Hey there,
Welcome to The Volatile Pulse.
If you're reading this, you're either someone who's been with me for a while, or you're brand new. Either way, I want to take a minute before we get into the markets to tell you what this is, where it came from, and why it matters to me.
I've been in these markets since 2014. For the first few years it was just me, a Thinkorswim account, and an obsession with understanding why price moves the way it does. No audience. No community. Just charts, research, and an unhealthy amount of screen time.
In 2016-2017, I co-founded one of the biggest crypto (at the time) and stock communities on Facebook — over 60,000 members combined. Not because I was trying to build a business. I was just passionate about the analysis and wanted to share it with people who cared as much as I did.
In 2018, when Bitcoin was in free fall, I called the bottom, publicly with context and reason. Most people thought I was crazy. In May of 2019, I published a video laying out the case for a major market crash coming in late 2019 or early 2020. That same year, I built Volatile Alpha. Ten months after that video, the world watched the fastest crash in market history unfold in March 2020. When GameStop happened in January 2021, we were already positioned over 6 months early. When crypto topped later that year, we talked about the warning signs weeks before the rug got pulled, we were positioned short and profited on the nose dive.
I'm not telling you this to brag. I'm telling you because this is the foundation everything here is built on — real analysis, shared in real time (no hindsight or after the fact), and with real skin in the game.
What started as a small group of traders and investors grew into a bustling community of members active on live webinars, a Discord community, and a weekly newsletter I wrote by hand. There were some moments I'll never forget. I did a $5K to $50K live trading challenge right in front of the community in 5 weeks — no hiding, no cherry-picking, just real trades in real time with everyone watching.
Members were posting $36K days, $6K days, sharing wins, sharing losses, learning from each other. It was special. If you were part of that, you already know.
But I'll be honest with you — I had to step away.
My grandparents needed me. When the people who helped raise you need care, you show up. That's not a decision, that's just what you do. And rather than let the quality of what I was building slip while my attention was somewhere else, I made the hard call to step back.
…And to be honest, I was getting burnt out because Volatile Alpha was created to be very hands-on, the exact way I envisioned it from the beginning but not scale friendly.
That was a couple years ago. And I haven't stopped thinking about it since.
Here's what I realized in that time: the analysis never stopped. I never stopped reading the charts, studying the macro, watching the flows. The only thing that stopped was me sharing it. And that always felt like something left unfinished.
So this is me finishing it.
The Volatile Pulse you're reading right now is not the same newsletter I was hand-writing at midnight back in 2020. It's been rebuilt from the ground up — smarter systems, better data, cleaner delivery. But the thing that made it work in the first place hasn't changed: I'm going to tell you what I'm actually seeing in the markets, in plain English, every single week. No hype, no moonboy nonsense, no fluff. Just the signal.
Whether you're an investor managing your own portfolio on the side, running a family office, or someone who lives and breathes these markets every day, this is built for you. Stocks, crypto, macro, volatility — we cover it all, and we do it in a way that actually respects your time and your intelligence.
I'm grateful you're here. Whether this is day one or a reunion, it means a lot.
Issue #001 is attached to this email, I can’t wait for you to check it out.
Welcome to the next chapter. Let's get to work.
— Ty Cody
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