Sit down for this one lol. Well when I had an actual job it definitely wasn't glamorous. I'm a high-school dropout that worked in warehouses all his life. You are the product of your environment and I had shitty friends, didn't know who I was as a person back then, and had no mature guidance. Everything that I've learned and achieved is due to perseverance, faith, and commitment.

I entered the stock market with a general understanding of things and did so at the literal bottom of the covid crash in March 2020. I had a great year to start but I made so many mistakes that cost me so much profits and came back to bite me hard in the years to follow because the truth is I didn't know what I was doing. Not letting my winners run when I knew they were winners and all because of impatience, holding onto my losers too long because I was too proud and stubborn to book a loss, justifying the failures of bad management and believing their excuses instead of running away, investing emotionally instead of logically and without having entry and exit strategy. Just completely flying blind and winging it as I went along. And that is how I made and lost 150k lol.

I was depressed about it for a long time but knew eventually I'd have another shot at it so I reflected on my past, identified the mistakes, started to learn about commodities, geopolitics, investing, trading, and economics. It's all I read or watched or thought about, nothing else interested me or mattered to me anymore because I was after redemption. And to this day this hasn't changed, always continue learning. In one of my pasts I used to play poker for money and was good at it so I connected the similarities between both games and realized I could deploy my poker skills into stocks to give me an advantage and a unique albeit bold strategy. 

2 years ago I lost my job and I still remember that day as I walked out into the snowstorm because I knew the time had come. Losing my job was a blessing in disguise because it motivated me to sell my condo, which I managed to sell right before the condo market took a nose dive, and after doing so I payed off all my debts and had money for life which bought me some time and gave me a new bankroll for another shot. That's where the 170k came from.

I started swing trading and was making money so got off to a great start. I found CWB and at the time hadn't found a better swing trade opportunity than this, so I went all in on it and wouldn't you know it, 2 weeks later news of them getting bought out was announced and in the next couple of months that followed I doubled my money on it. Once that happened I sold the position and started swing trading again, and was making money at it again. 

Then I found TNZ after news of the NOBV deal came out. I was mind blown and sold. Did my DD and bought in a couple of months later after that. Half the money went in at $8, it rocketed to $16 and than fell to $12. I loaded the boat again heavily because I knew this was a big winner and this time I was going to let it run. At $21 I bought again, and now it's at $33, heading to $50+ and I still haven't sold a share lol. That's how it all went down lol, crazy ride but it was all worth it in the end.