This week i will turn 33 years old. It also marks the first 4 months of my trading career. when i started trading back in June, i had so much confidence and an outstanding sense of realism that this, looking back at myself many years from now, would be the beginning of the best decision i have made in my adult life.

I have learned more from studying the teachings of great mentors from many walks of wall street than i had in 13 years of schooling and if i had only known what i know now back then... we all know how that goes.

I had some trades that had tested the bounds of my solidarity, bad ones as big as a few days pay at a "real job", but i could not break myself. and for the lessons i had learned on my own (despite the hard work of Tims many lessons), I now have the patience to wait for the right play, the knowledge to look in the right place, the experience to know when to cut losses, and most important, the wisdom to understand what drives this beast. I am no perfect trader by any means. nor am i as successful as i would like to be, I make mistakes and plenty of them, but i also know what it takes to fall so deep into the negative and crawl my way back out and come out farther than where i started to understand that this is no game. Nor is it a place for the weak minded. You have to be strong and understand that you will fail in order to succeed here. you will loose. You will experience pain in knowing that you have to earn every cent that ticks upward and in that, you must be humble at this beast that is the stock market and those who battle with, and against you.

I will continue to make this profit chart my little bitch as i push for higher highs. it will be slow for a while but i know that this is what will give me solace in life. 

To Tim Sykes, You fucking rock man, if only there were more Jews like you out there to help make this word a better place for the generations to come.