🗞 Why I'm Quitting Trading

WHILE YOU POUR THE JOE… ☕️
Liberation Liquidation Day

“What helps your trading hurts your life, and what helps your life hurts your trading.”

This quote has stayed with me this week, from waking moment to shuteye into that goodnight. It’s the truest form of expressing our business, a ruthless blood sport that smashes you into the pavement each and every day.

But some of us don’t know any other life that is worth it, so we dive into it and leave everything else behind.

Our health, our peace of mind, hell even our sanity at times.

In return for what? Another zero in your bank account? There are plenty of ways you can get that done, much less painful at that.

With the recent volatility, phone calls with tears on the other end, and the collapsing pressures life has thrown my way over the past 12 months, I decided to quit.

But.. It’s not what you think

So let’s get on with today’s email, which won’t be your usual macro breakdown with a trade pitch, this one is personal before we get back to regularity by Monday…

POETIC JUSTICE
Just When I Thought I Was Out

Those sleepless nights, the hours sitting in front of the screen watching the tape, clicking my life away and feeling my blood pressure rise through every trade..

I thought that was over when I hit financial stability, but turns out God had other plans for me.

If you’ve been with us for a while, then you know over the past 12 months I went through a nasty divorce and other life situations that set me back about 4 financial years.

Which is why I am deciding to quit on everything. Everything but trading.

Let Me Explain

Going back to that quote from the beginning, I realized that enjoying the fruits of my labor led me to take my eye off the ball.

And the trading gods have interesting ways of punishing you, but if you can take the hit, it’s their way of making you into the trader you were always meant to become.

I see this as an opportunity, especially after seeing so much blood yesterday, we were one of the few accounts out there who were able to offer guidance and a certain path to trading these events.

Look, our stock picks have made you money if you’ve taken them, our broader macro views have gotten you over 5,000 cumulative points earned in the S&P 500 futures, which at one Micro E-mini lot would be about 5,000 × 5 = $25,000 in profits.

Which can be achievable with a $5,000 account and tight risk management, as long as you have an edge in your methods.

I wholeheartedly believe I have mine, a combination of what I learned at Goldman Sachs and what I continue to learn each and every day I expose my health and safety to this ruthless industry.

Now let me burst your bubble before it breaks your spirit in half. You will never become a successful trader if you emulate my strategy, because I am not you and you are not me.

What you can do is learn the methods that go behind this style of trading, and adjust them to how they work best for you.

Which is Why…

I have decided to take you with me in buying my own dip.

I’m just a man whose net worth has been slashed in less than half, not by errors committed in the markets, but by errors of emotionality and bad decisions that cost me over 8 years of hard work.

But now, I am going all in, I’m allowing myself to be a beginner once more, to build back bigger and better like never before.

Like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Walt Disney, and even Ray Dalio.

I will take you with me on a journey of what it takes to be and stay a true professional trader.

You have been with me in this newsletter, but I want to invite you to something a lot deeper, I want to make you part of my team, of my desk. You see, there’s a really dark side of trading that nobody speaks about:

• It can get real lonely real quick.

• You live and die by the sword that you make for yourself, as this isolation detaches you from the reality of a team, a brotherhood of sorts.

• People won’t understand your wins, nor your losses, drawing you farther from normal society.

I’ve been there, and it sucks.

So, in this remote trading floor, I plan to offer you something I wish I had when I was facing my darkest moments:

• A community of like-minded individuals.

• Daily morning breakdowns of what I am looking for, what I’m trading, and why.

• End of day reports on performance, risk, strategy, and lessons.

Anyone who’s been a trader at a bank can tell you that most of what you learn is by osmosis, by just showing up every day and learning from the guy or gal next to you.

That goes to say, you will be encouraged to share your own ideas, analysis, levels, and opinions.

A Particularly Cold Night

It’s cold out here in Croatia, and next week I will be flying to Spain for a month, the lessons I needed to learn here are over with.

Being alone, cold, without distractions, has allowed me to meditate on my mistakes and what is being asked of me to reprimand and reclaim the life I had, only bigger and better.

I will be buying my own dip like I said, and I am opening the door for you to come with me and the InvestiBrew team.

Here’s my plan:

I have set aside one year’s worth of expenses, which is literally what I am left with after these horrendous 12 months of life hitting me with a baseball bat.

The rest, a mere $5,000.

That will be put into a trading account outside of the funds managed in our broader “positioning” plays that you are used to reading in this newsletter.

You know, the long bonds, short dollar, and individual stock plays that we’ve pitched over and over.

$5,000 Startup

Those 5,000 points plus that I mentioned could have turned a $5,000 into $25,000 is no joke, nor is it a fluke.

This is my stop loss on life itself, which has been going down the drain in real time, so they say when it rains it pours.

So, having set my “Safety Net” and keeping my positioning trades alive, the growth back to where I once was begins effective immediately.

I do not and will never preach that you can become a big trader with only $5,000. NEVER.

But I know some traders who have done it, and they have offices in Poland, London, and Cyprus. I know them personally and have witnessed the latter part of their success.

So, on that note, Monday will be the first day of this journey of turning $5,000 into a decent size once again, and the daily steps/habits/challenges that go into it.

You’re a subscriber of mine, and so you get to join from ground zero, absolutely for free.

Just need one small step from you:

• +1 (321) 888-9201

That is my personal phone number, send me a text on Whatsapp (since I’m overseas) with your name so I can save and add you to a group chat where all of this will be taking place.

See you on the other side my friend.
Until the end,

G 🥃