ASX Scalper

SPI200, Nikkei (USD) and ES Futures scalping and swinging.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

🎯 Aim Higher

The word “success” has been twisted.

When we say that someone is “successful,” it’s understood that we’re talking about their career—and more specifically, money.

I spent 20 years in the upper echelons of the business world:

> C-level at 3 public companies
> Startups backed by top-tier VCs
> Deals with billionaires and icons

Here’s a sobering observation:

In all that time—working directly with hundreds of “highly successful” people—I can’t think of a single person who had a life I wanted to emulate.

It’s almost by definition. To operate at the highest level in anything, you have to be one-dimensional, with a single-minded focus on “success.”

So it’s no surprise that most of those people become deficient in other areas, with broken families, poor health, and no interests outside of work.

Elon Musk, the world’s MOST “successful” person, has referred to his life as a tortured existence.

I like money as much as the next guy, but I don’t want to live a tortured existence.

So I punched out of that world, walking away from an obscene amount of money. Some would say that makes me less ambitious than my former peers.

But over time, I realized it’s the opposite:

Conventional success is pretty common. There are lots of rich people out there.

The much rarer breed are those who have plenty of career success but also a great, multidimensional life, with:

A lasting marriage
Exceptional fitness
A thriving family
Passionate interests
Spiritual peace

To strive for that form of success isn’t less ambitious. It’s more ambitious—a much harder needle to thread.

🎯 Ambition is like an arrow. It strikes the target it’s aimed toward.

What are you aiming for?

Most people have never taken the time to clearly define their target, so they default to society’s definition of success.

I developed an exercise to help you with that. It’s called the Ideal End State. See the comments for more details.

🤙

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@Camp4 Really enjoyed your podcast with Prof Horst! I’m 54 and currently close to sending my hardest route ever - 8a roof climb. Also have had my best ever bouldering year (V8) Board climbing has been super helpful for me, and I think you can get 💪 as you age.

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@asxcfdtrader Part of the picture not the whole portrait

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@ScottPh77711570 @0xf3dz Also used to do that but was in sub 65kg category!

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@0xf3dz @ScottPh77711570 <boast mode on> can do 3 with right, and 2 with left. But I'm a rock climber and strength to weight is an important factor for this sport.

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@ScottPh77711570 @0xf3dz What's the stats for one armers?

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@ALBACapMgmt amen

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@ZoeGutier This didn’t happen

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@DeepValueInv @OwenRask That’s why it is peak optimisation, indexes are comprised of the best companies. You need to be right every time, anyone in a major index just is right by design.

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@SabriAmca1453 Looking healthy…

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@fesshole Are they still in the bed?

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@Hugo35121431 I'm interested what makes you think that? September contract has been trading down to low 8800s and up past 8900. Seems like we're in a bull market right now, no?

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@ALBACapMgmt Go big or go home!

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@ALBACapMgmt There's a few others who are a bit quiet too!

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@asxcfdtrader You do, get back to work Marto and stop swinging the lead!

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

Bear welfare check time. How are @great_martis and friends?

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

Still wrong.

[The Great Martis @great_martis]

Nvidia heading to 20 dollars over the next 11 months

Pin this post.

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@DemoniacoASX Die ASX ist nicht gut?

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

@INFOFLOWfx That's a beat, not a miss surely?

[ASX Scalper @AsxScalper]

“Inter generational fairness” courtesy of @JEChalmers

[Interested Onlooker @michaelsnape]

Jenny and Matt 35/36 who build a software startup in their garage, have global customers and sell it for $10m, pay $4.7million in tax

George and Margaret 73/74 own a $5million home in Mosman, have $4.4 million in super and pay $0 tax on earnings, $0 CGT and $0 on their pensions