You see exactly what they're doing. You see the mistakes that some other people are doing that are not making it because in the trading world, on the trading floor, the turnover can be pretty high. You can be seeing five new people come and go and like you can learn from those mistakes. So you mentioned joining the firm and you kind of got profitable like pretty quickly after you joined. You kind of said like it was like, it was like pretty quickly after you joined, would you say? Yeah, I think about within six months, I think I got my first paycheck after four months and it was like a tiny checker. I think I got like $700 my first month or something like that. But it's been consistently bigger and bigger every month for the next couple of years. So yeah, it was pretty, but the thing is like the strategy back then was like super easy, like we had like good routes and we could buy on the bid and sell on the offer. Yeah. And that was the thing for a couple of years. Yeah.  Do you think that was what kind of really pushed you over the edge? I think that's a big factor. I think that if you're trading with somebody in the room and you see exactly what they're doing, you see the mistakes that some other people are doing that are not making it because in the trading world on the trading floor, the turnover can be pretty high. You can be seeing somebody come and go within three, four, five months, five new people come and go. And like you can learn from those mistakes as well. And then you can learn from the guys that have been there for a while too. What are they doing? How are they acting when it's a slow market? How are they? What are they doing when it's a hot market? So absolutely, yeah, that's a big thing. That's one of the biggest pros of being on a trading floor. And it doesn't necessarily have to be on a prop floor. You can like, some people just have an office and they just trade together individually, but it's just harder to find, I think, people and then get together and trust each other enough. I would assume, but I would do that. If I were trading by myself, I would try and find somebody to trade with in an office because it just feels different. Like right now I'm at home and I traded from the office today. Like sometimes I trade from the office, sometimes from home. And from an office, it's just a lot more productive. There are more eyes on the market. Like people are calling out setups and like people are calling out certain things that like I don't see by myself when I'm at home, you know, stuff like that. And you see how people deal with drawdowns and you help each other out. There's a lot like kind of brotherhood there, you know? How was it prior to COVID and now post COVID? What, that mentality and that brotherhood of being in-person versus how you guys handled it when you were forced to stay at home? I mean, it's pretty similar. We just kind of took a break on being in the office for a little bit, but it's quite similar. I mean, COVID was a crazy time and we tried to like kind of communicate as much as possible. So we did a little bit of like, you know, video chats and stuff like that. But I would say like 2019 compared to 2023, it's quite similar. The only difference is there's now a lot more people that are like they stayed at home because some people prefer to be at home. You know, they prefer to like lock themselves in the room and just kind of put on some music and trade and not be distracted. I would say for newer guys, they kind of have to be trading in the office. And for me personally, I feel like I trade better when I'm in the office. So did you notice any kind of trends in that you could send these people home during COVID, right, and they struggled because they don't have that mentality around them. They don't have the influences around them. And all of a sudden they're on a downturn or and then when they come back into the office and now all of a sudden things are turning back around for them or the vice versa trader where they have too many influences, right? They have too many eyeballs looking at them and they want to be home by themselves in their zone allowed to only do what they do. I don't think there's a correlation there that I've noticed. So people during COVID, I think everybody did well for the most part. Like doesn't matter like where they were because like they had the skill set to do well. But yeah, I don't think there's any like direct correlation that I've noticed. Just some people are like experienced enough to trade from home by themselves and have enough confidence to put on the trade and not to look over the shoulder, make sure everybody else is in the same trade for conviction, you know? So I think it comes down to just your experience.


What's up guys today? We're going to be doing another vlog style video, and I know what you're gonna say But you've already done that and the answer is yes But every day is different. So why not do another day? This is day one of six night shifts and Yeah, let's see what we see. Let's go. All right guys So the very first thing I do when I get here is log into the system and then next I go get the pager Got it. Even though I hate this thing you have to hold it for the next 12 hours I also got sign out from the interventional radiology fellow who goes home at 8 p.m.. And turns everything over to me So I transfer the IR pager over to the radiology pager So I cover radiology and interventional radiology overnight if someone needs a stat Or emergent interventional radiology console they call me and I call the fellow in that's how that works It's not a bad gate for fellows. All right, so the next thing I do is Wipe down my station. It's cold and flu season right now I have a cold right now, and I don't want the flu like I had last year So we're gonna wipe it down wipe that dig to phone down, and I use these anti cancer anti TB wipes or whatever. That's why I wear gloves because apparently they cause cancer or something like that Either way, I don't want it on my skin All right, so let's turn down the lights and start reading some studies All right, so it's now Like 8 40 and I've been here 40 minutes and I just have paged by the nuclear medicine tech that there is a high Descan that he needs me to look at to make sure the patient doesn't have acute cholecystitis So that's what we're going to do now be right back All right So that was just a false alarm the tech just had some trouble with positioning the patient to get the right image However, I will still teach you how to read a hideous scan Let's go today. We're going to be discussing a hideous scan hide That stands for a pedi biliary amino diacetic acid scan So what we do with this scan is we inject a radiolabeled substance Technesium marbrofin in and it goes in through the bloodstream Into the liver and extruded be via the biliary system So as you can see just taken up by the liver liver and Then as you see the gallbladder will eventually start showing up. It's better down here More delayed phases at the bottom So once the gallbladder shows up we know that this is a normal study as you can see This is a normal study as well You see the fade outline of the liver and as the radio tracer in the liver decreases It goes into the biliary system and then reflexes back up into the gallbladder where it is stored You have a nice opaque gallbladder, which means contrast is making it through the hepatic duct And common bile duct as well as the cystic duct and into the gallbladder Which means there is no obstruction and no cholecystitis. This is a normal study. All right So you still don't know what the heck I'm talking about So let's go into it. So here we have the liver and the biliary system Normally the radio tracer will be taken up into the liver.  What we would see on our HIDA scan is That the radio tracer would be taken up into the liver It would go down the bile ducts as it should and into the duodenum However, when the radio tracer would go down the biliary ducts it would not reflux into the Cystic duct and into the gallbladder because it is being blocked by this stone right here So we would not see the gallbladder light up on a positive scan Hopefully that made sense. So when there's a stone blocking the duct the cystic ducts Contrast or radio tracer cannot go into the gallbladder and therefore we will not see the gallbladder on our scan So just to reiterate this is a positive study for acute cholecystitis This is just gonna play on a loop here But you'll see the liver fill up first and then you'll see bowel activity But you don't see a gallbladder. So liver Go straight to the biliary ducts and down into the bowel and nothing refluxes into the gallbladder Which means it is blocked off most likely by a stone and therefore it is a acute cholecystitis So if you don't see the gallbladder Positive study for acute cholecystitis. Hopefully that makes sense now now. Let's get back to the video. Oh my gosh guys It is literally 1240 in the morning. That's four hours since I last recorded that last video And I have been literally non-stop since anything from just crazy MRs to Contrast extravasations at the MRI scanner Nuclear medicine texts needing me for the hiatus scans. I mean Non-stop I tried to help my lower level out with some traumas But she was getting destroyed by all the traumas that came in and I didn't even have time to help her Which I always feel bad about because I like to make sure their list is nice and tidy as well So now I'm going to finally get up since I've been sitting here reading studies in the last four hours I'll take a little walk and get some water and come back in and wait for some studies to come in and since I'm going to the Lounge, I might as well bring you with me. All right, so here we go We have our water cooler. This is a new addition just in our books all around male microwave coffee machine which I use all the time Drawer which is usually full which now it's just distressing Usually there's some coffee in there fridge chairs Couch that converts to a bed, which I may or may not be on later Our pack station, which is located conveniently Directly across from the bed And we have a little TV in here. Actually it's pretty big. It's like 27 inch or plus maybe 40 inch. I don't even know and some computers printer phone, they're good stuff so Hope you enjoy your stay in our lounge That is all we have here. All right guys, so it is 3 a.m And if you watch my other videos, you know what that is time for It's time for Starbucks All right guys, so it's about 3 30 ish now Got my coffee. I've been a little busy So some of the studies I've read tonight I've read a whole bunch of brain MRIs To rule out strokes, which is usually the most common thing we brain MRIs we read I haven't read any total spine MRIs yet, which is weird Because the ER loves to order those And if you've seen my Instagram, you know that I hate reading those because for one, they're usually ordered incorrectly Be they're really expensive and see they take a lot of my time to read and My list starts piling up the more time I spend on those total spines What else I've read I've had to deal with the Hyda patient today The tech needed me a few times and we've gone over that so now you know all about Hyda scans I've had to go to one of the scanners for a contrast Extravization Which is also the bane of my existence because when I'm really busy and they call me for that stuff I have to leave and go do that. I've read ct angiogram I've had to deal with the patient who is bleeding on the floor and they've I've almost had to call in the IR fellow But not yet because the patient is stable And if they do become unstable within the next three hours, I will call the fellow in to come try to embolize them And that's it so for the next few hours or so I'll sit here I have a couple more stats studies that are coming down the pipe I'll hit those and then I'll probably just work on some YouTube videos as the studies roll in for the next few hours When it gets this late, I get really tired and I really can't do much so the study starts slowing down and I'll usually start working on my YouTube videos or Whatever I have I usually just watch YouTube not too much work But it is what it is and since there's only so much I can take of wearing contacts at 4.15 in the morning It's time to take them out And switch over to glasses All right, so it's now 7 a.m. And I will go sign out to interventional radiology to let them know about the bleeding patient overnight somehow They didn't decide to bleed again, so we didn't have to intervene But they will this morning, so I have to go tell them about it and then Lucky me we have a 7 a.m. Physics lecture today, so That's pretty cool Nothing like working 11 hours then sitting through a one-hour physics session I'm sure I won't fall asleep, but we'll see how it goes Somehow we made it through another night and I need to get some sleep All right guys, so it's officially 8 15 in the morning now. I am completely dead Actually, I'm not that tired the first night is always the best because you're just not tired yet I'll probably get like two hours of sleep tonight and then wake up exhausted, so that's cool anyways do me a favor and Gently tap on that like it subscribe button Leave a comment below If I like it I'll respond to it Otherwise, I guess I'll see you guys on the next video