I lost money for six years. Then I stopped.
Nobody who is honest started winning right away. The fastest path to profitable is paying somebody who already paid the tuition. Here is mine.
Three monitors. One brain. No clue.
Started in retail. Read every book. Bought every indicator. Watched every YouTube. Lost money for a year and a half straight. The setup looked legit. It was not.
The day-trading rule did not apply to me anymore.
The PDT rule locked US retail out of real day trading unless you had $25,000 sitting in an account. So I went offshore. Prop firms abroad. More leverage. More rope. More blown accounts. Lessons paid for in cash.
I thought I had it figured out. I started showing my work.
By November 2016 I was finally seeing it. Live trades. Real reads. So I started filming. Posted them on YouTube to help other retail traders find the same setups. Posted 38 dated live-trade videos by year-end. The market was generous. I thought I had it. That confidence almost killed me.
Volatility died. Algorithms took the easy money. I lost more, with more experience.
The setups that worked in 2016 stopped working. Low-vol grind years. Algorithms eating every clean entry before retail could blink. I had more experience and lost more money than ever. That taught me the hardest lesson in this business: what you know is only worth something while the market lets it be worth something. Edge has an expiration date. Adapt or get cleaned out.
One laptop. No team. No office. The work.
Simplified. One laptop. A portable monitor. A bottle of rum on the desk. Stopped trading like a casino. Started trading like a job. That was the year I stopped losing.
I taught the machine what I see.
I built EVE because I had to. I needed something that would not let me lie to myself. Then I built the options AI. Then the search AI. Then the quant that watches what I cannot watch. Five AIs. One desk.
The day trading rule went away. Most people are about to lose a lot.
The PDT cap is gone in the United States. Day trading is open to everyone with $500. The casinos are cheering. Most retail traders will get hurt. I would rather a few people make it. So I am opening 50 seats. Small on purpose. Quiet on purpose.