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Yeah, single parent home, south side of Chicago, played baseball through high school, college, and minor league independent professional baseball, transitioned into business in the corporate world, already knew that that wasn't for me, got into entrepreneurship, doing different type of side businesses, created an agency that worked a little bit, got some data from it, went to Silicon Valley in LA, raised some money for tech, didn't work out,

Yeah, single parent home, south side of Chicago, played baseball through high school, college, and minor league independent professional baseball, transitioned into business in the corporate world, already knew that that wasn't for me, got into entrepreneurship, doing different type of side businesses, created an agency that worked a little bit, got some data from it, went to Silicon Valley in LA, raised some money for tech, didn't work out,

Met a billionaire guy in Dubai. He's like, you're smart. You should go work for my hedge fund. Start from the ground up. I did that. Three months later, the fund sunset. I got inspired, studied, got my license of a series three, became a professional futures trader and investor. And I thought if this was my background and I got into it.

Met a billionaire guy in Dubai. He's like, you're smart. You should go work for my hedge fund. Start from the ground up. I did that. Three months later, the fund sunset. I got inspired, studied, got my license of a series three, became a professional futures trader and investor. And I thought if this was my background and I got into it.

in an untraditional route, how many more people would be interested in that, want to learn that and do it for themselves. And so started a program to be able to teach people how to trade and invest the professional way, but from a unique standpoint. And we've helped create four or five, six and seven figure traders now with over 20,000 students worldwide.

in an untraditional route, how many more people would be interested in that, want to learn that and do it for themselves. And so started a program to be able to teach people how to trade and invest the professional way, but from a unique standpoint. And we've helped create four or five, six and seven figure traders now with over 20,000 students worldwide.

$1,500. So you can start from anywhere. As long as you're 18 and have the ability to open up a brokerage account, you can start and bet on yourself. And many of people have done it. The more information you have about it, yes, you can get more and better edges, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to make money.

$1,500. So you can start from anywhere. As long as you're 18 and have the ability to open up a brokerage account, you can start and bet on yourself. And many of people have done it. The more information you have about it, yes, you can get more and better edges, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to make money.

Yeah, I'm kind of anti going down the YouTube university rabbit hole for trade and investing because the difficulty is that most people don't know how to separate the good from the bad or the truth from truth. the BS.

Yeah, I'm kind of anti going down the YouTube university rabbit hole for trade and investing because the difficulty is that most people don't know how to separate the good from the bad or the truth from truth. the BS.

But what I would say is first, if you can find a proven coach or mentor, ideally that you may be able to meet in person or you can find out about their ability to actually do what they say they can do would be the first option if possible. The next thing would be, yes, you can then find a online course of somebody that's actually doing it in real life.

But what I would say is first, if you can find a proven coach or mentor, ideally that you may be able to meet in person or you can find out about their ability to actually do what they say they can do would be the first option if possible. The next thing would be, yes, you can then find a online course of somebody that's actually doing it in real life.

And then if you can't do one of those two options, then I would look at books from proven trading and investors to start there.

And then if you can't do one of those two options, then I would look at books from proven trading and investors to start there.

Yeah. So for us, it's trade like the pros dot com. That's my whole thing is teaching people how to trade like the pros without going through all of the BS. But if I were starting the book that literally inspired me outside of the fund was Beat the Markets by Edward Thorpe.

Yeah. So for us, it's trade like the pros dot com. That's my whole thing is teaching people how to trade like the pros without going through all of the BS. But if I were starting the book that literally inspired me outside of the fund was Beat the Markets by Edward Thorpe.

I came across his book prior to trading and investing called Beat the Dealer because I like numbers and taught myself how to count cards for blackjack reading Beat the Dealer and made a substantial amount of money off of that in Vegas. And so two years later, I came across his book Beat the Market.

I came across his book prior to trading and investing called Beat the Dealer because I like numbers and taught myself how to count cards for blackjack reading Beat the Dealer and made a substantial amount of money off of that in Vegas. And so two years later, I came across his book Beat the Market.

And this guy, if you've ever seen the movie 21, where Kevin Spacey plays the guy that teaches his students how to crack cards. Count Cards and Go to Vegas and Make Money. That movie is based off of Evers Thorpe's real life.

And this guy, if you've ever seen the movie 21, where Kevin Spacey plays the guy that teaches his students how to crack cards. Count Cards and Go to Vegas and Make Money. That movie is based off of Evers Thorpe's real life.