Alexander The R.I.C.H. Trader

I’m very excited. Last night I received my new custom Major which is my name embedded (first and middle names) R.I.C.H. Trader with the added module Synergy: The Golden One which is a powerful 7 modules in one that is an “all encompassing wealth module”.

I plan to use this title for quite a while. I’m thinking a year and a half. I will be running two titles and I expect to start out slow because this one title is quite dense. But the other title will be switched every round or two.

I’m starting out with R.I.C.H. Trader (w Synergy:The Golden One) and my custom double name embedded Summertime with Mountain Breaker as the added module.

I plan to run that one round and then switch out Summertime with Limitless Executive because I’m going to be doing some research in order to fine tune my trading system and style.

From there we’ll see. I might run Summertime again right after that, if I feel I need it.

Other titles I’ll run with R.I.C.H. Trader will be:
Godlike Masculinity (I love this title)
Emperor: The Art of War
The Revelation of Wealth
Lovebomb For Humanity

Possibly (if needed)
Dragon Reborn: Regeneration (absolutely love this title also)
Sanguine
BDLM (It makes it bigger :cucumber: :hotdog: ) Just kidding :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :rofl:

I plan to just run this journal until I buy a house and move to Scottsdale, Arizona by December 5, 2027 (my big goal). My next post will explain that and also my main goals of this part of my journey.

This is what I’ve been working up to for the last few months. I needed to calm down my energy system and clear out some garbage before this. Frankly this part of the journey is still working on my foundation.

I guess the last couple of journals was really about leveling the ground and clearing out the gunk before the real foundation.

My previous journals are
An Engineered Summertime Foundation

and

Creating A Solid Core with Dragon Reborn: Regeneration + GLM + EOG1

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The Main Goals With This Stack:

  1. Overcome my scarcity programming (long history of poverty in my family)
  2. Overcome my poverty thinking (sounds similar to 1 but there is a subtle difference)
  3. Overcome financial traumas
  4. Overcome trading traumas
  5. Become a consistently profitable currency trader in the Forex markets (been trading in one form or another since 2006)
  6. Be able to purchase a nice house in Scottsdale, Arizona and move out of the Pacific Northwest
  7. To enjoy the freedoms that having money brings (I miss that so much)
  8. Accomplish all of this by December 5 2027

On the surface this seems like unrealistic goals in that amount of time. I’ve never given my full background and will not in these posts either. I plan to write this in the future. I’ve never been “rich” (to me that is multimillionaire territory, but everyone’s definition is different) but I was very close friends with an incredibly wealthy adult from when I was 8 years old until she passed away in 2007.

Summary

I was in management for a while, earning a solid income, and was also a decently successful car salesman. I also had earned some solid money as a currency trader earning over $ 30,000 + a month until the Great Recession started to hit and the markets went f’n wild over the slightest things said in news, from Fed members, Congress, Banks closing or being taken over, company earning, companies going bust, etc.

There would be MASSIVE swings in the markets out of nowhere that could hand your ass to you in a New York Minute, and it did. You want to talk about Financial Trauma and trading trauma, that certainly caused it.

So to be clear, I’m not just getting into trading and expecting big success right away. I had some financial success with currency trading and in life in general. Shit happened though. The Great Recession hit very hard. I lost a ton of money. I was saving money to buy a house and that all disappeared. I was renting a nice home in Las Vegas and the owner defaulted, with no warning to me, and I had to move out in 72 hours (Vegas is not a forgiving place). And on top of that, out of nowhere, I ended up becoming a Type 1 Diabetic (adult onset with unknown causes and needing to take insulin).

But just before all of this my close friend from childhood (the wealthy adult) passed away from a very rare cancer and 3 months later my paternal grandmother, whom I was close with, passed away. All kinds of stuff started coming up from my childhood. PTSD started rearing its ugly head. I still had some decent money left over so I started therapy and restudied the markets.

So I’m not coming at things fresh. There is quite a backstory (read the details just above if you’re interested). As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been through quite a bit of therapy and I’m not saying it didn’t help but it never really got to the root causes and worked through them.

One thing I will add to this journal are things I’m working on concerning wealthy thinking, and my currency trading. I’m not going to reveal my strategies (what works for one person doesn’t for another, and also different market cycle require different trading strategies) but I will go into detail on checklists I’ve been working on to get ready for my trading day and also pre-trade routines and checklists.

If you read closely that is what R.I.C.H. Trader focuses on because that has a lot to do with working the psychology of trading.

Here is link to a video about the real lifestyle you need to be a consistently profitable trader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDP1W-t2-PU

Skip a solid minute of the video, but it’s short. Even though I used to live in Las Vegas when I first started trading Forex, I didn’t live the party lifestyle. To most people I lived a very boring life. Reality is that is often how successful people live, especially during their building phase. Then, when they have a solid financial foundation, they will live it up from time to time. But those are highlight reels, NOT their everyday lifestyle.

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It’s been almost a week since I’ve started running my R.I.C.H. trader custom name embedded with Synergy The Golden one and I’m growing already. I wasn’t expecting too much right away, but then again I’ve been building up to this so I hit the ground running and with great results as far as growth.

I’ve made two short videos, with no sound that help me grow and heal both in terms of money and also with trading. I made these videos with “Movie Maker” which is an old free Microsoft program you got with Windows 10. Sure there’s better but it’s free and easy as pie to use. The videos are made from clips from a trading video I like and clips I made from videos of US Dollars in bank stacks, being fanned on a table, etc. So I’ll have a clip of a trader looking at his charts and then a clip that animates “Change Is Here” and then a picture of a trader holding a stack of USD then an AI trader in a suit in a zen garden with the traditional Buddhist meditation pose and then a clip of cash again.

Then the other video is of the type of dream home in Arizona that I ultimately want. I made a bunch of clips of a couple of home tours and spliced them together. Both of these videos are just helping to give the subconscious cues to work towards.

I’ve been reading “It Didn’t Start With You” by Mark Wolynn and I will be working through his official workbook also. I have also been working on various checklists I’ll be using during my trading day. Checklists on preparing for the trading day; protocols and checklists for when I have a losing trade; a protocol and checklist if I’m struck by FOMO because price starts going crazy out of nowhere (we’ll be seeing more of this in the near future); fine tuning a pre-trade checklist I made years ago and have been using since; fine tuning what I will be keeping track of in my psychology part of my trading journals; etc.

I came across a very interesting idea about having a daily contract you make with yourself before a trading day. Essentially you go through and promise that you will only take trades that meet your trading standards; to always set a take profit and stop loss with each trade (I firmly believe in this, especially when you have storms that can cause internet to go down for a while). The theory behind this contract is to keep yourself consistent and most who use a “contract” like this swear it works. So I figured I’ll try it out.

Anyway I still won’t be trading for real until October, but in about a month or so I’ll start to slowly trade via my trading software to get back into the swing of trading, but of course to also heal and grow with demo money in the meantime. Then I’ll switch to my live Demo account during the day for a little bit then I’ll switch back over to graveyard and trade my live demo during graveyard hours, which are my normal trading hours.

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Yesterday I had a major breakthrough. I think this breakthrough is most likely the absolute core of why things haven’t worked out in life and repairing this will certainly turn my life towards the direction I want.

It was such a revelation when this discovery hit that it shook my very being and every painful memory and setback in my life. The timing of these learning tools can’t be a coincidence. I’ve been putting in the work and kicking some hornet’s nests, so to speak.

Lately I’ve been reading “It Didn’t Start With You” by Mark Wolynn and working through the workbook. But on the side I’ve also been going through a bunch of Youtube videos, working with ChatGPT, meditating on specific things, etc. Yesterday I attended an online and short workshop by Aaron Doughty entitled “Consciousness of Allowing”.

I’ve been through probably HUNDREDS of hours of “core work” in various therapy, self help, Buddhist work, etc and this was the last piece of the puzzle and so stupidly simple and I immediately knew it when it was asked. Understand this call was with quite a few people so it’s not as though he asked me specifically but the question was “Who did you have to be as a kid to receive love and attention from Mom & Dad?” There is just something about that question that just hit home. I’ve been through similar types of questions by this hit the nail on the head.

Here is some deeper backstory about me, but not the whole story,

Summary

The simple answer to the question to the question is that IT DIDN’T MATTER. I was never good enough (I’m a perfectionist as an adult, was as a kid also, but this part I already knew.) and was always shoved aside and casted out. I was an only child so I didn’t have a sibling to help try and figure things out.

But when digging deeper a major pattern emerged in absolutely EVERYTHING that didn’t workout in my life. It’s not exactly self-sabotage, but it kind of is. But it would be from the very beginning. And that is what needs to shift.

I don’t want to write a book here but I’ll fill in my backstory some more. I was an only child born in the early 70’s in Los Angeles. We were poor. We lived in Torrance, Long Beach (the poor part, which is most of the city now :stuck_out_tongue: ) Compton, City of Industry and then San Bernardino (where McDonald’s was started and also home to numerous outlaw biker gangs).

I was practically born on a motorcycle. Indians in the beginning and then when my dad officially became an outlaw biker it was only Harley’s from then on out. Younger people think of full of it but as a little kid I NEVER wore a helmet in California and that was even riding as a passenger on LA freeways. A little kid with no helmet. The laws were coming into effect when we suddenly moved out of California to Oregon (my mom’s parents and family who were poor also) in 1977.

My father was kicked out of my life about a month after moving, and I had literally a moment’s notice and then I was hidden until he was kicked out so I wouldn’t be kidnapped by him. My father was a very abusive and violent man so this was a good thing he was kicked out of my life but he was still my dad. I started school two days after my dad was kicked out of my life. A couple of months after that my Mom went to work and worked nights. I never saw her for months.

My youngest uncle was only 4 years older than me, the next was 5 years older than me. My aunt was 6 years older than me. The oldest uncle was 11 years older than me and then there was my grandfather and grandmother all in a small house. I was getting abused in various ways left and right and I never saw my mom.

My teacher was an old school b**ch and treated me like salt of the earth because my mom was getting a divorce (very rare in those days) and I was from California, and even worse, I was from Los Angeles. Oregon despised Californians. I essentially became a shit ton of people’s scapegoat, meaning all their hate and anger was focused on me.

After about a year my Mom was able to get us into an apartment. At first we were sharing it with a friend of hers from work (she was very nice) but then we had it to ourselves after a couple of months. Summer came and I was left at home alone (I broke down one morning when my Mom was dropping me off at her parent’s and she realized that things weren’t good there, so this was actually a blessing).

My mom started dating this one particular guy who was an ass from day one. Nothing like my father, actually almost the exact opposite in many aspects, EXCEPT he was an abusive little prick. She married him so he became my step-father and was until my late 20’s.

So that fills in some important backstory. Now back to the question, and do this exercise yourself because the answer will reveal a pattern in everything that you do.

“Who did you have to be as a kid to receive love and attention from Mom & Dad?”

My answer to that is that I had to be extraordinary in some form or another to get a little nugget but then it doesn’t matter because EVERYTHING WILL LEAVE ME NO MATTER WHAT.

Every relationship (I divorced at 25). Long story but not a difficult one to figure out. Jobs. Money. Hell even some of my health. But somehow, through everything, I’m like a fricking Buffalo (American Bison) and I put my head down and walk directly into the storm (therapy, self help, meditation, etc).

Talk about resilience. It’s my superpower. I’m actually not some cocky little prick but I do have to give myself some kudos from time to time because I just don’t receive it much.

Here’s the thing. The answer to the above question reveals your life pattern. It revealed mine in a very simple way and it all clicked. I started going through a bunch of stuff in my mind instantly and the pattern was so simple and so obvious and was the only pattern. Sure the length of time differs with each one. I’m not completely innocent either, but there is a pattern there also.

When this pattern jumped out there was this intense energy inside me. My mind went like crazy going over things and I ended up becoming very tired. I stayed up and worked on some things and played a couple of quick video games (races) before I went to bed. Had some crazy and busy dreams (no nightmares thankfully) but slept fairly deeply.

Is everything fixed and I’m going to be rich next week? No but the absolute root pattern has been revealed. Now I work on healing it. Luckily I know enough about memory reconsolidation that I can work on most of this by myself, but there is a good therapist out of England that I’ve worked with in the past that I’m going to work with again on a couple of major memories.

Oh, my theory on this awakening. I always have to try to make sense of things so that’s why the theories. What does RICH Trader have to do with this? Well first off it’s a name embedded major with Synergy: The Golden One for the free module (look it up, it’s a heavy module). Within The Golden One is a part that is entitled “Positive Being Attractor”. Essentially it helps to align things for you (I directed it on helping me to FIND THE ROOT CAUSE of my failures and to help me heal it).

But there is also another part that is entitled “Wealth Limit Destroyer”. Well shit, this could be anything. Often because of not being loved in a healthy way by your Mom & or Dad. I know that sounds simplistic but it usually is that simplistic.

Also I’m using my custom name embedded Summertime with Mountain Breaker. One hell of a combo to help heal my money issues.

Now comes the true healing. This is getting fun. :smiley:

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Another major breakthrough today. The momentum is picking up it seems, but I’m going with the flow and growing like a bro. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I was offered to participate in a free two week “Breakthrough” program by Aaron Doughty and Victor Oddo. They’ve been doing these for about 4 years it seems. I applied and was accepted (just about everyone is, not to diminish it at all). Oddly a bunch of junk came up like imposter syndrome, worthiness, etc. So some of that is still there, and to some extent probably will always be. But I digress.

So the very first live class was today. Zoom had a glitch and said the class was over capacity and wouldn’t let me in. Cool thing is that I didn’t self implode and spiral into the negative thinking vortex (major abandonment issues with me). After about 10 minutes a new link was given and everyone was able to attend.

The major breakthrough came about with someone who volunteered live to attempt to work through blockages she still has. Both Aaron and Victor asked questions, gave feedback and encouragement and a couple of things were said and I was allowing these certain feelings come up and they gave the common suggestion of “sitting with that fear”.

I’ve been through this a ton in therapy and never really got a whole lot from it. Some relief but always minor. I started to shove away the fear, which is always my first response. BTW, so did the woman that they were working with live. Her young daughter came into view and as this woman was talking about wanting to shove that fear aside, one of the gentlemen asked, would you shove your daughter away if she was your fear. And they went through all of that.

That is where this HUGE breakthrough came through. I always envisioned this kind of energy as a very negative, condescending energy and equated it with my parents, who always shoved me aside and ended up abandoning me in one form or another. So I’d end up shoving it away and essentially giving it the finger.

The breakthrough is that this energy was actually my inner child who just experienced this. So I sat with that fear (which was actually my inner child) and I consoled him. Just sat with him (the fear). After a couple of minutes a ton of pent up junk just released. Tears flooded my eyes (yeah not a “manly” thing but to me a true man faces his fears and conquers them).

In this case “conquering” that fear was sitting with it. I can’t tell you how many times I tried and it NEVER worked. Because I was looking at that fear wrong. That fear was me as a rejected, abandoned little boy. I would NEVER shove him away. I’ve been trying to heal him but was going about it wrong.

Am I “healed”. No. I’m not really sure what that actually means. I think we keep working on stuff until we pass on to the other side. But it was a huge release and now I learned an incredibly important lesson and how to heal other garbage in my life.

We read all the time in descriptions of subliminals with SubClub about manifestation. @SaintSovereign does an excellent job of getting us to understand that “manifestation” isn’t some woowoo, mystical thing where you just sit on your butt in a Lotus Position and everything magically just changes. You have to allow flow. You have to take ACTION with things that come up. “Follow the White Rabbit” so to speak. It may be some very small action you need to take. But take it. See where it leads.

This is my White Rabbit at this time. My goal is still on to start trading in October. Lightly mind you, but I do have a goal. Will it change? If necessary. It’s not solid, it’s pliable. But it is still a goal I will work to achieve. But here’s the rub. I truly feel that my real lesson, and a very difficult one, is to just ALLOW IT. And to detach from it. Not sure how I will learn this lesson but I’m open.

I say this all the time now and truly mean it, THIS IS GETTING FUN! :smiley:

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Finished the course I mentioned above and have learned a cool process to overcome fears. It’s quite simple and effective. I’m now getting back to reading the book “It Didn’t Start With You” and working through the workbook.

On the side I’m getting back into the trading stuff. I’ve slowly been going through and editing checklists. I have a trading day checklist; pre-trade checklist (incredibly important to override the amygdala); a FOMO protocol; A Loss Protocol (that is to be used after every single loss in order to take the amygdala offline to prevent revenge trading); a post trading day checklist and journal; a Beginning of The Trading Week Checklist; End of the Trading Month checklist, etc.

I know it sounds like a lot of checklists but in all do seriousness that is exactly what is needed to calm the amygdala down and keep the prefrontal cortex (your reasoning mind) online.

A couple of these checklists I’ve had for years and have used them, but I’ve updated them and added some more. What I didn’t have, because I didn’t know, is a complete, yet simple protocol to eliminate FOMO. Also I learned an awesome protocol that is to be used after every single loss. I knew about the need before, because our minds automatically do certain things after a loss, but I never thought about having a protocol for it.

I’m also using an AI Trading Software I have to fine tune my actual trading strategy. That’s going to take about a month to look through the variables and then test in real time. Ultimately I’m looking to automate a brunt of my pre-trade process in finding trade setups but I will still manually enter the trades, stop losses and take profit levels.

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Just watched this, and went “I know where all of these are” but your journey looks interesting.

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I’m adding a very simple ritual that I’ll perform just before my actual trading day begins. A ritual is designed to get you into a very specific state of mind for any type of role. Pro athletes often have rituals similar to this, but of course it’s different for every individual.

I’ll use this after my daily prep. I learned this format from a company by the name of “Human Potential Hackers”. This is similar to an “anchoring” technique from NLP. I was reading a book titled “The Alter Ego Effect” by Todd Herman and he suggests to do something similar. I need to get back to that book but I was detoured in a positive way.

I have this written out now and will start to implement this when I get back to my trading routine around August.

So my ritual will entail getting into a certain state of mind via a short meditation. I’ve programmed myself a few years ago to get to a certain state of mind. Then I’ll listen to the song “The Money Chant ft. Matthew McConaughey” which was inspired by The Wolf Of Wall Street scene.

As a backstory, look up “The Matthew McConaughey Chant” don’t look for the song, unless you want, look for an interview where Matthew describes this from The Wolf of Wall Street. He’s been doing this chant for years before scenes. Leonardo asked Matthew about it, Matthew did it and explained it and Leonardo asked for it to be filmed and included in the film. The rest is history.

Back to the ritual. After listening to the song and doing the McConaughey chest pounding I then will write one sentence. For me that sentence is “A Successful trading day means consistently following my trading rules and keeping control of my trading emotions.”

As a side note, a physical aspect is crucial to every successful ritual. Watch Shohei Ohtani from the Los Angeles Dodgers as he goes out to the pitching mound. He always does a specific two hop sequence when he crosses the baseline at third base before he goes out to warm-up. He does this every single time. Consistency is important to rituals. Matthew McConaughey is the chest pounding. Native Americans is the physical pounding of the feet into the earth during a ritual. You can invent your own. I just copied Matthew McConaughey because it’s simple and I like the humming aspect also.

Consistency is vital. Find a simple short ritual and stick to it. Do it everyday. Some say it takes 7 days, some say 30, some say 90 for it to become a habit and lock it. Frankly who cares. This is something you do every single time. The whole purpose is to take control of yourself and step into the type of trader you want to be.

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I decided to take an early washout (I just finished listening day 24). My best friend just informed me that he was just diagnosed with very advanced prostate cancer and has a CAT scan coming up to show if it has spread or not.

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Hey, be strong! That’s not easy to hear.
I hope your friend gets better soon!
I wish him and everyone you know well.
May you and your friends be healthy :pray:

You might want to try meditating and doing some sports to ease your mind—that’s what I do when I need to relax from everyday stresses as well as from complicated situations.

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Thank you Benny. I greatly appreciate it.

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2nd day of washout. Nothing significant to report other than very interesting dreams, which I’ve had not long after starting this last round. Mostly having to deal with beliefs about money. It’s been interesting.

This next round is going to consist of my custom name embedded major RICH Trader w The Golden One (I’ll be working this title for about a year, or longer if necessary) and the 2nd title will be Limitless Executive.

According to the Stack Explorer from Q, combined, this stack is referred to as “The Precise Trader”. The description states:

"Limitless Executive provides operational precision and elite decision-making. R.I.C.H. Trader provides trading intelligence. Together: the most precisely executed trading — every entry, every exit, every position size calculated with operational excellence. Zero sloppiness."

I will run this for at least one round, possibly two. I’ll play it by ear.

I will start my new round on July 26 and this will put me right smack up to October with my next washout. The goal is to start trading again with real money in October. That’s fluid also because it just depends on how things go with my demo trading and how I personally feel.

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4th day of my washout. I had a very interesting and vivid dream last night. I won’t go into details but essentially I was “fighting the man”, which has been a common theme for me since I was a child.

What I mean by “fighting the man” is any oppressive force, whether it’s government, dick heads, etc. Basically anyone having more power than me who is trying to control me.

Last night’s dream had a very vivid beginning, problem and resolution. “The man” was a judge who heard my side of the struggle, my feelings, my defense, etc and I was freed of the “oppression”. And was told that I’m a “free man” and to go and “conquer the world and myself”. Which was very interesting to hear. BTW, the “judge” was no one I know. Just a random “judge” that didn’t remind me of anyone in particular.

Obviously my subconscious is working hard. I’m directing it also so it’s not as though I hit play on the subliminals and do nothing. But it was an interesting dream nonetheless and one that hit home in a positive way.

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My best friend and I chatted tonight and his CAT scan results were devastating. He has stage 4 prostate cancer (which means it’s spread all around his body) and it’s rated 9/10 (we don’t use a system like that in the US, stages yes, but not how advanced in a 10 system) anyway it means it’s very spread and very advanced.

However, he’s genuinely at peace with it all and was frankly in very good spirits. He’s not bullshitting me because we’ve known each other for over 15 years and I’ve seen and heard him go through most emotions including the death of his youngest brother from COVID.

Oddly, they are still giving him surgery but he was sent home with a will & testament kit and info on how to cope with possible end of life. We talked about quite a bit, including spiritual and religious matters and reminisced about our friendship. We’ll talk again just before his surgery, which of course they bumped the schedule around considerably since his case is so serious. It’s going to be in about 4 or five weeks.

It doesn’t mean his life is over, but it’s not a bed of roses either. The odds are stacked against him and his back is to the wall, but it’s not taking away his spirit, which I was most grateful about. I’ve never seen him in a situation like this so wasn’t sure how he would handle it.

He is genuinely very Stoic about it. He even said that it’s out of his hands and all he can do is stay positive and keep his faith, which he has. He hasn’t even used any subliminals, even though he’s noticed positive effects with me using them over the last few months.

He genuinely asked how I was doing as far as how I’m handling it all. Typical of my best friend, but honestly, I would l have done the same if I was in his shoes. True friends genuinely care for each other and boost each other up, no matter what.

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