08/10/2025
When I was 15, I got into investing and stocks.
I had worked all summer doing HVAC with my uncle and finally made good money, at least for a 15yr old at the time.
Decided to take a 3-week trip to Mexico with my cousins before school started again, and one night while we were chilling at my aunt’s house, I saw my cousin watching a YouTube video about investing.
It was Andrei Jikh.
I asked him, “What are you watching?” and he started explaining it to me. I was hooked
I binge-watched his whole channel and found Graham Stephan shortly after.
Begged my dad to open a custodial account.
After weeks and convincing, I got it.
Loaded in the few hundred dollars I had.
I thought I was about to become a millionaire before I graduated high-school from trading. My socias flooded with trading content and kids making thousands per day.
But reality hit within a few months.
I learned I wasn’t going to make real money buying Apple and selling it for a $3 profit every other day.
The market moved too fast, I didn’t know enough, and trying to keep up with everything as a retail trader (and in school) was overwhelming.
Very few actually cared to understand the game.
Therefore, I stopped trying to day-trade.
I realized I didn’t love it.
I just wanted to make money fast.
That short phase stuck with people though.
Years later, I still get texts from family members or their friends asking what stocks to buy or how to start day-trading.
Now I tell them:
If you’re trying to day-trade just to get rich quick and you don’t love it
Stay away from it, it won't work if you're in it for that reason.
Instead focus on scaling your current business.
Learn a valuable skill.
Literally anything else to make you money that doesn't follow the model of put X amount in and get X amount back in X timeframe.
Instead I show them I invest daily-weekly with recurring buys for industries I understand, and I don't care if the market is up or down anymore. I'm always buying. (NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE)
It sounds redundant but if you want to make more money, you simply have to GO and make more money.
97% of the time, people are in the wrong space because they are desperate or just want to get rich quick.