Mike Ray

$MES | $MNQ | $M2K • NY Session
Prop firms since Mar '26 | 120% ROI (payouts vs. fees)

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Home sweet home 🏡

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@fredtrades Because that's the way I'm profitable at this stage of my trading 🤷‍♂️

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@Cointelegraph They know there no more gain to make with it anyway😅

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Back from a 16 days break from trading after being humbled in July

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@GeorgiKrachunov Just sad that the chain revenue per day is less than my hourly salary 😪

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@AdamWTrades You got manipulated man

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@Eva286248523 15 days to get the pump while the ownership is losing their mind.

If we don't have this so important fucking pump ready somewhere on a shelf that means somebody didn't do his job in the beginning.

I just didn't want to insert this. 😅

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I just had one of the toughest interviews I ever had.

It was for a high Engineering position at one of the biggest luxury hotels in my country.

We're talking about a property with 700+ rooms, rooms that cost $4,000–5,000 a night, welcoming presidents, celebrities, wealthy people.

The engineering systems are on a completely different level than what you find in a typical building.

Massive centralized plants, steam boilers, heat exchangers, pumps and automated control systems.

The interview lasted 2 hours.
Within five minutes, the interviewer hit me with this:

"One of the main pumps supplying hot water to around 200 rooms just stopped working. What do you do?"

I answered:

"I'd check whether the contactor is energized and verify power is reaching the pump."

He replied:

"There is power at the pump, but it's not running."

I answered:

"Then the pump has likely failed. We need to replace it."

His response:

"You don't have a spare pump."

Me:

"I'd start calling suppliers and looking everywhere I can."

Him:

"The lead time is 15 days."

At that point I remember thinking...

"Wow... the interview just started."

Then he kept going.

"Now you finally have the replacement pump. What next?"

I answered:

"We isolate the system by closing the valves before removing the pump."

Him:

"The isolation valves are seized and won't close."

So now we had to discuss shutting down the building, replacing valves, minimizing guest impact, coordinating contractors, communicating with operations... and the scenario just kept getting more complex.

Looking back, I don't think he was testing whether I knew every technical answer.

He wanted to see how I think under pressure, whether I stay calm when every solution creates another problem.

It was one of the hardest interviews I've ever done but I wanted to try my chance. I learned a lot during those 2 hours.

Honestly, I am not sure I will accept that job if they ever call me back. The money is very attractive and could learn a lot there but the stress I will get will be at a high level. For now, I am happy and comfortable with leading my smaller engineering team 3 minutes from home.

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@GuyTalksFinance All my tickets cost me 10 000$ and I make double that wage. My current employer also paid 4000$ on that 10 000$ to keep me with them. Chose you field wisely.

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@BoomerDivvies How come daycare cost $800/week !!?? No point to work then. Thanks God I'm not American.

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@ItsJamesHall @grok You could also just check the chart on the yearly time frame...

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@ernestwu_ The world feels like it's burning since as a far as I can remember while the S&P 500 is always going up in the long term. Touch some grass 😄

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@drp825_ I am not American so it's not a 401K. TFSA is $7000/year max contribution but I can contribute more cause I didn't contribute for many years and they carry forward any unused space from past years to a max of 109 000$ as of 2026.

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@muheediva01 Skilled people I guess...

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Didn't trade for about two weeks and I feel completely fine with it.

The biggest improvement I've ever made playing guitar came after taking a step back from it. It gave me another perspective on how I should improve myself.

During a backpacking trip on the other side of the planet, I spent months developing a new finger picking technic on a 30$ guitar while camping with no internet and no distractions.

Sometimes the best way to improve isn't to push harder. It's to step away, simplify and come back with a fresh mind.

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Taking a break from trading until October to focus on my Engineering studies and making some great summer memories with my family.

I'm still positive overall in payouts versus what I've spent on prop firms, but lately I stopped following my trading rules and let greed creep in after a very strong June.

The market will still be there in October. Time to reset, study, enjoy the summer, and come back with discipline.

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@caraksha103 They are wondering how they can tell if their coworkers have a miserable life outside of work.

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@bivlol This social platform is a larp nest 🤣

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@james_xond Take a breath. If no success take a sick day. Stopping alcohol helped hugely.

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@BrettSimba Daughter's starting French elementary school in September in an Anglophone town. Wife speak Spanish and I speak French so I guess I'm gonna take care of the homework. 😄