Quant X Tribe (Next Level)

🚨 This week's newsletter is worth the two minutes. 😳 $114M walked out of over 5,200 addresses this week, and it wasn't a hack in the usual sense. It was a firmware flaw that had been sitting quiet since 2021. 🔍 From there it gets into something we talk about constantly: how to tell when two indicators are genuinely confirming each other, and when they're just the same data wearing a different outfit. 🎁 There's something extra waiting for anyone who reads to the end. 👉 Read it here: https://newsletter.alpha-techlab.com/p/1-816-bitcoin-5-200-addresses-1-firmware-flaw-from-2021 📅 We're taking this live too. Crypto is on the agenda this Tuesday, 11 August, 7:30pm. 🔥

📊 TRIBE MARKET NOTE Crypto is on the table when Tribe meets on 11 August 🗓️ Ahead of that, a summary of crypto.news reporting on last Wednesday's Fed decision, and what a systematic trader would actually look at. Educational only, no recommendation on anything named. The Fed held at 3.5 to 3.75% on 29 July. Bitcoin moved 0.3%. The headline event did nothing. What's underneath is more interesting 👇 🌏 One price, two markets Bitcoin's Coinbase Premium stayed negative, meaning BTC traded at a discount on Coinbase relative to Binance. US spot demand was the weaker side. You will not find that in a single aggregated price. One reading tells you nothing on its own, but a premium that stays negative across weeks is a real observation about where the buying is coming from. 🧠 Sentiment is not independent confirmation Bitcoin sat around $64,100. Crypto Fear & Greed read 29, in "Fear." Tempting to call that price and positioning disagreeing. It isn't. The index is built largely from price momentum and volatility, so a stalled price after a drawdown produces a Fear reading by construction. Treat both as separate model inputs and you are counting the same information twice. ⛏️ "Crypto exposure" is not one number Strategy was reported up about 2%, while MARA, Riot and CleanSpark each fell about 6%. Worth being precise: crypto.news notes those miner declines began before the announcement, so this is not a clean Fed reaction. The structural point stands anyway. A leveraged treasury vehicle, an operating business carrying energy costs, and the spot asset are three different risk profiles wearing one label. ⚖️ The macro that does matter The rate hold split 9-3, with three regional Fed presidents reported as preferring a hike. The surprise risk cleared but moved to September. Worth tracking as a transmission channel into crypto, not as a crypto signal in itself. 💡 The point is not any single one of these. It is that crypto generates data equities do not: venue-level pricing, on-chain flows, funding rates, a tape that never closes. None of it means anything until you take a claim like the ones above, pull the history, and test whether it survives fees and slippage. That is the work, and crypto is on the Tribe agenda for 11 August. 💬 Over to you: which of these three would you test first, and what history would you need before you trusted the result? Drop your reasoning below 👇 ⚠️ Educational content only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Instruments named are referenced for illustration, not as recommendations. Source: crypto.news, "Fed holds rates steady as Bitcoin stalls and gold gains" https://crypto.news/fed-holds-rates-steady-bitcoin-stalls-and-gold-gains/

Reminder: Quant X Speaker Submission ~ Deadline tonight Quant X Trainer Challenge! If you are interested, Deadline: 1st Aug Sat 2359hrs Choose an options strategy as a teaching topic. https://www.optionsplaybook.com/option-strategies Using S.T.A.R as a guideline, create a short video not more than 10min Upload to Youtube Unlisted any any other ways to submit your video Then fill in the form https://forms.gle/spZXGLaXmAKTcFnm7

🔥On Tuesday Glen asked us a simple A or B question on Tuesday. A lot of us got it wrong. The session ran long, so we pulled out the single idea that landed hardest and put it on Instagram. It's the ROI reframe. Return on investment is a fraction, and only one half of it is ever yours to decide. Glen asked which half he actually controls, and plenty of the room picked the wrong one. 👇 Have a look: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbaKBD-Ecpb/?igsh=dmwxbXljazN5ejkw Once you're there: ❤️ Smash the like button 💬 Comment CONTRACT, and tell us whether you'd have guessed right 👥 Tag someone who's still sizing positions on gut feel That CONTRACT comment also sends you the six checks written up in one place, chain walkthrough included. Let's see how many Tribe members we can spot in there 🚀

🔥 What a session. Thank you for staying to the end. Thank you for staying to the end. Sean doesn't hand that toolbox over often. Here's the link for tonight's recording: https://youtu.be/5cYogmEM_EE Next up, we're going somewhere completely different. 📅 11 August 2026, 7:30pm SGT 🪙 Topic: The Bitcoin 100X Playbood Details will be sent out when we're getting closer to the date 👀

Recording - Speak to Influence I hope it had been valuable ~ https://youtu.be/OAv0QsJonUk

Quant X Trainer Challenge! If you are interested, Deadline: 1st Aug Sat 2359hrs Choose an options strategy as a teaching topic. https://www.optionsplaybook.com/option-strategies Using S.T.A.R as a guideline, create a short video not more than 10min Upload to Youtube Unlisted any any other ways to submit your video Then fill in the form https://forms.gle/spZXGLaXmAKTcFnm7

Sean begins his session in 10 minutes🚨🎙 Join through the link below!: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/T7TY9aLlS3auTjimqWDpRw

⚡ One hour. Sean opens up the toolbox at 7:30pm SGT. How he prepares. How he delivers. What 20+ countries taught him about standing in front of a room. Then: how you could become a Quant X speaker or trainer. 📌 Zoom Link for registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/T7TY9aLlS3auTjimqWDpRw See you in an hour 👊

📋 Register ahead of tonight. Takes 30 seconds and saves you doing it at 7:29 while everyone else is joining. 👉 Register for tonight's workshop https://zoom.us/meeting/register/T7TY9aLlS3auTjimqWDpRw Sean's speaker workshop, 7:30pm SGT. One time only. Zoom emails you the join link once you're registered, so it's sitting in your inbox when we go live.

Sean's speaker workshop happens tonight at 7:30pm SGT! 📢🎤 It used to be retailed at $2,997. 🫪 Tonight it's free for the tribe. ❤️ You don't need to want a stage for this one. Most people who need it just want to stop dreading the front of a room. One time only. He isn't running it again. 📌 Link drops here at 3pm

The following is the recording for tonight Quant X Tribe sharing session (28 July 2026) Types of Stock Options and leap call options: https://youtu.be/swe0BV5kKgA

⚡ WEDNESDAY: Nothing to do with options. Wed 29 July, 7:30pm SGT Sean is running a one-time workshop for the tribe. The subject is speaking. He mentioned last week that Quant X is looking for more speakers. Enough of you wrote in that he decided to open it up to everyone rather than reply one by one. 🎤 His career, his toolbox, how he prepares and delivers 🌏 20+ countries, on bills alongside Branson, Robbins, Kiyosaki 🏆 Toastmasters District 80 champion, 2014 🚪 At the end: how you could become a Quant X speaker or trainer For anyone who wants to speak professionally, or just present at work without dreading it. One time only. He isn't running it again. 📌 Link drops here at 6:30pm tomorrow React 👍 if you're coming 👊

🙏 That's a wrap. Thank you for being in the room!! The one thing worth keeping: the capital a position demands and the risk it carries are two separate numbers. Most traders never pull them apart. 📼 Recording goes up here shortly, for anyone who missed it.

We’re starting in 10 minutes!! 🚨‼️ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/H51kTDhYSIKYVn2ppa7SwA#/registration

⚡ We go live in an hour. One stock move. Two positions. The full maths on screen. 📌 Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/H51kTDhYSIKYVn2ppa7SwA#/registration ⏰ 7:30pm SGT See you at 7:30 👊

⚡ Tonight, the tribe splits into two groups. The ones who ask their questions live. And the ones who watch the replay wishing they had. Same Call. A Fraction of the Capital. This Is the Power of Options. 7:30pm SGT 📌 Link drops here before the session so keep your eyes open 👀 React 👍 if you're in the first group.

⚡ Tonight, the tribe splits into two groups. The ones who ask their questions live. And the ones who watch the replay wishing they had. Same Call. A Fraction of the Capital. This Is the Power of Options. 7:30pm SGT 📌 Link drops here before the session so keep your eyes open 👀 React 👍 if you're in the first group.