Field guide
Learn
Short notes for a first market. Read these, then open the tape. Nothing here is personalized financial advice.
What you are looking at
A stock is a slice of a company. Crypto is a digital asset that trades 24/7. The number next to a name is the last print — what the last buyer and seller agreed.
Paper vs real money
Meridian fills at the live tape but it is not a broker. Nothing here buys on Robinhood or Coinbase. Practice sizing and reading the tape before you use real cash.
Buy, hold, trim, sell
Tape signals follow today's move. Buy = bid building. Hold = quiet. Trim = pressure, take some off. Sell = heavy offer. They are a compass, not an order.
Your private book
New accounts start empty with $10,000 paper cash. Import what you already own (ticker, shares, average cost) to track it. Only you can see that book.
Grok reports
On any ticker, sign in and ask for a desk note: stance, thesis, risks, and a beginner line. Cached so the same name is not rewritten every second.
Risk in one line
Never size a name so that a normal down day ruins the book. The paper bot, if you arm it, risks 5% of that separate $1M desk — not your tracking book.