losing wifi on a bus in the middle of nowhere Italy. -280K 🥲. Never doing that again. But still a lucrative month. Grazie a mille for the adventures @timothysykes

The most chaotic day of my career. I was down 340K at the worst of it and up 60K at the best. I’m break even right here because there was another loss with another brokerage account, cancelling this screenshot’s profit. I lost double than what I was planning in that account due to orders getting rejected and I was slow to figure out why and slow to boxing my position. The hardest part was executing when I was already down 340K with half of that loss being due to slippage and still having another 300-400K risk on. I ended up taking a big stress dump in the middle of it all. Never happened to me before. But I continued trading the other triggers that came after the loss, despite being covered in my own shit. Have a good week all.

Shorting small caps feels like risk premium. Everyone knows the edge is there but uncertain about the catastrophic risk, which is real.

Haiku on Stops: Choose percent Do it every time Should be fine -Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉)

Congrats to my broooooo