There’s a specific kind of confidence that comes from knowing just enough to feel dangerous.
That was me, week one, looking at the market.
“Okay. Supply. Demand. I took economics in school. I got this.”
I did not got this.
I priced my steel too high because I thought it was worth that. The market disagreed — loudly, and in silence. Nobody bought it. I waited. Still nothing.
So I checked what everyone else was selling at.
Undercut by so much it almost felt personal.
Here’s what nobody tells you about a player-driven economy — it’s not logical. It’s human. Which means it’s emotional, inconsistent, and occasionally makes no sense at all.
Someone dumps their entire stock at a loss just to move it fast. Someone else holds theirs at double the market rate for reasons only they understand. Prices shift not because of supply and demand charts — but because of what 50 real people decided to do this morning.
You can’t fully predict it. You can only learn to read it.
And that, I’m slowly realizing, takes a lot more than one week and a high school economics class.
Back to watching the market.
— Dakoo 📉