I’ve made $8 million from trading. Allow me to let you in on a little secret - there is no strategy that is better than any other. The best one is the one you FOCUS on. Edge is made by looking at the markets one specific way and knowing everything about it. You could trade a profitable traders strategy and still not be unprofitable - because even if you know the basic rules of it, you don’t know that you shouldn’t enter when price is coming to your entry lazily, or that your exit rules should be different in different market conditions. It’s all these sub-rules that make a strategy profitable and you can only get them when you’ve put in 1,000s of hours on a chart with that one strategy.
This is absolutely insane.
SanDisk has gone from $30 to $1,400+ in 14 months.
That’s a 4,600% return, and the #1 stock in the S&P 500 for two years running.
Most people missed it.
Here’s why it happened:
Western Digital spun off SanDisk in February 2025 as a separate pure-play NAND flash company.
Then AI hit the storage market.
Hyperscalers started signing multi-year supply agreements at $42 billion in committed revenue.
NAND prices are up 70-75% on AI data center demand.
Gross margins went from 51% to 78%.
Revenue grew 251% YoY in the latest quarter.
The market finally realized AI doesn’t just need GPUs.
It needs storage, memory, power, cooling.
The lesson here is simple:
The biggest gains never come from chasing the obvious names.
They come from finding the pure-play that nobody is paying attention to before the market connects the dots.
If I find the next one, it will be posted on @InTheAssembly
Follow them right now or you will regret it later.
Market topping signals
Today, US2Y spiked + Yen spiked
Government intervened
BUT NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS. WE MOON FOREVER. UP ONLY.
Higher yields = bad for growth stocks due to discount rate
Yen spike = Carry Trade Unwind Catalyst
Combination of these two is a liquidity squeeze.
Don’t be that monkey.
The hidden cost of becoming a profitable trader:
I lost 8 kilos in my first year of serious trading.
Not from working out.
From stress.
I'd forget to eat for 14 hours.
Wake up with my jaw clenched.
Feel my heart racing on every entry.
Get sick every other month.
The toll on your body is real.
Nobody talks about it because it doesn't sell courses.
If you're feeling it physically right now, that's part of it.
But please:
eat. sleep. move.
The market will be there tomorrow.
Your health might not be.
Be like Takashi Kotegawa:
‣ Started with about $13,000 in savings.
‣ Focused on short-term trading in Japanese stocks.
‣ Built his edge around order flow and price behavior.
‣ Traded with extreme patience, waiting for high-probability setups.
‣ Ignored hype, news, and outside opinions.
‣ Stayed calm while others panicked during volatility.
‣ Cut losses quickly without hesitation.
‣ Pressed his winners aggressively when momentum was clear.
‣ Compounded gains consistently over time.
‣ Turned that $13,000 into over $150 million.
‣ Rarely gave interviews or sought attention.
‣ Lived modestly despite massive wealth.
‣ Let results speak louder than words.
‣ Became a legend in the Japanese trading community.
‣ Proved that discipline and focus beat noise and emotion.