The Whole Story
“Including the parts I'd rather forget.”
People meet me now as “the Multyfi guy” or “the trading mentor,” and assume it started with confidence. It didn't. It started with a newspaper headline, a decade of mistakes, and one very expensive lesson at a time.
“Ten years old. A world shaken by Lehman Brothers.”
A Headline That Stuck
I was ten years old when Lehman Brothers collapsed. I don't remember understanding what it meant — I just remember the word "stock market" appearing everywhere, in every conversation adults were having nervously. Something about it stayed with me.
“60% profit in crude oil. Wiped out in six months.”
The First Trade
My first real trade was in crude oil futures. I made a 60% profit. I felt invincible — for about six months, right up until I lost everything I'd made and more. That was the first time the market taught me it doesn't care how good your first trade felt.
“Bankruptcy and a hospital bed for a week. The most expensive education.”
The “Tips” Trap
An advisory firm reached out with "guaranteed" tips. I followed them. For a while, it worked, and I started planning — a property, a car, the whole picture. Then it stopped working, all at once. I went bankrupt. The stress put me in a hospital bed for a week. This is the part of the story I don't enjoy telling, but it's the part that actually taught me something.
“150+ books read. The gap was never knowledge — it was psychology.”
150 Books and Still Losing
I did what I thought disciplined people do: I read. Over 150 books on trading and investing. I still lost money. That was confusing in a new way — I finally understood I didn't have a knowledge problem. I had a psychology problem, and a systems problem.
“Seventeen years to consistency. Finally, the right diagnosis.”
The Interview That Changed Everything
I came across an interview with a trader who described taking seventeen years to become consistently successful. Somewhere in his mistakes, I recognized my own — I was trading without a plan, without real risk management, without any system at all. It didn't feel like relief. It felt like finally being handed the right diagnosis.
“Treating every loss as data instead of a wound.”
Building the System
I stopped looking for the next tip or the next book and started building and testing my own systems for derivatives trading — treating every loss as data instead of a wound. It took time to find a system that actually fit my personality, not someone else's.
“Consistency achieved. A process independent of emotion.”
The Turn
Six years after that first crude oil trade, it clicked. I became a consistently profitable, full-time trader — not because the market got easier, but because I finally had a process that didn't depend on my mood, my confidence, or my luck that day.
“Multyfi, Botalpha, and StockSchool born from one core thesis.”
Building Beyond Myself
Once the system worked for me, the next question was obvious: could it work for others, and could it work at scale? That question became Multyfi, Botalpha, and StockSchool — three different answers to the same problem.
“Still learning, one drawdown, one better decision at a time.”
Still a Student
I manage capital, I mentor traders, I go on stage and on podcasts to talk about all of this — and I still think of myself as someone learning the market, one system, one drawdown, one better decision at a time.
“Discipline was earned, not inherited.”
Authority does not come from claiming you never failed. Authority comes from what you survived, analyzed, systematized, and built into a repeatable process.