i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
-getting humiliated
-showing up terrified and doing it anyway
-admitting you might be the problem
The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.
And you’re probably thinking “sure that’s cool, but have you seen the price of rocket fuel?”
No. No fuel. It does this with compressed air. It can recharge its own “rocket” engines using built in fans.
This is absolutely insane.
I think a useful mental model for trading is to focus first on moving away from the things that reliably produce failure, rather than trying to move toward the things that appear to produce success.
Both approaches may seem equivalent, but they lead to very different decisions. Trading is taking risk and risk is exposure to luck. Therefore, outcomes are not directly controllable. The only thing you fully control is your error rate. So that's where most of the work should go, right?
Tennis is a great analogy here. In professional tennis, players mostly win by producing exceptional shots. In amateur tennis, matches are usually decided by who commits fewer unforced errors. The winning strategy is simply to keep the ball in play and stop taking dumb shots.
In that sense, good trading is often less about discovering the perfect action and more about systematically eliminating the actions that are known to be destructive. You approach success indirectly by systematically removing the behaviors that make success harder.
11 years of losing 🤯
Over $400K down 🔴
But something changed for CajunFusion on Jan 1st...
The account is now +$442K YTD 🟢
Here’s the interesting part:
✔️97% win rate across 157 trades YTD
✔️Mostly stocks
✔️Very few options
✔️Mostly intraday, one-in-one-out trades
What do you think clicked for him?