🚨 INVESTOR @MIKEALFRED ON HOW TO SURVIVE COMPRESSION PERIODS IN BULL MARKETS:
"We may go down for another week or two on risk assets. We may have another few weeks to a couple months of compression. But when it releases, like in April of last year, if you own the right stuff, you go up so much in those up moves that it doesn't matter how much you retrace."
His personal 2025 example:
"Everyone was worried the whole world was gonna collapse in March and April. We bottomed around April 5th to 7th. A lot of the stuff I own, small cap equities, levered AI, went up like 10X. I was down 30% at the lows for the year. By the end of the year I was up 200 to 300%."
His current read:
"I don't lose a lot of sleep about these compression periods if I believe we're not in a larger bear cycle. I don't think we are. I think we're actually entering a better environment."
Imagine being given somewhere around 80 years on a planet floating through an incomprehensibly enormous universe, surrounded by billions of people you will never meet, mysteries you will never solve, places you will never see, and more knowledge than you could absorb in a thousand lifetimes...
and spending the whole damn thing worrying about money, arguing with strangers, impressing people you don't even like, and doing something you hate five days a week because somebody convinced you that was life.
I don't know, man.
I think we may have gotten a few things terribly wrong.
I'm genuinely fascinated by BlaqBonez's career. He's released over 14 projects since he came through in 2012, transcended generations & successfully swerved through genres. 14 years later, he still sounds fresh and continues to build a new fanbase year on year. Truly peerless.
So basically your telling me
The $SPY is dumping, yet fake Chinese penny stocks are pumping? As a serious investor, this is frustrating. Who’s controlling any of this? Please tell me where Hong Kong, Texas & Hong Kong, Nevada are located?????? What are we doing!
You think you want material things but you really want freedom
The material things are a bandage to help you get through the pain of not having freedom. Once you get freedom you can get all the material things you want as long as they don’t jeopardize your freedom… but you’re going to want “things” less and less, or you’ll buy things because they are cool, well crafted, dope design, to support the owner, buy from a collection etc but you’ll slow all the way down buying things just to get a quick dopamine hit, get your freedom first then the fly shii after…that was my path and that’s the path I suggest for all of you.
Got a dope car? Doesn’t matter if you aren’t free, Rolex? Who cares you are free, fancy vacation? Doesn’t matter it ends and you go back to not being free… but when I say free I’m not talking about strictly not having a job but the option to chose where you want, chose the labor you do, do what you like to do instead of doing what pays the best, the freedom to express yourself without the fear of financial consequences, the freedom to help the people who deserve it, the freedom to not be in a rush, to stay out late because you’re having a good time, to wake up earlier and watch the sunshine without needing every hour of sleep, because if you’re sleepy you’ll go back to bed. Freedom comes in many forms but the main thing is don’t put material things first they will slow you down on your journey to freedom, assets will speed up the journey, that car payment is costing you your freedom bro, the fancy apartment or house all of that is money that can be used to give you escape velocity