Trading the Markets with AI: March 4, 2026

0:06Kris Bullock:Happy Wednesday, everyone, and welcome back to another edition of Trading the Markets. But of course, as you know, we are an AI show now and we are talking all things AI and everything involved in this technology that is basically going to drive our future. And a lot has happened since we were last on the show on Wednesday. I'm sure a lot of you have heard Jack Dorsey announced his company Block was laying off just over 40 percent of their staff. And they cited basically because of AI, that AI tools had reached a point where it was doing, you know, just jobs incredibly efficient. and it basically rendered some people moot, right?

0:56Kris Bullock:And they basically removed 40 % of their staff. So this is coming, guys. So you can either let it pass you by or learn how to use it and become your best selves and give yourself some job security in the process. And that's what this show is about too. We're here to help you learn how to use this technology, go over ways that Chris, myself, and members in RV are using this as well so that you can learn how to use it yourself, think of ideas, and then maybe you'll be on this show one day telling us about ways you're using AI and how we can improve our workflows and our lives. So keep that in mind as you're watching this show.

1:36Kris Bullock:It's a learning experience for all of us. And of course, if you have any questions, let us know and we'll try to get to as many as we can. So, and with that said, of course, the exponentialist. I mean, we're talking about future tech exponentialist is front and center. So David Matten is going to be on with with Rau tomorrow on RPJM to to have a great conversation. And I think you guys might want to stay tuned because there could be a nice little deal in it for you guys as well that are looking to trade in this future exponentialist economy that we're So with that out of the way, on today's show, Chris is going to go over just some more AI news that hit the presses that he thinks is important to go over.

2:24Kris Bullock:We're going to be talking with community member Texas Tyler, and he's going to be showing us how he uses AI in his workflow in life. And of course, Chris is going to show us some things he's picked up as well. So Chris, how you doing? What you got for us today? Hey, everyone. As you know, on this podcast, I bring the best guests in the world at that nexus of understanding of macro crypto in the exponential age of technology. If you're enjoying the show, a quick five-star rating goes a long way. It helps us grow and keep these conversations coming with the best guests in the world. Thanks a lot.

2:59Bijan Maleki:Doing great. Super excited. Before we get going on this stuff, I did want to circle back around to that Jack Dorsey post. That was really an interesting thing to read. I actually read through it twice and was like, wow, this is, this is, I've never seen anything like this in some ways, you know, just, it was basically saying we're doing very well and we're laying off, you know, 40 % of our staff primarily because we're doing so well. And it was so interesting. He was so transparent the way he laid out the severance package that everybody's going to be getting, you know, how the company was actually doing.

3:31Bijan Maleki:and honestly, if I was ever going to get laid off, I wouldn't mind being, I know that's probably stupid and naive to say, but I wouldn't mind being, you know, uh, experiencing something like that. I should say like it was, I thought it was very sort of tastefully handled for such like an unfortunate thing, uh, for, for those people. Um, but yeah, just, just a crazy thing. Just, I mean, reflective again, like you said, of what's going on with, with our, everything in our society right now, it's just wild.

4:00Kris Bullock:And I'm sure, you know, Chris, I'm sure the severance packages didn't hurt that, you know, that message landing either. Right. But, and I think, you know, Jack Dorsey, right. He's, he's a leader in tech. Right. And I just have a feeling that quite a few more companies are going to be following suit in the near future.

4:21Bijan Maleki:Yeah, I don't disagree. And hopefully they do it as well as he did, or even better, you know, So, I mean, the fact that they are doing as well as they are certainly makes it so that they can afford to do what they're doing. I mean, they're basically paying people for 20 weeks plus one week per year of tenure. Plus, they get to keep all their corporate devices plus six months of health care plus$5 ,000 towards anything they need. Like all of that's great. I mean, that's months and months of runtime basically for those people. So, yeah. Anyway, moving along. So another big story over the week was the sort of Anthropic feud with the government and the fallout that happened there.

5:02Bijan Maleki:The government immediately saying that they're blocking them from conducting any business with any entity that does work with the government or does government contracts. Interestingly, though, while that was happening, we saw Anthropic basically – I'm sorry, Claude – overtook ChatGPT as the number one downloaded app on the App Store, on the Apple App Store. And it's reflective, I think, of a shift in consumer loyalty and a reminder that retail consumers, unlike the government, actually care deeply about AI ethics and data privacy and things like that. So, you know, people were worried, how is Claude going to kind of recover from this?

5:41Bijan Maleki:Is this going to be damaging to their future? Things like that. But, you know, while the government we know is making a number of, I guess, questionable decisions right now, certainly it's clear that Claude isn't going anywhere. And then Claude, smartly striking while the iron is hot, immediately announced a new feature that allows people to basically upload or sync their chat GPT history into Claude basically within minutes. So if you want to transfer over, if you're one of those people that are like, yeah, I like Claude, but I've been using chat GPT for two years now and I've got all this history.

6:13Bijan Maleki:You can just move it right over to Claude like nothing to it, you know, which is fascinating. And so I think Claude's not going anywhere. I mean, we know they've got by far the best engine for LLM, rather for coding for a lot of things right now. They're doing very well. They're kind of the number one. And they're capitalizing on that. They're easily making it easy to migrate over and take customers from everywhere. And so I think OpenAI very much has a target on its back at this point. And it's going to be really interesting to see how that plays out going forward. um randomly another interesting headline that i came across as i was looking through news to share um a basically a district court judge issued a sort of first of its kind ruling that sensitive documents generated by an individual using a public commercial ai tool and then later shared with their lawyer are not protected by attorney client privilege so i thought that was very noteworthy because i know a lot of people think that a lot of people use these these tools these LLMs and think that nobody sees what they're typing in, you know?

7:19Bijan Maleki:And in fact, that's not true at all. And I think that that's an important point to drive home that not only do people see on the other end what you type in and can search it and it is recorded, but also it can be used in legal cases and court cases and things like that. It can be deemed public information that can be used in a trial, you know, potentially against you. So just know that when you're using these LLMs, that anything you can, anything you say on there can potentially be shared to the public. Not, not that it's going to, but that it, the potential exists. So just know that and be, be wary of that.

7:58Bijan Maleki:Don't just go dump in your whole life story and don't put private personal information in or anything. Basically don't type anything in there that you wouldn't want somebody else to see, You know, so don't put your whatever your bank accounts or pin numbers or passwords, anything that's going to allow people to use that as it's like an attack vector against you. You know, keep that in mind. That's important. And that's I think that's important for people to know, because a lot of people come into AI and they just see this this chat bot and they just start typing and they don't really realize what's going on on the other end of that.

8:27Bijan Maleki:You know, and I think that this is an important detail that people need to be cognizant of. So. So, yeah, wanted to share that.

8:34Kris Bullock:yeah well said because um and chad gbt reminds you of these things too or at least the llms at least chad gbt because i'm not using claude so much but i might now uh now that we see uh what's happening here with this news you just shared but um it reminds it warns you as well from sharing this because as i'm like playing around with open claw and trying to troubleshoot some things and it gives me you know some suggestions of what i can input in my terminal It always reminds me, do not paste your API keys or paste your Discord token ID in this chat. Treat it as a password. So it's also reminding you, which I think is cool.

9:14Kris Bullock:But yeah, that's a great piece of information. Don't share that personal information if you don't want it getting out there. So well said, Chris. Yeah.

9:23Bijan Maleki:Yeah, it did. Claude did that for me too. I accidentally pasted an API key in when I was working on a project and it stopped me. And it says, you just pasted an API key in here. you need to go generate a new one right now. Came on you. And I was like, oh, right. Yes, of course. So, yeah. Anyway, sorry.

9:46Kris Bullock:Yeah, so Chris, so you got some interesting stuff that you've been using recently. Why don't we dive into that?

9:53Bijan Maleki:Yeah, yeah. So what I wanted to talk about, what I've been working on this week for me personally to use AI in my sort of investing journey is a couple of days ago, I saw TradingView put out a new blog post that they introduced this new feature called, it says volume footprints are now available in PineScripts. And so you can use this request.footprint to retrieve volume footprints. Now, what does that mean? Let me get into what that actually means. So a volume footprint, if we're looking at this chart here, TradingView has the ability to view, you turn on this volume footprint and notice how the candles change.

10:31Bijan Maleki:And it would, this is really wild. If you zoom in now and look at these and zoom way in, it actually tells you, it's sort of showing you the order books. It's showing you the order flow. It's showing you like how many orders are placed at given price levels for each candle, which is really wild, you know? And so I was like, I, this is cool, but in my head, I'm like, I don't, how can I make this useful for me? Like, what can I actually do to benefit from this? And so normally, like when I go to, you know, Claude or Gemini or whichever tool I'm using on a given day, I try to set like defined parameters and sort of narrow the scope down of what I'm looking to accomplish so that it sort of gives me the best results right out of the gate.

11:16Bijan Maleki:But in this case, I didn't really know even what I wanted necessarily. So, so in this case, I just took that same article, that blog post, you know, saved it to a PDF and just went to went to Claude and was like, here's a new feature added to TradingView that I think is useful. Can you help me brainstorm some ideas on what I can even do with this, you know, and it can be that simple. Like if you just see something and you're like, I like this, I don't know what this means, but it seems cool. You know, just go to your favorite LOM and just start talking to it. This is a way you can use it too. Again, I know it's better if you have a defined scope, but you can also do this.

11:53Bijan Maleki:And yes, you'll have to answer a lot more questions. And yes, it may take you longer to ultimately get to what you're looking for. But it's fine if you don't know what it is you're looking for. So I put this in, it gave me a handful of ideas. And of course, I was like, well, all of these sound cool. Let's do all of them and see what they look like. Because I can't really tell just from two sentences, what this is actually going to do in terms of how this will benefit me, you know? So it started working on one, it ended up being kind of stupid. So I was like, forget that, let's move on to the next one.

12:23Bijan Maleki:And the next one it gave me ended up being really cool. And so I'm going to demo what it ended up being. And it's this, this indicator here that I've created at the bottom. And so it's basically, it's called order flow, breadth and aggression index. And so remember what we were looking at before with the candles where it shows the order information, the order book information within each candle. So what it did for me is it made kind of a moving average, this big long moving average. It made a moving average of essentially the order flow over a specified period of time, whether it's like a 14 day or 14 bar or 20 or 30, you can change it.

13:01Bijan Maleki:And so it does that. And I'll get into all of it here in a second. Second from that, It makes these little histogram bars behind that show sort of outsized order flow on a given day or a given bar, rather. And then this kind of purple and yellow line is what's called the point of control. And the point of control, in its simplest terms, is essentially just the price at which the most trading volume is occurring. And so it's sort of like a moving average of the point of control. Now, what can I do with this? How is this useful? Well, I started looking at this and I noticed I'm kind of note I'm looking at.

13:36Bijan Maleki:Well, here, let me turn on this highlighter. OK, so I'm looking at both the price, oops, the price action here, if I can just use the right button, the price action here. And then also the, you know, the, I guess, aggressor line here. And we know that it ran up as Bitcoin was running up here. As soon as Bitcoin peaked, the order flow basically dropped off. It just went straight negative again, showing that buyers were no longer in control. Sentiment had dropped, order flow had dropped, and way down, all the way down into the negatives. So even though price itself stayed sideways for a little while here, I can see from this indicator that the order flows were no longer essentially propping the price up, which told me that this is weakening.

14:24Bijan Maleki:This is losing steam. This is quickly going to drop. And sure enough, it did. And so that was useful. And then if we kind of look in this next area here, in this chunk here, we can see a couple things took place. One, the order flows never got up nearly as high as they did back here in this range. Even though price itself got higher, the orders were less intense overall, telling me that even though this formed a higher price high, it was on lower volume, less sort of enthusiasm, less buyers, and things like that. So this tells me that there was less strength in this later rally. And then also we noticed it peaked right here, again, right here, and then just dropped off and stayed really negative, like down in this lower red range, which tells us that very much sellers are very much in control of this entire thing.

15:17Bijan Maleki:Also outsized selling interest happening. So again, this is a big signal that this level right here is just kind of sitting on vapor, being held up on vapor, essentially. There's nothing really to hold it up, which is, again, a leading sign that it's going to roll over pretty soon. And so I think that this turned out to be a fantastic use of this new function that's built into TradingView and this new tool. And you can use it. I've been using it with lots of different assets. It works great on indexes. It works great on stocks. And so I published it. I was like, well, this is cool. I'm just going to make it real.

15:56Bijan Maleki:So you can actually go on to into trading view and install it. So like if, here, let me, oops, let me just click, go to about the script. So if you just go into the public indicators, just search for order flow, flow, breadth, and aggression index. You can mark it as a favorite here. it's just in there, it's public it's by Blastoplast by myself and I even had Claude write me out like a full description and instruction set on how to use it so that it's very easy for people to get up to speed on what it is they're even looking at here and how it, you know, why it matters and how to use the different settings and things like that so yeah, this is what I did with Claude this week and I had a great time doing it, it was a lot of fun I had fun kind of tweaking the settings and figuring out again, how it was actually useful for me and trying it on lots of different assets.

16:47Bijan Maleki:And, and I'm going to keep using it going forward. It's going to be one of my go-tos for just getting a sense of where order flows are, where the actual strength is lying. It's one of the other interesting things too, with Bitcoin in particular is it's important to know that this indicator is exchange specific. So it's, it's pulling the order flow data from whatever exchange you have, you know, for whatever asset that your chart is set on, basically. So in this case, it's looking at Coinbase. And Coinbase, we know, is the largest US exchange. So it has the most US centric volume. And if we look at this volume bar here today, we can see it punched way up really high.

17:26Bijan Maleki:But if we change this to Binance, we know Binance is the larger sort of global order flow proxy, if you will. And so we can see here that the order flow is slightly less. And it's interesting to sort of go back and forth and look because it gives you clearer insight on what's going on from a US perspective versus a global perspective in terms of order flows. And you can do this, again, for any asset you want, really, that's traded on all these exchanges. So lots of insight here. And the more you look at it, and the more you apply it, the more you learn from it. It works on multiple timeframes.

18:00Bijan Maleki:I've primarily been using it on a daily and a weekly, but you can use it on intraday timeframes as well if you want, if you're day trading and you want to see on a very sort of minute level what the order flows are looking like on a four-hour basis or a one-hour basis. You can use it for that too. So yeah, super cool. Like I said, I had a good time with it. So a quick break in your regular programming.

18:22Kris Bullock:If you're serious about your future, grab my free report called Prepare for 2030. I think you've got five years to make as much money as possible. And this guide will help you navigate what's coming. The link is in the description. Download it now. And I can tell it's working because I'm looking at the order flow there. And obviously today, that's a pretty big green bar compared to, you know, the last, what, almost all year. Right. So and today we're obviously we're up quite a bit compared to where we have been all of 2026. So clearly it's working pretty well. So we're going to I want to see this on Monday show to start the show.

18:59Kris Bullock:I want to go over this indicator. This looks so cool. This will be the indicator of the week, maybe even. Oh, yes.

19:04Bijan Maleki:No, I was actually going to do that, too. You read my mind.

19:08Kris Bullock:For sure. For sure. Because that is so awesome. We're going to die. We're obviously, you know, we're going to be seeing how this indicator progresses. But that's so cool that you're able to just create an indicator through vibe coding, essentially, in Claude. right and then see how it worked and then upload it for the rest of the community to benefit from it so i think that's so cool and i'm sure for people that want to start monetizing this stuff i'm sure you can make it a paid indicator right as well and if people want to pay for it you know

19:36Bijan Maleki:hey right again yeah exactly and again i want to point out this all started from just a blog post a simple idea i didn't even know what i wanted necessarily but i just saw something that looked interesting. I knew what that, that, you know, information was going to convey. And I was like, I bet I can make something cool out of this. And so I just, you know, hopped on Claude, here's the blog post, let's figure something out. And within, I mean, I had this going within probably 20 minutes. And I was like, yeah, this is, this is awesome. This is, I, I love it. So, yeah.

20:09Kris Bullock:And I think what you said in, when you were, you know, posting the blog post in there and kind of working through what you wanted. You said that obviously it's good if you know what you want, right? You'll get more efficient outputs, if you will. But that's kind of also what these LLMs are for. It helps you figure out what you want because a lot of times we don't even have a clue what we want, but when we hear it or see it, we know that that's what we wanted. So it is good to maybe take a little bit of time and refine that approach so it actually spits out something that you wanted and even adds things that maybe you didn't, that you didn't even know you wanted, right?

20:45Kris Bullock:So I think that's a really cool way to use it. So thank you for sharing that with us, Chris. Yeah, yeah. Before we bring on Texas Tyler, we do have a question from the audience. So let's take that first. So this one comes from Red. I'm thinking of buying a Mac mini or studio for OpenClaw. Any thoughts? I'm sure I could ask, Claude. You definitely can, Red. but my investing workflow is pretty weak. So my, so is my, so is my life workflow. So I suppose they can be optimized. Burger is amazing to watch. Yes, he is. Uh, and this sub stack from Peter Diamandis was really inspiring. So basically Red's question is he's thinking of buying a Mac Mini or studio for Open Claw and wants our thoughts on that.

21:34Kris Bullock:Chris, I will, um, I'll let you give your thoughts first.

21:40Bijan Maleki:Yes. Well, there's a few things you have to ask yourself. One, do you know what you're going to use it for? And then two, one of the reasons people buy, you know, Mac minis or even anything more powerful than that is if they decide at some point down the road they actually want to run an LLM locally on the computer. Like the more you want to run local, the more sort of horsepower you need to process that. But if you're just going to connect it to like a like Claude or, you know, whatever, any kind of LLM, like an API and just have it go out and be doing API calls and sort of using a cloud based LLM, you don't need a super high powered computer to do that.