The Gift of Failure

Here is a blog I wrote a couple months ago about my journey. I went back and read it to help realize where I have been and where I would like to go. 

Failure may be single handedly the best thing that could happen to a person. 3 years ago I started my trading journey. I bounced around just like most. Trading anything that I could get my hands on. It was rough in the beginning slowly bleeding account after account to zero. Sophomore and Junior year of college were rough. The bills were racking up and my grades were struggling. I had this obsession about the markets that I could not seem to let go. I thought about them non stop and couldn't focus on anything else. I spent day and night researching patterns and strategies to develop myself as a trader. Junior year after blowing through 8k of my life savings I was at an all time low. I thought that I was never going to be able to make money in the markets. To my surprise right when I was about to give up my girlfriend texted me. The message read "Hey I am in this stock competition for school will you do it for me." This moment made me think that I was suppose to continue. Putting all of the pessimism aside I began the competition. Fast forward to the end I was in 3rd about to take over 2nd place by the finish. Unfortunately I was forced to sabotage my placing in concerns that she would get in trouble with her university. Even though I didn't get to take home the prize money it gave me hope to continue this passion of mine. The good times slowly faded as I saw myself back in a familiar place bleeding out my account. Going into my senior year I was at an all time low, lower than before. I didn't know how I was going to find enough money for food or how I would even afford a place to live. I continued on the same path and dug deeper. At this time I found crypto. I saw the opportunity and took it. I imagine times like these would be similar to those of the .com boom. I opened up an account and started to HODL a few coins I liked. Slowly I progressed through research and countless hours of watching tape to start to trade. It started off slow a couple hundred here and there. The hundred slowly turned into thousands. I am happy to say that last month I made roughly 20k. Now I know that everyone is making money and the music will eventually end. My goal is continue to compound this while this market continues. This month has changed my life and allowed me to do things I never thought possible. One of those things was buying my family a Christmas gift which in the last 21 years of my life I have not been able to afford. The money was a nice achievement but getting my family a Christmas gift meant way more. I will continue push myself as hard as possible to achieve as much as possible. Everyone makes money in good markets, those that keep it during bad markets are the ones that have a future in the game.

 

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