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The Wall of Worry. This chart never gets old, and neither does the lesson it teaches

x is the international dive bar of the internet

Yeah Bryan recommends this in a sauna

I wonder if my sister has seen this… the reels she sends me are criminally unfunny lol💛

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Thanks @CenterPointSec

Bloomberg news of the day 🎉🍾

@TheShortBear i think i got it mostly right here lmk tho youtube.com/live/mMEX-8q6Y…

@TheShortBear is this jan 8 11am add 1/6th?

$SNDK Top 5 trade. Let us go through it, you'll get to understand why this was partially responsible for a strong start this year. It started from a clean base with 2 clear lines in the sand, a pattern I like do to its pyramiding ability first through an inside breakout and then a full breakout.

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@Jason______A @TylerDay38 dumb money live is good to watch (this is not an affiliate endorsement)

@TylerDay38 Fuck Melania coin! I lost so much money because of that shit.

How I round tripped life changing money twice in 2025: Let me preface this by saying I have always had an obscene tolerance for risk I grew up rock climbing and by 8 years old was one of the first of that age to summit several 13k ft peaks in Yosemite Needless to say the fear part of my brain was rewired at a very early age. This has translated into me taking enormous amounts of risk my entire life. I have scaled affiliate campaigns to over a million dollars a day in revenue, on net30 pay terms, unsure if I would even get paid. Outside of my biz I also often have had my entire NW in extremely speculative assets. Small cap coins, penny stocks, etc. In my career I have some absolutely enormous swings, to the upside and also to the down. This year was no different. I started 2025 with my entire portfolio in crypto. Half of the portfolio was just in memes. I saw the portfolio run up to a life changing amount, with the peak hitting in January 2025 after hitting a 10x on trump coin in a single day. That event marked the top of the meme coin market and within several weeks saw my entire net worth plummet -60% After that I got out of the markets entirely and sat in cash for a few months and waited out the tariff nonsense. Hopped back into the market April 2025, and decided I was done with memes. Instead I moved over to trading small cap stocks, in the $200m to $500m market cap range. I figured that had to be infinitely safer than meme coins of animals and celebrities. within 90 days I TRIPLED my entire net worth , with the peak hitting late July. I sat in cash for several months and just took small day trades to scratch the itch I waited in cash all the way until the government shut down ended. My thesis for getting back into the market is that sentiment would rebound after the gov re opened in Nov. I repositioned my entire NW in to small cap tech Beginning of Nov I bought 1-2% shares of entire companies of several names that I liked, through the public market. The positions were so large compared to the available liquidity at the time that getting out was pretty much off the table without cratering the charts. Within a few week period I was in disbelief as the entire sector drew down -60%. I held onto the positions unable to change my bias , and without proper liquidity to exit I ended up cratering the prices when I finally did. Ended up losing a life changing amount TWICE in one year and ended up back to where I was 2 years ago. The moral of the story is that the absolute obscene tolerance to risk is a double edged sword. For the past decade I have mostly lived on the edge of my money, driving capital from one outlandishly risky thing into the next. Starting in 2026 I will likely be taking a more conservative approach. The problem itself wasn’t the risk itself, it was the position sizing and fact that there was no “safe bucket” for risk capital to compound into. The result was just every bet being leveraged into an even bigger one, until a blow up inevitably happens. From now I will be making a “safe bucket” a majority of my NW (right now just cash, but will add index fund / btc later) , and taking much smaller bets where profits go back into the safe bucket to compound in a reliable way. I still own and operate my affiliate biz (O2C) which does very well still, so going to just be focusing on that mainly in 2026. There are still lots of great opportunities to come and I am very optimistic about what 2026 can bring both on the affiliate and investment side.

@MoistMango12 @RetiredTrader_ gl in 26

@_samputnam @RetiredTrader_ I lost money. I withdrew a lot of money this year, somewhere at very unfavorable levels of account balance

-20% on starting AUM for 2025, with a time-weighted return of around +100%. Made a lot of mistakes this year. The one that particularly haunts me is being up 50% on the day of the April bounce, not taking any off when it retraced to +20%, tilting and finishing that day -30%. Crazy opportunity set this year. 1000%-2000% easily possible for me if I was on my A-game. Though it did seem harder overall than 2024 and did require good execution. Did manage to right the ship after a lot of pain in the first half of the year, involving two 50% drawdowns. First losing year since I blew up in 2016, but on the other hand I faced a lot of challenges this year and never had a chance of blowing up. Also stings a little to have put up 100% and still have a losing year, but the withdrawals were undoubtedly needed for a mindset reset. Looking forward to 2026. Plenty of things to be excited about and to work on

@RyanClogg can they interview each other? like a podcast riff… the only thing is quantity of videos per day that *i* think hurts views.

Gemini is saying to be ESPN and keep all in one. Have them create diff content silos. All under one channel. Gemini is Google is YouTube?? But then YT pros are trying to get new channels. I'm 50/50.

Organic experts... need help. YouTube long form. You now have multiple experts. Do you create each their own channel w co-brand? Do you keep all under one channel? How does this affect algo, exitability, etc? I want results, but without diluting the brand. Thoughts?

@MoistMango12 @RetiredTrader_ unless i misunderstand you didn’t lose money- you withdrew? if got $100k, withdraw $60k, and finish with $80k—that would check out…idk

Time weighted return=the return of $1 invested at start of year throughout the year. For example someone who had $1000 and made $1000 with no withdrawals made a lower percentage return than someone who had $1000, made $500 in 6 months, withdrew it and then made another $500. They made 50% twice in 1 year (so 125% compounded semi annually). It's used in practice to normalize fund returns with redemptions etc. In this case it's handy to show that although losing money my actual returns on money invested were still on track (and helps me cope with losing money, the real figure I care about haha)

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@gauravkapadia @johnarnold he’s rich so 25bps or whatever actually matters. what is he supposed to do, listen to joe rogan podcast about cagefighting?

@johnarnold What took you so long?

2025 is the year I gave up listening to macroeconomists.

@EternaLEnVy1991 youtube.com/shorts/Sv7R1Ak…

2025 recap: Less than 100,000,000 Fucking dammit Biggest winners: none Biggest losers: me