Full-time trader · tape reader · options & crypto
a.k.a. ChartShark · @ChartShark22 — Montréal, Québec
Escape the Financial Matrix
Damiano L. — known as ChartShark and Mr. 2008 / Mr. 2020 — Damian Lalonde-Pulcini is a Montréal-based full-time trader, tape reader, options and crypto specialist, and educator. Focus: technical analysis, financial psychology, market cycles, and practical, executable trading strategies.
Active on X since February 2015 with tens of thousands of posts, he shares real-time trade ideas — primarily $NQ Nasdaq-futures day trades with clear entries, defined stops, and honest P&L — plus options frameworks, crypto analysis, and long educational threads.
A paralegal-turned-full-time-trader, he's built a following on free, non-gatekept value: years of trade ideas, macro views, and teaching, with community on Discord and Traderverse.io. He also writes on health, technology, surveillance trends, and esoteric themes alongside markets.
Live Nasdaq-futures day trades — longs and shorts with defined risk, clear entries, stops often around -$600, and posted P&L. Emphasis on execution, risk management, and intraday time cycles. Years of free trade ideas plus a free mini e-book on spotting intraday reversal timeframes.
Deep coverage of the Greeks and risk sensitivities, LEAP selection frameworks, and high-conviction asymmetric plays — building positions where the math and the tape agree.
Early privacy-coin thesis on $ZEC / $XMR, crypto cycle tops and bottoms, early quantum plays like $QBTS, plus AI, silver/gold accumulation, and forward tech such as $RKLB · $NAK · $NBIS.
Standalone threads on options, market psyche, conviction vs. bias, compounding, and the data edges funds use — alternative data, Monte Carlo, quant mean-reversion, hedging, post-trade analytics — anchored by the ABC method: Always Be Contrarian.
Multi-year price-action frameworks that blend technicals with financial psychology — COVID-era crash dynamics, the 2022 bear market, and ongoing cycle commentary on $SPY and $BTC.
Real-time ideas and teaching shared openly for years, with community built on Discord and Traderverse.io — learning that stays actionable over purely theoretical.
// Documented calls & recurring themes from his public posts on X. Shared for education and discussion — not financial advice.
Community lives on Discord and Traderverse.io — where the free ideas, threads, and cycle work come together.