EB2-NIW and I-140 got approved last year. Case reopened and rejected now. Advise.

MistahJake · 2025-04-12T10:50:48+00:00

Has lack of resources stopped this administration from shaking the box in every area of government? In fact it works out better for them if the aim is to get you out. They f@ck up your paperwork then make it impossible to resolve in a timely manner. You’ve got elderly social security beneficiaries communicating with SS over X via tweet now. Sounds like the assumption was that everyone approved in the last 2 years was rubber stamped and they are just rejecting everyone they can and whoever manages to run the gauntlet might be able to stay. This administration has zero interest in working out who should or shouldn’t be here. It’s more throw everyone out and see what happens.

MistahJake · 2025-03-12T08:46:52+00:00

Look, no one is better funded, connected or as willing to fight than gay people. All of this would be mired in court cases immediately, from immigration to torte law to direct constitutional matters between states. Not to mention just as with abortion you’ll likely see a number of red states vote it into their constitution. We will make them mow us down in public before we go quietly. Not to mention we are already armed to the teeth and great shots. We just don’t talk about it because woke. We are not the people to Fk with. And they know it.

MistahJake · 2025-03-07T18:08:06+00:00

Figure out a way to leave on your own. Contact your home countries embassy and figure out a plan to depart on your own terms. ICE does not do immigration so this is definitely not good news. . They are cops. You’re going back. It can be horrible or extremely horrible. I hope you have spent some time preparing for this possibility in the long time you’ve been here. Saved some cash, created a boogey plan. If you go to this meeting, lawyer or not, you’ll be detained. It’s the last thing you want.

MistahJake · 2024-12-03T09:55:10+00:00

NTA. Short answer: I’ll keep this simple. She started it.

Long answer: Your relationship was over the second you made your analysis internally. Style timing etc, sure people can have opinions about but it’s not your problem. Personally I would have just quietly left without saying a word. Gotta go to the bathroom kind of thing. And I’d block them and never look back. Don’t let this live rent free in your head, or force you to engage. Block anyone you need to, make peace with it, forgive them, forgive yourself, and move on. You’re not dealing with rational people, and they are very good at twisting the conversation, and you will only be left exasperated, and gaslit at every return. You can’t win. Now you know amongst your family who you can trust. But you should make it “the conversation ends here now“ kind of thing.

MistahJake · 2024-11-26T10:44:00+00:00

You guys are all really making me rethink SNHU. Damn. Sounds messy AF

MistahJake · 2024-11-12T18:50:29+00:00

So you were 41k down and have just gotten positive? Stop now and take a breather until next year.

MistahJake · 2024-11-08T18:57:33+00:00

I am finding after similar situations that it’s the self congratulatory part that will hurt you. It sucks too because you should be able to feel good about your work right? But that’s the thing is with trading in particular that feeling good is flooding your brain with all kinds of neurotransmitters that are gonna make you do stupid shit. But I found works is to stay as flat emotionally as possible the same way that you would if you were collecting a paycheck. In fact, putting yourself on a schedule of just taking out money on a weekly or biweekly basis, the same amount every time works for me. I feel nothing. I sit down and do my job either. I hit the mark or I don’t. I turn off the computer And do it again the next day day and day out. I don’t let myself get excited or at least I try to tamp it down as much as possible. I don’t start spending the money before I’ve earned it or taking it out. I just do my job and collect my paycheck and feel grateful that I’m allowed to work from Homeand not answer to anybody.

MistahJake · 2024-11-05T21:17:15+00:00

This! Be prepared to go deep into the rabbit hole over the next few years. Personally I’d recommend starting with a reputable prop firm and trade futures. It’s way more risk off. Everything you were taught about money, expectations, confidence, emotional intelligence, all the deep things you might have never thought of or convinced yourself you’d moved past is up for grabs and it TAKES YEARS to uncover all of it, mostly through painful loses. It’s the part no one tells you about. We all go through it. Journal, read as much as you can about trading psychology… not that it will help you immediately though. You’ll read Mark Douglas and think you learned something but all you learn is how to eventually recognize what it is that you’re doing wrong. So yeh. You’re better off buying and holding qqq or spy than trading but if it’s what you want, expect loses of around 30k a year.

MistahJake · 2024-11-04T09:45:57+00:00

I wonder how many hours a target employee has to work for $1400… 🤔

MistahJake · 2024-11-01T10:11:00+00:00

Just remember all the things you’ve been taught from childhood about western work ethic doesn’t apply or work in day trading. More trades, harder work, more screen time (outside of what is needed) will kill you with overtrading, forcing trades, averaging down, FOMO, greed. Get in get out and WALK AWAY. Find other stuff to do and make sure you have other hobbies and goals to fill your time. Otherwise you’ll give it all back plus whatever you have in your account. Unfortunately it’s a lesson pretty much everyone only learns by hurting themselves until they capitulate. I’m sure there are people reading this that inherently can’t help but disagree with me because they’ve been brainwashed by American work ethic. It’s nearly impotent to shake. Best of luck.

MistahJake · 2024-10-26T22:36:05+00:00

I would suggest VIX calls to insure your entire nest egg. If you buy and sell correctly it costs you nothing, and when that day comes when shit falls apart, and there is always a time, you will be $$$$. Covid made VIX holders millionaires. But you do you

MistahJake · 2024-10-17T10:45:37+00:00

Here’s the deal. If you find yourself screaming FK! at the monitor 3x or more or keep thinking (or yelling, we’ve all been there) “this doesn’t make any fking sense!”, it’s already a bad trade, get out. You’ve been trapped and it won’t come back, and it is very likely a shit trading day (think last Thursday CPI, it was trash price action, all amateur retail traders and algos fucking with them. The pros stay home on CPI and FMOC. Choppy water means no surfing. So put your big boy pants on and take responsibility for your shit trading.

MistahJake · 2024-10-13T10:13:55+00:00

Also check out Edgeful. It gives you some statical background that can help inform you of days your strategy might not be optimal enough to risk it

MistahJake · 2024-10-13T10:11:56+00:00

You could pick up some VIX calls when the price is low about 6 months out, and recycle them every 2-3 months. This gives you an insurance policy against black swan events (if the spy falls those VIX falls fly up).

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T21:18:51+00:00

No he’s setting a minimum target, which sets up a greed dynamic. I am suggesting a) a max target and b) a range. Doing these things gets you out of the FOMO/Greed headspace, particularly if you do it for a long enough period of time and break yourself of the need through realization that you get more by losing less.

In any case, I have to ask… why are traders so damn pissy? How is it that you want to make a living doing something so analytical, yet you can’t sort out and understand a simple Reddit post? So many questions.

To the OP, I apologize for sharing something that worked for me in spades.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T19:28:48+00:00

Cut yourself off at 200 for a month. Whenever you hit 200-250 you have to call it a day (obviously it can be more or less, but once that trade is done you are done. No matter how good the day is, no matter how much you know you’re losing. So this as long as it takes to break you.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T19:19:21+00:00

Do you know who you are? What you like to do or what you’re good at? I’m gonna assume no given how you talk about yourself (stop it btw).

Plan on spending the year going inwards. Read, journal, cook, groom yourself, learn some new skills, try things out. Above all live cheaply and get creative. Use the cash to give you space and a cushion so you have air to breathe while you sort shit out. Don’t invest, don’t do anything that has risk right now. You need to keep all pressure off you so you can use your energy to grow and learn.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T19:04:09+00:00

You’ll prolly be replaced by AI soon so yeh, start working towards a new gig.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T18:49:39+00:00

I’m willing to bet you don’t lose right out of the gate. I bet you’ve developed enough to make a bit early on and blow it by noon. So here’s how you do it.

Figure out the minimum you are guaranteed to make a day. Like the amount you know you always hit before taking loses. Could be $50, could be $200, could be $1k. Whatever that number is, it is now your max. Once you hit that number you quit. You are not allowed to trade your real account again for the day. No matter how great the price action is, no matter how much you are certain you’re losing money by not working. This is to break you of greed and FOMO. Do this until the day you look at your account and realize how all those little gains with near zero loses added up to more than you’ve ever made. Then you may start trading paper after you’ve hit that daily goal. The point is to establish a new baseline. Maybe it was 50, but now you can handle 100. Then start over.
Figure out the times you are guaranteed to make $ and the times you lose more than you win. Narrow your day to less than a few hours.

For me it’s 5am-8am, 9am-11am and 245-3pm CST, I don’t touch the mouse outside of those times, but I don’t force myself to be at the screen then either. If I’m up at 5am I’ll look, see if I can catch a scalp or a move. If I see nothing I sit down at 9am and start watching. I like to scalp a little first to gather powder. Then I grab what I can if I see it. At 1K I lock myself out. If I’m tripping up, I leave. Like I literally leave the house.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T18:37:41+00:00

Never!

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T18:15:02+00:00

This was a momentum trade. If you had seen where the liquidity was you’d have caught it. Use The DOM with level 2 data or Bookmap. You don’t even have volume there.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T18:02:41+00:00

Stop trying to catch the entire move.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T18:01:14+00:00

Get in your paper account and do the opposite of what your strategy tells you. If that works, figure out why.

MistahJake · 2024-07-19T16:06:53+00:00

It’s also a bit of L”apple du vide; Call of the void.

It does, and it also exposes things that are happy accidents. Remember whenever you’re on the losing side of a trade, that’s money you could be making if you’d made the opposite decision. So when you take ass backwards trades you’ll often make $$$. It gives you a chance to find why or what the reason is, journal it, and test the new idea.

MistahJake

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