WHAT ARE WE DOING? “Contrarians At The Gate”

Substack by Danny, Vinnie and Porter · launched Jun 25, 2025

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!

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#251

Paid leaderboard

#28

Paid subscribers

1,000+ paid

Badge

Bestseller 1k

Followers

11K

Paid plan

$50/mo

Recommends

2

other newsletters

Podcast

Yes

Growth history

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 61 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile

Top 48%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen

#247

on Oct 4, 2026

Rank, 7 days

+7 places

Rank, 30 days

+3 places

Followers added

+1.8K

since tracking began

Posts

12

last 30 days

Reactions per post

28

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked

1.0K

across 37 posts

Tickers covered

1

in tracked posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: The Donkeys share their thoughts on the markets post midterms. — 51 reactions on Nov 4, 2026.

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• The Donkeys share their thoughts on the markets post midterms.

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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: Nov 9, 2026.