 trading day of the new year. So I hope everyone had a good new year. Today's video, I'm in Miami, I'm on vacation and obviously guys, when you're on vacation you don't wanna really work because the point of a vacation is to take some time off and I need some much needed time off but I don't know, me and Bao just feel really bad whenever we take any days off, we feel really guilty. So even on vacation, I showed up with a mobile trading set up, traded in the morning, provided a watch list and here I am sticking to my routine and sticking to my commitment of providing a Monday educational YouTube video. So I mean, it's just the first things first guys is we don't really need to do this stuff, we've made millions of dollars doing it and the reason why we make these videos, the reason why we make this content and the reason why we keep showing up even though we have everything that we want is because our goal now is larger than ourselves. Our goal is to be able to help you guys and there's a lot of idiots out there, there's a lot of dumb people out there, there's a lot of people that say, why are you guys charging money if you guys are so rich? I mean, go buy a Tesla for free, go tell Elon Musk you want a Tesla, tell him to give it to you for free. Go to Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tell him you want a new TV for free. Doesn't work like that guys. If we provide a service and we provide something that adds value and helps people, there is a value associated with that. If we provided a shitty quality product, we would have no customers, no members anyway, right? So our product is good and our product has worked and that's why we are here every single day. So again, guys, just wanna remind you that I am on vacation, so please be very thoughtful with messages, be very understanding that it might take me a couple hours to reply because I also need some time off. But yeah, the point of this video guys is to recap my trading for 2021. So I've been trading for about eight years now guys, eight years. My eight year anniversary is next month, which is crazy because in two years is gonna be a decade. It is really just, I was 19 years old working as Starbucks, making coffees for $150, $200 a week. And here I am now making millions and millions of dollars a year trading, right? And what I kinda wanna talk about is what my progress was last year and how my progress and process has improved this year, what my goals are and what everything is, right? So last year was a great year for me. Last year I made about $1.5 million net of fees and net of commissions, right? And my goal last year was as a leader, I wanted to show everyone and I wanted to prove to everyone what can happen if you stick to the MIC process and the MIC routine exactly. The MIC process and the MIC routine tells you to walk away at 10 30 a.m. It tells you to use 30% of your size, right? 30% of your size on the front side of the move, right? And on top of that, it tells us to focus on the side plays and not the hot plays. So in 2020 guys, in 2020, I stuck to that process exactly. I stuck to it exactly and as a leader, I want to show you guys what can happen if you just respect it. Because a lot of people don't believe that you could make millions of dollars walking away in the market. The stock market is not the casino, but sometimes you need to treat certain aspects of it like it, for example, if you are up on the blackjack table, you're not gonna keep going and going and going and going. Your goal is once you make that money to get away from the table, right? Your goal is to get away from the table and it's the same thing as trading guys. After you make your money in the morning, after you make your money in the morning, your goal is just walk away and lock in that money because traders are degenerates. It is never enough money. You could have millions and millions and millions of dollars is never enough money. Money is a drug, it's a drug guys. I have cars, I have watches, I have investments, I have everything and it's still not fucking enough, right? Because humans by nature are greedy. So to control that greed and to control those emotions, to control your human nature, we must have a way to walk away and lock in these profits, right? And for me, I've identified that after 10 30 AM, I lose money, I turn into a gambler. So I walk away at 10 30 and that is part of the process, that's part of the routine. So in 2020, I want to show everyone what can happen if you stick to the same routine that your leader, that your mentor, that your educator is doing. Because if I can't stick to the process, how can I expect you to stick to the process? So my goal in 2020 was to stick to it so exactly that there was never any reason for people to doubt that this can work. You don't need to have, you don't need to quit your job. You don't need to do this all day long. All you need is one hour a day between 9 30 AM and 10 30 AM to execute. And if you do that, you can make millions of dollars. So as a leader, I showed you guys in 2020 that I made $1.5 million trading for only one hour a day. Now what did I do differently in 2021 to make $3 million, to make double, okay? And the truth of the matter is the only thing I did different is fucking nothing, right? The same process, the same routine that I spent one year drilling in my head for one year. All I did was replicate that exact routine, that exact process, that exact strategy and formula that we teach our members to make the same amount of money this year. In my opinion, a lot of people made a lot of dumb money in 2020 because they didn't know what they were doing. And all those people that made money in 2020, they lost it in 2021. But I am very proud to say that I doubled my profit in 2021 than I did in 2020, working less time almost, right? Less time. In 2020, I was waking up at 4, 5 AM and now I'm waking up at 7 AM, 8 AM, right? Because I'm getting a little bit lazy. The money is good, I'm kind of chilling. So I don't really need to wake up early anymore. But the point of this is to show you guys that our routine, our strategy, our formula, our everything that we teach, not only does I, as a leader, follow it and show you guys, but it gives you no excuses to say, all right, I'm gonna trade past 10.30 and I'm gonna try to make some more money. Oh, I can't make more money than Alex because I'm not trading all day long. The point is guys, if you're a leader is walking away at 10.30 and is making millions and millions of dollars doing it, what is your excuse to deviate from it? And that was my entire goal over 2020, to show you what is possible if you stick to what we say religiously. 2021 came along and we had opportunities like crazy guys. The year started with GameStop and AMC, right? GameStop and AMC is where the year started. And believe it or not guys, GameStop and AMC, although it destroyed many, many short sellers as much as it destroyed so many people, you know, I know people that lost $5 million on the way up but made $8 million on the way down. And to me guys, that's not what I'm trying to do. I don't wanna swing up and down fucking five, $10 million a month. That's just not me. It's not who I wanna be. I don't care to be that person. But most of my profits, I would say about a million and a half, my profits came from one set up. Not one stock, but one set up. And that setup was the first red day setup. After eight years of trading, I have identified the setup that makes me the most profitable. And that setup maybe comes along once every month or once every two months. So last year in 2021, I made $700,000 on AMC in one day on first red day. I made $175,000 on OCGN in one day on first red day. I made $130,000 on DATS first red day in one day. And there's probably three, four other stocks I literally forgot about that I made six figures on, right? And that's a blessing, right? So I have found out that not only does our strategy work every day, but it is a very scalable strategy, right? It is very scalable. So there's gonna be plenty more first red day setups this year. There's gonna be plenty more opportunities this year. So half of my profits in 2021 came from nail and bail trading, making anywhere between $1,000 to $5,000 a day nail and bail, easy scouts, done, done. And then another $1.5 million of that profit came from first red day, A plus my setups that I make the most money on, right? I had my biggest trade of my career in 2021, which was AMC 700 and $703,705,000 in one day, fucking crazy, blew my mind. And that was because for eight years, that setup I've been working on and refining and improving and every day I'm building confidence and confidence and confidence in my style and in my routine that I know that this can work guys. So I don't come into the year saying I wanna make $5 million. I wanna make $10 million. I wanna make this, this, that. I come in every single year guys, every single year I have never had a goal that says I have to make $10 million this year. And if I don't make $10 million this year, I'm a fucking loser. That's not the way my brain works. My brain tells me I have to show up every day. And if I show up every day and stick to my process long-term, long-term I'm gonna win. It took me years and years and years to get to this level guys. And now I'm at this level and looking back and reminiscing and seeing what I could provide advice or what type of help I could provide for not only a struggling trader but someone trying to get on the next level is be patient, be patient. This is a career where I can make more than the most powerful CEOs in the world if I do it right. This is a career that I can make more than a doctor working 90% less time. This is a career that I could literally, be in a fucking hotel room and use a fucking laptop and make thousands and thousands of fucking dollars every single day guys. So what I want to remind you is if you are on this channel and you are watching this video and you are actually listening and taking this stuff seriously, it's gonna change your life. It really is. It's not a matter of if it's gonna change your life. It's a matter of when. Trading is very competitive. Trading is very difficult if you start gambling. Ever since day one, I think something that differentiated me from everyone else is I treated this as a business. This was never a hobby for me. This was never the casino for me. This was never get rich quick for me. This was something that I was passionate about. This is something that I love. This is something that I went down a rabbit hole and I would want to learn about trading. Back in the day there was not much access to YouTube videos of legitimate traders. So I had to just research and learn and learn and I became intoxicated by the feeling of learning. And what a lot of people say is you have to find something that you love because if you find something that you love you'll never work a day in your life, right? And I never knew what that meant. I didn't know what it meant to find something that I loved. And when I found trading for the first time in my life when I was 19 years old, I found something that I loved and I realized that I loved it because I would want to stay up and learn about it. I would want, it would be the only thing consuming my mind. I would not be thinking about girls and going out and partying and getting drunk. Something about the markets just was always interesting to me. I always loved the Wall Street movies of the guys in the nice suits and the nice cars and living the nice lives. And maybe that's kind of what planted the seed in my head but when I had the opportunity to learn about trading I didn't even know day trading existed. I thought the only way to participate in the market was to buy and hold long-term. I didn't know that you could buy in and out in fucking 10 seconds. I didn't know that, right? So when I first got started trading it was a passion. It was something that I really loved. Like even now, eight years of entries on the most influential hedge fund managers not because I want to be a hedge fund manager not because I want to manage billions and billions of dollars. It's just interesting to me. I like learning. It's a passion of mine. So if you're passionate about this and you spend time learning and educating and pushing the limits to thinking differently like what can I do with this, right? Then you will be successful. If you're treating this as I'm gonna come, I'm gonna join, I'm gonna click a couple buttons and my friend down the street made a million dollars buying Tesla options and fuck I'm just gonna buy Tesla options and I'm gonna be rich you're gonna lose all your money man because you're gambling. You're not treating it as a job. So I challenge you guys, I challenge you. Are you treating this as a real job? Are you treating this as a business? Or are you treating it as the casino? If I treated it like the casino I wanna make millions of dollars. I treat it like a business. I wake up early, I learn every single day I'm fucking learning, learning, learning. And that is why I'm successful guys. I'm successful because I am even eight years in I'm still a student. I'm still learning. I'm still open to learning, right? So, do I have a goal for this year? Five million dollars. Okay, sure. But if I don't hit that, I don't feel like a loser because I know that in my sleep I can make $4,000 a day and making $4,000 a day in the market equates to a million dollars. And I don't know about you but technically if I'm making a million dollars a year I'm pretty much gonna be set. The only reason why I want more is because competitive it's you grade yourself based on business that it doesn't matter. It's all arbitrary. I could quit tomorrow and still have enough money to live my life forever. But because I'm so passionate about trading because I love it, because I treat it like a business like any business I wanna improve and increase my revenue and my profits year over year as a sign of improving my business. And if for one day or one month that my trading business doesn't go out and I don't make a bunch of money I know long-term I've proved it to myself over eight years I can make money, right? And that's what you guys have to realize. So I have a lot of people that have been asking to see my profits, see my profits. So this is Chris Johnson which is one of the support guys at Cobra Trading and he has verified my profits 3.2 million before fees three million after fees. If you guys think this is fake or you think that it is not real please call Cobra Trading. They will verify all this. It is all 100% legit and trust me I don't wanna fucking pay all those taxes on it. It's gonna fucking suck. But the point is guys that our process works our strategy works. I have proved it day in and day out every single day for all the members that are in MIC they see me trade in the morning. They see me walk away. They see me make two, $3,000 a day and then by the end of the month I'm up 100K by the end of the year I'm up 3 million and then they're like, oh shit like this must actually work guys. So I challenge you to take this thing seriously. I challenge you to find your best setups. And the video I made last week was about how to size into stocks. And the reason why I wanted to mention that again today is because you are not allowed to use size on stocks unless it is your best setup. So if you have not figured out what your best setup is you're not allowed to use size on anything. I have figured out my best setup is the first red day. That's for me. Maybe for you your best setup is the first bounce setup or maybe for you the best setup is a deathline setup. So start the new year off right. Find your best setup, track your statistics and after you figure out and after you have deciphered what your best setup is wait for that best setup to appear and that is how you make your fucking stupid metric shit loads of money, okay? I know that a first red day setup is my setup to make money. I know that not every time I'm gonna make six figures on that setup but I know long-term if I stick to our nail and bail process of walking away at 1030 and focusing size on first red day setups $5 million is fucking nothing. 10 million, 20, 30 million is all gonna happen but I'm not here saying that I want that today. I'm not here saying I want that tomorrow. I'm not here saying I want that in 10 years. If it comes, it comes but I know that our process, our strategy or routine will allow for that if the setup and the opportunity is there, okay? Does that make sense? Give me one sec, I have someone at the door. Any questions? I'll go through questions now. Sorry guys, I got some towels for the room. So I don't know what else I can do to help you guys. I mean, sometimes I get discouraged because I feel like I'm the only person over here that comes on vacation, ruins their vacation to come and work. I feel like I'm the only person here that's just being fucking honest with you guys and I understand a lot of you guys just wanna get rich quick. I understand a lot of you guys don't wanna wait but I mean, it just doesn't exist, man. I'm telling you, it doesn't exist. If I am a barista at Starbucks making $150 a week and I did this, I'm telling you, it's possible. I'm telling you. But you guys just have to be a little bit patient if you're struggling for the last three years. Four years, okay, I get it. I struggled for two or three years. My first year trading, I lost money. My second year trading, I broke even. My third year trading, I made money. It took me, millionaire Alex, three years, three years to learn this, three years. So I don't understand how you guys are here for three months, three weeks, three fucking, three days you expect to make millions of dollars. It's because guys, this get rich quick mentality doesn't exist, okay? You can't just buy up a fucking call options on stocks and expect to get fucking rich as abnormal. It's not repeatable, it's not a strategy, right? So I want you guys to understand that what we're doing is repeatable. What we're doing is fucking, it works. If you wanna make the same amount of money as a doctor, I mean doctor, my friend is a fucking doctor and it's eight years, eight years and he's still fucking broke, right? Eight years and he's gonna be in debt. After eight years, I mean millions of dollars. Do you understand the difference guys? Do you understand? This is a long-term business. I know, I'm 27 right now, 27, right? 27, I started trading when I was 19. I know that when I'm fucking 37, I'm gonna be making $5 million in my fucking sleep. In my sleep, working one hour a day. And to me guys, to me, this is not about the money. I swear to God, I have everything I ever wanted, right? I have money, I have investments, I have a fucking car, I have watch, I have a family, I have everything that I want, I have. Everything I want, I have. And because I have everything, because I have everything, I now realize what's important. Now, instead of trying to buy a new car or a new watch, I'm trying to spend time with my friends and family because to me, to me that time is more valuable than anything else and it takes people a lifetime to learn that. But something that Bao told me a very long time ago is he is focused on making memories, right? Bao's focus, even though he gets fucking drunk and forgets, his focus is making memories. And for me guys, I could have, I have, I have it. I have it, I have, I'm rich, right? I could fucking finally say I'm fucking rich. But to me, to me, what I want to focus on now is being able to help you for fucking free on these fucking videos. And by doing it, by changing your life, I am hoping that you send the elevator back down and you help change someone else's life because one day I'm gonna get sick, one day Bao's gonna get fucking sick, one day we're gonna get fucking old and we're not gonna be here and the next generation of people are gonna continue this legacy forever, okay? So, I mean, that's kind of what I wanna talk about obviously guys, obviously if you go to the YouTube channel you could type in myinvestingclub.com process, you could type in Alex's first red day, you could type in AMC Alex and everything is gonna show up and you get to watch all these videos. But what I want you guys to realize is trading changed my life, okay? Forever, forever, it changed my life. I have now the freedom to be in this beautiful fucking room that's $1,000 a night. Go spend $1,000 a night on dinner, buy fucking watches and buy cars and literally not even fucking feel it, right? Not even fucking feel it because it's such a miniscule amount to all the money and all the hard work I've made. But what people don't see, what people don't see is all those nights that I couldn't fucking sleep because I was sad that I was not getting it. What people couldn't see is all those nights that I felt fucking lonely wasting my fucking time doing this shit. All those times that not my fucking family, not my parents, not my fucking friends believed that I could do this shit, right? No one thought that I could do this. My family thought it was fucking gambling and I understand you got a fucking 20 year old kid that's trading stocks and making this money. I would think he's fucking gambling too but I use that to motivate me. I use that to push me. Instead of giving up, I use that as fuel and now I'm able to buy my mom bags. I'm able to buy my dad vacations. I'm able to give my family that are struggling catch to pay off their loans to pay off their houses and all this shit. And even though they didn't believe in me, even though they were still skeptical, I believed in myself and sometimes all you need is someone to tell you that they believe in you. So I wanna tell you that if you're watching this, there's 290 live people watching this. There's probably gonna be a thousand, 2,000 people watching this after. If you're here and you're watching this, you're gonna change your fucking life. You're gonna change your life because you found the right community, you found the right mentor, you found honest, clean fucking people that have made millions of dollars that don't need fucking money. The reason why we charge is to get those idiots out of the way. There's people that wanna say, I'm gonna pay you a dollar a month and show me your hot of stock picks. I don't want the stock pick people. I don't want them, I don't want them. And because I don't fucking want them, there's a barrier to entry. And once you surpass that barrier to entry and you join, this is gonna change your fucking life, guys. So I mean, I don't know what else I could tell you guys, I don't know what else I could do. I feel this year, I feel very grateful, I feel very blessed. I was able to give a struggling family member $20,000 in cash because her husband lost her fucking job. $20,000 to me is a day's work, a day's work and it changed our fucking life, okay? There's so many things that I do behind the scenes that I don't really talk about paying off a bunch of other things for other people that I don't really care to express. But just know guys that because trading changed my life, I'm now using those funds and using that freedom to help change the lives of people in my life that matter because I have realized that getting a watch is cool, getting a Lambo is cool. It kind of makes me happy for like fucking 15 minutes but creating these memories of helping, changing, struggling people's lives. Honestly, as selfish as it may sound is what is bringing me fucking happiness. So I will continue to come onto these videos. If you talk shit about me, I will block you. I am a multi-multi-millionaire trader that is coming on here and educating you for free and I've realized that a lot of you need me, right? And if you disrespect me, if you don't fucking take me seriously, if you talk shit about me or my friends or my loved ones, I will block you, you will remain broke forever and I will continue to stay rich and never think about it again. So be very mindful, be very understanding. We are here to fucking help you and if you guys want to learn how to trade the right way, I'm gonna put a link in our bio or on the bottom of the video of the free webinar that me and Bao created that are gonna show you some of our strategies for free. It's gonna show you some trading for me. It's gonna show you some educational for free and hey, if you don't wanna watch it, you don't have to watch it but we wanna provide you guys with the ability and the opportunity to change your life if you want it. You don't have to take it. You don't have to buy Tesla. You don't have to buy shit on Amazon. You don't have to fucking do anything but if you want to and you are fucking serious and you are willing to commit and take this seriously, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when you are gonna be a millionaire. I'm not the fucking smartest guy in the room. I barely fucking passed college. I was a fucking cashier and then a barista Starbucks. I didn't do good on my standardized SAT test, I'm fucking shot, it doesn't matter but what I do is I take this seriously, I treat it like a business and I respect the market. Because the market has humbled me so many times, I fucking respect it, okay? And because of that guys, because that we do what we do. So again, guys, I hope this kind of helps you guys. I hope this motivates you. This is me fucking, I made $3 million. $3 million last year and instead of going to fucking pop and champagne bottles instead of fucking renting a yacht instead of fucking driving around the Bugatti, here I am in my fucking hotel room, right? In my fucking hotel room, right? Hotel room with the fucking blinds closed helping you guys for fucking free because to me, this is what brings me happiness and I challenge you guys if you guys are struggling or if you guys are in a different community and if you guys are trading with people that are too vague and your mentor's always making fucking money and you have no idea how he's doing it or your mentor's bragging all fucking day long and you have no idea how they're making money, I challenge you to try it, man. I challenge you to just fucking try it, bro, because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, our service, our community, our members, our everything speaks for itself. If we provide a shitty product, if we provide a shitty education, you guys would know about it, right? You guys would know about it. So here I am again, on January 3rd, on a vacation, making a live video and just asking you guys to fucking try to change your life and if you don't want to, it's fine. It's fine, it's fine. I understand some people are stubborn, I understand some people don't wanna learn, but I mean shit, bro, I mean, if this thing changed my life and I was able to fucking change lives of hundreds, if not thousands of members already, in three years, guys, this is, I don't know, it's, join if you want, if you don't wanna join, it doesn't matter, but just know that your mentors, me, Bow, James, the mods, the team are here to help you because we have all made it, we have all learned it and yeah, so if you guys wanna watch the webinar, it's at mindvestingclub.com slash webinar. If you guys are struggling, reach out. If you guys are lost, reach out. And hey, if for whatever reason, you don't wanna fucking join, go watch our free YouTube videos. We have thousand, 1,000 free videos, 1,000, right? And the reason why we created the YouTube channel is so that you guys can learn for free to have no excuse to not be able to afford to join. So anyway, I just wanted to kinda come on here and talk to you. If you think all everything I'm saying is fucking bullshit, go message my broker. If you think I'm fucking full of shit, tell me to my face so I can block you. And if you guys want to change your life, we will be here. And yeah guys, mindvestingclub.com slash webinar. And yeah, I'll see you guys there, thanks.