It sounds cheap. Fleeting. Like we’re all just passing little chips back and forth across the table, hoping we guess right. There’s no sense of purpose or direction in it. No long game. No value creation. Just motion for motion’s sake.
That’s not how I see what I do.
I think of it more like moving money.
Because every day, that’s what I’m trying to do: shift capital out of places where it’s not being treated well — underperforming trades, weakening setups, ideas that just aren’t working — and into places where I think it has a better shot of growing.
It’s a process of rotation, not roulette.
I’m always asking: where is my money being treated best?
That mindset comes from global capital flows, where money moves across borders to find favorable conditions — lower taxes, better yields, stronger currencies. It happens in real estate, too: capital flows out of dead zones and into hot markets. It happens in business: when a division is struggling, capital gets reallocated to the parts of the company that are working.
Why should it be any different in my portfolio?
I’m not trying to be everywhere at once. I’m not trying to chase everything that moves.
I’m just trying to be smart about where my capital sits. And if it’s not working in one spot, I move it. Quickly. Without shame.
That takes attention. It takes care. It takes energy.
Not everyone wants to live like that, and that’s fine. But I do. I have the time and the interest.
So I’m going to keep doing what I do.
You can call it trading if you want.
But I think I prefer Money Mover.
Sean McLaughlin | Chief Options Strategist, All Star Charts
