Markets
Stocks, options, futures, day trading, investing and the news moving financial markets.
We take the markets seriously. Ourselves? Not so much.
Risk Life News is a financial news and entertainment company built for people who actually live on the internet. News, market coverage, education and industry reporting meet humor and trading culture here.
01 / THE IDEA
What is Risk Life News?
Risk Life News is a financial news and entertainment company built for people who actually live on the internet.
We cover the financial markets and the stories that move them—stocks, options, day trading, investing, crypto, AI, business and political news—alongside the corners of finance traditional media tends to ignore.
That means futures, options, FX, crypto and perpetual prop firms. Prediction markets, gambling and sports betting. Trading technology. And, of course, the increasingly ridiculous world of trading influencers.
We take the markets seriously. Ourselves? Not so much.
RLN believes financial media can be informative without being boring. We mix market coverage, education and industry reporting with humor, internet culture and an appropriate amount of degeneracy.
Because markets are fascinating. They’re chaotic. They create opportunity, destroy egos and generate some of the greatest content on Earth.
We love this shit.
Risk Life News exists to share that obsession with the world—and make financial markets as entertaining to follow as they are to trade.
02 / OUR BEATS
What we cover.
Markets move. So does the culture around them.
Crypto
Crypto markets, digital assets, perpetuals and the increasingly strange world built around them.
Prop firms
Futures, options, perpetual, FX and crypto prop firms—the companies, products, rules and industry news traders should understand.
AI + technology
Artificial intelligence, trading technology and technology stories with implications for markets, businesses and investors.
Business + politics
Business and political developments that can materially affect companies, industries, markets and traders.
Prediction markets + gambling
Prediction markets, sports betting, gambling businesses and the growing overlap between speculation, entertainment and finance.
Tradefluencers
Trading creators, personalities, drama, trends and internet culture—the financial internet on its own terms.
On politics: We cover political news when it matters to markets, companies, industries, prediction markets or investors. The question is what it means for markets and traders, not which side readers should support.
03 / FOUNDER
Meet the guy who started this thing.
Tyler Davis didn’t come to financial media from Wall Street.
He’s a 35-year-old husband and father from Western Pennsylvania who dropped out of college after a year and a half and went to work in his family’s business.
Then, about six years ago, he discovered day trading.
Things escalated quickly.
What started as curiosity turned into an obsession with learning the markets. That journey took him from stocks and options into futures and prop trading, eventually leading to work inside the prop-firm industry and then into trading content and financial media.
Today, Tyler trades, creates content and serves as the founder and on-camera personality behind Risk Life News.
The slightly less conventional parts of his résumé probably explain the rest of RLN.
He’s been a lifelong hockey player and skateboarder, and spent several years in his twenties performing stand-up comedy at open mics multiple nights a week.
Apparently the eventual result of combining trading, internet culture and an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a comedian is a financial media company.
Risk Life News was probably inevitable.
Read Tyler’s author profileTyler helped start the conversation. Risk Life News is the publication—a place for future writers, hosts, contributors, shows and perspectives beyond any one personality.
04 / OUR STANDARD
We’ll tell you when we’re getting paid.
Risk Life News covers companies we work with, companies we don’t work with, companies we love and occasionally companies we think deserve criticism.
RLN accepts advertising and sponsorships and maintains affiliate relationships with some companies featured on this website. When a commercial relationship could reasonably matter to the reader, our goal is to disclose it clearly.
An affiliate relationship does not automatically earn a positive review, and a company does not need to pay us to receive positive coverage.
We believe financial media has a particular responsibility to newer traders. Trading is already difficult enough without navigating exaggerated claims, hidden incentives, questionable operators and people selling Lamborghinis before risk management.
Our job is to entertain you, inform you, educate where we can, disclose our conflicts and give you our actual opinion.
Nothing published by Risk Life News should be considered personalized financial advice. Trading and investing involve risk, and you are responsible for your own financial decisions.