You scroll back to the portfolio. The names look different now. Not random. Not excessive. Aligned. And if they are aligned on the way up, then the reverse holds just as easily. If something disrupts that expectation if the spending slows, or the policy shifts, or the market loses confidence even briefly then those same positions begin to move together. Not gradually. At once. The café noise drifts back in around you. Cutlery. Voices. A chair scraping somewhere behind you. You realise you have not ordered anything. You do not move. Your eyes remain on the screen, tracing the same pattern again, and again, and again. For a brief moment, you are back at the trading floor. Four large screens before you, one monitoring stocks, the other checking the news, the other showing indexes. A Bloomberg keyboard, and a cup of coffee to stay focused. You miss the time. You wonder for a moment if it was possible for you to have found this trend and execute this exact trade if you were still in finance. You loved risk, but some sectors were too risky. Healthcare was sometimes one of them. Blackridge has placed itself ahead of something large. Which means, for a brief moment, it will also be exposed to it. And exposure, if handled correctly, does not need to be created. It only needs to be timed. You close the article but leave the tab open. Your reflection stares back at you faintly from the dark edge of the screen. You do not look at it for long. Instead, you return to the portfolio, already thinking about what comes next. You know it is time. You wait for a while as if waiting for a sign. There have been no doubt yet that the firm's position will be a success or a failure, but you are banking on a market shift. In the meantime, it will not hurt to start a conversation going, this will build authenticity and create a foundation for further conversations when the phishing begins. You muster courage. Your hands twitch a bit, you open your mail to get straight to writing the message but you consider reviewing your persona. [[Review persona]] [[Write Isabella acknowledging the firm's position]]