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[AJ @MonkSwingTrader]

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[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an astoundingly rapid change in something so basic. In 15 years the proportion of people who say college is very important has decreased by more than half.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Private equity firms when the EBITDA doesn’t improve by 20% just because the excel model said so

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[Sidecar Investor @sidecarcap]

Holding a big winner comes from a mix of being right for the right reasons and right for reasons you never saw coming.

People will call it luck.

That’s fine. You’ll still be rich.

[AJ @MonkSwingTrader]

Here’s the harsh reality:

You might not have a trading problem
You might have a self–respect problem

Because every time you break your own rules, you quietly prove to yourself you can’t be trusted

That bleeds into everything

$NVDA

[AJ @MonkSwingTrader]

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[retep @preflooded]

"Job security" is the biggest scam ever sold to the middle class

The entire concept of "safety" in employment is a marketing campaign designed by employers to keep you sitting in a chair. There is no safety. There never was

Companies lay off entire departments on 15-minute Zoom calls. One quarter the numbers are red instead of green on a spreadsheet 2,000 miles away and 340 people lose their income overnight. HR reads a script. IT disables your login before you've finished crying. Security walks you to the parking lot with a box

Happened to 12,000 Google employees in January 2023. Happened to 10,000 Microsoft employees the same month. Happened to 18,000 Amazon employees that same quarter. These are the "safe" companies. The ones your parents told you to work for

The "safe" career path has zero contractual guarantee of continued employment. Most salaried workers in the US are at-will employees. That means your employer can terminate you tomorrow for literally any reason that isn't legally protected discrimination. No warning. No severance requirement in most states. No obligation to explain why

That's your "safety." An arrangement where one party can end the deal at any time for any reason and the other party (you) has structured their entire financial life around the assumption that they won't

Meanwhile mfs think trading is "risky"

Here's what risk actually looks like in trading with a defined system:

Before entering any trade, the stop loss is set. The exact dollar amount you'll lose if you're wrong is known BEFORE you click buy. Not estimated. Not "around this range." The exact number. $150. $200. Whatever you set

That's your maximum downside on that trade. It cannot exceed that amount because the system closes the position automatically if it hits that level. No emotion. No hoping. No "maybe it'll come back." The loss is defined, accepted, and managed before you're even in the trade

Compare that to a salary

Salary risk: 100% of your income depends on one source. One company. One boss. One quarterly earnings report. If any single point in that chain breaks, your income goes to $0 overnight with zero warning. You have no stop loss on your career. There is no predefined maximum downside. The maximum downside is everything

Trading risk (with a system): Each position risks a small, predefined, non-negotiable amount. A bad trade costs you $150. A bad week might cost you $600. At no point does a single event wipe out 100% of your income. The risk is distributed across hundreds of small independent decisions, not concentrated in one fragile dependency

Diversification is the most basic concept in finance and literally everyone applies it to their stock portfolio but nobody applies it to their income. Your portfolio has 40 stocks across 8 sectors but your income comes from one guy named Todd who could fire you on a Tuesday

The person with a salary and the person with a trading system both face risk. The difference is one of them has defined, measured, controlled risk with a known maximum loss. The other has undefined, unmeasured, uncontrolled risk with a theoretical maximum loss of everything

And somehow the first person calls the second person "risky"

The math doesn't support that. The math has never supported that. The "safe" path is the one with catastrophic unhedged tail risk. The "risky" path is the one with defined, position-sized, stop-loss-protected individual decisions that can never exceed a predetermined amount

Brokies will read this and go renew their at-will employment contract tomorrow

(One Shot Algo. Green arrow --> buy. Red arrow --> sell. Risk defined before you enter. Link in bio)

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[AJ @MonkSwingTrader]

If this hit a nerve, good

That tension in your chest reading this? That’s the exact place your money disappears from

You can ignore it and keep donating to the market…

Or you can finally turn around and stare it in the face

$TAO $TRIA

[naiive @naiivememe]

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