Alright guys, okay as you know I'm pretty transparent about my losses guys. The reason is because I'm in the educational business here. I'm not just trading for myself. I am trying to educate others to trade the way that we trade.  That's because I mean my loss is going to be bigger than my wins. That's the reality of it, you know? That's the way I trade but fortunately for every week that I make money I maybe lose one day, you know? I haven't lost in a few weeks so that's been good but you know it could have been much much worse. So yesterday what I did was I was on a great street guys. I was killing it basically for a while now and then I kind of got kind of greedy. I was telling Alex like, you know I didn't make enough, I didn't make enough. And so I started trading like stuff that I should not be trading normally. So the reason I became successful during the streak is because I was very disciplined to follow the process and yesterday I touched CARV and that thing carved me up. Thank goodness I only had 2,000 shares, you know? But the thing is this man I've maxed out my 2,000 shares and I am frantically looking for more size. Thank God that I could not find a low-key. That sucker read, dude I was in like very low, let me see what price I was in. I was in like a $20 line and it just flew to $40 bucks guys. You think about that man, who could survive that? 100% move on a large ticker item, right? I was in $40,000, I mean not $40,000, let me see what it's like, yeah. I mean it's just a $40,000 position, 2,000 shares short, $40,000 right?  If you think about it, I lost, actually no, I lost 10 points. Holy fuck, I lost 10 points guys. Because it halted up, it ran up and I'm sitting down 23,000 or something like that within the first hour.  I was like the first thing that comes to your mind when you lose is I knew I shouldn't have, I shouldn't, you know? So it's funny because like when you win, you're like I knew it, I should have sized up. When you lose, you're like I knew it, I should have not sized up, you know? And so this is the mentality of a trader guys, it's just you can't avoid it man. When we win, when we win, hold on, let me check, I'm still trading, cool. When we win, it's never enough and then when we lose, it's too much, you know? So you have to find the discipline and we talked about this today actually, you know, be happy with what you have. They always say take what the market gives you, the answer is take what your process gives you. If you want to make more, maybe, you know, sizing up is not necessarily going to make you more. You know, figure out what you're doing wrong and getting rid of what you're doing wrong. So I've been avoiding plays like car of front side, CRV, low flow. Front side, no dilution, being pumped by every internet pump and dumper.  Especially the day before N-E-G-G-N-A was running. And so everyone's looking for the next runner. So all these things, I was like, I was very arrogant. I was like, I can, dude, I've been making money man, I'm not, you know?  I was like, dude, I just put fantasy orders everywhere.  Carved, halted up twice on me. I couldn't even get out. I mean, dude, the prices were insane. Each gap was $5 up. And so I was able to get out on the second gap up $10. I covered at the very top, guys.   Let me see. Oh, did I post my chart somewhere on that? I posted my chart on the middle part. So let me review. Okay, guys, this is a good thing. So look at where I freaking covered yesterday, guys, on carve.   Cause that's, that's this, you know what man? That's the thing. I'd had no stops. I actually covered guys. I was down not that much here. I covered for a five point loss on 2000 shares. So it was only $10,000.  I'm like, fuck, I might have covered the top. Right? So I did the right process where I covered. I shorted the pre-market highs and then I got out. I'm like, cool, I can make back 10,000 no problem. It was like a day of work. Oh man, I went back, guys. I went back and I started to scale.  And then it started to hold up and I'm sitting here like, I can't get out. And the first thing that goes through your mind is, what if it hits a hundred? You know, when you're deep stuff like this, I'm stuck 2000 shares, right? Stuck and I got out. Look at this. I got out at the freaking top. The moment I covered and hold it down. I had a tiny share of left I covered here. It halted down. I could have, I could have been up on this stock. So you think about this, my mind is a wreck. My mind is a wreck. I covered the top only to see it tank down and now I'm sitting here with a $23,000 loss. And it's only freaking like 10 a.m., right? It's only 10 a.m. And I'm sitting here. I'm here, dallying my skills, hating life, thinking I'm the dumbest guy. No heart stops, adding to a loser.  The good news, the good news is, hey, I only lost 23,000, right? It's not the end of the world. I still, I'm still in the game. It's not like I lost $100,000. You know, the process that got me here was risk management, max daily loss. I think my max daily loss is 15,000 on each account. So I was, I was still able to trade.  It's all relative, right? What hurt is, right? I mean, I made that during the week already. So it doesn't matter. But the point is when you lose something that big, you start to doubt yourself. You're like, what am I doing? Can I trade anymore? Like, so you become PTSD, post-traumatic, stock disorder, post-traumatic, post-traumatic, post-traumatic, stock disorder, PTSD, post-traumatic, stock disorder. Cause now you're afraid to place the short.  Cause I'm like, what if the next dog does the same thing? Then I remind myself, wow. Let's take a look at my whole day. So I'm looking at all of my trades and I saw that the only stock I lost on like that was card. And I had no business trading that stock that day. Even Alex warned me. And I was so arrogant to think that, hey man, cause I was up, I was up, and I'm up on the week.  I'm the best, you know? Whatever. And they just card me up. And so I looked back and examined. So what I did was I told the guys, you saw this. So let me, let me show you what I showed the guys. So this is why you guys are in MIC guys.  I basically, this is yesterday. I said that this is as bad as you will see me trade. You see how embarrassing I stopped out at the top. You know, as a, as the supposed leader, how embarrassing to have a chart that looks like this. It's so embarrassing, man.  But I always remind myself, one bad trade does not make you a bad trader. One good trade does not make you a good trader. So what I did was I, I did not shy from it. I did not blame the Algos. I did not blame manipulation like some of these other Twitter guys.  You know, man, they think that the best arrogance is what causes you to go broke. I admit I'm not the best.  I owned the loss and I told the guys, I showed you the guys the ugliest chart ever. Stopping out at the top. Ah, and then I even showed the P and L down 23,000.   So I used it to have a lesson guys. So instead of, you know, you can ignore the loss, blame it on Algos, blame it on manipulation. But I'm like, you know what, man? I'm a real trader, real traders lose. It doesn't hurt me, my ego. It does hurt, but I'm like, dude, I'm working these things out of my mind because you know what? Day trading is very much mental.   Trading is pretty much mental. It's a huge mental game.  So I basically worked in my head. So what I did was I made it a point to understand why I lost and not shy away from the reason. I put a fence around what I did.  So today I did not even touch the hot chicks. Right, I let those do it. I told myself, only low hangers.  You go back to what made you successful.  What made me successful is avoiding those, sticking to the low hanging fruit, sticking to the broken charts. So today I went back to it and I actually did that yesterday. So I cleared up my mind and I forgot about it. And so L M F A came and I just destroyed that stock yesterday and I made back a lot of losses. Yesterday let me show you what I did. So the moment that I admitted I lost on carve, the moment I educated the guys the reason why, the moment I made a rule to not touch those types of stocks again, I'm able to clear my brain. And all of a sudden L M F A came and I just destroyed that stock. I went to what I did best, channel trading.   Carve is a known stock to carve people up. L M F A, if you are patient on the outer lines, you can make money. Cause you know, the trend is usually spikes back down. I traded the stock in the past. I made a lot of money in the past. So I have confidence in the stock. And once again, look at those insane candles like someone says, look, I just raked it. And today, similarly, the same thing, L M F A. Look at this top tech each yellow cover all the way down.  No, I covered it. Oh, that was something else. But uh, so what did I do guys? I, when you make a loss, own the loss, do not blame it on the algo manipulation on that.  Okay, now what do you learn? What do you do from it? You can either ignore it and make the same mistake over and over or own it to create a role, to create a fence around your process. So that doesn't happen again. Okay, the fence could be as simple as having a tab remind you daily. Alex even told me, Alex says, I should have screamed harder at you, pal. It may or may not work. I told Alex, I never, I never locate any stock that is priced 10 cents or above.   I'm already down 20 cents when I'm located. So the rule thumb for me is I want to get back to that rule.   Avoid it for me. That used to be my rule. I broke that rule one time. Alex knows I'm a cheap guy when it comes to locates.   And so getting a dollar locate costs, it's going to ruin me. Cause I know if that price like that, you have to work the range. If you are too early, you will get destroyed. How do you make back a dollar? You know, like I gave it to Alex.  He still makes money. I can't do it. So I made a rule. So these are the rules that you do for yourself. Everybody has a different thing for me. If I see the cost of the locates more than 10 cents, I don't touch it. Cause I know some, it's the range is so huge. And I know I have FOMO. I have more FOMO and less discipline sometimes, right? And there's like 10 other stocks I was trading.  So you know what? Today I did. So I realized that. So what I did was I, today I told Alex, don't short carve, short the sympathy. C-O-H-N. Now let me show you what I did. So I didn't touch carved. Carved, carved me up, man.  Cone cost me two cents. Two cents. And take a look. Cone, much easier. I'll give you the biggest trick right now. Do not ever touch the main stock, the head. If there is a sympathy runner and you're short by a seller, do not short the head of the snake. Short the sympathy. The reason is sympathies run much less. Sympathies run much less and take much further. So the opportunity costs. Oh my God, let me see. You can see the prices right here. This thing, I shorted all the way up to $24. The lowest cover was freaking 29 bucks, $28, $29. 28 something, 28 bucks. Unbelievable range.  Let me bring up carve today. If I had touched carve again, I would have got destroyed.  My carve ran all the way up to 42.  I would have been scaling here, stopping out here.   Let me bring it up again. It's weird, man. My DOS been crashing lately like that, just randomly. I don't know why. Anybody have any problems like that? If you have problems like that, let me know. See if we can cure it somehow. So let me bring up that carve again. Would have been destroyed, guys. I would have been destroyed. It came back down eventually. I would have made the same mistake. I would have covered the top.  So my rule for myself, my rule for myself is this, guys.  I can't go back to trade it, seriously dude.     And the bully sidekick today was Cone, C-O-H-N. That's a sympathy play.    And I stuck to the low hangers. I told the guys, stick to the low hangers. You know what, man? And all of a sudden I look at my P and I'm like, dude, I'm still the past two days I'm green. I went from a $23,000 loss to green and I did not just revenge trade a single time. The best thing that I did was I took that loss. The moment I took that loss, I'm relieved because I know exactly how much I lost. When you're in that stock, you panic. You can't do anything. You make errors upon errors. One error will lead to five errors.  I looked at my losses and it was like 23,000. So this is a trick I do, guys. 23,000, I have two accounts I can trade. So I just need to make back 12,000 each account.  And not only that, I'm like, if I just make 3,000 a day, 4,000 a day on each account, which I do every day knock on wood, right? I can do that. I can do that. It doesn't mean I do it, but I can do that, right? I can make more, make less, but I can very realistically make three or 4,000 each account every day, knock on wood. So that comes out to me just in three days. I can make back my money in three days. So that 23,000 doesn't see that bad anymore.    So you break down. So that's another trick. If you want to make $100,000, it seems a lot, man, but when you break it down into, let's say, weeks or months, 100,000 is 9,000, eight or 9,000 a month. That's 2,000 a week. That is 2,000 divided by five days. That's dude, only four in a box a day.  To make 100,000, are you gonna need $4,000 a day? You see? You see how much now it's much simpler to get to 100,000 than think 100,000? So which leads me to my Twitter, which I always point everybody back to. You be surprised, guys, look at this, man. That is how I bounce back. I bounce back by realizing what I did wrong, own my losses, and then broke down the loss into more realistic goals. So goals, goals, you know, you make the big goals, the big dream goals, but then you have to have mini milestones along the way. Make milestones along the way. You don't just go from zero to 100,000.  Holy cow! Just by doing the $400 a day. You know, consistency is the key, man. So that's how I did it, guys. You know, I broke, I first admitted I lost, I figured out why. The important thing is you have to figure out why you lost, and make a plan on why you lost, and then make a strategy to make it back. 23,000, if I keep thinking 23,000, that's a lot of money. But now I'm thinking, hey, I can make across two accounts, three days. Now I'm like relaxed, I'm like, holy, I need to make 3,000 a day, 4,000, which is, you know, I normally do that easily. Anyway, it's not going good, but. So today, you know what I'm like, dude, I doubled triple that, so I'm good, man. I'm actually now, I'm green.  From being down 23,000, not revenge trading. These are not big accounts either, guys. I'm trading a realistically small account for educational wise. And then, but during that time, this is how I got killed. I got killed because I was telling Alex, like, fuck, man. Why don't I just put millions back in my account?  And I'm reminding you why I'm like, dude, man, the moment I started thinking that way, I started to lose, forcing trades. So, you know what, man, stay within your lane. These are rich people probably, Alex says, but it could be anything. If you're down $1,000, break that down into realistic goals. I, you just need to make $300 a day, guys. To make $1,000, you just make $300 a day. To make $100, I mean, $1,000 a week. $200 a day for one week. You know, it makes things like, oh, that's great. So you want to learn how to day trade. Do it in steps. First, I need to learn the platform. I need to learn level two. That's why we have videos. We have the face study guide. We have all the, and we have the accelerator. We have all that, guys.  But if you break it down to mini steps, oh my God. It's like, that's like learning a foreign language, guys. You don't, and you don't learn all of things in one day or one week or one month, man. This is a course of months, you know? Some people take years, but then when you make it, it's like unbelievable. You know, Alex took eight years.   You know, I made a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of losses, but you know, I bounce back, guys.  You take a look at my Twitter, man. No, once ever, it's called this manipulation play. I never blamed on bad algo.   You banked because it was a manipulation. You banked because it's a manipulation. The fact that it's been manipulated is how you make money. That's how we make money as traders.  There's no money to be made.  And it moves because no one knows the real price of the worth of the stock. The stock is only worth what you wanted to pay. And the deviation and the true value and the over and the under, that's how we make our money. We make our money not because the fucking, the stock is trading at the value that's supposed to trade at.   We make money because it's manipulation. The whole market is manipulated.  The analysts are doing upgrades, ups and downs. We are pumping and dumping, not me, but other people, it doesn't matter. Even I'm manipulating sometimes. The moment that we make, when I put a bid out and I have bigger size, that's manipulation in a way. Why are we trying to scare people?  So I love manipulation. Without manipulation, no trader will make money consistently. I consistently make money. Alex consistently makes money. MIC members who learn make consistent money because we know it's manipulated. We are following the manipulation patterns. Okay? So how do you make money, guys? There you go. You make money because you know what, man?   I planned on making it in three days, but thank God, it only took a day, right? Two days, so I'm good. So that's how it is. So let me bring on any questions. Hey, Tosh, you there? It's been a while since I brought Tosh. Raise your hand, Tosh. This is your man, guys, so you guys want to learn this stuff? Where are you, buddy? Waiting for Tosh's hand so I can add him. Still don't wake up, Tosh. Is he not calling? Oh, there you go. I'm gonna bring Tosh on, man. So now you can talk and I can trade. Hey! What's up, dude? Where are you going? Oh, man, I went for a quick drive to listen to the IG, going to my favorite, what's it called? Smoothie spot, juice core in Arizona for anybody who knows. What's up, dudes? Okay, as long as you're not going to steal my girl, you're good. I haven't been driving a long way, bro. But you got a fast car, bro. Move quick. What's up, man? How you guys doing? Hey, so people haven't seen you in a long time because we don't bring you on.  So tell us that rule that you do for MIC, because that reminds people, that's very important. Because whenever someone's in trouble, that needs to learn to trade, I always send a Tosh. Tosh is the guy that listens to you because he helps you with your problems, so. Bro, I've always been a patient person. I'm just really patient with whether it's trading. That's why I think swing trading is really so fun for me, is I'm just really a patient person. So when we're in MIC, guys, the beauty about me, Alex Bowen, team of 20 plus moderators is the fact that everybody's good at what they do, right? So anybody that has questions, man, send it to me because we can talk it out. And the thing that I made famous over the years, or I tried to at least, is my incessant hard stop reminders. Because, dude, without hard stops, you're fucked.  And like, Bow, I think you didn't even have a hard stop on carved, right? That's why it kind of carved you up, right?  I've actually, just to kind of give you a little bit of insight into my life, dude, I've lately been a little depressed in my personal life because I want things so quickly. There's always someone to compare it to, bro. There's always someone doing better than you. There's someone better looking than you. There's someone that can get better girls than you. There's always something better. And I've been comparing myself, but in that, I've been trying to go too quick. And I see a lot of new members, man. They try to go so freaking quickly, bro. They try to rush the process. They try to get rich quick.    And things that make me happy, it's very hard. And the thing that we wanted to discuss there, because I was telling Bal and Alex earlier, is dude, I got it out of my routine and I kind of lost myself this week. And I was like, whoa, I need to get back to reality. I need to get back to being happy, dude. There's nothing trading related.  I can see uptick and downtick on a mountain range. But the point is, I don't want you guys rushing. I don't want you guys trying to be something you're not immediately. I want you guys to take it slow. If you need help reach out to me, reach out to our team, I'm going to preach hard stops because the minute you go, I don't need a hard stop. Guess what's going to happen? You're going to set yourself back because you tried to rush. You tried to get a home run. So there's so much that it was, Dave Rods there, we got to go to Vegas? Dude, Dave Rods, Vegas ain't ready for you and me and Bal in the same room, bro. Alex too, uh-uh. But if anything, guys, it's a good check-in back to the mental side. You got to take care of you. You got to take care of your happiness. You got to take care of your routine, your discipline, and your trading. And it's all going to show up in your trading. Josh, I forgot that. You're absolutely right. So I'll tell you what I did different this week that made me so sharp and Alex pointed out, you know, man, I took a long break from not working out. You know that? Yeah, I, I, I, before I went up, yeah. And so the moment I started working out this week, oh my God, man, I felt great, dude. My mind has never been sharper.  Bro, it's crazy, right? The minute you get out of that stuff, bro, I haven't, I haven't golfed in months. I haven't gotten a smoothie in months. So I was like, God, I got to get back to my roots. I've just been so focused on building or, or, um, you know, whatever, man. I've just been so focused on other things. I'm like, oh shit, what's my normal routine that keeps me happy in my day to day life? That's going to make me a better trader. Correct. It always does.  Man, because we, we are all so busy, man.  And so sometimes we, we, we like, dude, man, why not MIC have more people? Why people quitting?  They're the worst traders in the world, right? But they have more people joining. And it's not because of money that I'm pissed. It's more of like, it's more of like, I'm sad that we work so hard and teaching people how to trade correctly that these people don't give a fuck. All they care about being pumped to, and they're okay with that. And so it makes us depressed. So, and so you get in this spiral where you are so focused on one thing. So I don't like the fact that these, some people keep saying like, hey, you should study 24 hours in the stock. It doesn't work like that, man. We are not, we are not a robot. We, we need our- Bro, I've been saying that. Val, I was saying the exact same thing as like when I first started studying trading, bro, I obsessed. And when I mean obsessed, dude, I broke up with a girlfriend and do it. I quit my job to do it because I had money saved up to learn. I pulled money off credit cards, bro, to borrow so I could have more P.E.T. account. I went so down the rabbit hole so quickly, it became an unhealthy addiction. And I studied charts 18 hours that I couldn't sleep.  And it got me there quicker, but dude, it's so much of a cost to my health and happiness seven years ago. I don't recommend that. I recommend you get in, you know, hopefully MIC because I think we do the best work by a landslide or a wide margin.  I was on a phone call with a trader yesterday, bro.  Stitch is doing good. I said, Stitch, you're trying to rush the process, bro.  Why are you trying to get Lamborghinis tomorrow, man? I said, bro, it's gonna be here for a hundred years. And, pal, the thing about this industry and it makes me really sad, bro, it really makes me sad. I'm just gonna lay it all out there.  And social media and you go on Twitter.  You're talking about things that make sense to professional traders, things that make sense if you use common sense. All these guys talking about manipulation and outlet, bro.  We wouldn't make money without manipulation and taking advantage of the edge of stupidity. But they complain because they're trying to sell a product or they're trying to do something that is, it takes away from the human nature. And this industry, bro, is like, it's so against so much of the stuff that we preach and social media. I gotta tell you, bro, I got a soft heart. I'm kind of fragile that way.   It burns me out. So that's the thing, guys. So my recommendation to Todd, who would work for me, try to get back, get you back, bro.  Sometimes you gotta take days off, guys, seriously, man. You don't wanna get burnt out in this industry. Trading will always be here. I always tell people, take care of your personal life because if your personal life is a wreck and chaos, so your trading is going to be wrecked.  You're not thinking clearly. So the moment I got rid of my toxic personal stuff, God knows I'm gonna talk to human beings sometimes, right? So I can't get rid of myself. So I gotta get rid of other people, but you know what it is? That's what I think. When I see people think, you can focus, guys, but make sure your personal life is healthy and that's what's working for me this week. The fact that I was okay to lose in 23,000s, I'm looking at it as my bigger perspective. I'm working out. I feel great.  At least I have $23,000 to lose. There's always a way to look at something right now. There's always another, like, Like you, I'll give you an example for everybody. Tax, man, everyone has to pay taxes.  It's a blessing, right? It's a blessing. We get so narrow-minded and like, I got crushed this year on tax. And it bums you out for a minute until you realize, wait, this is a blessing to write a big check to these fuckers, to these no-bats. Do you know what? I had traders, you know, Tosh, that never pay tax on stock trades because they never made money.  Or their first wire out. Like, dude, it brings me so much happiness when we get a member and he, like, frames his first wire out. He's like, dude, this is, like, Cobra's on it or, like, TZ or whatever. And it's like the check. It's like, I got a wire out for my un-profits and that's so cool, man. So make a goal. Make a goal to be able to get a giant-ass IRS bill. That means you're making some money, bro. Yeah, because, and, like, what I would recommend to everybody as well is, like, stop focusing on just the money. This whole IG Live is to put perspective of the human connection, man, is who you are as people. And it's beyond money. It's about processes. It's about happiness.   Look at this 24-year-old. Look at this 18-year-old. And then I'm like, whoa, whoa. And now I'm looking outside myself and now my happiness is gone and my training sucks after that. You know what I mean?  They're 24 years old and they're just a duty to be. And they run the world, bro. They run the frickin' world.  They did TikTok and YouTube. Now we need to do trader boxing. Yeah, seriously. I'm down. Let me fight the furus.   Me against the furus. Bro, that's so sick. That was always wanted to trade against the furus. I've always wanted to actually beat them up. So I'll go in the ring with the furus. Who do you want to be bashed up against? We won't go there, bro. But dude. Dude, I'm getting red over it. I'm like getting excited. I'm getting heated. But that's it, guys. I mean, I wanted to share you the fact that we all lose. People, I've noticed this, man. I win too much knock on wood. But it's not because I win. I work hard and I post these charts and I notice there's less interaction. Because people don't relate to that, man.  And so I'm glad that. I'm not glad I lose, but I'm glad the fact that when I do lose, I'm able to reach out.  I own the loss and I make a video and I help the people do it. That's the whole thing.  It's like, no, dude, you rear-ended the car. You lost on car valve because you broke process. And what happened when you got back to process, bro? You almost made 23,000 back, bro. That's the point. It's like, if we take responsibility. Yeah, exactly. Whatever you make, yeah. We have to take responsibility for our lives. I made 30,000 backerates. I'm good. Yeah, so it didn't take six days of work. It took one. The point is taking our lives back, taking our happiness back, getting back to what works. I think that's what this whole, and it was good, man. And you need people to reach out to, man. Bow was having a hard time mentally last week. I was having one this week, and this is why we pick ourselves up, man. We remember why we did it. We remember why we do it. This is why you have tabs. Tab is not there just to talk about technical stocks.  Because trading is lonely, man.     People have no idea, bro. They see the memes. They see us joking around.   I live in a city where I got a couple family members. I don't have too many physical friends here, meaning like I got online friends, but, and of course, thank God for MIC friends, but dude, I don't have friends that I could just go to his house this weekend. And it's because I moved to state where I wasn't happy in that state, and he was taking so much of my mental, it was just causing me mental anguish every single day, bro, that it was an aggressive city. And when I get charged, I'm a really emotional, aggressive person. People can pull that out of me, and LA brought that out of me, bro. So I one day said, I gotta get up and out of here, bro, for my health, for my, for my, so I'm a really, like you can pull the Hulk out of me, man. It's there, but I don't want it to be there. So I went to a very neutral kind of Switzerland city, but I'm lonely. So I get depressed every now and then.  It's not all fairytale rainbows. You've got life is brutal. The life is brutal and mental is even more brutal. So you've got to stay in your discipline. Farms just crashed down to 30 bucks. Fuck. Did it?  I'm like, I was like, I didn't find any low-case cheaps. I was like, I'm not going to go back to the bull. I'm happy with what I did today. But that's the thing, guys. We're human beings, guys. We have the luxury to be able to work anywhere because we're traders, right? Correct. Let's take advantage of that, but at the same time, it's lonely. And so that's why we have the TAP program, you know? You get rid of my TAP, I was my TAP, the MIC is my TAP. And so when you lonely, focus your channel on the people that matter, right? And so like, I told Toss, when he's sad, call up a fucking, there's so many guys that want to be helped. Gosh, so many being mentioned, call them up.  Remember what we talk about every day, man? We get these messages of members thanking us for changing their lives. And it reminds us, it keeps us going, man, because I wake up, I don't want to wake up. Toss, you just started working, girl. I've been doing this for two decades. I don't want to wake up, bro. I'm tired. I want to jump into my friend, G4, and just go with him. Seriously, guys.  You barely started in the workforce. He's like, I'm retired.  You had the G4?  You know what I'm saying, man?  We all have to do what we have to do. We have responsibilities. And so I don't have time to feel sad about myself, because I'm helping people. And look at this, man. People are thanking you, Toss. I wanted to bring Toss on today to remind him how loved he is, how important he is. There's nothing to be feeling sad about. The problem is we are very entitled, and we have time to feel sad. When I was living in, when I was in the third world those guys don't have time to be sad. Sadness is a part of life. Well, that's survival mode over there, you know what I mean?   Sadness is an entitlement in America. Crying about complaining about paying too much taxes, what do we do?  Dude, it's- Toss, let me show you a risk. Show people what's on your wrist. You have it?      I'm like I want to jump out of my movie to boo boo boo boo boo. Do you know what I'm talking about? You know what man? I think the beauty of these reminders though is the beauty of everything is the fact that it gets back to we're flesh and blood. We have down days.   I got days where I'm super happy, ex-girlfriend hits me up, there's still ties there, bro.  The IRS takes half my money.  We are human. When you try to run away from that stuff, you're fucked. I get lonely. You have to admit these things to yourself, bro. You know what it is? This is the pain of leveling up. Congratulations. I had to use my other hand for something else.  This is the new problem. Each level comes with different problems. You imagine three, four years ago, you were dreaming to be in this situation. And now you're in this situation. No, it's true, bro. It's true, man. I remember three years ago, bro. I didn't even know how relationships work. I was still getting trained and started. I was like, dude. I was in debt. I was in debt.  So you level up wherever you were in life. That's my point. I'm just giving the number of years and I don't know the exact year. But you see what I'm saying? Each level presents itself with different sets of problems. So to ground yourself, you think back the last time you leveled up and you just preying. So I'm like, you know, what I'm talking about, so I'll give you an example.  I made $4,000 or $7,000 the other day. I'm telling Alex like, dude, I'm not happy.  I should be making a lot more.  And that's what caused me to have the next day of $23,000 a lot. I was not happy with making $7,000.  So it's weird.  Sometimes I almost feel like we subconsciously take those big L's, bro. I swear to God. So we can get back to building up the happiness again because it's weird, man. It's like a plan. Like if you just focus on money and financial gain, dude, like life's miserable.    I can't not trade correctly or whatever you do, whatever you do. I almost feel like sometimes we subconsciously like nick ourselves or jab ourselves so we can get back to, oh, fundamentals, basics. Let me put a new goal up. This is why we try not to just live in money and we're in an industry where it is the most superficial industry in the world where everybody just wants to make money.    Dude, literally. I can buy toilet paper for the whole village in Vietnam.  So I'm looking around.  Costco zone built for five dollars.  I hate it. I bought a Rolex that was the one thing because my grandpa had a really nice watch and watches were kind of prevalent throughout my fit.  I'll never buy it.  How do I switch the screen?  I couldn't afford anything I want. I'll buy designer hat, bro. Am I see, baby? It's such a waste of money, bro. And it brings people out of the again, out of the human connection belt. If you and I were walking down an airport, right? The way you and I dress is identical.    And it makes me want to shake people. Makes me want to shake myself because there are some forms I compare. This is why I slapped you and brought you back to earth today.  What's on your wrist? What's on your driving? And so I walk. So you, we, I'm telling you, as a trader, I'm looking at numbers on the street. It's meaningless. Yeah. Like that's why Alex has $100 of $1 bills on his desk. To remind him that's 500. Dude, don't give me story.     Like Costco, a thousand dollars.  You know, literally. Yeah. And so you have to remind yourself and bring back.  But that's life changing.  That is life changing.    No, so that's childhood for you, bro. That's like feeling childhood. Yeah. No, I get that. And everybody's got a different outlet of that, right? And, and it's just, I love that, man. I love that. Cause again, you're getting back to what's healthy for Bow. And this week, man, I kind of lost sight of my happiness.  Bow Alex, I'm kind of losing my mind. Dude, I'm like, I feel myself just like kind of like in this rat race in my head. And I'm not talking about work. I'm not talking about anything like that. It just, it was more of like an energetic thing. And I was like, bro, like I need help as a tab partner, like not a trading partner. I need help as like a brother, as like a friend, dude.  Like what, what, what am I not seeing? And we all have this, bro. That's that we're not, we're not those communities where you don't know who's teaching you.   And we, and we go through trials and tribulations or we have great times and, and we try to teach you guys through the trial by fire that we go through.  That's not life. Like I said, man, be, be careful what you wish for in life guys. Each level presents itself. Each leveling up presents itself with a new set of problems. You level one more time. Tosh, I guarantee you, you're not going to have any friends because most friends will never relate to you just like me and Alex. Right.  No one's going to be a birthday party. No one's thinking, but you know what I do?    That hit home for me, bro, because a couple years ago was the first time and I got some friends who make some good money. It was the first time ever out of all my friends back home. I mean, I got a couple here. They're not like great friends yet, but like, like all my friends all over. It was the first time I was like, wow, I definitely make like a lot more money than any of my friends, even a lot of family members.  That's the level that you're talking about. And I suffered some real problems with that mentally, man. I was like, wow, motherfucker, you only hit me up now asking for stock advice. What happened when we were best friends for 15 years and now you don't even hit me up outside of a stock tip? And I'm like, because they don't relate to you anymore. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. And it's like boo, who us, we're doing well. But seriously, man, there's light and dark with everything in life. And the more you level up with everything comes a form of sacrifice. And I get it.  You've got you've got plenty of years of experience. You've got plenty of years of experience, brother. You got keep it to you. You got, dude, you look 18, you got plenty of years of experience above me and Alex, that is that is wisdom, that is being wise, that is hitting these levels, hitting plateaus where we haven't even hit yet, dude, and I'm not talking about financially. I just mean life and learning different experiences. And bro, with each plateau comes extraordinary sacrifice, whether you do it or the people around you do it to you. It's crazy.  Welcome to the next level, Tosh. Welcome to the next level. These are the growing pains, right? Now you know, man.  I just gave me some. Dude, dude, I heard something the other day. Bro, I heard something the other day that was kind of funny.  It was like, oh, what was it? It was like if you take the Red Pill, you get to go back to like 15 years old but know everything you know now, but you have to redo your life over. Like, you don't have your kids. You don't have your family that you know. I was like, dude, let me go back.  I was like, later, dude. But the fact that we can't, the fact that we cannot guys, you cannot cry about the past. Because the only thing you do is learn from the past. Remember what we say, man, either we win or we learn. When are we learn? When are we learn? And the beauty about the reason why I brought that up now is while we can't take that Red Pill and go back to 15 years old. With all the knowledge we have now, we can teach the 15-year-olds plus whatever the knowledge that we know now. I'm old. I have to take the Red, the Blue Pill once in a while. It is a fact of life.  The young guys are going to have no idea what you're talking about. The old dudes are going to be like, I got to take the Blue Pill, too. Dude, bro, my dad, he's such a comedian, man. He's more of a friend than a father. And, bro, he was cracking me up for years because he was like, he was really big on bumble back when him and my mom divorced me. And I'd be like, Dad, what's your secret? He'd be like, I got a bottle of Blue Pills, 24 sevens of a row. He'd be like, I nibble a quarter.  You beast.  But yeah, man. So, you know, this was an IG Live that's very different, guys. Obviously, I haven't showed my face in a while.  And the whole point is just getting back to happy. And the reason why you get back to happy and process and discipline and routine in your mind, whatever that is that works for you, it's going to show up in the career that we discuss every day, which is trading. Your trading will get so much, just a plethora of better, man. Everything is just going to conjoin.  And the days where you break process, you'll show up. The days where you do really good and consistent, you will show up. It'll be like a love letter to your life and your mind. And that's why we we're open books, man. Is that Mercury, Recreate or something?  Oh, dude, I well, let's give some backstory on that, bro. So it's funny, bro. Because like I'm the type of guy that's really like, if I don't see it, I don't believe it, but I'm also big in the esoteric and my aunt is like one of the world's like, not like leading astrologers, but she's really good. And she's like really big. And so I've always believed in astrology.  And I hear you, but it's funny, man. I've seen some, I've seen some commonalities my whole life.      Bro, the moon, the moon, all that shit, man, turns into something weird, man. It's like, it's like, it's like male PMS. Dude, I'm telling you the minute I read these newsletters are like, Mercury retrograde and Mercury just went half past Uranus and this is in this house.  Yo, guys, so, you know, whatever it is. So the point is you see this, I purposely wanted to talk to him so now, so that he can see, this is what we're missing in our life as traders. It's fun. The normal, the normal human connection. Yeah.    No, done that. Being there, man.   I've, I've made this famous on the, all my webinars, but I used to do the film industry extra work.   And I would do construction.  I did that and I remember and now we know how blessed we are to click a couple buttons and make what those people make in a day, a week, a month, dude. It's, it's, it's remarkable. So there's never like a loss of gratitude or appreciation for that, but it's good to remind yourself where you came from. Yep. That's all I'm gonna do that. Yep.  I know, right?   But because it's a memento. Every time I look at it, I go, this is why I work so hard. This is why I'm going to continue to work so hard. And dude, I can have a hundred million dollars tomorrow. I'm not going to get a Richard Miller. I'm just not flashy.  And I'm going to continue to push. But yeah, man, you and I dress the exact same, bro.   We all work for a reason. I, you know what I'm saying? I can tell people no money, no honey. You got a lot of honey without money. Stupid. No, dude. No money, no honey. Dude, honey sometimes attracts flies, not bees. Too many flies. Let me, let me experience some of that. You can have toss. You don't want to, it's like, me tell the toss, don't, don't want to make money, man. You can pay IRS toss. Let me make money. Let me figure it out. I want to be like, now I was like, no, dude. You do not want to go, you do not want to fly private. It's horrible. It's horrible living in a mansion toss. Don't do that, don't do that. It's terrible, bro.  Yeah, man. I think this is a good IG live because people, people forget that we're people because, because we run MIC, because we created MIC, because we're the, the men in charge, like whatever you want to, we're the role model.  We have weak moments. We have strong moments. It's a brotherhood. It's a community. And when we remind ourselves that we are all here as a collective experience, and I'm not, and guys, this is so beyond trading. I mean, whatever your form of trading is, whether it's small cast, what's about doing all that, small cast, big caps, options, you're going to find people to relate with, and you're going to find that in the community.   Yeah, if you can survive the pandemic, man, this is going to make you tougher, guys.    So you imagine like, this is their opportunity. So glad in the world, your life is always, it should be the glasses half full, man.  The fact that we're able to do it. Yeah, perspective of any form.  Being fucking, you know. That's what got me this week. Yeah. So this is why- Dude, and it was hard, bro. It was hard because like, like, I know Bow calls us a humble brag, but like, I do well on the dating apps, whatever. But that's so empty a lot of the time.  You know what I mean? Right, when you hit him. I lived with my ex, bro. I loved that girl.  And like, that kind of hit me this week.   Don't take this in your trading.  That's what it is. But they don't want to be with you.  All kinds of happiness.   Whatever you feel lonely, bro. You know?  You were not in love. Dude, like, three kids later, you're like, man, I was really just horny.  Bro, I'm divorced.  Bro, what's crazy?  Like, I liked crazy back then.  Like, I got to be careful. I'm like, I actually think now.  This is crazy. So, I mean, some people have more of a drive than other people. So, when I was younger, man, I literally- Just to find out whether- Oh, maybe it's just, wait, maybe this is too dirty. If he says that, it is. Before I go on dates, I would literally have to like, you know, help myself so that you know you're not just horny. And the same thing applies to trading. All right?    That's my point. Right? So, when I'm gone on a date, I'm looking for a relationship to take a mental-emotional connection. So, I need to strip away the FOMO of sex. So, that's the thing. It's a FOMO.  So, how do you cure the FOMO of trading? Like, carve. I have the FOMO of carve too. I didn't want to miss the trade, you know? Shit like that.  How to carve.  Be a FOMO of trading, FOMO of sex, FOMO of relationship, FOMO of life, bro. Bro, I know where you learned.  Speedo, I know where you learned that trick, dude. Check out this G.O.C.    Unfortunately, myself. So, you're like, I take cash out. You can then mow me like, all the money you saved. No, but now, like, I know where you learned that, bro.  But I thought, that's why I thought it funny. I was starting to do that before. And he told me. Dude, there's a lot of. So, I'm going on this Instagram live to that even Alex told me, like, this is my therapy. This is how I stopped from over-trading.     That's the thing, man. When you step out. That helped me. That's how Carve got me. I know. I put my toe in. And then, maybe one more hand. But, Val, dude, beyond trading, bro. Let's talk about that for a second. You break your routine just a little bit. Like, you say, I'm not going to do this. OK, I'll give myself a little bit. Or, see your ex-girl from one time? Bro, you're stepping that you don't understand it.   You don't understand it. It's in life, too. I'm not going to buy a bus. Yeah, man.  Now it's $12.  Now it's holding. $12.34. Now it's not going to come. Do you guys have any idea how hard it is to be a trading tap for Val?  Alex, give me a thumbs up if you agree, bro. Trying to tame this guy is insane. The FOMO level, man. And what I want, the reason why I love getting on with you, Val, and we used to do this years ago a lot, but it's cool to get back on. We never got it on years ago. Yeah. What's the words?  He's going crazy, guys. He's going crazy. This is what he does. This is what he does.   Anyway, go ahead, Tosh. I'll leave you to talk last time. It just all comes back to, man, people forget that the three of us are people. People forget that they're people. People forget that everyone on this earth bleeds, cries, feels heartbreak, loses in trades.  Every day, every week, we don't embellish. We don't polish.  Guys, we're here for you.  Just learning this as you are. We're just that much more ahead in this regard of trading to educate you.   And we've just been trading for a while, so we can teach you a lot of good things that we've learned. Now, I feel like I could teach some people life advice on happiness. I don't know. Now I can teach them.  He's starting a service on how to get guys to get matched up, so. Dude, the next company that we create is how to get laid professionally. I'm kidding, but. Tosh posted a dog photo.  But anyways, Tosh, I love you, man. I love you guys. I love you too, dude. We wanted to remind everybody that we are human beings. And, hey, man, you need anything to hit talk about me. Hey, man.    And the beautiful thing about MIC, it's truly a family man. And there's not one member in MIC that I can't learn something from. And I'm not just talking about trading, life, anything. But even a homeless man on the street could teach you a life lesson. When you are open to the human connection, this is when you thrive. You cannot do this life alone. You cannot do this life alone. You cannot do trading alone. It's impossible. I have tried. Bao has tried. Alex has tried. And we came to the conclusion that, dude, the only way to get to where you want to go is together. And it tab partners for life. Brothers for life. If I can tab partners for trading, it's so beyond price action. Just get back to what works for you. And mentally, physically, energetically, astrologically, whatever, dude. Just do what works for you, man. And it's cool to vet, man. Thank you for letting me vet today.  I love all the MIC members. I'm going to go get a smoothie, then it's back to work, baby. $12 smoothie.  No, no, dude. In LA, it was 14 here. I found one for 10. All right, man. I'll see you guys. See you guys. Love you guys. All right. Have a good weekend. Bye-bye.