Qullamaggie made $100M trading stocks.
His first piece of advice to new traders:
Don’t do it. You’re probably not going to make it.
And if you’re going to ignore that advice. Put in 60-80 hour weeks for a decade.
Thats how I made it.
Do people realize the 25k PDT rule being abolished is opening the casino up to millions of Americans?
Now add:
•A technological boom/bubble
• Pessimistic Fintwit
•30% reduction of multiples
•Forward EPS is going parabolic.
•Clear leadership by AI names
Huge shoutout to @GoshawkTrades — built a multi strategy algo for small caps on DAS Trader and it works flawlessly. AI helped me backtest and work through the ideas but when it came to actually coding it for live execution, I needed a real professional. Went above and beyond.
Crypto as the Next Safe Haven?
By the end of this decade, crypto could emerge as the ultimate safe-haven asset.
Historically, 80–90% of crypto ownership has been retail-driven, with institutional participation remaining marginal.
Even today, despite ETFs and regulatory progress, long-term institutional ownership of Bitcoin is estimated at only ~15–25%, with Ethereum even lower at ~10–15%.
Pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, and endowments remain structurally under-allocated.
As ownership shifts, behavior follows.
We are already seeing early signals of this transition. The recent surge in bond yields, expanding fiscal stimulus, and mounting sovereign debt pressures have triggered a powerful rally in precious metals. This is not merely inflation hedging. It is a crisis of trust in sovereign debt, real yields, and long-term monetary credibility.
Crypto, and Ethereum in particular, stands alone as the only asset class that combines a true structural trifecta:
•Sovereign-less neutrality
•Real yield via protocol-level burn and fee mechanics
•Inflation-adjusted growth driven by network adoption
Even gold and silver, while historically reliable stores of value, remain physically constrained, costly to transport, and vulnerable to regulatory intervention, export controls, and capital restrictions.
Political leaders may pledge fiscal discipline and monetary stability, yet recent history suggests the opposite. In a world defined by geopolitical competition, demographic pressure, reindustrialization, and security-driven spending, structural deficits and monetary expansion appear unavoidable.
Ethereum, specifically, offers something fundamentally different.
It enables global capital to move outside political pressure, transparently reflects real monetary debasement, and provides native yield through the most secure, liquid, and programmable financial network ever created.
As tokenization, stablecoins, and decentralized financial infrastructure expand, Ethereum’s role as the settlement layer of the global economy becomes increasingly embedded. This creates a powerful structural demand tailwind.
In a world of rising geopolitical risk, deteriorating sovereign balance sheets, and eroding trust in fiat stability, crypto, and especially Ethereum, is positioned to be repriced entirely: from a speculative high-beta asset into a sovereign-less, yield-bearing, global safe-haven instrument.
This dynamic is not theoretical.
We have already observed its early form in emerging markets, where crypto adoption has long served as a hedge against capital controls, currency debasement, confiscation risk, and political instability. In these regions, crypto is not speculation. It is financial survival.
Now imagine this flow expanding from emerging markets to the entire global system, as tensions between the U.S. and the rest of the world intensify and monetary debasement accelerates into a full-fledged sovereign debt crisis.
I see no credible alternative.
Gold and silver have already repriced violently, moving hundreds of percent over the past cycle. They are signaling a profound structural shift in capital allocation and trust.
While crypto investors have been forecasting versions of this paradigm for years, this is the first time that the West itself is being forced to confront it, and at exponential speed. Unlike emerging markets, where monetary instability is cyclical, the West has operated under the assumption of permanent financial credibility. That assumption is now being challenged.
If the scale of the U.S. monetary system and the vast network of dollar-denominated trade, reserves, and financial infrastructure, begins to fundamentally question the integrity of the system, the resulting capital flows could be historic.
It is a regime change.
There may still be time to stabilize and rebalance, but doing so will be extraordinarily complex, politically constrained, and structurally difficult.
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@PeterDiamandis Also, due to autonomy, Tesla is worth more than the rest of the auto industry.
That is before Optimus reaches scale production and increases Earth GDP by an order of magnitude.
The Minnesota Somali fraud exposes everything that is wrong with government. Politicians and their administrators spend other people’s (taxpayers’) money to advance their own interests —getting themselves and their party elected and reelected by supporting an ethnic group which votes as a block — under the guise of supporting a purported good, in this case child daycare, autism care and ‘healthcare’ broadly defined.
When this fraud is combined with a system which allows one voter to ‘verify’ up to eight other voters who do not have to show state or federal ID, at best you destroy the American people’s confidence in our democratic voting system, and, at worst, you have rigged elections.
The only way this stops is for the people responsible to suffer severe criminal consequences and for there to be a Federal internal audit system where private citizen bounty hunters who find fraud earn rewards equal to a percentage of the grift identified.
The time to fix our broken system is now.
Tom Brady: "To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts."
This is my game plan for 2026.
1. Be patient.
2. Wait for liquidity events where 90% of retail gets stopped out.
3. Buy that dip aggressively.
4. Sell into strength .
This occurs 3-4 times a year. If you can wait for these events, you will end the year deep in the green.
TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE
Tesla's stock just hit $450 after years of skeptics calling it overvalued for a "car company."
The skeptics were right about one thing: Tesla isn't a car company.
It never was.
The vehicles were just the data collection devices, the training ground, the Trojan horse for what's actually being built: the world's most advanced real-world AI that's about to make human labor optional.
Full Self-Driving V14 just achieved something nobody thought possible: intervention-free drives from Los Angeles to New York.
Not on highways with perfect lane markings, but through construction zones, unexpected detours, unmarked rural roads, and Manhattan traffic.
Tesla's fleet of 6 million vehicles has been training this AI with billions of miles of real-world data.
Every car is a teacher, every drive a lesson, every edge case captured and learned.
No other company has this data advantage, and they never will.
But here's what Wall Street is finally understanding: the same AI that navigates a two-ton vehicle through chaos can navigate a humanoid robot through a factory, kitchen, or hospital.
Optimus, Tesla's humanoid robot, uses identical neural networks, same vision system, same decision architecture.
The only difference is legs instead of wheels.
When you've solved vision and real-world navigation for cars, you've solved it for everything.
The economics are staggering.
Tesla's targeting $20,000 per Optimus unit at scale.
The global labor force is 3.5 billion people.
If Optimus replaces just 10% of human labor, that's 350 million units at $20,000 each: $7 trillion in revenue.
Not market cap. Revenue.
For context, Apple's total revenue last year was $380 billion.
Optimus could generate 18 times that from just partial market penetration.
Elon's prediction that Optimus will be bigger than everything else Tesla does combined isn't hyperbole; it's conservative.
Cars are a $3 trillion global market.
Labor is a $75 trillion market.
Every restaurant, warehouse, factory, hospital, and home becomes a potential customer.
Unlike cars that sit idle 95% of the time, robots work 24/7.
One Optimus could replace three human shifts.
The timeline is what nobody expected.
Optimus went from stumbling prototype to gracefully running in two years.
Tesla's manufacturing expertise means they can scale production faster than anyone.
They're already building the factories.
By 2027, Elon projects thousands of units. By 2030, millions.
This isn't theoretical anymore; it's industrial planning.
What investors are really betting on isn't Tesla's ability to make cars or even robots.
They're betting that Tesla has solved real-world AI while everyone else is still playing with chatbots.
Google's Waymo needs pre-mapped cities and perfect conditions.
Tesla's FSD works anywhere, instantly.
That's the difference between narrow AI and general intelligence applied to physical tasks.
The automotive business was never the destination; it was the funding mechanism and data pipeline for the actual product: artificial general intelligence for the physical world.
Every Tesla sold wasn't just a car purchase but an investment in training the AI that will fundamentally restructure human civilization.
The owners paid Tesla to build its true product.
We're watching the last pivot before everything changes.
Tesla's cars proved they could build quality hardware at scale.
FSD proved they could solve real-world AI.
Optimus will prove they can replace human physical labor.
The stock price isn't irrational exuberance; it's the market finally understanding that @Tesla owns the future of work itself.
If SpaceX is worth $800B and has plans to IPO over $1T, there is one thing also very likely true.
As the IPO gets closer, $RKLB is going to be worth much more than it is right now just based off narrative, sentiment, and the broader repricing of the space economy.
Elon isn’t building cars or rockets — he’s building a planetary AI empire.
Tesla trains it. SpaceX launches it. Starlink powers it.
When FSD + Optimus + orbital data centers converge…TAM goes from trillions to ♾️
This isn’t Apple vs Google — it’s Earth vs Orbit. 🚗⚡️🤖🚀
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ELON ON FSD: MOST PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN
“Almost the entire fleet, which will pass 10 million vehicles next year, is capable of full autonomy.
So, even without the Cybercab, we still actually have a gigantic fleet that is capable of being autonomous.
And the thing about being an autonomous car is that it can be used much more than a car that is not autonomous.
A typical passenger vehicle car will be used about 10 hours a week.
If you have a car that's a robot car that can drive autonomously, it can now be used potentially for 80, maybe 100 hours a week.
So, you could have a car that has 10 times the usefulness of a non-autonomous car, but it still costs the same.
In fact, the fleet is already built, so the software update just enables that capability.
Overnight you have an increase in usefulness of 10 million cars that suddenly become like 50 million cars or maybe 80 or 100 million cars of usefulness overnight.
That's a profound thing.
Nothing like that has ever happened before.
There is no analogy.
There's never been something where a software update increase the value of a gigantic asset base by a factor of like 500 to 1000%.
So, it's very difficult for people in the stock market, especially those that look in the rearview mirror, which is most people, to imagine a future where suddenly a 10 million vehicle fleet has 5 to 10 times the usefulness.
It's so profound and there's no comparison with anything in the past, so it doesn’t compute.
But it will compute in the future.”
Source: Tesla All-Hands, March 2025