 What's up, everyone? Today is Thursday, January 13th. Usually I make these videos every single Monday, but I've been on vacation for about two weeks now. Took a nice vacation to Miami, Vegas, and just came back yesterday. So basically what I want to talk about today is I want to talk about strategies, confidence, and how to trade when you kind of come back after taking some time off. You know, there's a lot of times where traders, you know, maybe trading for two, three, four, five months, and then maybe life gets in the way or maybe travel gets in the way, and then you kind of, it's kind of like you leave and then you're trying to come back and how do you kind of get back at this, right? Because guys, you got to remember that as professional day traders, right? We're not treating this as gambling. We're not treating this as a hobby. This is a business, right? I am treating this as a fucking business, right? And if this is a business, I need to be able to be here every single day. I need to know what the market sentiment is right now. I need to know what strategies are working. I need to know what cycle we are in. And if you're day trading every single day, you're exactly in the dirt. You know exactly where you are and where we're at. But leaving for two weeks, a lot of things can change, guys. A lot of things can change. So first thing I want to talk about is what I did after two weeks of not trading. This might have been the longest stretch I haven't been trading for years. I've been trading my eight year trading anniversary is next month. So next month in February, I would have been trading for eight years. The last time I took two full weeks off from trading might have been fucking five years ago, right? So this is the longest break I've had from trading. And it's been very, very good for my mental health, right? So I want to kind of talk about what I did today to come back green on my first day, which was very important. I want to talk about strategies. I want to talk about confidence. So first things first is what do you do when you haven't been trading for a couple of weeks, couple of months, even fucking a couple of years, what do you do, right? So what I know, guys, what I know is we have a strategy that works. We have a process, we have a routine. We have something solid here that works. The problem occurs when humans start to deviate. When we start to get emotional, when we start to deviate from the process, everything gets fucked up, right? So I know for a fact, our strategies work. I know for a fact, if I use small size, if I focus on the non-hot stocks of the day, and if I walk away at 10.30 a.m., my odds of probability, my odds of success are extremely high, right? Extremely high. Obviously, no one has a 100% win rate, but I know for a fact, if I size down, focus on the non-hot stocks and walk away at 10.30, I know I have a 90% chance of winning, and to me, that's fucking good enough, right? So first things first is the problem is a lot of people don't have a strategy that works. A lot of people don't have a routine that works. A lot of people don't have a process that works. And everyone talks about process, no one explains what it means. A process for me is a routine that you could replicate to make money, right? So I know what works. And today, guys, my goal, I know what my flaws are as a trader. I have too much fucking FOMO. I get in too early. I am too greedy. Sometimes I hold for bigger moves when they shouldn't be there. And sometimes I oversize, right? So I know my flaws as a trader, right? And everyone has their flaws as a trader because every human is flawed, okay? So robots don't have flaws because they're fucking robots, right? And that's why they could fucking beat us in trading. But humans, we have flaws, right? We are emotional creatures. To be a non-emotional human means to go against evolution. And that's not gonna happen, guys. So number one is find out what your flaws are as a trader. I know I get into early pre-market sometimes and I exhaust myself. I know sometimes I am oversized and I exhaust myself. And I know sometimes I hold a little bit longer than I should and I fucking exhaust myself. So knowing my flaws as a trader, I came in today to make sure to actively make sure that I was doing the right thing today because trading is a game of confidence. You must be confident in yourself and you must be confident in your strategy to be able to fucking take the trades. If you have a strategy that doesn't fucking work, how can you be confident to repeat that strategy? I know our strategies work. I know our routine works. I know our process works. So all I have to do is follow it, right? I have to follow it. After years and years and years of losing money, trying to figure out a strategy that fucking works, after eight years, we have a strategy that works and all I have to do is stick to it, right? Okay, so now that we have a strategy that works, that's pretty much the fucking hardest part about trading is I have to stick to it. So what I did today is I made sure to not trade pre-market. I have a lot of FOMO. I haven't traded for fucking two weeks. I spent fucking 10, $20,000 on vacation. I gotta make that shit back fucking today, right? So that's the problem guys. I have a lot of FOMO today. But what I learned after eight years of trading and fucking losing and coming back from vacation and fucking going all in full size, I gotta make it back fucking. The hotel's not gonna pay for itself. I learned that. I just gotta take it fucking slow, man. After eight years of trading, I learned that this is a marathon, not a fucking sprint. So I don't need to make the money back today is what I'm telling myself. I don't really give a shit, right? I don't care, right? So I came in today with the proper mindset. I came in today with the mindset that all I wanna do is respect the process that we have laid out and if I make money, I make money and if I don't make money, so be it, at least I followed it. So what was my process today that led me to make money? Number one is I was focused on the broken stock of the day. If you could pull up a chart on BTCS, it ran up pre-market and slowly started to come back and make its way lower. So for me personally, me personally, that was the stock that I was interested in because it was on the backside of the move, right? As a short seller, I am not looking to short stocks that are going higher and making new highs on the day. As a short seller, I'm looking for stocks that have tanked and are dead cap bouncing, right? Dead cap bouncing. I don't want a short stock that's making new highs on the day. That is too powerful, right? That has too much attention, that has too much fucking volume. What I wanna focus on is the stock that people don't care about, the stock that has already tanked, the stock that longs are stuck on and the stock that really pretty much just makes the most sense to me, right? So today, my goal was identify which stocks are hot, which stocks are cold and focus on the stocks that are cold, right? And this BTCS this morning guys, this BTCS this morning, basically what my plan was, I wanted to short a bounce. The stock fucking tanked. It tanked all pre-market. So in my opinion, when we are in a slow market cycle like we are in now, it is okay to start to short these stocks on small bounces just to get a feeler, just to get a taste of it, right? So that was number one. Number one is I identified the stock that I thought was the weakest on the day. I identified a stock that was not making new highs. I identified a stock that did not have abnormal volume. I identified a stock that was expensive to locate hard to borrow, right? Not easy to borrow, not too much competition. And when the stock bounced, I shorted it and I think I made 50 cents a share, you know? Even 1,000, 2,000 shares, I made $1,000 on it, right? That's number one. My first trade of the day. My first trade of the day. I did not trade pre-market. I did not chase it. I focused on a hard to borrow stock and I made sure to short it on the bounce instead of shorting it on weakness, okay? So that was my first trade of the day. And as soon as I nailed that trade, I was like, oh, here I am again, like nothing fucking changed, right? Because in trading, you know, we like to overthink sometimes. We don't, we like to get in our heads to be a trader. You must be a little bit fucking crazy in the head, right? So because of that, our emotions take over a lot. So after I was able to do well on that first trade, instantaneously, I had my confidence back. Instantaneously, I was like, all right, what's fucking next, right? What's next? Because now at this point, I knew, I knew that nothing has changed. The strategy, the process, the routine is still all there and the setups are there. So the next thing I did was, believe it or not, one of our moderators, Tom Diesel, he was shorting DWAC. And I looked at DWAC and I was like, okay, this makes a little bit of sense. You know, it's been running up a couple of days in a row. It failed to go green, it went green to red and I'm gonna short that if it bounces, right? So I wasn't even looking at that. That was not even on my radar. I was not even fucking thinking about that. But now that I had my confidence back, now that I was able to see these trades, basically what I did is I waited for the stock to bounce to VWAP. I shorted the VWAP bounce, I made another fucking 50 cents, dollar a share and all of a sudden I'm up $2,000 on the day. And I'm reminding myself, fuck, well, I still have to fucking pay $18,000 for all this shit, I got to pay so much money. And then I tell myself, you know what? $2,000 a day is half a million dollars a year. And as you guys know, last year in 2021, I made $3 million, $3 million after fees and commissions. And that was from days like today, right? Days like today just add it up. So my goal, guys, my goal is always the same fucking thing, man, it's always the same thing. Our MIC strategy works, our MIC process works, our MIC routine works, the problem is humans. Humans cannot follow the process, right? I lay out the watch list, I lay out the plan, but for whatever reason, humans don't wanna follow it, right? If an algo had access to my watch list, they would make money 90% of the time, right? So that's number one. So I want you guys to understand that, you know, all I did today when I came back trading was I wanted to make sure that I was not breaking the process and not breaking the routine just to be able to get my confidence back, right? I know that if I short pre-market, I have a high chance of losing. I know that if I short the hot stock of the day, I have a high chance of losing. I know that if I short an easy to borrow stock, I have a high chance of losing. But what ends up happening is you have so much FOMO, so much fear of missing out that you just wanna get that trading itch satisfied and you start taking sub-part setups. So after eight years, eight years of taking those bad trades, I have learned to just take it slow on my days back, right? I was not sizing abnormally, I was not over-trading, and I made sure to stick to the process of walking away as zombie times, guys. Ever since MIC started, right? Ever since MIC started, I have tried to show you all that I, your mentor walks away at 1030 AM and is able to make millions and millions of dollars doing it, right? And if your mentor is able to lead by example and walk away at 1030 and make millions of dollars using a $30,000 account, what is your excuse? That is the thing that we like to preach, guys. That is the thing that we like to show you is I am not teaching you one thing and trading a different style. I am not telling you to do X and I am doing Y. I'm telling you to do this because that's what I'm doing, right? That is what your mentor is doing. Your mentor is laying out his watch list that I am using to execute. Your mentor is walking away at 1030 to show you that you don't have to be here all day and then it adds up. So you don't have to deviate. You don't have to change anything. All you gotta do is pretty much follow what we're laying out and the problem is people don't fucking do that and that's why people can't make money, right? It's like, we could tell you that to lose weight, you gotta diet and exercise, but if you tell me you wanna take a weight loss pill, what the fuck do you expect me to say? It's not gonna fucking work, right? It's the same thing with trading. All you have to do is follow the watch list and walk away at zombie times and you'll make money. The problem is, oh, I didn't make enough money. I'm gonna stick around all day. Oh, the only way I'm gonna make money is if I fucking trade all day. This and that. Everyone has a different style, guys. And for me, if I'm able to pull millions of dollars trading for one hour a day, why the fuck are you trying to trade for seven, eight hours a day? It just doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me. So number one is when you come back from vacation or a week off or a day off or maybe you had a bad loss or whatever it may be, so you took a day off, your goal is whatever strategy you have, whatever routine you have, whatever process you have, that you know works, right? You know works. We know that shorting the hot stock doesn't fucking work. We know that shorting the forgotten broken stock works. We know that shorting easy to borrow is a losing game. We know that shorting hard to borrow is a winning game. We know that shorting low floats is a losing game. We know that shorting higher floats is a winning game. So your stock selection, your everything, your routine, if you have a strategy that works, and if you don't, that's why you join MIC to get our strategies, get our process and get our routine, right? All you have to do is follow the watch list, make sure to not oversize, and walk away at 10.30, man, I made $2,000 in one hour. That basically is telling me in a year, in a year I'm gonna make half a million dollars working for one fucking hour a day. The best doctors and lawyers make that working 20 hours a day, right? So what I've learned or what my edge in trading has been is I have never treated this like gambling. I have never treated this like a hobby. Since day one, I treated this as a business. I have the potential to be a CEO of my own Fortune 500 trading business, right? So because I have the opportunity to make millions of dollars, right? I realize that all I need to do is follow the strategy that took us years to learn, years to refine, and to be honest, guys, this strategy is worth millions because I've made millions and other members have made millions and fucking people are making so much money doing this. But the problem is, before you could get to the level of making millions of dollars, you must learn how to make $100 a day. And that is what we preach and that is why we are here. I could easily trade with a $10 million account and make a hundred grand a day. I could easily do that. I've done it before, but that will not help a little guy like you learn. You want all your mentors, you want all your moderators to be trading a similar account size, a similar style as you so that you could replicate it and you could fucking make money, okay? Make money. These days, I'm making $2,000, $3,000. I'm not using a $100 million account. I'm using a fucking $30, $40,000 account is nothing for me, guys, is nothing for me. So once you get to the level of consistently being able to make $100 a day, you fucking got it. That's it. If you can make $100 a day, you have the potential and the ability to make $100,000 in a day because the process doesn't change. The size just changes, right? So if you could learn how to make money consistently, even if it's fucking small, then you have the ability to make fucking money long-term. When I first started trading, guys, when I first started trading, I was not making $2,000 a day. When I first started trading, I was not making $100,000 a day. When I first started trading, I swear to God, I was making $100 a day. $100 a day. And my goal was to make $100 a day for a month, two months, three months straight to build my stupid fucking $5,000 account into a $10,000 account, and then build my $10,000 account into a PDT $30,000 account. I started the same, everyone starts at fucking zero. Everyone starts at zero, okay? And because of that, and because of that, I want you guys to understand that if you can make even $100 a day trading, it will change your life because eventually it will get so fucking easy that you will do it in your sleep. I know for a fact, I'm not even kidding. I know for a fact, with my hands tied behind my back and telling some fucking six-year-old to click some buttons for me, I can make $1,000 a day easily. I can make $1,000 a day for the rest of my fucking life with my hands tied behind my back and a fucking kick clicking the buttons. The problem is human greed. $1,000 isn't enough for my fucking greedy ass. And that is why we try to push and try to go more and extreme and competition and this and fucking that. Point is guys, point is that the strategy works. If you don't have a strategy, you must join and you must learn, okay? And if you are struggling, it's probably because you are over sizing. If you are struggling, it's probably because you're attacking the wrong stocks. It's probably because you're not walking away as zombie times. So me, again guys, as your mentor, as one of your leaders, if your leader is showing you that he could follow the watch list, walk away as zombie times and he's a millionaire, millionaire, right? Multi-millionaire. Now what the fuck is your excuse to deviate and do something different? I understand some people wanna do other stuff. Some people wanna do whatever strategy they want. But after a certain amount of time guys, if your strategy is not working and you're fucking not making money, I mean, are you treating this like gambling or are you treating it as a hobby? I mean, I went to Vegas and I play, it's funny. So I don't, I'm not really like a Vegas gambler. So I went to Vegas and I was walking up and down the casino a bunch of times and this and that and I started getting the itch. I haven't been trading for two weeks. I see these fucking fancy tables. I see them pumping oxygen into the casino. Drinks are rolling around. People are smoking, people are having a good time. People are yelling. I'm like, oh fuck bro, I'm like shit. I'm about to get fucked up here, right? So I tried to control my urge and control everything but then I went and I got a massage. I got a nice one hour massage. I was feeling very good. I was feeling very relaxed. All of a sudden I walk out of the massage and I see a roulette table and I'm like, all right. You know, I have a little bit of FOMO. I'm feeling loose. I'm feeling good. I have the urge to fucking gamble a little bit. So I pull out $500 out of my pocket, right? I'm going, I'm FOMO, FOMO. I'm putting $500 out of my fucking pocket, right? And I take the 500 and I'm like, give me one $500 chip. They're like, are you sure? Yeah, give me a fucking $500 chip. And the guy next to me is like, oh, what's up bro? Like, what are you doing? I'm like, nothing man. I just got a massage, we're bullshitting around. I was like, how's the table? Is it hot? Is it cold? He's like, honestly bro, I've been here for fucking six hours and it's kind of cold. I'm like, oh, six hours. Like this is bullshitting, right? Bullshitting around. Oh my God, give me a $500 chip. I put 500 on red. As soon as the guy sees me put 500 on red, motherfucker goes all in on red. I've never seen anything like it in my life. All in on red. Roulette thing goes one time. It hits fucking red. Instantaneously, I made $500 in one minute. And the guy looked at me in shock. Like he couldn't fucking believe that I would do that. So the thing is guys, like, yeah, I gambled a little bit. I made $500 in one minute and I immediately went to the cashier and cashed it out. I got the itch, I got the urge. I put it in, I made my money. But the thing is guys, that guy is a fucking gambler. That guy is a motherfucking gambler. Six fucking hours on the roulette table. Motherfuckers gambling, okay? And if you treat trading like gambling, you will lose, right? You will lose. So sometimes trading is like a game of intuition, right? I know sometimes when I see stocks that fucking stocks that are weak, I know they have a high probability of fucking working, right, working. And just like if I see the roulette table have 10 fucking blacks in a row, it's not a fucking sure thing. But I would assume that the next motherfucking one is gonna be a red one, right? So that's the way I think about trading, guys. If you treat it like the fucking casino, if you treat it like gambling, if you treat trading not like a business, you will fucking lose, right? You will fucking lose. It's like in trading, guys. Think about the casino. Imagine in trading in blackjack. Imagine you saw your cards early. So imagine the dealer is showing a fucking 17 and you're showing a 20. And then after you see your cards, you can bet in. I don't know about you guys, but if the dealer is showing the fucking 17 and I'm showing a 20, I'm going all in. I'm mortgaging my fucking house. I'm getting my fucking brother. He's mortgaging his house. My girl, this, that, we're throwing everything in there. My watch is on my car. Everything's going fucking in there. That's how trading can be. In trading, you bet on your cards. You bet on the stock after you see what you wanna see. Okay? So in trading, I know, I know that if there is a first red day setup, there's a 90% chance I'm gonna make a fucking island. And that's why I bet on it. Whereas if I see that there's a low flow day one stock, I have the chance to lose a fucking island. So I'm only betting a fucking pencil. I'm only betting a fucking iPhone. I'm only betting a fucking Xbox controller, right? So think about trading like that, guys. Imagine if you have an edge like we have here, you wait for that edge and then you fucking go all in. For me, the roulette table, the edge I saw was 10 fucking blacks in a row, 10 of them. So odds are for me, obviously that's not a winning strategy. Obviously it doesn't fucking repeat. If it repeated, everyone would be fucking rich. But the point is I saw a niche. I saw a fucking niche at the table. 10 fucking blacks in a row. And I say, you know what, I'll fuck it. My odds are in my favor. I'm gonna bet on red. It hit and I walked away. I didn't get greedy. I didn't say, all right, let me do it fucking again. Let me make $1,000 this time, motherfuckers. I'm hot. I'm feeling fucking hot today, right? No. I saw my niche. I nailed and bailed on the fucking roulette table. I went immediately to the cashier and then I might've went to Louis Vuitton and fucking burned it all. They fucking scared me. But point is guys, point is that in the stock market you need a fucking strategy and the strategy that you have ideally, is repeatable rather than some fucking bullshit gambling, right? So that's kind of the main thing as I want to talk about today, guys. I mean, I feels good to be back from fucking vacation. I'm very motivated to work. I'm very excited to get back to work. But it was very necessary for me because even without fucking knowing, even without knowing, I was burnt out. I was fucking tired. I was exhausted. My brain wasn't fucking functioning properly. But after taking some time off, I know. And my goal this year, guys, my goal this year is to take more trips off. Ideally, I want to take a trip every one or two months just to fucking clear my head, bro. Just to fucking clear my head because as amazing as the money could be from trading it also fucks with your head big time. So yeah, guys. Also one last thing before I wrap up is we have our live webinar running at myinvestingclub.com slash webinar. This webinar is gonna have my AMC $700,000 trade and an $18,000 live trade. And if you stay until the end, you'll get a discount to join MIC. This is for non-members. Members already seen this. They have access to it. So go to myinvestingclub.com slash webinar and you'll be able to see everything from there. So hope this video helped, guys. I'm really trying to kind of come back here and provide value. I know a lot of people don't watch these videos. I know a lot of people don't care about watching these videos but I've learned that even if I give away the secrets to the fucking farm, 99% are not gonna listen. So for the 1% that listen, enjoy being fucking rich. That's all it comes down to. So have a good day, guys. Hope this video helped and I will see you guys tomorrow to trade again.