The Trump Market Rollercoaster: A Trader’s Guide to Geopolitical Whiplash

Ah, the stock market. A bastion of rational thought, predictable trends, and calm, measured reactions. Or, at least, that’s what the textbooks tell us. In the era of Donald J. Trump, however, investors have learned to embrace a new paradigm: the art of the geopolitical whiplash. It’s a market where a single Truth Social post can send indices plummeting faster than a lead balloon, only for a vague “framework deal” to send them soaring again, leaving analysts scrambling to coin new acronyms for the chaos. Wel ...