 Okay, let's start this, guys. Like I said, you can either be doing really difficult jobs or like Alex says all the time, invest a year of your time, maybe even less, to learn how to day trade and then be financially independent, if it works out. Not everybody's gonna be able to, guys, once again make millions of dollars. No one needs to make millions of dollars to be honest, man, you just need to have enough money. To me, an extra $200 a day is $50,000 a year supplemental income. Imagine just having extra $50,000 a year. That is life changing. You don't need millions. And this is why I keep trying to tell people when they join MIC, when they wanna learn to trade stocks, don't focus on making a million dollars. Make focus on becoming as consistent traders. Like you just make $200 a day. That's life changing. To be able to walk into any restaurant you wanna do, walk into, eat whatever you wanna eat obviously not like caviar or stuff like that. But you know, that's what you do. The blueprint to making $1,000, $2,000, $10,000 days goes through being able to make $100, $200 a day consistently. And that's what I wanna talk about. So why did I quit my job, guys? And actually, Ali, I did not quit my job. I was an engineer, software. I was a programmer, developer. Then I became a software sales engineer but I still do programming. I was selling artificial intelligence software a long time ago, credit bureau stuff. This was my goodness, man, over a decade ago, 10, 15 years ago, I graduated college. I basically did not quit my job. They forced me out of my job. I'll tell you how it happened, okay? There's a MoMoTrader book. I talk about this, chat with traders, episode 100. I talk about this as well. So I moved to New York as an engineer. Then what happened was I started to see people day trade because New York City, everyone was day trading back in the dot-com days and all that stuff, right? And I was like, dang, these guys are making hell of money. And so when I started day trading, I was very good at it because I was an engineering kind of mind, mathematical guy, I was kind of conservative but I was never always conservative. I was a gambler because I thought trading was gambling because I'm like, these guys are idiots and they're making a ton of money. They're making how much I made in an entire month in like a day, okay? And I was like, okay, whatever. So I started to learn to day trade and I started to lose, first I made a lot of money but I would always lose all that in one stupid ass trade. I would grow my account, double my account within a week and then get greedy. They could have showed a wood a game where I was like, dude, I should have loaded this up. If I loaded this up, I would be up more. Why am I stupid? So every time I loaded this up, I would lose. Because I was either taking money too early or not taking any money at all. There was no in between. I didn't know any concept, no one taught me anything. There was no concept of a process. I had no process. I was just all in. If I was making money, I'd be all in. And then the moment I lose, I become very conservative and I would grow back my account so that I could go all in again. So the point I was trying to make back then was, I want to grow my account before I can gamble. And that never works, right guys? So it took me, man, I was day trading and working at the same time for five years, five years. I used my daily, I mean my day job salary paycheck to fund my gambling addiction of day trading. So I thought this was all gambling. So whatever money I made in my day job, I must make it like $100, $200,000, okay? During this five year stretch, I went from $100,000 like over $200,000 in my day job. And then, but I had nothing to show for it because every single penny I made in my day job, I would take it to gamble in day trading because I had no mentor and I thought it was gambling. And then one day I was like, dude, I can take this in more meaning like five years later and people thought I was rich. Remember this was like 10 years ago. So a house back then was a quarter of a million dollars. Now it's like a million bucks, right? And so you imagine, I could have had all this real estate, whatever, but instead I funded my account because I loved day trading because I thought it was gambling and all that. Then I realized I was very good at what I did. I was so good where I'd always grow the account. It's just that one stupid greedy trade that wiped me out. I had no concept of hard stuff. No one even talked about risk management. Why was risk management? If you think about who talks about risk management except us. And then the moment we talk about risk management, everyone talks about it. Who talked about process before MSE. No one talked about process before MSE. No one talked about life before MSE. Everyone's talking about using these fucking moving averages or whatever. Do what works for you guys, but my whole point was I was a dummy back then, but I made money so simply, not easy. The process I did was simple. I didn't know it was a process at that time because I was not profitable enough to understand. And it was still five years into my day trading. And so why did I quit? I didn't want to quit. That's what I try to tell you guys. If you can postpone not having to quit it's still day trading. So a lot of people, what happens if I live on the West Coast, so I did live on the West Coast initially, that's how I started, right now, what time is it? Right now it is 8.30. Engineers don't even have to get to work until 10. And that's the whole trading day. It works out great. You never have to quit your day job guys if you live on the West Coast. Cause your day job starts after the zombie hours, after you make your money, after all these things. 10 a.m., 9 a.m., when you start your job over in Silicon Valley, whatever it is, internet is only good at 9 a.m., right? It's already noon in New York City. It's already one. The day is almost, almost over. So I was trading and working at the same time. There was no need. Then I moved to New York City. Then I started to schedule my work hours around day trading. It got to the point where I was making more money to aid trading than I was in my job. So that's the only time you should quit. I call this opportunity cost. In life, everything is an opportunity cost. The opportunity cost of you going out last night and getting drunk is not being able to go to work. That is how much. Today I made $80,000. So if I had gone out last night and gotten drunk, I would not have made $80,000. I could pay my rent today. Things like that. The opportunity cost of me going to my day job is losing the money that could have made day trading. So at some point in your life, when the opportunity cost is too great, you have to choose one or the other. Then you're losing money. You make sense? You want to try to tell you? So the moment you start losing money in terms of opportunity cost, that's when you know you should pivot over. But do not pivot over until that happens. And when that happens, the great thing that the job can afford you to do, so that you do not have to worry about paying the rent, the bills, because I had an automatic paycheck every fucking two weeks, guys. That is a great thing about having a job. Wendy's, Uber, that doesn't matter. That's a guarantee, but you will not lose money if you get a job. When you lose this time and opportunity, right? Because you're doing something else. But the opportunity right now, let's say you start day trading. I'm going to quit my freaking job as an Uber driver to day trade. Why? You're making money, $2,000 a week while you're making Uber, right? I don't know how much you guys make at Uber, but even $1,000 a week is still more than zero. So the opportunity cost for you to day trade is losing that guaranteed money from Uber because you're not profitable yet. So too many people quit too early on, guys. You have to secure your bankroll. So I gave myself two years. I told myself, if I can make money day trading, why I work my day job and save two years of my salary, then I can give day trading a real opportunity in terms of full time, because then I have enough backup reserves so I can pay my rent, pay my food, whatever I need to do, pay my bills because the last thing you need to do is worry about where your next right check is going to come from, right guys? So trading is like playing poker. You don't want to come with a small stack. You would not play the game properly. And that's why people lose. People expect to make a limbo. People think that, yo, they have their last $5,000 and they're going to put everything into the markets and hopefully they can retire. And what happens, you become a desperate. So the first thing you need to do is invest in your education guys and during that time you can still work your day job and save your bankroll. And that's why I tell you that a doctor or lawyer takes 12 years. It took me five years to learn to become consistently profitable and to save. Actually, I think it was three, three years and I had $500,000 guys. This was over a decade, like 10, 15 years ago. I told myself so I was making $200,000, $250,000. That's a lot of fucking money back then. A lot of fucking money. And so I told myself, so crazy ass arbitrary thing. I'm going to say two years, two years. So I had $500,000 in my day training account guys. This is like over a decade ago, right? That's a lot of money. And so I was like, damn man. It got to the point where I was double dipping. I was making hundreds of thousands of dollars trading in my third or fifth year. I was making a couple hundred thousand dollars in my guaranteed day job. I was like, dude, why the fuck am I quit? A day job gives me insurance, vacation, guarantee money because you don't win all the time. Sometimes I can draw down guys. What if you have a bad month, whatever? That's what you need reserves, right? But the fact is I had a guarantee paycheck, a guarantee health insurance, all these things. I'm like, dude, it was a perfect storm for me to learn the proper way to trade. And then what happens, my company saw that I stopped working, stopped learning, stopped going out because I really didn't need a job anymore. I was making money. That job afforded me to be able to learn day trading, which I love. And so when I started day training, I never thought I was gonna make this kind of money guys. Seriously, this is a dream come fucking true. I was like, I started making $300. I'm not joking, $300 to $500 consistently every fucking day. Let me show you how much $300 to $500 is just the way it is. $200 a day is $50,000 a year. $400 a day is $100,000 a year, $400. That was my goal. My goal was to have an extra $100,000 on top of my $200,000 a year job because that $100,000 is my goal now of having fucking fun, table service, what the hell I was. I was a young kid and so it was fucking great. And then it got to the point where dude, I made a lot more, the blueprint to a $1,000 a day is $400, $200, you can make $200 a day, you can make $300 a day. It's leveling up, having the right bankroll to do that. Soon I was making like million dollars in my fucking day trading. And then like, as soon as the boss goes to work, I go, fuck you. They don't know that I'm like making more than the boss. All the bosses combined back then, right guys? I was like a senior engineer guy, making $200,000 and here I am day trading part time and I'm making a million dollars. Half a million, three million even. And I was like, it's crazy. And these guys did not even know I was just fucking clocking in because they were getting paycheck. I stopped going to work. They couldn't fire me. They, what they did was they actually retrained me. They gave me a review. They gave me all like C, C, C's my need to improve. Now I've noticed you stopped really trying and you used, because when I was starting out, I mean, I was an intro for 10 years, guys. I did that job for 10 years. So that 10 years happened was trying to learn to day trade. So that's the key guys. The key is to have a day job. I am telling you, there's not many successful day traders out there that did not have a source of income while they learned to trade. That is where the education comes in, guys. I'm telling you, man, if you can make $100, $200 a day consistently, it wraps up very fast. But people can't get to that point because they cannot survive without money. You have to be able to pay rent. Get a fucking day job. If you're really serious about day trading, fucking move to a time zone that can help you do that. Move to the West Coast. Live in some booties in the West Coast for a few years. So that you can trade and still work. Tom Diesel drove an Uber at night to fund his account while he learned to trade. So do not think you're gonna become a millionaire overnight. Some do, but you know what, man, most of us would not. And so that's why I quit my job. I quit my job when the opportunity costs of me going to my day job is me losing money out on day trade. Today, I made enough, I mean what, today I made more money in one hour than I did my first engineering job out of college in one month. Think about this. Today was a slow day too. There was only one stock that was moving, guys. And that one stock made me more money in one hour than my engineering job did in one month. That is why I quit my job. Because my boss told me, go to fucking work. Go to this client office. I'm like, what time? Eight, nine, dude, that's when the market opens. I'm not gonna wanna go. So it's better for me to fucking not go to work. You know what I'm saying? Or the best thing to do is like, dude, I would be on my phone going to work in trading. And that's when I realized, fuck man, this isn't, so, but then I just didn't quit my job. I was like, how do you quit your job? Listen, back home, right guys? So I knew what I wanted to do. So I did what Alex said, brick by brick, day by brick, day by day, brick by brick. I'm laying down the pathway. And I call this, guys, you hear this a lot, the life coaching it. I call it life by design. I design my fucking life where I am right now. Knock on wood. I design my life, knock on wood. I gave myself a three year plan to get to where I want. Honestly, I didn't go out at all, guys. I saved all my fucking money because I was so obsessed with trading, okay? I was living in this fucking dark room. Oh, I don't give a fuck. So I gave myself three years to save another bank loan so that I could do what I wanted to do. And then, so that was my plan. And so, you know, the same thing with MIC. Before we started MIC, I told Alex what my life is. You know, money, we got to the point where we, it's like, dude, I didn't want to wake up in the morning. So what I want to do? Well, I want to educate people, but still make money and travel. Before COVID, we threw meetup and travel lock. And I want to go around helping people. Traveling is my passion. Eating, obviously, my passion. And helping people is my passion. Of course, and if you're passionate about something, you will make money. I never thought I was going to become an educator. But if the pathway for me to help people make me give myself a purpose more than just making money for myself, I need to go through this pathway. And through this pathway, it's break by break, guys. This is me and my level 5,000 in my life. I'm an old man. You're starting out your chapter 10s or do not compare your chapter 10 to someone's chapter 100. Someone's chapter 10,000, guys. So that's the secret. The secret, I will give you the roadmap on how to become, to do what you want to do in life, guys. It's break by break, like Alex says, break by break, okay? Design your life, life by design. So we have a vision board right down here. If you want to make a million dollars, I'll tell you how you do it. You don't say you want to make a million dollars. You break it down into small, obtainable milestone goals. A million dollars across how many years? Let's say I want to make it across five years. That's realistic, guys. That means I would need to have $200,000 saved. Okay, each year. How do you make 200,000? Let's take a look at the blueprint. 200,000 is $400 a day is 100,000 a year. 400, guys, 400. Aim to make $400,000 extra, that's $100,000. And then you have a day job, too. And if you fail, whoa, I'm only up $500,000 to five years or something a million. Whoop-a-doop, so you shoot for the stars, the worst you land is on the moon, right, guys? That's what they say. Shoot for the stars, and if you fail, you'll land on the moon. You're still fucking pretty big. Lay out that foundation and be realistic, okay? A million dollars is in five years, that's, I mean, if everything's optimal, you could, right? But think about it, if you had that plan, and you fail, and you still up $100,000, that's still pretty fucking good. But be realistic with yourself, guys. Don't try to run too fast before you learn to crawl. Any questions? I'm gonna stop and take a question right now. So, we went through a lot of things. So the opportunity cost, guys, and that's the thing with trading as well. Let's say you wake up in the morning, and there are 10 stocks that are running. Back in the day when I was younger, I traded 10 of them, and I fucked everything up. Whereas another person would just focus on two and nailing them back on it, right? So the opportunity cost of me trading 10 is missing the easy setups. So now I want to have, I always tell people, I have a top three. You can have a top one if you want, top three. So the top three, I'm focused. The rest, I'm just fantasy ordering around. I'm gonna do a fuck, right? Because those are like extra money for me. And if the hits, the hits. But then, but if I'm trying to maximize everything, I'm like, dude, then I'm gonna miss the real play. So, focus on a couple of stocks that are good. Today, I focused on one, EVGO. I mean, GOVX and EVGO. I did the fantasy ordering G. I didn't know I'd feel EVGO really. Because I was focused on GOVX. And then I tried to have a fucking EVGO hit, and I was like, oh shit, my fantasy order top ticked. So, I put out in the lines of all this fantasy order stuff. It hits, it hits. It's free money, right? If it hits, there's a 90% chance I'm gonna make money. So an EVGO was the only fantasy order that hit. Everything else didn't hit. EVGO hit for me, took a look at Twitter. Top ticked that shit. I didn't even know I hit it because I was focused on GOVX. And that's the one I wanna size it to. I only had like 1500 shares on EVGO. So that made money, but it's not gonna fucking make big money, right? So the GOVX are gonna make it more size. So focus, that's the opportunity cost, guys. The opportunity cost of you going out last night is a hangover, which gotta fuck you up. The opportunity cost of you not waking up early and to prepare. We were up, I was up at 5 a.m. preparing GOVX with the guys at MIC, guys. Guys at MIC, you guys, they're well on GOVX, right? Take a look, everyone's just killed it on GOVX. We went through this whole process. So you missed it today, guys, and you're at MIC. Scroll to pre-market. I actually went through the whole process of identifying GOVX, identifying what are the edge factors to look for. I even analyzed the PR for you and showed you this is why I think this is a pig. Take a look at these key words. I even showed you the key words in PR. Notice how the finite level of detail I use to find what I'm looking for. And then we looked at the filings and figured out what we need to figure out. I'm not giving away too much. We looked at the lines and figured out what we're done. So pre-market, I use these lines, smaller size, as a test case. Every time I hit 5.5, you reject. I even told the guy where the channel was, 550 to 510. So what I did was I just channel-trained that shit until it broke through. Hold a piece of it like we did and break through. Once again, it's still low flow. This may work today, but another stop next time may go up. So you cannot just go all in. So if I was looking back at it, why didn't I have more to my house but every fucking shit in, it may have worked this time but the next time that it may not work. So you always have to train your process, keep to your process like that. You cannot be greedy guys. It was still front-side, 30% of the move. That's why Alex only made 4,000 bucks. You know what I'm saying? Because like, I mean, why would Alex make $100,000, $500,000 on another stock? Because in other stocks, it was a higher predictable and higher safety margin. This one was day one, low flow. The best we can do is get to a certain size or if it teleported up, we will only lose $4,000. I don't want to be losing $40,000 guys. So we are greedy right now, but think about this. We made such stress-free money today guys. I made more money in one hour than I did in one month of working my ass off as an engineer. And then here I am, pissed off because I did not hold longer, pissed off and I didn't size up. So you cannot be like that. So I cry a lot just for fun, just to vent it out. But we are fucking blessed. Take what the market gives you, learn tomorrow I may be do better by holding up bigger piece. Okay guys, so. Yup, 14, 30 minutes. I don't know how the fuck you can play tonight. Now you go to day job. Alex's day job is like my day job at MIC guys. MIC is my fucking day job. It just happens to be life by design. The balance that I created at MIC with Tosh and this is what we do. So it's like the beauty in life is to be able to have your day job be your main job, be your passion job. So how do we change what MIC said? Okay, I'm gonna take some questions now. The moment, the secret, I post the link all the time on how the aha moment, you can look that up on Twitter. But the moment I realized that day trading is not gambling, that was when I started making money. The moment I realized what the fuck man, I can make money every fucking day. The only reason I don't make money is because I'm greedy. Every single day. There's hardly a day that I lose because if something breaks back. But if you lose it's small. The days I lose big because I break and deviate from the process guys. It gets to the point where it's so monotonous, so easy, and I hate using words, so simple but so monotonous to make money that's boring as hell. I'm sitting here like, man, I wanna just slam the bid and chase and shake because I'm bored as hell because it becomes entertainment money after a while. But then you think about it, I always say you make $200 a day, that's $50,000 a year. But if you bleed $200 a day, just fucking around, you're bleeding $50,000 a year. So you have, I am sitting here doing these IG lives. Alex goes to his day job, which is the MIC. I go to my day job with the MIC, which helps me curb this boredom thing. If you're bored, get the fuck out of the house. Go to the gym. After this I'm gonna go to the gym right now, you know? All right, a couple more questions that we can go, or who wants to get on guys? We haven't had someone going on in a while. Let me see what's moving, man. GOVX still didn't fucking bounce, dude. But so at this point it's like, dude, it's going down, it's going down, but the risk reward is not there, there's not me, sure I can make it out of 30 cents, but if I'm wrong, I'm gonna lose a dollar, right, guys? So, you know, sometimes you just fucking, you just miss your opportunity. Oh wait, there's something coming up right now. So this is the danger part. This is the danger part of the dollar, dude. I'm dying of something to trade. Let's see what happens. But I've been watching this guy, so. I'm gonna tell you my guy ain't gonna have SSR stock. Okay, any questions, guys? Otherwise I'm gonna go in. Can you talk about the reports of trend? Trend is your friend. Don't fight the trend. That's what it is, man. That's what, if you were short, you want to short a broken stock. If you want to go long, you want to go long on a strong stock. Back in the day, back in the day, you always want to buy shit on sale. That's wrong. It's on sale for a reason. You think you want a fucking last year's model of a fucking, you know, last year's model? No, everyone wants a hot chick. So last year's model would become worthless, and then two years from now it's become even more worthless. So it's actually opposite of an intuition. Intuition's always gonna tell you you want to buy the cheaper stock. You want to buy shit on sale, it's on sale for a reason, guys. What you want to do, buy low sale high is bullshit. Buy low sale high is bullshit. You want to buy high and sell higher. That's a strong trading stock. You want a short low and a cover lower. But, well, you're always at the weight. You chase, so what I mean is like if the stock is strong going all the way up, don't fucking buy the breakout. It's still strong. Wait for a little dip and then you can buy it. We call it the first bounce. Same thing with shorting. You can slam a little bit and then when it bounces up, you short more. So the key is to follow the fucking trend down. But not chase the trend. Top three books, M-I-C, M-I-C, M-I-C videos. I didn't really read many books. Any other questions, guys? I think this has been good. I'm gonna keep it short because a lot of many people watch these long videos anymore, guys. Use this, guys. A lot of guys love reading these books. Go to myinvestingclub.co, not .com. Don't want to type out the address. That's the best book you got. Alex made a great webinar with myself. Myinvestingclub.co. This is not for M-I-C members. It's for new traders that are not M-I-C because M-I-C guys have all this already. They learn this stuff already. So if you're M-I-C, don't waste your time going to that webinar because you already know it. We have more content than that in there. But if you're brand new to trading or you're not an M-I-C, you want to think by M-I-C, you want to learn new trading, myinvestingclub.co, not .com.co. And if you watch it through the end, we're going to give you a very big discount, okay, guys? So there's a little secret there, guys. And then if you can always call Tosh, text Tosh, his number's on the website, myinvestingclub.com. If you don't know how to find this information, maybe trading is not for you guys. If you don't know how to use Google, trade with M-I-C, but we will help you. If you really want to be helped, if you DM us, I just hate people DM me. What's the URL? I mean, what's the website? It can't be a fucking damn thing. If you're a lady, I don't even know the club, guys. It's not worth my time. So there's text, so we take all this information on the website. Two ladies on the website, I don't know what to tell you. But once again, guys, brick by brick, the first brick is watching these free sessions. We have three free seminars a week, three free trading webinars a week. Monday is Alice's YouTube live at 11 a.m. Tuesdays is my 1115 Instagram live, I'm sure you're here. Wednesday, which is tomorrow, free trading webinar with Tosh and myself every freaking Wednesday at 2 p.m. market time. Also on YouTube, okay? You should follow all of this, guys. If you guys are, you know, getting to trading, these are the free webinars. And during these free webinars, we actually give out more information than anybody, whatever, we're the only ones doing this, okay? So we'll see you tomorrow, guys. I wanna keep it short. Myinvestonclub.co, Black Friday sales are coming. But if you watch the webinar, I think the webinar might be even cheaper, you know? We don't wanna run these ads because these ads cause us money. But we want, the reason we do these ads, guys, is we want to save people from these pump and dump rooms for every person that joins MSC. It means their money is not being lost to the fucking scammer. So when people ask me, why are we spending money on ads? Are we a scam? No, if you join MIC, it means one life we have saved. One soul we have fucking saved from a scammer, okay? So right now we have 2003. We have a lot of people that we've been trying to save, but there's still more people out there that need saving. This is like a save a kid kind of program, right, guys? Save a fucking trader, guys. Help your fucking friends, so click like, please click, every time you watch a video, please click like. I'm seeing pumpers ask for likes, but for some reason we do not. For some reason you do not click like for us, okay? Every time you click that, that's like a donation to help the guy from not being scammed by a pumper, guys. So that's why we do this. This is why we go on. This is why we put out ads, so that we are trying to save other people from making a huge mistake like I did, like Alex did, like every one of you guys did by going to a food room, okay, guys? All right, I'll see you guys online.