Eduard Baginskis

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.

TRUMP: ELON JUST GETS IT DONE “In real estate, you had guys that would draw beautiful renderings of a building, but they were never able to get it built. They couldn't get the financing, they couldn't get the approvals. It would never get done. And then you have other guys that are just able to get it done. It's the same thing here. Elon said, you know, when you sign these executive orders, a lot of them don't get done, maybe the most important ones. He would take that executive order that I'd sign, and he would have those people go to whatever agency it was. He'd tell the people, when are you doing it, get it done. And some guy that maybe didn't want to do it, all of a sudden, he's signing.” Source: Fox News, February 19, 2025