Dark cinematic trading-themed featured image for the poem “When the Volume Died,” showing a failed stock market breakout with green bullish candlestick charts turning into collapsing red fakeout candles, a looming puppet-master hand above Wall Street, gothic cathedral windows, trading volume bars, candles, and eerie market symbolism surrounding the centered title text.

The breakout came
with trumpet praise,
green candles set
the charts ablaze.

Retail rushed
with hopeful eyes,
all chasing dreams
of endless highs.

But market makers
smirked instead,
then pulled the floor
beneath the spread.

The volume died.
The bulls gave out.
And bagholders learned
what fakeouts are about.

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