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This was a $35,000 week and although it's a fantastic week and I kicked ass, I'm happy and I'm excited, this is not the best week that I've ever had trading. I didn't the best week I've ever had trading. I made over six figures. It has to be like a hundred fifty thousand or even two hundred thousand on the week and that was when the marijuana stocks were going crazy like the IGC and BEV, shit like that. So that's kind of when I had some of my biggest weeks and some of my biggest days. I actually had my biggest back-to-back two days where I made a quarter million dollars when I traded IGC and BEV. So although today was a good week, today was a good day, I've done better. And you know that's just me kind of trying to recognize that the possibilities in trading are endless. There's so much money to be made on trading stocks but coming into this week, I never go into a week or go into a day saying that this is going to be the day that I'm going to make money. This is going to be the week that I make money. This is going to be the fucking setup that I make money on. What I do is every single day like a fucking psychopath, I repeat the same pattern over and over again like a robot. I repeat the same shit over and over and over and over again and sometimes on weeks like this week when the opportunity is there, it's like every single time that I've been practicing my routine was just a warm-up to be put into the game right now. So something that I spoke about in the last video recap is that this time in November is historically the busiest time for small cap stocks. And what we call it is the turkey week, we call it the crack week, we call it the fucking psychopath week because what ends up happening is usually during next week, which is a shortened week because of Thanksgiving, there are so many small cap runners happening. And the reason why is because most people are on vacation, most people are away and the algos, the robots take control, right? The robots take control and they create these absurd moves when no one's looking. So historically November has been known to have shit like L-A-K-E, APT, D-G-L-Y, A-Q-X-P, Drives. If you do not know these tickers, pull up a chart and look at them right now. You will see that these are historic short squeezes that happen and usually they all happen in November. So I came into this week not thinking anything because the crack week, the crazy week is usually next week. It's usually next week. So next week I'm more self-aware that there's going to be some crazy runners, not this week. So this week I was even fucking a little bit lazy, like I woke up a little bit late. I wasn't really expecting anything. And then Monday happens and I saw no trades on Monday. So I'm thinking to myself, fuck, this is going to be a slow week. Monday sets the tone for, Monday sets the tone for the entire week. And if I'm not trading on Monday, chances are that it's going to be a slow week. So I didn't really fucking expect anything and neither should you. When you're trading, you shouldn't expect that you're going to have a massive day or a massive week. You should just be showing up and trying to trade every single morning. So Monday I didn't trade and then Tuesday comes along and SAEX is up. So if you pull up a chart on SAEX, what ended up happening is that's an A plus setup for me. That is an A plus setup for me. I love the way the daily chart looks. I love that every time it runs, it pulls back. I love that it has dilution. I love that it's a very hard stock to borrow. So all these criteria that come up, I'm interested. It tells me, hey, this is going to be something that you should be risking a little bit more money on because you've traded it 10 times in the past. You know the personality and chances are that once this stock does fail, it's probably not going to come back. So Tuesday, my day started by fucking nailing SAEX. I shorted it. I waited for the backside and I cleared 10 grand. I cleared 10 fucking grand on SAEX and normally a normal day for me is around four or five grand. So making double my daily paycheck is fantastic. So coming into Tuesday, I was already a little bit confident. I said to myself, damn, I'm a fucking G. I could kill it, right? And that's kind of what our biggest problem in trading is, right? And I'm guilty of it. You're guilty of it. Everyone is guilty of it. And the important part is this. When you recognize that you are being obnoxious, when you recognize that you're being cocky, you could control it. Before what I used to do in the past is maybe it's because I was younger, maybe it's because I was more immature. But I would think to myself, damn, if I'm fucking making 10 grand today, you better believe I'm going to make another 10 grand tomorrow. And there's no one that could stop me from that, right? So usually doing something like that leads to you losing fucking 10 grand. So it's only after doing this shit over and over and making the same mistake over and over and over again that I've learned that when I am hot, when I am on a streak, it is time to be more self-aware, more patient and more disciplined, because as you get more confident, you get fucking sloppy. As you become a better trader, you get more loose. As you make more money, you say, I could lose fucking 500 here. I could lose a thousand here. I got a million dollars in the bank. Who fucking cares? And that's also a problem too. That's also a problem too. So a couple of ways to fix this mindset, a couple of ways to fix it. Number one is be sure to have a trading body that you could bounce ideas off of. Someone that you get along with, someone that treats similar to you, is someone that will just tell you to shut the fuck up when you think that you are kicking ass and fucking crushing it. Because look, here's the reality. I make 10 grand on the day and back in the day, I used to feel like a ball or I used to feel like the best of the best. And then it was people like that that said, bro, shut the fuck up. You are expected to show up and make money, you bitch. Good job. You did your job. You're celebrating because you did your job. Fuck you. So after having someone kind of humble you back down, after you have someone that tells you that you're not shit and they're not saying it in a negative way, they're saying it to bring you back down to reality. Because if your heads are up in the clouds, your fucking trading is going to be up in the clouds, right? You're going to get sloppy. You're going to get loose. So I made my money on SAEX and I was like, all right, coming into Wednesday, coming into Wednesday, which is the day after, I want to be patient. I don't want to be fucking attacking this shit on the front side. The only way I gave myself a rule, I said the only way you're allowed to trade on Wednesday is if you only trade backside, you are not allowed to trade front side and you are not allowed to use a 30% rule. So I gave myself a very strict set of rules on Wednesday because I made so much money on Tuesday that I want to protect that money and protect my mindset. So coming into Wednesday, James, what was that stock and pre-market that we were talking about at 19? Was it like ALNY or some shit like that? If you remember it, can you just type it in here and I'll mention it again. But there was a stock that was running pre-market and something that we have to recognize is the market sentiment. So if you've been living under a rock and you haven't seen, it's ARAV. Thanks, it's ARAV. If you've been living under a rock, you would fucking understand that this week, starting from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, was all phase three stocks that were kind of going crazy. And if you don't know what a phase three trial is, go Google it. I'm not here to educate you on that shit. So what ends up happening is there's three different phases. Phase one, phase two, and phase three. Phase one is non-event. Phase two is pretty good and phase three is amazing. So anytime a company does like a phase three trial, most of the time they gap up fucking big and then they keep going higher. I used to trade these phase three setups and lose on them because they would gap up, I would short it and they would fucking go higher and I'd be dead. So we've kind of had a set of rules that Tosh created that tries to help people stay safe during these things. And one of the rules is do not short phase three trials. So we had KRTX that went parabolic on the phase three trial. We had MYOV that went parabolic on their phase three trial and then you had something ARAV that popped up on Wednesday on a phase one trial. So this is the third stock that popped up. The second sympathy play, KRTX was first, MYOV was second, and ARAV was third. By the time the third sympathy play happens, that's usually the fucking, that's the layup trade man. That's the layup short because by that time the setup, the KRTX parabolic is already over. People are already over. They don't give a fuck anymore. And then the cherry on top of ARAV was that, bro, it was a phase one trial. It wasn't even a phase three trial. So damn, this van really is coming back. Just check this out. One sec. I don't know what's going on. Is someone following me? Anyway, ARAV was a phase one trial. So I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, bro, are these guys fucking idiots? This phase one trial is gapping up 300% on nothing. KRTX gapped up on a phase three trial and already started to pull back. MYOV gapped up on a phase three trial and already tried to pull back. And now there's this fucking ARAV that's gapping up fucking 300% on a phase one. This is fucking easy. Like this is, this is like a no-brainer trade I thought, right? I thought it was no-brainer. So I was feeling a little bit sick on Wednesday, and I just didn't do a video watch this. I felt like not doing it. I was like, my voice was hurting. I was feeling under the weather. I thought that if I would do it, I would feel sick. And I just said, fucking man, like, fucking, let me get sick. Let me just try to help the members out. Let me put out a video for the fucking couple hundred people that watch it, for the people that are dedicated. I'd rather get sick so you guys can fucking learn, right? So I put out a video watch list and I said all my plans. I said all my thoughts and I said, hey, if this 19 level breaks, chances are it's not fucking coming back because that's the death line, right? That's the level that's not going to come back on. So to me, I put out that video watch list. I put out the 19 level. I said, if it breaks this fucking level, I'm going to short it. What ends up happening? It breaks 19 and goes to 16 in five minutes. I fucking shorted a couple of thousand shares and I made fucking 10 grand, right? I made another 10 grand. So here I am laying out the plan to short at 19 bucks on the death line in my video watch list. And then I fucking called James. I'm like, yo, you fucking nailed it, bro. Like, great job. And he's like, bro, the only reason I took that trade is because it was on your watch list. It made sense to me. I followed the plan and I did it. So the point is, is that I'm trying to lay out my plans every single day and try to keep myself accountable, right? So then Wednesday I made 10 grand. And then throughout the day, I trade a little bit more. I made another five grand. So here I am up 25,000 in two days. This is on Tuesday and Wednesday. So coming into Thursday, I'm already fucking my chest is fucking puffed up. I'm fucking, I'm like, maybe I should get drunk in the market often. Like nothing can beat me. Like, let me just see if I can fucking get hammered. Like, you know, I'm thinking irrationally at this point. I made so much money in two days that I'm starting to think irrationally. And you know, what I ended up doing, what I ended up doing on Thursday was my max size normally is around 10 to 15,000 shares depending on the setup. So I contacted my broker on Thursday and I said, do not allow me to use more than 3000 shares. Why did I do that? I wanted to dramatically force myself to scale down to be able to protect my mind and protect my trading. So coming into Thursday, I was only allowed to use 3000 shares. I had a set amount of bullets I was allowed to use and I only stuck to that. And Thursday there wasn't really much opportunity. I really wasn't forcing trades. I made another thousand dollars, nothing. It's thousand dollars is nothing, right? So here I am, Tuesday trading really fucking well, making money. Wednesday trading really fucking well and discipline and making money. Thursday realizing that I'm trading too fucking well and then I need to size down to protect myself. I dropped my size. So now coming into Friday, right? Coming into Friday. So coming into today, again, I'm just like, bro, please let it be a slow day. Please let it be a slow day. I don't want to fuck up. I don't want to fuck up. Let it be a slow day, right? Because at the end of the day, I'm fucking feeling anxious. I'm feeling like I'm going to fuck up. Like it's bound to happen that I'm going to fuck up because I'm too hot, right? I'm too hot. Like that's kind of maybe that's wrong to think. Maybe that's a bad mentality. But I know that after any hot streak that happens for any trader, the loss is around the corner. And I'm fucking nervous. I'm scared. I'm like, bro, please just let it be a slow day. Let me not fuck up. Let nothing happen. So coming into this morning, I saw EYEG, right? EYEG. And my thought process and my game plan that I put in my video watch list was that 950 was the big resistance level. And if you look at the daily chart or if you look at the pre-market chart, you could see that 950 rejected four or five times throughout the entire day, right? Three or four times throughout the entire day. And at that point, I'm thinking to myself, okay, 950 is the resistance level. If you look at the way the stock was trading, you could see that at $9 and near $9 in the morning, there was someone selling hidden. I don't know who the fuck it was. I don't know what it was. The company had a little bit of dilution. It might have been that there was someone selling hidden at $9. Every time it popped to $9 and it went to 910 or 920, someone sold it all the way back down to $9 and they pushed it back up and they sold it back down. So after I saw the stock stuff three times, I said to myself, bro, eventually this is going to either give up and go straight fucking down or it's going to parabolic and go straight up. So in the morning, right when the market opened, I took a very small short, I made like 50 cents a share and then that was it. And then what I ended up doing after that is I went back to the well to reshort it. I said, all right, it's broken down. I'm going to short a bounce. I found myself shorting a little bit too much too quickly. I found myself again feeling a little bit confident sizing in too large because I was on a hot streak from before. So I already recognized that I was sloppy, right? I was already starting to treat sloppy. So what I did is I took it off. I took my loss, right? I made $2,000 in the morning on that. I took a $1,000 loss and I took a breath, calmed down and said, all right, here's my plan. If the stock breaks $8 and 50 cents, I'm going to take a starter and then if $8 breaks, the shit is going to go to fucking $7. So I basically took a starter at $8.50 and just waited until $8 was going to break. As it looked like $8 is going to break, I fucking hit the bid with like fucking, I think it was like maybe 8,000 shares. I hit the bid with 8,000 shares, smoked the bid myself, and then the stock continued to take down to $7.50, $7.00 and $6.90, whatever it is, covered, made my fucking 9, 10 grand of the day and cut it off immediately, cut off my day. So here I am trading four days in a week, did not trade on Monday, up $35,000 and it's fucking fantastic. Don't get me wrong. Like the story that I want to say is last night, I went to a steakhouse called the old homestead, which is the oldest steakhouse in New York. I heard, like I watch YouTube videos on it. I heard good things about it. They have the largest piece of New York Wagyu steak, right? And I went there and obviously I ordered that. It was $350 for a steak. I got one. I got sides too. Yesterday I paid $500 just for my own personal meal at a steakhouse. So here I am spending $500 on a steak and I made $35,000 on the week and it's still not enough. That's the fucked up thing and that's the part that I have to cure is greed. Greed is my issue. I always want to make more money and I have plenty of money in the bank. I have plenty of money invested. It's just something about, there's like a switch in my head that tells me that, bro, you got to make more money. You got to fucking perform better. You got to do this. You got to do that. I think my problem is I have a curse that I always want to do better. My curse is that I always want to work harder. I always want to make more money. I always want to be better and in trading the way you grade yourself is how much money you make. So yeah, I made $35,000 on the week and if I repeat this every fucking week, it's a shitload of money. It's a shitload of money. It's over a million dollars a year if you repeat it every single week, which is great. But at the end of the day, I want to become the best version of myself when I'm trading. I had a very stress-free week this week. I was very calm this week. I was very collected this week, but coming into next week, I have to fix my issue, which is that I feel on top of the world right now. Right now, I feel like you shoot me with a bullet. It's going to be like Superman. It's going to bounce right off of me. That's bad. That's bad. What I did to solve this issue and everyone has different ways to solve their issues is I contacted my broker and I wired out $35,000 this week. All the money that I made on the week, I wired it out and put it into my bank account. Now, why did I do that? Number one is, maybe I'm going to go buy some toys now to reward myself. Maybe I'm going to buy a trophy for all my hard work. A trophy as in a toy, a gift for myself to represent the hard work. And number two is if I'm trading with a smaller account, it makes me feel more nimble. There were times I was trading with massive accounts, massive, and that only led to me being sloppier. So what I'm doing now to stay a little bit sharper and a little bit better is if I'm making a lot of money on the week, I want to be able to pull out that money, understand physically what that money represents, because seeing $35,000 on the screen is different than seeing it in your bank account or seeing it in cash or seeing it on a watch or whatever the hell it is. So I want to be more self-aware and be able to take that money out, understand what is going on. And then now with a smaller account, I am forced to be more selective. I am forced to be more patient. I am forced to be smaller, because now that if I had that $35,000 cushion on there, I would have gotten sloppy. And Val could relate to this too, because Val is the type of guy that has so much fucking money that he doesn't know what to do with that he starts screwing around trading during zombie times because he's bored. He is willing to lose $500 or $1,000 of his P&L because he's bored. And to me, what that $1,000 or $500 a day is an extra $20,000 on the month. So for me, after recognizing that if I just stop screwing around, I can make an extra 20 racks on the fucking month by just not trading zombie times, that'll also help my trading as well. So what people don't understand about trading is that we could teach you the fundamentals. We could teach you the mechanics. We could teach you the technicals, but unless you watch these fucking videos, these psychology videos religiously, unless you're fucking asleep drinking to these psychology videos, you will never get it. You will never get it, because I am definitely not the smartest guy in the room. I am definitely not the most educated guy in the room, but you better be damn fucking sure I'm the most disciplined, and that's what separates me. My mindset is what separates me. I am trying to do my best every single day to improve. I am literally, literally waking up at five in the morning and sleeping at fucking 1 a.m. every goddamn night, re-watching these videos on myself. I think of trading as a sport. We are all professional athletes in this fucking sport. You better believe that professional athletes re-watch themselves, right? I'm going to re-watch this video in two months and see the nuances of the way I was trading, how I can improve, how I can fix it. You remember that when these Instagram lives, these YouTube lives first started about a year ago, I'm sure I was talking very differently, and I'm sure I had a different mindset back then too. These video diaries or these video recaps are my way to stay accountable. It is my way to go back and check myself. It is my way to go back and study how I've been trading, how I can improve. Again, trading is not an exact science. It's more of an art. I've been doing this for years now, years. It's something that Joe really mentioned that's really important that I want to talk about as well as the shit didn't happen overnight, man. I wasn't making 10 grand a day overnight. I wasn't making 30 grand a week overnight. I wasn't making a million dollars a year overnight. Bro, I've been fucking working my ass off for years, literally years. There have been so many fucking times that I've been upset, that I fucking cried, that I fucking didn't hang out with my friends, that I took out my anger on my family, that I fucking stopped hanging out with girls, stopped, I made this thing my fucking life. I sacrificed everything that I could to make this thing my life so that I could fucking work my ass off, work my fucking dick off for three years, four years so that I could live the next 30 or 40 fucking free and say fuck you to anyone that ever says anything to me. Going and getting a $500 steak is stupid. It's absurd. It's ridiculous. Why the fuck would anyone do it? But steak is my favorite food on the planet, and I have worked my ass off enough to afford that a $500 dinner is nothing. I paid more than that in low heats today. So it's all relative, and don't be discouraged if you're not getting it quickly. Don't be discouraged if you're making a little bit of money early. Let me tell you this. If you are making $100 a day consistently, you'll fucking make it. Your goal as a brand new trader should be to make $100 consistently. Take 1,000 shares and make 10 cents. Take 2,000 shares and make 5 cents. So that should be your goal as a new trader. Try that. Focus on that and then do that for three or four months. Do that for three or four months. That's not going to make you rich. That's not going to make you rich. But if you refine that process and you use the same process that you used to make $100 a day and you just maybe add a little bit more size, here you are making $300 a day. Here you are making $400 a day. Here you are making $500 a day, eventually $5,000 a day, eventually fucking $50,000 a day. So what you have to do is get the proper foundation, which is starting with $100 a day, and then you can always scale up from there. There was a time that 500 shares was my max size. There was a time that 1,000 shares was my max size. There was a time that 5,000 shares was my max size. There was a time where 100,000 shares was my max size. So I've done every single scale. I've done the bottom of the scale of 500 shares. I've done the top of the scale of 100,000 shares. And I found my sweet spot. My sweet spot is 10,000 shares. If I could make 10 or 20 cents on 10,000 shares, I'm making $1,000, $2,000 a day. That's a quarter million dollars a year. And you know what? Fuck it, man. You live, if I'm able to work an hour a day and make more than doctors and lawyers and engineers that work fucking 18 hours a day, I'm chilling, man. I'm fucking chilling. I'm chilling. I don't need to be a fucking, I don't need to make $5 or $10 million a year to be fucking rich. If I'm working an hour a day, making $1,000 a day fucking in my underwear, and I'm done trading by 1030, that to me is freedom. And I can still order that $500 a day. That's freedom to me. So don't feel like you have to make a fucking million dollars every single year. Don't fucking feel like you have to do all this shit. Your goal right now as a brand new trader is to make $100 a day consistently. And that's what we're trying to focus on. Because before you can make the $1,000 a day, you have to make the fucking $100 a day like it's nothing, bro. Like it's nothing. And every single day, every single goddamn day, I put my fucking plan in a video, watch us for the members. I literally lay it out for you when I say, this is where I'm going to short it. This is what I'm going to do. And then I fucking execute and I make the money. And if you're smart, like James and Joe, you fucking watch the videos and you do the same fucking thing. ARAV was laid out cousin. It was laid out short at 19. You short a thousand shares at 19, which is a $19,000 position. You could have made fucking three grand and five minutes. But no, go fucking, go fucking pay for these alerts and these text messages or motherfuckers. Anyway, that's kind of what I want to talk about today. So it's been a great week. I'm happy. I'm excited. Probably going to go party. Probably going to spend money on stupid shit that I don't need. And I'm not going to look at. But as Val says, I'm young and I got to get that shit out of my system. So anyway, do you guys have any questions for me? Let's do a Q and A. Sorry, let me just catch my breath. Also, if you guys understand and like what I'm talking about, there's a like button here that I could see that it goes up. So if everything I'm saying makes sense, leave a like on the video. And also, there's like a bell, like a notification bell. So anytime we put out a video or go live, if you have that bell on, it'll notify you. So there's your chance, guys. You got five or 10 minutes of Q and A. Take advantage of it before I go back inside. How much do you allow filings to influence your trade? So great question. So number one is I am, I would say 70% technical trader and 30% fundamental trader. And the reason why is because fundamentals could skew your judgment. Technicles are always the most important. So coming into a day, I always do my fundamental analysis research. I always do my due diligence on stocks, but that's not the end all be all. Just because a company has a massive shelf, a massive effect, massive ATM doesn't mean that's automatically going to go down. And sometimes you are too biased if you know what the hell, if you know too much about the filings. So I purposely, I purposely don't look at the filings as detailed as I should, because I don't want that to influence me as much as I know it will. You understand? So what I'm focused on is the technicals number one. I have fundamentals. It's like, it's like ice cream, right? It's like fucking ice cream. So ice cream is fucking good, right? Ice cream is fucking great. Sometimes you want to put your whipped cream on top of the ice cream. So the fundamentals like that extra, extra whipped cream, it's not that necessary, but it sure does taste fucking good when it's on there, you know? So just having more and more layers of information is important. I talked about the beginning stages when $100, $200 was the goal. Great question, Joe. So let me, all right. So when I first started trading, let me, let me take you guys back, right? Let me take you guys back. So this was in 2014. My girlfriend just dumped me. I was working at Starbucks making like $150 a week. I think that was after taxes. Gas was expensive. I was spending $50 on gas. I was taking her out to the movies every week or going out to dinner, which was another $50. And then I had $50 left that I could put into my bank. So when I first started trading, my goal was, bro, if I could just make 50 bucks a week, right? If I could just make an extra 50 bucks or 100 bucks a week, that would be life changing for me, right? Because back in the day, if I was making $150 a week to trading, I'm working at Starbucks, if I could make the same amount trading, then fuck that, bro. I don't want to go to Starbucks, right? So that was my goal when I first started. My goal was to make $150 a week. So I wouldn't have to fucking work at Starbucks. And I didn't hate Starbucks. I didn't hate it. I just, I was bored there, man. I was bored. I was not to fucking toot my own horn, but I was a fucking awesome barista. I fucking kicked ass. I knew everyone's order. I knew everyone's name. As soon as they walked in, I saw their face. I had it ready. So I was great. The problem was they just didn't fucking feel rewarding. It felt boring, right? So here I am starting with a small shirt trader account at $500. $500 open that account with four times margin. And I'm, I'm starting to buy the breakout, right? When I started trading, I started to buy the breakout. And I was taught by these furus that buying the breakout is the way to make money. It's so fucking easy. All you got to do is buy the breakout. Isn't the fucking same van again? I'm just going to wait, dude. I'm going to wait. I'm not hallucinating, right? I'm not fucking hallucinating. Anyway, so when I opened my account, I heard from all these furus that it's easy to just buy the breakout. That's all you have to do. Just buy the fucking breakout. And the reality was that every time I fucking bought the breakout, I lost money every fucking time. And I'm over here thinking like, am I a fucking idiot? Am I the fucking idiot? But turns out that I was taught the wrong habits, right? I was taught the wrong habits. I was consistently lose, lose, lose money. So here I am trying to accomplish my dream of making $150 a week. And I'm fucking losing $100 a week, right? I'm losing $100 a week. You know, after a month, I blow my account, right? After a month, I blow my account and I got to go back to Starbucks. I got to keep working while I'm fucking working. I'm trying to study and get better and this and that. And then, you know, I said to myself, maybe I'm not the problem. Maybe this fucking teacher is the problem. Maybe this fucking guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Maybe, maybe just maybe I was scammed, right? Maybe. Who knows? Maybe I was scammed, right? So I got away from that guru, that text message, email alert guru, the guy that showed me all the cars and the watches and everything. So I said, fucking, let me try to get better. Let me try to learn the right way. Like, what the fuck? Maybe there's someone better out there, right? So fast forward, fast forward, I discovered something called shorting. And I learned that you can make money with stocks go down. And I said to myself, damn, I'm a fucking, I'm a fucking badass at that. Every time I buy the shit goes down anyway, instead of buying the breakout, let me short the breakout. So my first trade, I always talk about this, my first short trade was I shorted 2000 shares of VGGL, which is a very well-known stock back in the day. I think I shorted at $4. I think I still even remember the price. And instantly, it went down to $3.50. Instantly, I was up $1,000. And I thought I found the secret. Here I am. I made $1,000 on my first short trade when I was losing $100 a week on every single long trade. So I thought I found the holy grail. So coming back into trading after that day, I was confident again. I was exactly how I'm feeling today is how I was feeling back then. And I didn't know that I had to scale down. I didn't know that I had to fucking control my emotions. I didn't know shit. I didn't know shit. So I just kept trading and trading and trading and slowly I started bleeding out and bleeding out and bleeding out. And I had to find a mentor, someone to actually fucking show me the path, like a shaman. So for example, I found Bow and we started trading and I learned the subtle nuances of trading. I learned that Bow doesn't make his money by making 10 grand a day. Bow makes his money by making 3 grand every single day and not losing. I didn't understand that. I thought that the only way to be fucking rich is to make 10 grand a day like I'm doing now, is to make fucking 30 grand a day now. So I was taught all the wrong habits when I started. I was taught everything to do wrong when I started. So when I finally started to get the hang of this, when me and Bow became closer and we started to become actual friends, I learned that my goal as a trader was to make a couple hundred dollars a day every single day. Doesn't matter how. Doesn't matter why. If I make a couple hundred, that's it. That's my goal. So here I am. Here I am making 100 dollars a day now, right? Consistently. And I'm making 100 dollars a day consistently for three months. So for three months straight, I'm making 100 dollars. Maybe I had a losing day here and there, but I was making consistent 100 dollars a day. And then I found myself saying, damn, I just made fucking a couple Gs, right? I just made a couple fucking Gs in these three months, but I just fucking making a couple hundred dollars. So it's like, as soon as I saw the results of my labor, as soon as I saw the results of what happens when you trade small, it gave me the motivation and the confidence to keep doing that. And then I went from making 100 dollars a day to 500 dollars a day. And my max size was I think maybe a thousand shares or 2000 shares. And then I went to make it a thousand dollars a day. It was like, it was like a cool moment when my days went from being like 800 dollars a day to a thousand dollars a day, because now I went into the fucking, I had three more zeros, you know, it was one zero zero zero rather than eight zero zero. So that moment for me was like a big moment because I realized like, damn, now I'm making a thousand dollars a day, like that's huge, like that's crazy. And then, you know, slowly over time, it scales up to two thousand dollars a day, three thousand, and then, you know, after you become more confident, after you make this type of money every single day, after you're making a hundred dollars a day for three months, and then you're making 500 dollars a day for three months, and then you're making a thousand dollars a day for three months, and then you're making 1500 dollars a day for three months, you know, as you do it more and more again, not only are you making more money, your process is being refined right now too. You are improving your way you're trading because after you see the same pattern over and over again, it becomes a muscle memory. You start to remember how these things trade. Every stock has a personality. The way that I like to think of stocks is like different women, different men. I know that SAEX is a type of personality that when it gives up, it gives up the whole thing. I know that ARAV, when that breaks that $19 level, chances are it's not coming back. So SAEX, I've traded 15 times in the past. I've hung out with that girl 15 times, and now I know her perfectly. So now anytime SAEX pops up, there's a small portion of my brain that remembers its personality. And because I remember the personality, because I traded so many times, because I'm good at recognizing these patterns, the next time that it runs, it's a lot easier for me because it's not a sense of not knowing what's happening. It's just a sense of hanging out with this girl again. You know exactly what to expect. So trading again is not easy. It's not easy. There's so many little fucking nuances that you have to remember, and it's overwhelming. It's really fucking overwhelming. And don't get me wrong. It's not going to happen overnight, but at MISC, we give you the resources that we need. Like Austin and Tosh, get on the fucking phone with you every goddamn day. Every fucking day, you can get on the phone with a consistently profitable trader who's making a bunch of money, and they will mentor you for free to help you. And not enough people are taking advantage of that. I put out a video, watch us every single day, and not enough people are taking advantage of that. And the truth of the matter is this, those that put in the work, those that put in the work will find success. It is in my advantage if you don't fucking put in the work. It is better for me that you don't watch the videos because you are less educated, you are trading against me, and chances are that I'm going to take your money because you do not know how to trade as good as me. But we are giving those people that want to put in the work the resources they need. We are giving those people that actually give a fuck the perks that they need. So if you look at it very simply, all of our lifetime members in MISC are the ones that show up to the Thursday webinars. All of the lifetime members are the ones that are DMing me questions. All the lifetime members are the ones that are fucking putting in the work. And you know what? It's time to fucking reward them. It's time to fucking reward them. So I'll talk about this more. I'll talk about this more on Monday. But what we're going to do going forward is for those people that are the most dedicated that are putting in the work, which is the lifetime members, me and Tosh are going to host a once a month webinar for lifetime members only to critique your trading, to help your trading, to improve your trading. So for the lifetime members watching this, be sure to get examples of your charts because me and Tosh will help you improve your trading in these once a month lifetime member only webinars. So I'll talk about it more maybe on Monday, but going forward maybe starting in December, we're going to do lifetime member only webinars of me and Tosh to trade critique you to help your trading to improve because I want to spend most of my time helping the people that put in the most amount of work and it is very clear who is putting in the most amount of work. It is very fucking clear. So this is kind of our thank you to you because if you are putting in the work, we want to reward you. So starting in December, me and Tosh are going to do lifetime member only webinars once a month to help your trading. So again, guys, this is kind of what's available at MIC. We are doing our very best to make sure that you guys have the best fucking ability to succeed and those that put in the work, you know what? We're going to fucking reward you more. So I think that's a good way to end. Thanks guys for watching. If you have not registered for the free two hour course, it's at myinvestingclub.co and yeah, thanks guys. Hopefully we have another good week next week.