About Reading the Tape
The stock market taught me something I should have known for decades: I’ve been reading the tape my whole life.
I’m Rick Horowitz — criminal defense attorney, trader, and philosopher. For 25 years I’ve been reading the tape in courtrooms: witness behavior, prosecutorial tells, jury patterns. The same skill I discovered I’d been applying, without knowing what to call it, to markets, to human behavior, to the patterns beneath everyday reality.
Jesse Livermore said the tape doesn’t lie. He was right. The tape prints what’s actually happening — not what people say is happening, not what the headlines claim, not what anyone wants you to believe. Your job is to read it.
That’s what this publication is about. Not just markets — though we’ll talk markets. Not just law — though we’ll talk law. Whatever tape is in front of us that week, we’re going to read it.
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