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Market video / October 12, 2026

A fifty percent markup is not a fifty percent gross margin #GrossMargin #Markup #Accounting #Shorts

Public market preparation from Hollow Point Trading: context, levels and risk-first execution education.

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A fifty percent markup does not mean a fifty percent gross margin. Imagine a hypothetical product costs eighty dollars and sells for one hundred twenty dollars. Gross profit is forty dollars before overhead, interest and taxes. Markup divides that forty dollar gross profit by the eighty dollar cost. It is fifty percent. Gross margin divides the same forty do

Use this analysis as general education. Confirm current prices and conditions independently, define invalidation before entry, and size every position for the loss you can actually tolerate.