Table of Contents About me .......................................... 1 About Humans .......................................... 2 About rationality and the start of a collective mind .......................................... 3 Old world and modern world .......................................... 4 About freedom .......................................... 5 to 6 About Trading, Media, Marketing and Influencers .......................................... 7 to 10 About free and paid content .......................................... 11 to 12 About Trading Groups / Communities.......................................... 13 to 15 About teaching and Teachers.......................................... 16 to 17 About pseudo-psychology/philosophy .......................................... 18 to 19 Building habits to achieve your goals.......................................... 19 to 21 About profitability and copy trading .......................................... 22 About risk management .......................................... 23 Journalism and writing .......................................... 24 About life and acquiring knowledge in trading and other topics .......................................... 25 to 27 My goals .......................................... 28 to 31 Homo Sapiens .......................................... 32 About my Life and Your Life.......................................... 33 to 36 Before diving into this letter, I urge you to ensure you have the time to truly engage with it. You can read it in parts, but for the full experience, I recommend following these steps: Take a cold shower, set aside 15-30 minutes, sit at your desk or lay in bed, clear your mind, and play the playlist I used while writing it. Start with this song, put it on loop, and then begin reading. https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/12YjRUohhHJOLPYnInULxl?si=99336dca1cc44670 I’m a content creator, but first and foremost, I’m a trader. And though I’m a trader, I’m a human being above all. -An essay about rationality, science, philosophy, trading, life, me, you, and us. About me This letter is intended to be my first lesson for anyone who, for some seemingly random reason, has found themselves around my content. I was born in a developing country and come from a low-income family of teachers. I immersed myself in the digital world at the age of 16. I’m an extremely passionate and curious person with a deep love for people and the world around me. I have a strong interest in science, philosophy, and rationality. My mother is a chemist, and we used to do experiments together. I was mostly raised by her. I discovered trading when I was 17, driven by the hope of funding my studies at a reputable university in another state of my country. I started trading at that young age and was captivated by the possibility of earning significant sums of money. In my first year, I made substantial profits through high-risk investments on crypto but lost it all in the second year. After that experience, I dedicated the next five years to learn trading properly while balancing it with my personal life and studies. During this period, I fell in love twice and had a difficult relationship with my family. I lost all my money more than once, to the point where I barely had enough for rent—or sometimes nothing at all. I slept on friends’ couches while studying with no money to eat. I fell hundreds of times and got up a hundred and one more, that one more was the one that made the difference After my finance career period, I started studying alone in my room, focusing on mathematics, philosophy, and science—what I truly love and consider important. Currently, I’m preparing for a degree at Cambridge or Oxford University. Over the past year, I was fortunate enough to meet some professors from these universities and take classes with them as part of my preparation. This is what I consider important for you to know about me. Now, let’s talk about something that matters to you—about you and us. Page 1 About Humans “In a single moment, time and space intertwine, and the universe bursts forth. Two atomic nuclei fuse, and a star explodes, forming minerals and rocks that attract and heat each other with every collision, eventually turning into magma. This magma creates floating masses that condense into drops of water. In that primordial sea, one molecule binds to another, and the rest is history.” — Fernando Valero This is how life began on this planet; this is how we humans were born. At some point, we lived in the jungles. Have you ever wondered why your hands are so perfectly shaped to type on a computer, why we have this precise grip, or why we walk on two legs instead of four? Our hands had to evolve during specific stages of human evolution to create tools, manipulate our environment, and pick fruits or berries from trees to survive. It took millions of years to develop this precision grip that we now use for modern tasks. Walking on two legs also evolved as a survival adaptation, freeing our hands for other tasks and allowing us to move efficiently in our environment. Humans have a natural biological tendency, shaped by thousands of years of evolution, to adapt to their surroundings and survive. This is what we refer to as instincts—innate behaviors and responses that have been fine-tuned over millions of years. And then, the very same material that forms the stars, the water, and the rocks (Humans) began to question its own nature: “How am I? What am I here for? What is this or that?” Page 2 About rationality and the start of a collective mind We began as simple mammals, struggling to survive without even understanding what fire or water truly were. We knew that fire burned, but beyond that, there was no comprehension. At some indefinite moment, our brains grew, gaining the capacity to reason, think, and write. We began to connect new neurons, giving rise to the first questions in history in the form of thoughts… There were hundreds of civilizations before the Greeks, but it was in Greece where, for the first time, science, philosophy, and rationality formally emerged. It was there that we replaced the belief in gods to explain natural phenomena with observation and reasoning. In this period, philosophy and mathematics flourished, laying the foundation for what we would later come to know as sciences. We lived in a symbiotic relationship with nature, consuming and cultivating, leading a simpler way of life. It was during this time that the first books and significant knowledge treatises were written in the form of scrolls, many of which were found in the Mediterranean Sea and its surroundings hundreds of years later. People cultivated their food in a more organic way, and water allowed civilizations to develop and grow their crops, like the Egyptians along the Nile River. During this era, the world flourished spectacularly in areas like ancient Greece and regions near the Mediterranean Sea. Page 3 Old world and modern world At some point, the Earth was not divided into continents; we were one single landmass, called Pangea. Over millions of years, this supercontinent broke apart due to tectonic movements, gradually forming the continents we know today. One of the most important events was the arrival of Christianity and monotheism, which emerged after the Greeks. At this point, the world changed massively. Great divisions began to emerge—divisions of ideas, of religions that became more consolidated and powerful through technology, military strength, and aristocracies, as the world became increasingly fragmented not only by lands. Hundreds of stages passed in history, and we witnessed great revolutions across all continents, and within these continents, countries. Amidst these periods filled with conflict, scientific and philosophical revolutions also emerged. Formal sciences like mathematics, physics, and chemistry evolved to the point of creating almost everything in the world around us today—cars, companies, machinery to build anything we could imagine—including the screen through which you are reading this. Eventually, these companies needed a way to raise capital, which led to the emergence of financial markets. It was during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly with the Industrial Revolutions, that capitalism became consolidated, and by the 19th century, it had expanded into a global system. Although conflicts and wars were already frequent, and repression existed in any place where there were bad leaders, their dynamics became more complex. Page 4 About freedom Throughout all stages of history, repression has existed. One of the earliest known trials was that of Socrates, who was condemned to death for “corrupting” the minds of the youth in Athens. What they called corruption was, in fact, teaching young people to think critically and question their government. A similar case occurred centuries later with Bertrand Russell, one of my favorite philosophers and mathematicians and throughout all periods, scientists, philosophers, and citizens have suffered from different types of repression. The lack of money and the domination by upper classes, along with their influence over lower classes, particularly in terms of access to resources for learning and the ability to create or work on something, have historically been one of the biggest barrier and forms of repression However, with the arrival of the internet, everything changed completely. Arrive of the internet, trading and social media The arrival of the internet changed everything. While access to education and valuable information had always been commonly reserved for the aristocratic and bourgeois classes—those with wealth—this trend only became more prevalent over the years. Even though public schools exist, people from low-income backgrounds often live difficult lives, lacking quality food and rest to learn properly. This leads to poorer education on average, resulting in bad decisions and difficult lives. Now, we’ve created on the internet a collective mind of information, granting access to knowledge about anything, from anywhere in the world, to anyone with access to the internet. This allows some of us to dream bigger, but many dangers came disguised as a Trojan horse. With the arrival of the internet, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram also emerged, giving rise to a consumer society filled with illusions and impossible expectations for many people. Large, muscular bodies, vast sums of money displayed alongside luxury cars, and grand marketing strategies took center stage. The value once placed on oil and Page 5 gold was replaced by something even more valuable: data. User data became the new gold, as people consumed content and were heavily influenced by it. A few individuals in different parts of the world began doing remarkable things, engineering ways to tap into the wealth of companies from their rooms with just a computer and internet access. Trading and social media also emerged. In this modern world, new forms of slavery appeared. Many people around the globe now work for money, often in jobs they dislike, alienated by their companies. They end up spending their weekends on what social media dictates, constantly tied to a system that leaves no room to breathe, think, or try to do something different. As we grow older, the weight of responsibilities increases—families to support, mouths to feed, children to send to school, and rents to pay, leaving little time or energy to think, read a book, or write a letter. Social media and tech companies became the highest spenders on sponsorships, largely because the population in need of money often has, on average, less access to education and greater aspirations for financial freedom. This made them prime targets for these platforms, which promised pathways to success and wealth. This trend intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people, in search of financial stability and freedom, were drawn into the allure of online platforms and marketing from big finance companies and governments, who allowed it because of the money it produced, thereby taking the small pennies some of you work hard for into the markets they control and dominate with large capitals. Some of the main communities and type of content that began to emerge were those focused on trading—crypto, forex, and futures—some of the highest-paid content on the internet due to a powerful narrative that promises freedom in the form of money. Page 6 About Trading, Media, Marketing and Influencers With the arrival of these communities, the so-called mentors and influencers emerged people whose usual objective is money and the freedom it provides, but who end up becoming victims of it, trapped in a cycle where they want to be first in everything. To those lucky enough to find this message: you will learn how to distinguish between all the types of traders you will find in the space. In the next text, we’ll talk about different figures in the space, and I will help you categorize them properly. We will discern between Influencer Traders who make more money being influencers, Actual Traders, and Traders who can trade and teach. Influencer Traders It’s important to understand that most “mentors” and influencers—those whose main goal is to boost their numbers and dominate platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, or others—often lose their grounding. Due to ignorance or a lack of clear goals for an authentic lifestyle, combined with alienation caused by media manipulation, or zero education they develop strong biases and inclinations. These individuals focus more on increasing their numbers than on providing real value to their followers. They market themselves with messages like “family comes first” or “money isn’t everything,” but their actions often contradict these claims. Instead of spending time studying, improving their strategies, or automating their trading processes, they dedicate themselves to boosting their popularity through unethical marketing practices—often without even realizing it. I urge you: do not believe words from anyone, believe actions. Anyone can sell the narrative that “family is first” or “money doesn’t buy happiness,” but if they truly didn’t care about money, they wouldn’t be so obsessed with growing their wealth and follower count. Many of them generate between $10,000 and $100,000—or even up to $1 million—per month just from memberships, with some sitting on enough millions for several lifetimes. The lack of real-life goals often keeps them more invested in communities driven now by ego and the pursuit of more money than they ever dreamed of. They often justify this with the narrative, “I want to help others,” while spending more time rebranding the same content daily, sharing memes, spending hours on nonsense Page 7 streams every day, rather than studying important things or being with their families as they preach often in the pop quotes, they share to engage you As part of their nature, many of these traders and influencers also have exclusive deals with platforms that provide them with special conditions to operate, or they engage in unethical practices that, to the untrained eye, may go unnoticed. I speak from experience, not ignorance. I have multiple online businesses with tens of thousands of followers, yet I keep my personal and private life separate. Actual Traders Many traders who truly excel operate under conditions that most people don’t see. They work in the shadows, outside of social media, focusing purely on results. The best traders are often found in small, private groups or on leaderboard rankings where you’ll rarely see influencer names. For example, most top traders worldwide don’t use platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to promote themselves. Those who share valuable content either do so freely or charge low prices, and even then, they rarely do it consistently so its hard to learn from this people, they simply don’t want to spend their time in social media, even if its to help others. Kane, for instance, is one of the few individuals who have achieved large sums of money and still dedicate their time to teaching others ethically and fairly. He’s a rare example of someone valuable for the community, as he doesn’t have a necessity to market himself excessively or profit at others’ expense. It’s also essential to understand that, while many traders appear authentic, their results may not be applicable to most people. The best proof you can ask from them is to trade consistently in funded accounts because this ultimately comes down to math and transparency. If your goal is to teach as many people as possible, you must operate under conditions that most people have access to. Not everyone will have privileges like VIP tiers, reduced commissions, or the ability to take exams endlessly until they pass by luck, only to showcase that one successful result. Many firms give away large sums of money for these mentors to display “successful” accounts and payouts, but this doesn’t reflect the reality most people face. Therefore, if you’re not trading under conditions that are accessible and replicable for most people, you’re simply showcasing results that aren’t applicable to them. Page 8 This creates a vicious cycle in which your followers don’t understand why you’re able to make money while they can’t. They’re trapped in a loop, trying to replicate something that isn’t accessible or representative of their situation. Traders Who Can and can’t Teach Teaching trading is about more than just knowing how to operate; it’s about creating replicable strategies and guiding others under fair conditions. Unfortunately, many people fail at this because they operate with privileges—VIP tiers, reduced commissions, endless retries on funded exams—that regular traders don’t have. I explained this before. Additionally, most of those who don’t know how to teach often operate purely on intuition, lacking a logical foundation or sufficient training to effectively transmit knowledge to others. Teaching is not just about trading; it’s about understanding how to teach someone anything—teaching them how to learn, introducing them to logical thinking, and identifying the root of their problems. This root cause could stem from a lack of knowledge, their material conditions, or even a stressful job that prevents them from focusing. A good mentor must approach teaching from the root of the issue, offering advice and guidance while never doing the work for someone. Everyone must take responsibility for their own life. It’s also worth noting that some people have so much money that they don’t even know how funded accounts work. They’ve never gone through the path from funded to live or live to funded accounts, so they’re unable to teach you the best option for your specific condition. A good mentor must have experienced both paths and understand which is more suitable for different circumstances. Without this knowledge, they can only offer generic advice that may not apply to you. It’s also important to recognize how some traders manipulate their audiences indirectly, and often out of ignorance, using strategies that are not easily detectable to those unfamiliar with how digital marketing or social media works. For this reason, again, the best proof of someone’s ability to teach is their consistency in trading funded accounts. This requires transparency and replicability, as the goal should be to demonstrate results under conditions accessible to most people. It’s essential to avoid idolizing figures who flaunt luxury, expensive branding, or massive marketing campaigns. Often, they are simply selling a polished image, Page 9 not actual value. For example, Rome, who refers to his followers as “Young Padawans,” is an obvious case of someone marketing flashy but meaningless content. This is garbage wrapped in attractive packaging. Don’t let ignorance or pop-culture trends turn mediocre traders with good branding into deities while burying truly good and humble people under layers of forgetfulness. Those who truly excel in trading don’t need flashy marketing or high prices. They understand that value lies in results, not appearance, and the marketing they use won’t be extremely selective to the few cases that have performed decently— something that is often faked in many groups I’ve been part of. I say this from experience: they will show you results of a few trades, lines, payouts, but a lot of traders never really manage to cash out because of bad mentors (Or because they don’t listen their mentors or have enough money to trade) Trust in the ones doing realistic numbers, showing verifiable money, certificates, and live trading consistently. Final Thoughts of this section Be smart. Don’t trust words—trust actions. Seek out traders and mentors who operate transparently under realistic conditions. Those who excel and provide true value will not rely on flashy marketing or exaggerated claims. Instead, they will focus on building replicable systems and sharing knowledge honestly, free of unnecessary privileges or illusions you may want to believe or feel you need because of your situation. Be rational and remember that the best “marketing” they can offer you is verifiable certificates, consistent payouts, and live trading where they don’t cherry-pick only their wins. Many supposed millionaires exist, but how many actually show live account results? How many will show you a million-dollar payout from prop firms? Some even say, “If I traded with them, they’d have to ban me,” yet they’ve never even tried it. It’s true that some prop firms have banned or limited users who are highly profitable and cash out large amounts of money consistently, not the ones with big mouths and zero results Page 10 About free and paid content I’ve been in this space for about five years, driven by an insatiable curiosity for knowledge. Over time, I’ve explored countless strategies and made it a priority to deeply understand everything I studied. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on paid groups, courses, free content on YouTube, and various forums and platforms— consuming anything I thought could give me an edge. I consistently reinvested the money I earned from trading, paying others to teach me what they knew. In the early days, when I didn’t have much money, I even sacrificed necessities just to afford training. It’s thanks to people like Insilco, TTrades, and other prominent names in the industry who shared their free content that I was able to educate myself. Out of all the hundreds or thousands of dollars I spent, only a small portion of it truly delivered the value I was seeking. Many of us fall into the trap of believing that the best content must come with a price tag. This flawed reasoning often comes from following common assumptions rather than applying logic and reason. Logic, in this context, is the framework we use to make accurate inferences and reach sound conclusions. Paying for something often creates a psychological burden, making people feel obligated to consume the material and convince themselves it’s better—just to justify the money they spent. Another common issue in this space is how people promote their friends’ accounts or services without verifying if those individuals are genuinely profitable. This behavior often stems from a desire to stay connected with people who have bigger or smaller followings, hoping to increase their own audience in return. I speak from personal experience in the media space—this is one of the reasons I have very few friends or respect for others in this industry. You’ll never see me recommending someone just because they’re my friend. This is a business. If someone is a scammer, a liar, or a mediocre trader, they will never get my endorsement for anything. However, the reality is that many people in this industry operate this way. They latch onto others’ numbers to grow their own, and vice versa. It’s a cycle that perpetuates itself, and unfortunately, it’s how much of this business works. Page 11 Here’s my take: judge individuals based on who they have close in their communities and the results they achieve. If you’re paying for a service, remember—you’re a customer. If you’re consuming someone’s content for free, try to show gratitude. A simple repost or like can help that person grow their brand and reach a larger audience. Selling courses or communities, in itself, is not unethical. This falls into the realm of the amoral; morality is attributed only after determining whether the person does it as their sole source of income trying to scam others or as an ethical business by a profitable trader seeking a second stream of income—which is entirely valid. By this point in the letter, you should already know how to distinguish a profitable trader. Page 12 About Trading Groups / Communities In these years, I’ve been in about 15 paid groups and over 10 free ones that I can recall. In some groups, I paid as much as $250 a month, and in others, $100 or $150. It’s important to understand the interests behind all groups, including this one. When paying for a service, transparency is crucial, and it’s the minimum you should expect. Most groups tend to use repression as a form of control. Personally, I was kicked out of 3 of the biggest crypto groups around for sharing opinions and similar free indicators that they were selling. It’s important to understand where the value of a group lies. If the value is in stolen codes with minor modifications, or if its nice branding or marketing, or that you cant share better results than their analyst as a member or share material that it´s not from them so people could learn something they clearly didn’t knew how to explain, or anything like that and you seek to control people in this way, eventually, people will make their own decisions. The mind is independent of the heart. As kind as they may look to be, many leaders disguise their true intentions behind pretty photos, emojis, and personalized stickers. While those things may add “value” to a community, they aren’t what you’re really paying for. These spaces often function like sects that don’t seek constant improvement. Some are making six figures a month on memberships while hiring freelancers to provide free or cheap labor. Due to their sectarian nature, any suggestion for improvement is rejected—even though they have feedback channels. If it’s about transparency, most of the time you can bet you won’t get it. Improvement requires time and investment from the leader—not just money, but also time. Few owners will give that resource to their group, preferring to spend their time passively responding to messages, decorating, or doing marketing instead of focusing on real progress, trading, and transparency. In every group I’ve been in, I constantly felt like a trapped bird when I shared ideas for improvement— more like a desperate cry for freedom than a productive contribution. The purpose of any community should not supersede fundamental principles and values. This is often the case due to a lack of ethical education among group leaders and their excessive interest in money. If someone can learn better elsewhere, or if there’s a resource that could better support them, it’s necessary to redirect them to those places. It’s not about keeping Page 13 someone trapped in an environment where, perhaps, you don’t have the right resources to help them reach their full potential. The other alternative for them is doing better, but because they won’t do better, they will just repress you and hire community managers to keep you there, appealing to your natural instincts of seeking belonging with their nice branding My YouTube content or X may not have the best designs or flashy customizations and big marketing campaigns, but what they do offer is an approach filled with original ideas and authentic value, without keeping you tied for years. The main objective here is to provide the tools and strategies necessary for people to make real, sustainable money—not to focus on appearances or flaunt huge amounts of money to make you feel frustrated or think that what I know is reflected in that, when in reality it is reflected in my market performance and the daily analyses I do. That’s how every group should be. The material is available for free and scattered everywhere. Nobody invented anything, although most fight to take credit for this Now, for this last part of the text, I’ll keep it extremely brief because, unfortunately, there aren’t many good groups out there. Instead of naming specific groups or mentioning the one I currently trade in, I’ll share what you should look for. It’s common to see leaders fall into two categories. First, there are those who claim they don’t care about money and tell you that you can leave if you want. This approach is designed to make you feel less important while triggering a simple connection in your mind: If they don’t need me, it must mean they don’t need the money. And if they don’t need the money, they must be real. Then, there are those who are extremely nice, will listen to you, and make you feel heard—but they won’t change anything or truly care about what you need or the guidance you’re asking for. How can you tell which type of leader you’re dealing with? The answer lies in facts. Look at their actions and results. So, what are the characteristics of a good leader? Seek leaders with certifications, proven payouts, and real trading experience. Look for people who trade live, execute trades via live streams, or share trades with precise entries like limit orders. These should be individuals with ethics—traders who are more focused on trading than being influencers. Avoid those who suck dicks for attention and followers Real traders stand out because they won’t just tell you what you want to hear— they’ll tell you what you need to hear, even if it’s uncomfortable or not what you expected. That honesty and authenticity are rare but invaluable. Page 14 These people won’t change their trading strategy to cater to you, nor will they teach you what you think you should learn. Instead, they will lead with straightforwardness and integrity. When you find individuals like this, value them highly because they are incredibly rare—I can count the number of such people on one hand. Page 15 About teachers I grew up in a family of teachers, and my mother, who is a chemist and tracher, has had a significant influence on my life. From a young age, we did experiments together, sparking my curiosity and love for knowledge. I consider her my first mentor, as she taught me through practical examples—not just chemistry, but how to awaken interest, curiosity, and passion for something and transmit that knowledge with love. Over the years, through my studies and the teachers I’ve had, I’ve concluded that leading by example is one of the best ways to teach. Another major influence in my life was my first philosophy professor, who at that time was working on his PhD in ethics at Cambridge. Thanks to the wonderful global network, I had the opportunity to connect with him online and take formal private lessons. In my first philosophy history course, he shared with us a letter titled “Schopenhauer as Educator,” written by Nietzsche. Although Nietzsche isn’t necessarily my favorite philosopher, this letter has been one of the most influential in my life. It has accompanied me for years and marked a before and after in my understanding of how to teach something to someone. I remember one of the most significant passages: “Your educator must be your liberator from chains. He will not give you superficial meanings nor impose opinions; he must be a glimmer of light in a sprout, not a sun that burns it.” Many times, people, due to ego or a desire to show off how much they know, tend to overcomplicate concepts, turning them into something esoteric and inaccessible to the majority. This is reflected in the common text of “alpha.” Instead of being a light that helps students grow step by step, they become a ray that overwhelms them, filling them with information without providing clear guidance, imposing their own criteria and opinions. For this reason, I will always tell you: do not believe me or anyone else. Believe in the results and objective data you achieve with the knowledge I share with you. After 1 to 3 months, those results will allow you to measure your progress objectively, perhaps through a trading journal. The best indicator of progress will be when you’ve made money on your own, not by showcasing large operations of dozens of lots that you never executed or by hiding the 30 losses you had before, with fees eating up your profits— something that your mentor then posts on social Page 16 media as a marketing strategy to attract more people. Real progress is measured when you achieve real results, like funded firm certificates, significant capital growth, or successful cash-outs from payouts. Real teachers won’t impose their opinions or trap you with mental chains, and they certainly won’t use repression as a form of control. A good mentor will encourage comparisons with other traders and allow you to consider opinions from other mentors, because if they’re not trying to scam you, they won’t fear these things. Learn from people that allow you to challenge them, who will push you to demand proof and results, and lead by example. A good mentor is human, someone who also makes mistakes and shares opinions, but they should never be put on a pedestal. Doing so will only slow down your progress, as you might believe they know more than you in every aspect, which is not the case. They simply have expertise in an area you haven’t mastered yet. In real life, you are a person of value beyond trading, and mutual respect is key. No good mentor will allow you to excessively flatter them, as this creates a harmful imbalance. The teaching should be based on a relationship of trust and respect, where both can learn and teach while improve without putting anyone on a pedestal. Many of you are idolizing and worshipping mediocre figures on Twitter and other platforms just because they have money or can barely trade. I understand that we’re all here for that, but don’t humiliate yourselves or overvalue people just because they have money, a lot of them can´t translate the knowledge and most of them don´t really care Value those who are humble in their actions, not just in their words, and who show it in how they live, teach, improve, and are transparent about everything. Choose your mentors and the people you follow wisely. Page 17 About pseudo-psychology/philosophy Once the internet arrived, it brought with it a sea of data and information. Look at the amount of content out there that is idolized on social media, yet we still suffer from the highest rates of depression and ignorance in history. This happens because the content meant to avoid these problems ends up promoting them— poor education, pseudo-psychology/philosophy, and advice with political inclinations funded by parties aiming for mass alienation. Most influencers and people don’t realize this, and to some extent, I understand and don’t blame those who don’t do it on purpose. But if they have money, time, and groups, ignorance should not be allowed; their ego keeps them from learning and from putting time into things other than trading. Don’t confuse this with advice that works or building habits, which is something entirely different. But if you have a difficult life and conditions that don’t allow you to operate properly, no trading advice will help you—practicality is key. Study science and philosophy and be rational. Personally, I maintain an active and constant education in all these fields. Ethics is the study of how to live, as mentioned before; it answers fundamental questions about what a good life is, how to live a good life, and the nature of good and evil. Once again, the media and the capitalist system have infiltrated people’s minds, turning philosophy into a ‘pop’ field because, in much of the world, it’s taught incorrectly. Logic is the foundation of all philosophy; everything else is nonsense. An example of a philosophy that has been misused to brainwash people is Stoicism. It’s a great philosophy, covering areas from metaphysics, epistemology, and logic to ethics and how to live a good life. For a Stoic, a good life is one based on knowledge and wisdom in substantial fields like mathematics. Since I don’t want to extend this too much, I’ll limit myself to recommending resources in the book section for those interested in studying basic philosophy, and I’ll share the study plans I’m following with my professors, who are some of the most renowned academics in the world in these fields. Don’t be intimidated by knowledge; it’s like a ladder. I know which resources to provide so you can learn gradually. This isn’t the main point of my content, but I’d love to help you live a better life too before I disappear one day. Page 18 Repeating a philosopher’s words doesn’t make you a philosopher, just like reciting a formula doesn’t make you a mathematician. True philosophy comes when you think and study deeply, question the world around you, take notes, write, and find your own answers to life’s essential questions. It’s a process of studying the proper content, not just the repetition of ideas you don’t fully understand. If you need a recommendation for a book to start with, or the letter from Nietzsche about teachings that I mentioned before, just send me a message—I’ll be more than happy to help you get the material for free Page 19 Building habits to achieve your goals Building habits and discipline is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of life. It requires more than motivation; it demands consistency, reflection, and a deep understanding of your own goals and challenges. The tools to achieve this are already within reach for many of us. With access to the internet, knowledge, and time, most people have what they need to begin building a life filled with purpose and fulfillment. However, transforming this potential into action is what separates dreams from results. The problem often lies in the oversimplified advice we consume. Take self-help books, for example. Many of these books reduce complex topics into shallow recommendations that fail to account for individual circumstances. Let me illustrate this with a common example: books on attracting women often reference Darwinian theories but reduce them to simplistic advice like “be confident” or “smile more.” These tips are valid in theory but lack depth and fail to provide actionable strategies tailored to each person’s unique needs. Instead of relying on such oversimplifications, I encourage you to go straight to the source. Study biology, philosophy of mind, or psychology directly. Look for experts with strong credentials—people who are actively contributing to their fields and continuously advancing knowledge. Examples of academician’s worth exploring include Peter Singer, Derek Parfit, and Aristotle. These thinkers provide rich, foundational insights that go far beyond the surface-level advice found in most popular books. When it comes to trading or any other pursuit, building habits should always start with understanding the fundamentals. For trading, this means focusing on risk management, probabilities, and consistent journaling of your results. For life in general, it means engaging with primary sources of knowledge that allow you to think critically and adapt strategies to your unique reality. For example, rather than reading a generic book on trading psychology, focus on understanding basic mathematics and probabilities. These are universal tools that help you build discipline and consistency, regardless of your circumstances. Epictetus is a good example of this. Page 20 If you want to build strong habits, avoid shortcuts and focus on quality knowledge. As Spinoza concludes in ethics: “All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” Building habits and discipline takes effort, but the rewards are transformative. And if this is a topic, you’d like me to explore in greater depth, let me know—I’d be happy to create a guide to help you build habits that align with your goals and values. We build one day at a time, and we don’t stop. Life is either waiting for a train or running along the tracks.” Page 21 About profitability and copy trading Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you didn’t study for an exam and tried to copy from the person next to you? Most people go through life like this, some because they know there’s no substantial content in their school subjects. The problem is when they apply this behavior to all areas of their life. I want to be very clear about this: ask yourself, what are you doing here? Why are you here? Are you here to learn? Are you here to copy my trades? What would happen if I have a bad week? Or a bad month? What if I execute poorly, or for some reason, I get sick, or I’m on vacation and unavailable? Even though it wouldn’t be responsible of me, and I will always try to show up and give you notice, this space is not for that. You need to understand that there’s no way you can achieve any kind of profitability by copying someone else. There’s simply no way. You don’t have the same schedule as I do, and you won’t be able to execute like I do. I’ll make sure that at least half of the trades are ideas, so that those who take them do so because they understand them, and if they don’t, they ask me before the trades happen. Here, if you put in the effort, listen to me, follow the material and advice, you have the chance to develop a real system and become independent. Even though many of you may not believe it, I need you to have faith in yourselves and confidence. I need you to study the material, be curious, and ask questions. It is strictly prohibited to copy my ideas. If your system aligns with mine, great; but if not, don’t take my trades. It will be exhausting for both your life and mine. You’re putting pressure on me with your money, which I don’t have to manage and won’t manage. Most groups and people operate this way, hopping from place to place with inconsistent profits and signals they’re given. I don’t. If that’s what you’re looking from me, I don’t need your money, nor do I need the stress and pressure when I trade live. I make mistakes; I have bad days, and I can have bad weeks and blow accounts, but in the long run, I will always be consistent and make more than I lose. I know how to handle it. If you don’t, learn—this is what this space is for. This is a solo path; we can help each other on the way but most of the job is on you. Page 22 About risk management The most important thing to understand in trading is risk management and how it affects your life. Build good habits, use risk management properly, and create a life that allows you to manage risk effectively. If you need to trade to pay for food this week, get a job first and focus on learning. I’ll include a whole section on this because it’s the actual holy grail of trading: understanding basic math and realizing that if you’re patient and have a 50%-win rate with a 3R risk-to-reward ratio, you can still make money. Let’s say you trade in the New York session and need to wake up at 7 a.m. every day to trade. You decide not to trade on a Friday, and just that Friday, the setup you were waiting for appears. On the other days, since the setup didn’t show up, you chose to skip them and got frustrated, leading to a bad trade. That’s where consistency comes in—showing up every day, little by little, without overdoing it. Fixed and simple schedules. This is a game of consistency, not a race. The habits you have are directly correlated to your performance. Page 23 Journalism and writing A few years ago, on Carl Sagan's Cosmos program, he shared one of the ideas with which I most strongly resonate. I objectively consider it one of humanity’s greatest inventions. Writing is, arguably, the most transcendental invention of humankind, a true time machine that transcends space-time to transmit memories and information, improving our chances of advancing and surviving as a species. From cave paintings to Egyptian papyrus, which evolved into paper, books, and now crystal screens that store electrical charges, allowing us to communicate instantly from anywhere in the world. Memory is fragile. Collective and individual life—who we are today, how much we’ve evolved, and the way we’ve evolved—is the sum of memories, peculiarities, and teachings. This is why journaling about our progress and teachings is necessary. Science has revealed that memory works in a very particular way: we recycle memories, adapt them to our new personality, and distort them with emotions and fleeting feelings, sometimes preventing us from remembering clearly, even when we think we are. This is the most essential tool for your progress and for me to interact with you properly, using objective data about who you are, your habits, what you need to improve, and how to do it. This community seeks to be a collective memory of resources where we all, in some way, become one and can support each other. Here, I have compiled all the knowledge I consider valuable, filtered with objectivity. I intend to create a space and community around me that functions like a brain, full of the resources we need, and each member is like a neuron. We must interact with each other and with the material We cannot expect a single neuron to comprehend an entire brain. Page 24 About life and acquiring knowledge in trading and other topics What is beauty? This question was asked to Hippias Major, a character from one of my favorite Platonic dialogues. At first, it seemed like an absurd question to him. But as he attempted to answer it, he realized that the answer was much farther from what he initially thought he knew. What is beauty? Is it something objective or subjective? Does it depend on my perception, or is there a universal truth that defines it? Asking these kinds of questions requires both courage and humility because most people take for granted that they know everything—what love is, what friendship is, what beauty is—without having reflected deeply on it. Like Hippias, many of us will realize, and some never will, the complexity of this question. After several pages of discussion in the dialogue, they conclude that they don’t know what beauty is. This is a profoundly humble response, and even today, we don’t have a scientific or precise definition of what beauty is. There are multiple viewpoints. But do you want to know how the dialogue ended after hours of talking? We have no idea what beauty is exactly, but beauty is something difficult— beautiful things are difficult. Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά” – In Greek. We need to keep building and rebuilding ourselves, we need to keep thinking to get better answers and improve. The best things life has to offer in their purest forms, such as love, knowledge, and friendship, are inherently beautiful. And learning, like these aspects of life, also requires humility to continuously rebuild our foundations. I like to see my life and my learning as analogous to the Ship of Neurath: a ship that is built while sailing. You must start with some solid foundation—you can’t doubt everything, because otherwise, you would never know anything for certain. We begin by knowing little or by believing we know everything, and this is where doubt becomes essential. Page 25 Many of you may already have knowledge about concepts like market structure, ICT concepts, or volume profiles. However, it’s essential that even if you believe you know it, you review the beginner basics. Why? Because without humility, you won’t be able to refine your knowledge, and I guarantee this. If you think you already fully understand what a structure break is, an SMT, or any other concept, review it again, and relearn it. It doesn’t take long to review and improve our ship, piece by piece, until we reach the island where the treasure we seek (money) is. But the most important thing is that when you arrive, if you apply this to all areas of your life, you will have a ship (yourself) whose value will be far greater than any amount of money. Money is just a means, a great means that we will enjoy for whatever we want, but it’s not an end. If you understand this, you will have reached a value that surpasses any material wealth, and then you will be able to enjoy material wealth even more, I do it. With this humility, you will be able to learn about any subject and move away from the appearance of living in a subjective world and embrace reality. You can trust that reality, for a disciplined and studious person, is wonderful. You will find love, people to enjoy your money with, and you will be able to travel with them, have a car you like, without letting it define your worth And even if you don’t have these things now, you should know that you still have great value—you are worth the effort you put in every day to improve and your intelligence in understanding anything. For me, a long-standing goal has been to visit the islands of the Aegean Sea, those emerald tapestry waters where science and philosophy were born, and the first thinkers who built this collective mind of knowledge lived. However, due to work and studies, I’ve never been able to take this trip. Perhaps, by the time some of you are reading this, I’ll be sending you pictures from there next summer. Social media and marketing pay to keep you here. Influencers are brainwashed into creating more and more content—millions are never enough; they must be number one because of their audience. The reality is that science shows us a better and empirical path. Stronger neural connections are created during the night, and eating well and maintaining healthy schedules helps you learn better. With 2-3 hours of focused study a day, you can become profitable in 3-6 months by consuming the right content. Page 26 Being here for 10 or 15 hours a day will only harm you. Again, the facts and what they truly reveal are clear. When Socrates asked the Oracle of Delphi who was the wisest person in Greece, the Oracle replied, ‘You.’ Socrates didn’t understand why. He went around the city talking to those who were considered very wise and who believed they were as well. Socrates realized they were wrong and barely knew about the subjects they spoke so confidently about, often showing off. He was the wisest because he knew that he did not know what others thought they knew. In the end, he realized that this awareness of his own ignorance made him the one who knew the most. So, he was always able to learn and improve, a truly teacher and student Be humble, objective and curious Page 27 My goals Since I began my studies in philosophy and science, I started seeing the world differently and more objectively. I see selfishness, unnecessary suffering, waves of hatred, and a lack of tolerance. I see lies, banality disguised as originality, governments provoking wars, people suffering from obesity in malnourished countries, and young girls prostituting themselves, wearing expensive clothes, selling their bodies for dollars in certain cities. Again, don’t forget, companies spend millions of dollars to alienate people, while governments flood us with information and harmful content, disguised as entertainment—movies, series, and internet content—all designed to distract us. In this dark world, there have always been philosophers and scientists, although they often remain hidden. Sadly, most people choose to admire figures like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk or the latest celebrity aristocrat These individuals, unfortunately, cause more harm than good and lack true education/ethics, and are mostly controlled by governments or capitalism itself, even if they sell themselves as dissident against governments or any form of system, I’ll explain me in the next paragraph These individuals accumulate enormous amounts of wealth under their name through government subsidies funded by our taxes. They sell us, for example, the dream of creating a civilization on another planet while destroying our own. Science was created to save lives, not to destroy them. While colonizing another planet is a remarkable achievement, it should not be a priority in today’s world. I won’t delve too deeply into this topic, but as Marx describes in Capital, they create the problems and then sell us the solutions. This is alienation. An uneducated mind might not fully realize this, but these puppets stopped offering real contributions to the world long ago, or they never really did. Yet, it is the overlooked philosophers, scientists, engineer behind those big names who have genuinely shaped the world and help people It strikes me that these figures of power, often held up as examples, come from countries like the United States, where the culture is deeply individualistic. I don’t believe in that, nor do I care for recognition. There’s a video I love of Richard Feynman where he’s asked about his Nobel Prize in Physics, and he responds, “The only prize for me is discovering the secrets of the universe. I don’t need recognition or a trophy—the prize Page 28 already mine: learning more about the world and improving it for others.” This mindset is something I truly value. And it’s more beneficial for the world. The Chinese Communist Party is an example of this; they adopted ideas from Marx, and within the party, there are hundreds of philosophers and scientists in power, much like Plato described in The Republic. Although there are things to criticize, it is less common to see young people in those countries dropping out of school or consuming junk content online with the dream of getting rich, using the excuse, “Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg also dropped out of college, so why can’t I?”—without knowing the full stories. This often leads to frustration, anger, scams, and, eventually, destroyed lives. The percentage of people who become rich through the internet is extremely low. Don’t believe me? Look at the numbers on social mobility increase/decrease around the world of the last 100 years—facts over opinions. In this world, the substantial changes one can make as an academic are often limited by university subsidies, which tend to have political agendas. As a result, many academics find themselves bound by the will of these institutions and their political interests. This is why I aim to generate my own income to fund my projects independently. Everything I plan to develop—schools, mathematical tools, advancements in biology and physics—requires eight- figure funding to come to life. It’s unfortunate that so many things depend on money, but that’s the reality, especially given the way I intend to carry out my ideas. While I won’t go into much detail now, I can say that I also make music. That’s all I can share for now, but this is the reason I monetize here in this space —I’m trying to build a passive income for the long term to retire as soon as possible and have freedom with my studies and time I’ve gone through this maze multiple times, and for my real-life projects related to science, I need at least 8 figures. So, I’m doing this maze over and over to get my gold and come back for more, every day, every month, for a few more years. But the pile is so big, it would take me 1,000 years to collect it all—and I don’t need that much. If I can help people during my walk through the maze and they can help me, perfect. My plan is to get you guys to profitability, at least $10K a month. And if you find value in my content and support it by reposting and consuming my content , using a referral,great . If I get 1,000 of you doing this and making money with skills that last a lifetime, then you help me, and I help you. It might not seem like a lot to you, but if I have 100, then 1,000, and maybe if my content really takes of Page 29 10,000 guys doing this and helping me to grow my content and monetize on it, I’m taking a golden nugget from you while you’re getting all your gold bars in the maze and coming back for as much as you want. I’ll take a small piece from the companies that have billions to spend, and some of them want people to generate volume or sells. That’s why I don’t mind sharing content for free—there’s too much money in this market. The ones who hide the “alpha” are just short-sighted, not realizing how much wealth is out there. And the ones who take their gold and leave just don’t care about helping others. For me, it’s too painful to see people suffer from idiots on social media who have zero education or work ethic. I do science in real life because the point of science is to create a better world. Isn’t the last step of the scientific method to share the knowledge? Even if I end up making 8 figures by myself alone, im a smart person, if it´s not via trading would be creating something in real life And I will always support my homies who are doing the same job and working in an ethical way, creating valuable content, people like The Lab Team, toodegres, etc. “When a man pretends to be a man, the rope reveals the animal he hides.” In times of crisis, they would turn on each other for food. Only a well-educated person holds their ethics unshaken. I want to see you profitable and creating volume long-term, not just making a quick buck and moving on to the next fool. People on X have no logic. They soft-scam new traders over and over or keep them stuck in the maze. They lose the old ones, new guys show up, and they lose them too—even some who know the maze keep others trapped in cult-like followings. And the ones who are stuck in the maze and have managed to get a little bit of gold? They show it off everywhere, feeding their ego by teaching you how they got their gold. Trading is a niche, so there’s always a fresh stream of people to exploit and keep in the maze forever. But my goal is to make a better world outside of this and work on my projects, but I will never forget that I’m not just a trader first, but a human first. I will always be transparent and ethical with the people around me. Money is just the medium, not the goa again, and it shouldn’t be the goal for anyone. It’s just one step in a bigger process, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it, chat, and help each other in a real way. And my goal with you is to take you at least to that mark, which I consider is enough money in any place in the world to start the real job: enjoying life while learning the Page 30 most important things, but also ensuring that you don’t forget what’s truly important in the process like I did once. Page 31 Homo Sapiens We are inventors, we make magic and create things—humans who designed planes to fly in the sky by observing birds, inventors who created suits to dive deep and explore the ocean like fish. The most valuable thing we possess is our ingenuity. We are Homo sapiens, which means “thinking men,” not meant for an office, not meant to spend hours in front of a screen our entire lives, but to philosophize, to do science, to help others, love others and to invent things. We are still pioneers, still just beginning. The universe is billions of years old, and we’ve only started around 2,500 years in Greece. Imagine how much more we could achieve in another 1,000 or 100 million years. The sun is destined to burn out, and eventually, our galaxy will collide with another. So why should I study then? That’s the answer I hope you’ll find if any of you are interested in philosophy. Ethics as I explained is a field of philosophy that studies how to live a good life. Can you imagine learning how to do that from millions of humans who came before us and have already lived? All of it contained in books—an authentic time machine Learning properly how to live fully is not just the concern of ethics or philosophy, but of any human who wishes to live a fulfilling life. Page 32 About my Life and Your Life I’ve gone through difficult times to get where I am today. Who I will be tomorrow, I don’t know, and I don’t care to make assumptions because life feels too short for that. After so many years of struggle, it seems that fortune has finally started listening to me. I started with very few resources in a city where, according to local statistics, the probability of moving up the social ladder and getting an education was less than 1%. And here I am, writing, preparing myself with some of the best professors in the world online, getting ready to pursue further studies at Oxford or Cambridge in the years ahead with people like me. It has been a lonely and tough journey, and I spent years making mistake after mistake until I found the right formula and the correct way of doing things, both in trading and in life. I’ve spent most of the last 12 months in a room, after going through a difficult phase in my personal life, which I may tell you about someday. But here I am, stronger and more vital than before. During this period and in past years, I distanced myself from one of the most important people to me, family, and a girl whose mind was quite compatible with mine. I’m human; I still make mistakes, in trading and in life. I aspire for all of you to be much better than I am—that’s the role of a mentor. If I can help improve your life with this letter, I’m glad. I will continue fighting my personal battles, including maybe reconnecting with my best friend, to whom I was never able to express the anxiety this work caused me long ago because of fear to look weak years ago. I know the mistakes I’ve made are the foundation of who I am today. And if I could travel back in time due to some experiment, the only thing I would change would be to have studied more about ethics, philosophy, science, and rationality. These are the foundations upon which everything else rests. With this knowledge, I would have made better decisions, distinguished good content from bad, identified solid strategies from flawed ones, and learned how to think correctly, in life and everything. Our brain and rationality are what set us apart from other animals—let’s use them well. Perhaps this way, we can learn this demanding craft while still spending time with our loved ones, without needing to spend 10–15 hours staring at a screen or five years trying to master something that could be learned in less than six months with the guidance of a good teacher. This financial freedom we seek is valuable, but it pales in comparison to the mental freedom we can achieve through proper knowledge and understanding. Page 33 This, in essence, is what this letter is about, as I mentioned at the beginning: trading, philosophy, rationality, and science. It’s about making better decisions, thinking correctly, valuing the present, and enjoying the journey. Happiness and love together. I must admit, are territories I have not yet conquered. Despite having financial success, the cost of this journey has been steep. I lost my best friend because I focused so much on this path. Sometimes, we are hyperopic—we try to see so far ahead that we lose focus on what is closest to us. No amount of money can buy love, companionship, or family. Perhaps one day, when someone reads this in the future, I will have conquered the love, friendship, and affection that I now long for in my life. But if there’s one thing I can say, it’s that every day I wake up smiling. Science, learning, and the hope of achieving these goals—along with the moral duty I feel to improve the world—are good for now I have learned to forgive myself, to understand that the worst mistake is the one we never make, and to cherish my greatest gift—the present. I’ve learned to live without fear, with courage and bravery, and above all, with rationality. Many of us aspire to be rich so we can spend more time with our loved ones and see the world, without realizing that the world is already right in front of us. Immanuel Kant is a great example of this—a true cosmopolitan, a man who never left his small town yet knew the world more deeply than most ever will. I believe that traveling is a wonderful experience; personally, I love it. But let us not neglect those who are closest to us. Reach out to your family, to your mother. Even without money, those who truly love and value us are already by our side. There is magic in a conversation with them, a kind of magic that fills the soul in ways no riches ever could. Don’t forget, I’m human—a trader and a student of life and the markets. And maybe by the time some of you read this, I will have also corrected the mistake of distancing myself from the only person I’ve ever met who truly fulfills me, and of not being honest with someone I cared deeply about: my best friend. I forgot the most important thing—the person who supported me through these years— because I was so focused on the prize that I failed to enjoy the journey. It’s okay to feel bad. It’s okay if it causes you anxiety. It’s okay to cry. And it’s okay to let your loved ones know, because unlike what social media tells men, feeling and talking is good. I want my life—with its tears, joys, happiness, and sadness— to be full and genuine, embracing every emotion as part of the journey. Page 34 To finish this letter, remember Bertrand Roussell words... Is important to ask ourselves what the facts are and what truths these facts reveal. I know many want to believe that it’s real and possible to win online, and that anyone can teach them. That’s not true, but you can do it—with the right material and mentors and it’s wonderful. I’ve sacrificed a lot to be here, and my mind is clearer than ever. I now know what is important and what is not. That’s also why I focus on higher timeframes, operating as efficiently as possible to enjoy the most beautiful things life has to offer. And if one day I manage to make enough funds for my real-world projects, I will erase most of my socials and leave some content on YouTube. When someone asks you who Adez was, you can tell them he was a 16-year-old who started selling stuff on internet and trading in a room with a borrowed, broken computer and a broken iPhone 11, sleeping on a friend’s couch for months on his 20s, and some days on the floor. And he went from that produce some of the greatest public content related to trading and retired in his early 20s to achieve his dream of being a scientist. And how I turned this world, where capitalism is a euphemism for predation— reducing people to numbers and turning them into archetypes and robots, subject to money to exercise their freedom and how I came from one of the populations with the lowest probability of success, and I’m making it, financially free and mentally rich. And most important, helping others to make it too, not for the money, for the freedom, for their family, for the world, for science and human progress. I know i´m not the one who is going to change this whole industry, i´m not naïve, but if I help one mind to become profitable and also maintain his humanity on the road, balance learning with in real life problem, ive already done my part and I couldn’t be happier, maybe one day we can met and share a talk about life and trading You have the resources; you have the mind—go and conquer the happiness and freedom that has been taken from the majority in this world. Free your mind and reclaim what is rightfully yours. “For what are you alive?” These are the type of questions I hope you find an answer to one day. Because in that answer lies not only your purpose, but the meaning you choose to give to your existence. Page 35 Now, it’s time to work. He who has a why to live, can bear almost any how - Friedrich Nietzsche Page 36
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