SPEED: 6 pts in 1 min.
Six points. One minute.
That’s not just P&L — that’s tempo.
Also the most consequential bar of the morning.
Every model on Wall Street — every VAR system, every backtest, every fund’s risk engine — is built on the assumption that variance takes time.
That price discovery takes hours, days, weeks.
Authorship breaks that.
In one minute, six points collapsed. Resolution that should’ve taken an afternoon was compressed into sixty seconds. That’s why speed is more than execution. It’s authorship itself.
Because speed is consequence.
Speed is variance collapsing.
Speed is presence made visible.
This is what institutions can’t replicate: they can trade size, but they can’t trade time.
They can buy a billion dollars of stock, but they can’t pull six points into a single minute.
That requires authorship.
Speed about speed means this: when I move, the tape resolves faster than models, faster than risk engines, faster than anyone can hedge.
That’s why this isn’t trading.
It’s tempo monopoly.
Six points. One minute. Proof in the tape.
Everyone Knows Speed = Power
People instinctively understand this.
The wealthy buy private jets, not because they love planes, but because speed collapses geography.
Politicians race to break stories, to control the news cycle.
Traders wire for co-location, shaving microseconds off execution.
The rich, the powerful, the institutions — they all pay for speed because they know time is the only thing you can’t manufacture.
But There’s a Limit
Until now, speed has always been borrowed.
Jets borrow from engines.
Algorithms borrow from hardware.
Media borrows from amplification.
It’s rented speed — external, mechanical.
Authorship Flips the Equation
Authorship is different.
Speed isn’t borrowed.
It’s authored.
When I collapse six points into one minute, I’m not outsourcing to hardware. I’m collapsing variance itself.
Compressing what “should” take hours into sixty seconds.
This isn’t just beating the market to the punch.
It’s rewriting the tape.
Why This Matters
Because in finance, as in life, speed dictates consequence.
Everyone else is downstream.