Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on how private equity has infested veterinarian offices, encouraging "vaccines" that cause (expensive) health problems:
"they know the vaccines are going to cause problems for dogs and cats to come back in to get treated for whatever"
"And... when I go to the beach on Maui, that's where I take the pulse of the average human who doesn't know anything. And the numbers of stories of people with cat and dog issues for seven-year-old dogs and cats because they got them vaccinated and because they're like, I have to put my dog to sleep. I don't have four grand for X, Y, Z—"
Dave Collum: "I spent $1,200 yesterday at the vet"
Dowd: "There you go"
This clip of Dowd (@DowdEdward), a former BlackRock fund manager and co-founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from a discussion with Michael Farris (@CoffeeandaMike) and Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) posted to Rumble on May 10, 2026.
You can copy someone’s external framework, but not their internal wiring.
This is why personalization is REQUIRED in trading.
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: your edge is in how you interact with discomfort and uncertainty. Trading is both of these things - every. single. day.
Sitting out during a poor environment? That’s uncomfortable. Holding onto a volatile name as it runs on a key SMA? That’s extremely uncomfortable. Weathering the inevitable drawdowns while trying to adhere to your simple rules? DISCOMFORT.
There are dozens of examples. And they aren't "cured" by lines on a chart.
Everyone is different. Discomfort hits harder in some. You can condition yourself to handle the constant discomfort but you will never completely hide your personality. It will come out. Harness it, help it shine.
Rather than try and force yourself into a process suited to someone else’s personality, create one tailored to yours. Build rules that manage YOU, not someone else. That’s the only way you’ll be able to repeat that process, and edge, for years.