TechDaddyCA

15 yrs in fintech capital markets. Building trading platforms for institutional traders !Now just doing it for me !family of 3!Learning and Teaching what I knw!

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I THINK MY BROTHER HAS FIGURED OUT SOMETHING THE AUTHOR OF RICH DAD POOR DAD NEVER TAUGHT ME.

Growing up, we were sold a dream.

Robert Kiyosaki wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad, contrasting his highly educated but financially struggling father with his wealthy mentor.

The lesson? Don’t just work for money. Make money work for you.

For years, I believed that was the ultimate goal.

Get rich. Build assets. Escape the 9-to-5. Achieve financial freedom.

But then I look at my brother.

He’s not rich. He’s middle class.

He has a wife, two kids, regular jobs, and what most financial influencers would probably call an ordinary life.

And here’s the crazy part.

I think he’s already won.

His wife cooks for the family and focuses on the kids’ education.

He drives the kids to swimming lessons, sports, and activities. He’s there for the little things.

Their weekends revolve around the children. Parks, activities, family time, laughter.

They take time off to enjoy dinners together. Sometimes they get a weekend nanny so they can have a little time for themselves.

They take a family vacation once a year.

Both are skilled professionals. They’re respected at work. They get promoted. They don’t constantly jump jobs chasing another 20% salary increase.

They work Monday to Friday.

And then they do it all over again.

No obsession with becoming millionaires.

No desperate need to escape their lives.

No constant comparison with someone who owns a bigger house, a nicer car, or a larger stock portfolio.

They aren’t trying to escape the life they’ve built. They’re actually enjoying it.

And that made me question everything.

What if financial freedom isn’t the ultimate goal?

What if the real freedom is waking up every morning and not wishing you had someone else’s life?

We spend decades chasing numbers.

$100K. $500K. $1 million. $10 million.

But who decided those numbers measure a successful life?

How do you measure a father who never misses his child’s swimming lesson?

A mother who makes time for her children’s education?

A couple who still enjoys dinner together after years of marriage?

A family that looks forward to another ordinary weekend?

You can’t put any of that on a balance sheet.

And maybe that’s the problem.

We have learned how to calculate the value of everything except the things that actually make life worth living.

Maybe there’s no grand meaning to life.

No final destination.

No magical number that suddenly makes everything perfect.

Maybe the best life really is Monday to Friday, school runs, swimming lessons, family dinners, weekend activities, one vacation a year…

And doing it all over again with people you love.

You may never know whether you were the perfect husband, wife, father, mother, son, or daughter.

But maybe perfection was never the point.

Rich Dad taught us how to make money.

My brother unknowingly taught me something else: how to be content without needing more.

And perhaps that’s the kind of wealth most of us spend our entire lives searching for.

Maybe the richest person isn’t the one who has the most.

Maybe it’s the one who needs the least to feel like they have everything. ❤️

#RichDadPoorDad #RobertKiyosaki #FinancialFreedom #LifeLessons #TrueWealth #FamilyFirst #Happiness #SimpleLiving #WorkLifeBalance #MoneyIsntEverything #PersonalGrowth #Success #MiddleClassLife #LifePhilosophy #Gratitude

@amitisinvesting @Mr_Derivatives @Gubloinvestor

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At this point I feel sorry for myself for investing in company who had a great leader , great vision and greatest revenue🫡
NVDA as company will still do great but without Jensen nobody knows the roadmap
What if Jensen starts a new company once this dust settles down?
$NVDA won’t be $NVDA without him !

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@BrandonWealth Thursday night beers 🍻

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@danellisona The only time I was paid by x was a one time payment of $20000 at 6 AM in the morning
But then I woke up!!!😴💤

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Thursday is for friends , squash and beer !

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Since Friday’s close, NVIDIA ($NVDA) has erased roughly $750 BILLION in market value. 🤯

That’s more than the entire annual GDP of countries like:

🇸🇪 Sweden
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🇩🇰 Denmark

One company. Less than a week.

More market value wiped out than any one of these countries produces in an entire year.

Market cap isn’t GDP, but the scale is staggering.

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@ronmortgageguy Even the smartest men have made their dumbest decisions below the belt.

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@amitisinvesting Never thought one man getting HARD could make life so hard for millions of investors.

Now the entire stock market has performance anxiety. 😂

[TechDaddyCA @TechDaddyCA]

@BrandonWealth How about $DND.TO

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this is the question nobody's asking.
I believe we might get some of these answers on Tuesday during earnings call!!
nvidia putting money into customers who then buy nvidia gpus worked because jensen was the guy everyone trusted to keep the loop spinning. an interim ceo usually plays defence, not offence. if those deals slow down, demand might look a lot less organic. nov 17 should tell us a lot.

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The most expensive mistake in investing isn't picking the wrong stock. it's waiting for the right time

$7,000 a year in a TFSA, avg 8% return:

start at 30, you have ~$793k at 60
start at 40, you have ~$320k at 60

waiting 10 years means putting in $70k less but ending up with ~$473k less.

same logic for my son. he's 6 and i put the bare minimum in his RESP, $2,500 a year so we get the full $500 government grant.

keep that up till he's 18 at 8% and it's ~$61k. we put in $30k, the grants add $6k, and time does the rest.

start early, stay boring.

how old were you when you started?

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One of the greatest things about being human is how quickly our memories fade.

We went through a global pandemic just a few years ago. Today, we barely talk about it.

Remember the metaverse? A couple of years ago, everyone was convinced it was the future. Now hardly anyone mentions it.

Next Tuesday, $NVDA reports earnings. Nobody knows what the numbers will look like. Maybe they’re incredible, maybe they’re not.

But if NVIDIA delivers another crazy quarter, markets might forget all the noise around its CEO and go right back to focusing on the business.

Markets have short memories. Sometimes all it takes is one good earnings report.

Just a thought from someone who spends too much time watching markets!

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this one hits. waiting feels like discipline but after a point it's just a decision you never made. same with investing, ppl wait for the perfect entry for years. There is never a perfect entry point and neither is a perfect exit! As I say all the time - BUY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD ✌️

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@conorsen 6 episodes might not even be enough tbh. ceo exit, china export questions and a board that backed him on sunday then let him go on thursday. you think the market prices this in by earnings or is it a months-long overhang?

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@jbillinson tim cook running nvidia would be one of the wildest crossovers ever. he's the best supply chain operator alive tho, and that's half of nvidia's job right now. you think the board actually goes outside, or picks someone from inside?

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@BrianFeroldi the second chart hurts way more even tho it's the same $20. we anchor to the peak, not to what we paid. took me years to stop checking the high and start checking the thesis.

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@BrandonWealth We should all have 6 months of emergency fund, if you can’t figure out something in 6 months, you never will!!
6 months * every months bare minimum spend

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@amitisinvesting @Mr_Derivatives thoughts ?

[TechDaddyCA @TechDaddyCA]

One of the greatest things about being human is how quickly our memories fade.

We went through a global pandemic just a few years ago. Today, we barely talk about it.

Remember the metaverse? A couple of years ago, everyone was convinced it was the future. Now hardly anyone mentions it.

Next Tuesday, $NVDA reports earnings. Nobody knows what the numbers will look like. Maybe they’re incredible, maybe they’re not.

But if NVIDIA delivers another crazy quarter, markets might forget all the noise around its CEO and go right back to focusing on the business.

Markets have short memories. Sometimes all it takes is one good earnings report.

Just a thought from someone who spends too much time watching markets!

[TechDaddyCA @TechDaddyCA]

@DeItaone under $4t for the first time since july 2025. that's roughly $750b gone since friday's close, bigger than the uae or denmark's entire gdp, from one company in less than a week. hard to think of a single-ceo exit that moved this much value. any comp come to mind?