The dream is to be free.
If you make loads of money driving to a job you hate you’re not free.
✅ My story ↓
I became a journeyman welder at the age of 21, launched a welding business at 23 people started handing me 30k-40k a month to weld in the oilfield.
I thought that was life. I spent 11 months a year working out of town for a 300-400k a year sacrificing my health.
I paid a mortgage for a house I was never at.
It wasn’t freedom. It was a trap.
Through that a developed a crazy alcohol and co**ine addiction until I was about 27.
My brother and best friend overdosed and died. I also met my wifey this year. The best and worst things of my life happened within 90 days. We were a train wreck.
We got sober when my best friend died. Both of us. 10 years later we’re a fitness addicted entrepreneur couple. I came back to Jesus.
I started trying many different business ideas. EBay. Drop shipping. Amazon Stores. Years of failures. Marketing agencies. Selling high ticket items.
I started making really good money running a marketing agency and doing high ticket sales.
I hated both. All the money in the world didn’t matter at that point. It wasn’t freedom. I built another cage for myself.
2019 hit. Right before the pandemic i decided I had enough. Sold all my welding equipment. Sold my house. Started learning trading.
Self funded. Not sure if I’d make it. But I didn’t care. I knew it was ultimate freedom and I answered to no one.
Everyone told me not to do it. Lost all my friends. Stop talking to my family entirely cause they didn’t support it. My dad died.
Everything hit me all at once. I went dark. Really dark. To the point I wouldn’t leave the house, answer the phone or even open the windows to let the sunlight in.
In all this I started working harder than ever. Meditating. Reading. Praying more than ever.
The failures got less severe. My discipline got better. Because I accepted some truths:
- no one is coming to save me
- no one cares if I make it
- it was only a matter of time until I made it
I kept showing up. I kept working. Eventually turned into a breakeven trader. Then a profitable trader.
I’m not yet a level I want to be at. But I’m free. I make more money than before by a long shot. I go to the gym when I want. I eat lunch when I want. I do what I want. And I built this life with the love of my life.
She supported me the whole time and believed in my vision. She fell in love with 2 things:
A)The man I was.
B) man she knew I could be.
She was the bridge that took me from A to B.
I didn’t get a lot of things right in life. I got her right. And I got the right career meant for me right (trading).
Whatever hell you may be going through today… just remember, no storm lasts forever and you can make it if you don’t quit.
This story goes way beyond this. But this is the short version.
Trading is freedom. Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done.
The views from the office are much different today.
Trump translation: AI companies lose more than they make and if we don’t subsidize AI companies China will win the AI race.
If his lips are moving… he’s lying.
Unpopular opinion:
The jobs report is a complete lie to hide the fact that AI is taking everyone’s jobs.
We will get a revision come end of the year.
Last years revision showed that NFP was 914k jobs less then the actually told us.
I believe this year will be worse.
@KobeissiLetter Hey bro… I know I blew up your wife and daughter and dad but I think we can be friends… like I know our religions and beliefs have nothing in common… but you know… we can get along.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
At some point the crude oil inventory is going to shock the markets and oil will reprice to a much higher price.
When the supply is lower but the demand hasn’t gone down the raw material price will put paper price in check.
Summer is here. Fuel consumption is about to go way up.
Paper prices are being suppressed. Saudis have the cash to make the paper price what ever they need it to be. They’ve done this lots.
140+ oil coming.