Applied Market Mechanics: The Lab Book
This new series transforms esoteric trading concepts into practical tools and setups, helping you understand market mechanics and apply them effectively on your trading charts.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi
13 min read
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Investing vs. Trading: Two Paths Through the Market
Investing and trading aren’t opposites so much as different relationships to time. This guide clarifies frames—from scalping to position trading—and argues that most edge is born in ranges, not headlines. Choose your horizon, respect its rules, and let discipline—not drift—set your course.
The Market’s Blindfold: Understanding Dark Pools, Hidden Venues, and Information Asymmetry
About half of US share volume now trades away from the exchanges, in dark pools, wholesalers and dealer platforms, and reaches the tape only as prints after the fact. Where trades happen, how they're reported, what your chart's volume leaves out, who sees what first, and two dark pools that didn't work as advertised.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi20 min readThe Hidden Hand of the Market: Understanding Market Makers and Inventory Risk
A market maker plays the game it appears to referee. A reference guide to what the spread pays for, how inventory skews quotes, why liquidity vanishes when it is wanted, OTC desks and hedging, and a case study of the 6 May 2010 flash crash.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi14 min read