Hello! Everybody! Love THYSELF! You only live once!

So here goes another dissertation 👍😂; but for those of you who know me by now (especially those who know me really well) know that I am almost manic in the sense that I talk fast, I write fast, I type fast, I behave fast, I think fast; because time is precious. Comparable to "the wolf" from pulp fiction.

So something occurred to me while I was on FB messenger chatting up my friends like a maniac at 138 WPM completely forgetful of the fact that they are reading my what I like to call: Harry Potter Series. But much like the Harry Potter series (which I remember reading as a little boy) they are long, detailed, intricate novels that spare no detail and provide excellent imagery with J.K. Rowling's masterful use of vernacular of the English language.

I make this reference/simile & very poor attempt at a joke while it might seem to others like "damn how does he write that much that quick?" or even sadder are those who think "damn does he actually sit here all day spending hours on FB posts lmao" when in reality anyone that knows my personality/PC and desktop setup knows that I'm operating on dual-monitors with over 20 tabs open and 2 different exchanges lol. I'll write as much as I want! Besides, if the length of a post is the type of deterrent for you to not want to read my commentary & rhetoric than I'm pretty sure you're not the type of person I want reading my posts anyway. I had this argument with my little brother last night.

Don't flatter yourselves trolls. As if I'd waste a single moment of this precious time we have on Earth on something I didn't feel was worth it. I'd never say/do something I didn't believe in. Even if it gets me killed.

So my brother says I need to be more lax; less assertive, and chill! To some extent I do believe he's right. I always have. But upon deeper reflection, I realized he couldn't be more wrong. I've spent god knows how many hours trying to change my personality and behavior to accommodate or appeal to someone else's liking. This has nothing to do with me being a kiss-ass or a suck-up; but moreso my innate desire to connect with people stemming from extreme empathy and sensitivity.

I've realized though; that in trying to be nice, you can be mean. Sometimes the only way to be nice, is to be mean.

Would you rather have someone talk behind your back or to your face?

Up until today I would've always answered "to my face" but now I'm starting to realize that this world is filled with anger, hatred, envy, and that if you spend every waking moment basking in it than that's all you'll ever be doing.

You have to pick your battles & decide what's worth fighting for, decide what's worth believing in. I love my cliches' because the reason they exist is because they couldn't be more true. Ignorance is bliss... Although I've always been a passionate and fervent advocate for what I believe in; there are days where I do wish I did take the blue pill.

My brother (and best friend) thinks I talk too much and am way too stubborn. I prefer to think that I am just extroverted/amiable. I say just enough to get my point across and although sometimes lengthy (especially from a smartphone) & can be paraphrased or simplified at times. Pay no mind to the irony/contradiction of me stubbornly referring to myself as not stubborn:

I ask myself "why should I go through the effort of dumbing down my posts / comments to 250 characters because people don't have the 6-second attention span to skim through a half-page post?" "It's too long wahh" I'm the one that's writing it. Poor you. It must be so hard to read. SMH"

But one thing he did note and was spot on accurate about that I absolutely LOATHE about myself is that I sometimes have a tendency to interrupt people (not intentionally, instinctively) and I really DESPISE that behavior/character flaw. That's something I'm working on changing IMMEDIATELY.

There's two types of conversationalists:

1. those who listen
2. those who wait to talk. I always prided myself on being a great listener, so that when I do talk too much at least I'm paying attention and making good conversation / valid points. But lately I feel like some and let me re-iterate: just SOME of the people I've been talking to make me want to just smash their head in.**
   

I'm referring to the "sheeple", you know; those that prefer security, happiness and the blissful ignorance of illusion

A)
B)

over...

Knowledge, freedom, and the cold hard truth of reality. Facts first, no matter how ugly they may be. Unwillingness to learn is just the same as ignorance.

A)
B)

A)
B)

When I initially learned to conduct technical analysis on crypto charts based on patterns and began to realize that I was accurate more than inaccurate on trades; it occurred to me I'm officially a professional trader & the sky's the limit. Even if the market were to collapse; the knowledge I've ascertained over this period of time has been bountiful and an untapped reservoir of potential limitless income.

The same rules apply to stock charts when identifying trendline breakouts. If this party ever ends, and the BTC bubble bursts, I'll just become a stock broker. It's definitely not for everyone; especially those who are responsible, non-impulsive, and like to make safe investments.

If you're a thrill-seeker, risk-taker, fast-learner, have great memory, and are not easily bored or distracted + don't mind staring at numbers/figures all day while setting alerts 24/7 than why not take the time to learn? It's not a 9-5 as I've said before it's more like a 24/7 but with Blockfolio all you have to do is have your phone on and an alarm will go off at your stop-limits. Truth is I've seen traders who've been in the game for over 5 years and still can't lock a single ROI.

It baffles me to this day why they still bother trying. Clearly some people aren't meant to do some things. It was like watching Tupac play a 1-on-1 with Lebron James. While Pac is a genius poetically and would outwrite LeBron any day of the weak; that's his niche and I'm not insinuating that an individual can be restricted to only one single talent but what I am saying is that an individual can only be best at one thing. He cannot be the best lyricist/activist of Rap music & at the same time dunk on LeBron. The reality is LeBron would DOMINATE Tupac probably 11-0 in a humiliating fashion just like Tupac would destroy Lebron in a battle rap without hesitation and complete humiliation.

My point being: while Tupac is gifted and clearly blessed in his artistry thus talented at so much other things in that field; he was and always would've been a garbage ball player no matter how hard he tried/practiced.

It's simply a question of Nature vs. Nurture. Eugenics. The age old debate of survival of the fittest and evolution/Darwinism.

At the same time it's taken me less than 3 years and I'm finding myself wrong maybe 10-15% of the time. Which is crazy in crypto trading; cause more often than not with bots & insider trading / pump & dump schemes, FOMO/FUD, market volatility due to announcements from devs/mods; its more like a gambling in a casino.

The house always wins.

Anything above 5/10 accuracy means you always profit (unless the market crashes, or some major announcement fucks everything up).

'm trying to be humble but the truth is it's not for everyone; no matter how hard/long I see some people try to research & learn they never get good while others just do. It's either you got it or you don't. I'm fortunate I do. But the only way you'll find your niche is if you try. I failed at so many other things before I stumbled upon blockchain & realized "okay this I'm good at" 😉

A Bachelor's degree is about 120 credits depending on the university. A master's is roughly 180. Assuming each credit = 1 hour of learning; than it takes a person 180 hours of pure learning a subject and more importantly RETAINING all (or at least most) of what you've learned in those 180 hours.

Now I can't give an exact figure but if I had to ballpark I'd say I've put 1000+ hours into learning/research and an additional 2000+ (minimum) in learning through practice (trial & error) over the past 4 years. Why am I bothering to explain all this? Not because I'm ashamed I don't have a Master's degree (i could care less; I've come to find that any university/institution of higher learning is obsolete in the 21st century UNLESS it's a career path that requires a certification/license/degree such as a lawyer or doctor).

There was a time college was NECESSARY (and it still is in regards to titles, official positions, etc.) where you couldn't get an education or any form of higher learning, back before the internet. Unless you need a certification/license/degree for your career, you have to realize it's absolutely absurd to pay $40,000 a year to major in a subject where some old goof concentrates your learning on maybe two 90 minute lecture halls a week at a slow pace when if you're really passionate about that major you can learn anything/everything you could in those lecture halls studying on a laptop computer for 12-16 hours a day at home.

I've had this debate with others before and ultimately it boils down to environment. Some people still think the college experience is a necessary measure in preparing us for the real world. I guess because my circumstances are different (I lived for years and matured in between high school and this limbo period) I quickly realized I could either go to school, obtain an MBA, than start my way as an entry-level worker on Wall St. OR I could learn ANYTHING & EVERYTHING about that passion/major by reading, researching, learning all day and night 7 days a week 12-16 hours a day it was incomparable. When I started to "self-educate" I learned more about modern history from post WWII to present in 15 days of nonstop adamant learning than I did in 20 years of high school / 3 college level courses. I realized I was blessed. I could retain information easier than others, and more rapidly than others. I also had a BURNING desire to learn. Always.

My idea of a fun Friday night would be to throw some popcorn in the microwave and watch a historical documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman. My peers' idea was getting drunk and chasing tail. I'm done chasing tail. I'm going to wait until the universe does it's thing. I'm not interested in meaningless, promiscuous, physical sex but a companionship and lifelong partner who can support me and hold a conversation with me, and I'll marry her right away if she could tolerate me.

I know some REALLY good people who have a Master's degree with a boatload of debt and are still asking themselves "why did I do this to myself?" foolishly being mislead into believing "stay in school, get good grades, everything will work out" and for them it didn't. At least not yet. They're not dead so it's not over till it's over. But to see them work so hard and get so far to be told to fuck off and throw in the towel is what saddened me the most. They owe over 6 figures in student loan debt; while all that's left of my once $40,000 student loan debt is a mere $8,000.

The truth is I feel guilty... and I guess in some way I'm trying to prove to myself that I shouldn't because I deserve this. But I feel like I don't. Growing up on section 8 housing and eating TV dinners until I was 24 made me value every single dollar spent or saved.

My life has been a roller coaster of an adventure the past 27 and a half years. I jump & struggle bouncing from simple monthly subscriptions and bills amounting to no more than $1000 a month cause I don't have enough in my checking account yet on 3 separate exchanges (cbase, gdax, binance) I move thousands of dollars instantly with a simple mouse click Then 8 hours will pass and another mouse click will earn me hundreds to thousands of dollars. I just want to say I'm happy & blessed to be alive and that one day when I can finally pull my earnings/investment out without regretting it or getting double charged 25% by an exchange and an additional 40% by Uncle Sam (hopefully by Q4 2018, Q1 2019) or even sooner; depending on how quickly things move. In 2017 only %0.4 of crypto earnings were reported. That's because blockchain makes it so difficult for the IRS to find out how much you earned; but at some point they will. All those retards are going to regret cashing out when Uncle Sam comes back to bite them.

I could always launder the money using a privacy coin (#XMR #DASH #ZEC) but that would be illegal and did you know you get more prison time for tax evasion / money laundering than rape & murder?

Yes it's true, 30 to life. Apparently fucking Uncle Sam is a bigger crime than fucking a defenseless, non-consensual woman and beating her to death. What does that say about legislatures and the laws they passed to ensure that taxes take precedent over civilization?

Thanks to #XRP ; negotiations for regulation & implementation into the U.S. economy are concluded.

All that's left is for Congress/Senate to pass a law permitting & regulating crypto. The day that happens I can cash out without losing more than 70% of my money. In the meantime I've got my earnings all in one coin on 3 separate exchanges (3 coins all in) plus my extensive long-term HODL portfolio in my ledger nano s that has over 4-5 coins/tokens and is pretty solid. (50% of my total crypto) is pretty much locked in a compounding savings / and 15% locked in margin trading for no-risk compounding interest.

In January of this year I literally lost everything. Now I have contingencies in place to make sure that worse case scenario another market crash comes I only lose 50%. As for my days; I get high on swing-trading. A 12% RoI gets me high with excitement while a 20% crash-spike gets me drunk with anger. It's a very emotional/demanding lifestyle. But you know what? i wouldn't trade it for the world.

P.S. Typing test is actually fun lol; check it out. https://www.typingtest.com and that was my 1st try (first time I messed up and my mouse started spazzing so i had to refresh)

Also, I'm buying a car this week. Any suggestions? Nothing flashy. Just affordable, reliable, sustainable, with good MPG. Would prefer if someone who really knew their shit came with me so I didn't get taken advantage of. I don't know SHIT about cars.

I know I promised to post my 10 GOLDEN RULES of trading/investing but I'm exhausted and literally running on Empty so I will do so tomorrow morning if you guys are cool with that! Needless to say it will be worth the wait; as long as you adhere to all 10 of them, you will always profit. Thank you all for listening.

Peace & Love

• @a1MTarabichi