WHAT ARE WE DOING? “Contrarians At The Gate”
WHAT ARE WE DOING? (WAWD) is the Substack newsletter where Wall Street outsiders Danny Moses, Vincent Daniel, and Porter Collins, famously portrayed in "The Big Short," pull back the curtain on markets, investing and more!
- Top in Finance
- #265
- Paid leaderboard
- #30
- Subscribers
- 9.0K
- Paid subscribers
- 1,000+ paid
- Badge
- Bestseller 1k
- Followers
- 11K
- Paid plan
- $50/mo
- Recommends
- 2
- Podcast
- Yes
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Most-mentioned tickers
Symbols named in the headline of a post from the last 30 days, most-covered first. The number is how many of those posts mentioned it.
Read from 1 post headline in the last 30 days. A newsletter that names a company only in the body of a post will not appear here, and a mention is not a recommendation — it only means the symbol came up.
Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
8.0K on Sep 10, 2026 → 9.0K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #265 today · #257 a week ago · #273 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 42 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 51%
- Best rank seen
- #247
- Rank, 7 days
- −8 places
- Rank, 30 days
- +8 places
- Subscribers added
- +1.0K
- Followers added
- +1.2K
- Posts
- 13
- Reactions per post
- 27
- Reactions tracked
- 780
- Tickers covered
- 1
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Oct 4, 2026
since tracking began
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 29 posts
in tracked posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: Following The Yellow Brick Road — 47 reactions on Aug 21, 2026.
Recent posts
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Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Source for this page: WHAT ARE WE DOING? “Contrarians At The Gate”. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Oct 21, 2026.