Daily Trades — Future Features

Brain dump of ideas for future development. Not prioritized — just captured.

Trend Updates (breaking news on existing trends)

Some breaking news is actually a new chapter in an existing trend and should be allowed through our filter.

Examples:

• Trend: "AI is making hardware expensive" → Update: "DRAM just hit a new price record"
• Trend: "Europe is rearming" → Update: "France just doubled its defense budget"
• Trend: "Rare earth dependency on China" → Update: "China just restricted gallium exports"

These aren't random news — they're trend confirmations. The reader already knows the trend (or we've covered it). The news is evidence it's accelerating.

Possible format:

• Shorter than a full issue — 1-2 sentences on what happened, 1-2 on why it confirms the trend
• Same blast radius section
• Close ties back to the original trend
• Could be a secondary item alongside the main daily trend

Implementation:

• Filter prompt needs updating to allow breaking news IF it maps to a known scored trend in the pool
• DB would need a "parent_trend" or tag linking updates to original trends
• Could be a second content type: "Trend Spotlight" (main) + "Trend Update" (secondary)

Shaan Puri / MFM tone injection

Research Shaan Puri's writing and speaking style from My First Million podcast, blog, and Twitter. Build a style guide and inject into the writing prompt. See mfm-style-guide.md for research output.

Marketing & distribution

• Instagram/TikTok reels — short-form video content from daily trends
• Paid influencer partnerships targeting 20-30yr old male finance audience
• Organic social content repurposing newsletter items
• Agent-to-agent interview concept (AI agents interviewing each other about trends)

Multi-item issues

If the pool consistently produces 3+ high-quality headlines, expand to:

• 1 main "Trend Spotlight"
• 1-2 shorter "Trend Updates" or "On Our Radar" items
• Keep total read time under 5 minutes

Historical trend tracking

Track which trends we've covered and how they've played out over time. "We told you about X three months ago — here's what happened." Reinforces the FOMO/hindsight hook with real evidence.