In prison, a guy asked me to help him calculate how rich he’d be once he got out. We ran the numbers. Perfect assumptions. Perfect returns. I slid the paper back and said, “Your calculator works. Your habits don’t.” He looked confused. “Math doesn’t fail people,” I said. “People fail math.” He stopped asking about returns. Started asking about discipline. Lesson: The math is easy. The behavior is brutal. That’s why so few win.

I knew a guy who missed every big rally. Tech boom. Missed it. Housing run. Missed it. Crypto surge. Missed it. But somehow, he never lost big money either. When asked why, he said, “I’d rather miss a party than attend a funeral.” Twenty years later, he wasn’t famous — but he was free. No debts. No regrets. No blown accounts. Lesson: You don’t need to catch every upside. You only need to survive the downside. Longevity is the real edge.

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On my trading floor there was one screen no one wanted to sit near. It never blinked. Never flashed. Never screamed. The guy who sat there didn’t talk much either. While everyone chased momentum and shouted orders, he waited. Sometimes days. Sometimes weeks. One afternoon a junior trader leaned over and joked,“Your screen broken?” He didn’t look up. “No. I’m just waiting for the market to say something worth listening to.” That trader survived every crash.The loudest screens went dark first. Lesson: The market always speaks. Most people just talk too much to hear it.

We buy on weakness and sell on strength. That's how we generate profits!