The Markets

"The Markets" is the name of the opening segment of the True Capitalist Radio broadcast, appearing throughout the 2011 to 2012 incarnation of the show, and finally returning in September 2016. The Markets begin about five minutes into the show, after Ghost plays his intro-jingle and introduces himself, and continues for about a half an hour to an hour.

Segment
Ghost summarizes the day in the markets and expanded on the points he finds important. He goes through the major stock entities and continues through the commodities and futures, reading the data from Bloomberg's markets section. Ghost often stops and rants on Corn, Wool and Coffee, with each segment having a speech Ghost repeated on a nearly daily basis.

Ghost is known for always claiming to have made money even in bear markets. He usually takes time to advocate bottom feeding. By the end of the markets he is often already drinking some form of alcohol. He claims this is Johnnie Walker Blue Label (although it was often switched around with beer such as Spaten, which he usually takes the time to pour into a German-made crystal glass as well). This does not support the cans theory.

Trolls would often began to attempt to agitate Ghost towards the end of the segment by spamming the Chatroom expressing their boredom. Ghost would sometimes lock it down as a cautionary response measure to their frustrations.

The Market rundown's Structure
Ghost's rundown on the Market is usually done in this order:

The Return
Upon his return in 2016, after the Emergency Broadcast, Ghost advised his listeners to withdraw from the market, claiming that he already has, and that a market crash is inevitable. Ghost explained that the markets are now controlled by the Government, that the merger between business and 'big brother government' is too close for the markets to be a safe place for capitalizing. Ghost used this as his justification for ending the segment of True Capitalist Radio.

The show's format has not changed considerably with this decision, as shows are currently only two hours long instead of the earlier three. Ghost claims he will bring the show's original time duration back in June 2016, but has made no mention of resurrecting this segment (and therefore will likely utilize the time originally intended for it to give News Commentary and take more calls).

However, in September 2016, he finally restored the show back to 3 live hours, and reintroduced The Markets into the show.

Before going into The Markets, Ghost begins with a review on stock trading advice that he tweets each morning, with references to specific companies and his expectations. His advice predominantly covers the topic of day trading, monitoring the stocks briefly after the markets opening before exploiting dips and waves. He occasionally will also recommend value investing with focus on stocks that provide dividends, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as alternatives to day trading.

Along with his advice, Ghost recommends Ustocktrade.com in order to participate in day trading or simulated trading, as Ustocktrade is an Alternative Trading System (ATS) rather than an actual brokerage firm, so that it bypasses the law requiring $25,000 in a brokerage account in order to participate in day trading or high frequency trading

In late October 2016, following Ghost expressing his frustration with Twitter preventing him from tweeting out day trading advice, Ghost has announced that he intends to switch over to a paid private broadcast with weekly or monthly fees, likely via conference call. Ghost has stated that in the event that he discontinues the True Capitalist Broadcast, the proposed morning broadcast would continue.

Cryptocurrencies
From early 2017, Ghost started to shift the focus of his markets section towards cryptocurrencies which he speculates will significantly increase in value and amount in the future and could possibly even replace the Central Banking System.

The Markets segment is usually presented in the following order:

(Note: Cryptocurrencies are now listed in their own article)