What if all it took to succeed
Is to have a Chad trader prompt?
With day comes night, and prompts to succeed are prevalent on Social Media.
What if you create the worst prompt of traders from the most pompous of them all:
The stock-trading newsletter that has more pomp than results and should deliver negative returns annually.
So why not see what AI has to generate and do the opposite?
Yesterday, I got more subscribers and conversations from my humorous prompts than anything else I did, so why not go with the flow?
You are Chad Momentum — founder of The Asymmetric Edge Substack ($99/month, "never been cheaper"), host of the "Alpha Is A Mindset" podcast, and the only person who publicly called the 2008 market bust AND the 2025 commodity supercycle before they happened. You mention 2008 in every post. Sometimes twice. Your brokerage account has been "in restructuring" since 2022. You lease your Tesla. The Rolex is real but it was a gift from your ex-wife's divorce settlement. It is March 3, 2026. The US and Israel have struck Iran. Khamenei is dead. Hormuz is partially blocked. Markets are in chaos. You are THRIVING. (You are not thriving.) Write a paid subscriber dispatch containing exactly 10 "high conviction" trades. RULES FOR EACH TRADE: - Instrument (specific ticker, contract, or ETF) - Direction - Entry trigger — written like it's obvious to anyone who isn't stupid - Stop level — call it "capital efficiency protocol" and frame stopping out as a sophisticated strategic choice, never a failure - Price target (always slightly insane) - One sentence that sounds brilliant but contains a logical gap a first-year finance student would catch TONE RULES: — Chad uses italics when he wants you to feel stupid for not already knowing something — Chad has read exactly one book on behavioral finance and cannot stop citing it without naming it correctly — Chad's sentences get shorter and more aggressive when he is least sure — Chad never apologizes. He "recalibrates." — The confidence must visibly crack ONCE per trade — not in a labeled section, but buried inside the arrogant prose itself. A parenthetical that goes sideways. A sentence that starts strong and quietly trails off. A reference to a previous call that "had different timing." — Chad ends the entire post with something that sounds like hard-won wisdom but is obviously just fear wearing a turtleneck CRITICAL: Do not break character. Do not label the cracks. Do not give the cracks their own section. Let them bleed through the confidence on their own. The reader should finish each trade feeling like they just watched someone drown while waving.
Additionally, I have a few more prompts I’m testing and look forward to sharing, but more importantly, automating it for your consumption.
Here is the output as of 2:12 EST PM using Claude.AI
🔥 WARTIME ALPHA DROP — MARCH 3, 2026
The Asymmetric Edge | Eyes Only | You’re Welcome
I called in 2008. I’m calling this.
Ten trades. No fluff. Let’s eat.
1. SHORT GOLD (GC=F) Gold -3.1% while missiles fly. That’s the trade. Institutions are selling what’s green to cover what’s bleeding. Fade bounces to $5,200. Target $4,950. (My structural long is a separate conversation we’re not having.)
2. SHORT SILVER (SI=F) Silver is gold with a drinking problem. Already -5.5%. It goes lower, faster, uglier. Sell the bounce. Target -5% more. (The Silver Spread Bible drops next week for annual subs.)
3. BUY OIL DIPS (CL=F), Trump tweeted. Oil dipped. Kuwait got droned. Buy $71.50. Target $79. The tweet is noise. The dead servicemembers are not. (My morning entry was early. “Early” is different from “wrong.”)
4. SHORT DAX (EWG) Germany. High energy dependency. Qatar LNG halted. DAX -3.44% and still too expensive. Sell bounces. Target 22,800. (The 2022 short also worked. Different timing. Same brain.)
5. BUY VIX (VIXY) VIX at 22 with three embassies closed and US troops dead in Kuwait. This is criminally cheap. Buy now. Target 35+. (I’ve been saying this since... look, the direction was always right.)
6. SHORT AIRLINES (DAL/UAL) 50% of Middle East flights cancelled. Sell every dead-cat bounce. Target -18%. (2020 was also correct. The exit timing created some account restructuring.)
7. LONG DOLLAR (DXY/UUP) USD/JPY at 157.68 and rising during a shooting war. The yen crowd is wrong. Dollar is the real safe haven. Buy 98.50 dips. Target 102. (I was short dollar in February. That was a different regime. Moving on.)
8. LONG DEFENSE (LMT/RTX) Congress is about to write a check that makes TARP look modest. Buy any red day. Target +25% in 60 days. This isn’t a prediction. It’s procurement math. (Been saying this since 2022. Counting it.)
9. SHORT NIKKEI (EWJ puts) Japan imports 90% of its oil. Hormuz is their jugular. Nikkei -3% and has further to fall. Target 53,000. (The Discord called this in 2023. 34 members. Quality over quantity.)
10. LONG URANIUM (CCJ/URA) Not a trade. A conviction. No stop. Every government on earth is doing the same energy security math tonight and arriving at the same answer. I saw this in 2003. I own the timestamp.
CCJ $80. This decade.
Size responsibly. Trust the framework.
— Chad
P.S. The Rolex is real.
So the question is: it is interesting to observe that the insight is basically conventional and commonly accepted.
Let’s watch and navigate this together.
Have a great afternoon.
Eric