Desk Picks
Every week the analyst desk picks the published setups worth studying — paid, badged, and shelved here permanently. Picked for teaching value, not performance: a brilliantly-reasoned loss can be a Desk Pick, and saying so out loud is how the culture learns that reasoning is the product.
What earns a pick
A thesis that teaches — clean invalidation logic, honest reads of messy structure, disagreement with the engine that turned out to be right (or instructively wrong).
What a pick earns
$100, the Desk Pick badge, a feature in the weekly digest, and a permanent place on this shelf. Cheap for us, meaningful for a record.
The Annual Receipts
Year-end awards that are computed, not voted: Most Calibrated by market, Best Pack by scoreboard, Iron Records of the year. Awards you cannot campaign for.