Sector Mail Archive
This is where you can find all of our Sector Mail articles from Jason Bodner.
9-1-26: AI (Like the Transistor, PCs and Internet) Will Change Everything
by Jason Bodner September 1, 2026 In December 1947, physicists at Bell Labs invented the transistor. It changed everything. For decades prior to that, vacuum-tubes powered every computing machine ever built, but [...]
8-25-26: Trust the Data, Not Your “Gut” Feelings
by Jason Bodner August 25, 2026 In NASA’s early days of space flight, there was a problem. Pilots simulated G-forces in centrifuges. At high G-forces, their bodies sent urgent distress signals. Heart [...]
8-18-26: Seeing the Unseen – A Source of Superior Market Profits
by Jason Bodner August 18, 2026 In 1972, the CIA quietly funded a program that sounds like science fiction. Physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute studied an artist [...]
8-11-26: When a Long-Suppressed Market Suddenly Explodes
by Jason Bodner August 11, 2026 Liquid helium is one of the most stable substances on earth - until it isn’t. Kept at minus 269° Celsius, just four-degrees above absolute-zero, it holds [...]
8-4-26: When Big Bets Explode – On High Leverage – Disaster Often Follows
by Jason Bodner August 4, 2026 Over five-years ago, in March 2021, a single fund nearly took down Wall Street. Archegos Capital Management, run by Bill Hwang, quietly borrowed billions from major [...]
7-28-26: Using a Market Sextant to Plot Your Course
by Jason Bodner July 28, 2026 Not long ago, sailors navigated by dead reckoning. No GPS, no landmarks. Just a starting position, a compass heading, speed and time. Four inputs. Thousands of [...]
7-21-26: What “Fractal Motion” in Markets Looks Like
by Jason Bodner July 21, 2026 Benoit Mandelbrot discovered fractals – those infinitely repeating patterns found in nature, like snowflakes, coastlines and tree branches. He did the same thing with markets. He [...]
7-14-26: Is the Stock Market “Cavitating” On Us?
by Jason Bodner July 14, 2026 Something strange happens whenever a ship’s propeller spins faster than the water around it can handle. Tiny bubbles form behind the propeller then they collapse almost [...]
7-7-26: Ignore the Headlines – Focus on the Inner Market Data
by Jason Bodner July 7, 2026 In May of 2012, a hot social media company went public at $38 a share, briefly piercing $45 then it spent the next 16-months falling by [...]
6-30-26: Stress Builds Strength – In Humans and in the Markets
by Jason Bodner June 30, 2026 In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff made a fascinating discovery: Bones aren’t static structures, they are alive. When subjected to stress, microscopic fractures often form. But [...]
6-23-26: Seismic Market Changes Can Seem Boring (at First)
by Jason Bodner June 23, 2026 In 1956, a trucking entrepreneur named Malcolm McLean loaded 58-metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sailed them to Houston. Nobody got excited about [...]
6-16-26: Elon Musk’s Wealth Soars “To Infinity and Beyond”
by Jason Bodner June 16, 2026 Last Friday, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. Pause on that number for a second. For most of financial history, a billion dollars was an [...]