His wife was making breakfast. "Good walk?" she asked.

The term burrowed into Marcus’s brain like a splinter. At 2:00 AM, coffee bitter on his tongue, he found the old videos. No flashy intro. No Lambo. Just a voice—calm, clinical, almost bored. It was a man named Michael, and he wasn't teaching trading. He was teaching forensics .

"Liquidity," the voice said, pointing at a swing high on the screen. "The algorithm doesn't care about your RSI. It cares about your stop loss. That high there? That’s a magnet. They will take it out."