For the people who want to escape the 9-to-5

I want to be straight about how this started, because the honest version is worse than the version I almost wrote.

I did not have a thesis. I did not have a system. It was FOMC week and I decided to gamble.

That’s it. That’s the whole setup.

One micro contract, a $434.96 margin call, a third of the account gone in two days, and a liquidation warning. It closed for +$88.00. Then I spent $11 finding out the pattern I built to explain it was never real.