Some total and full disclosure of what happened w/me.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148006&
All in all I ended up w/ just about 500K in debt, I went from having been worth millions, to having to move back in w/ my mom and dad. I was going to declare bankruptcy, but I couldn't do it. To this day I don't know why I couldn't do it.
It got to where I had to start making a lot of money again, or go on SSI. I was going to start another trading site, I know that stuff well..but it just didn't feel right. I had no money to my name, I wouldn't be trading myself..and that felt dirty to me.
In addition to being a good trader (which I am, I'm averaging about $1000 a day when I do trade), I'm a very good marketer. I decided that I'd offer my services as a marketer to people, because a lot of people in this industry know I'm very good at it. People that include the likes of Tim Sykes, MBTrading, Trading Markets and others.
So anyway, I was going to do the marketing thing for awhile, I did always like it a lot. The original plan was to do it long enough to make enough to pay my bills off....I thought that would take a year or two. It turns out I'm a much better marketer then I was ever a trader, because I've made well in excess of $10million for my clients this year, and a tad over $1million for myself. My last big product launch made $929,000 in 2 1/2 hours for my client and crashed Dell Server. So...like I said, I'm a better marketer then I was ever a trader (classic middle child attention whore syndrome I guess).
So anyway, like I said the original game plan was to get into marketing for other people, and a few simple Clickbank products for myself, just to make enough to get back into trading..but its turned out I like trading, I LOVE marketing.
As far as ET goes, I still have a lot of friends here and I talk to them in PM since I don't tend to reply to my emails. When I'm over here talking to them, then sometimes I stop over to some of the threads and make an ass of myself, because i have nothing better to do.
The people who do drive by spamming are broke, low class idiots. I don't hire anyone who doesnt have at least a $70,000 budget, including the money upfront to hire me.
As far as the guy from Microsoft..you can see that I had that offer on the table, and was going to do that. About three weeks after that offer was made to me, I ended up in the hospital for about a month and a half..he revoked the offer and hired someone else, because he needed someone right away. I'd have probably done the same thing. This is probably the sixth or seventh time I've said that here.
Brandon
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148006&
All in all I ended up w/ just about 500K in debt, I went from having been worth millions, to having to move back in w/ my mom and dad. I was going to declare bankruptcy, but I couldn't do it. To this day I don't know why I couldn't do it.
It got to where I had to start making a lot of money again, or go on SSI. I was going to start another trading site, I know that stuff well..but it just didn't feel right. I had no money to my name, I wouldn't be trading myself..and that felt dirty to me.
In addition to being a good trader (which I am, I'm averaging about $1000 a day when I do trade), I'm a very good marketer. I decided that I'd offer my services as a marketer to people, because a lot of people in this industry know I'm very good at it. People that include the likes of Tim Sykes, MBTrading, Trading Markets and others.
So anyway, I was going to do the marketing thing for awhile, I did always like it a lot. The original plan was to do it long enough to make enough to pay my bills off....I thought that would take a year or two. It turns out I'm a much better marketer then I was ever a trader, because I've made well in excess of $10million for my clients this year, and a tad over $1million for myself. My last big product launch made $929,000 in 2 1/2 hours for my client and crashed Dell Server. So...like I said, I'm a better marketer then I was ever a trader (classic middle child attention whore syndrome I guess).
So anyway, like I said the original game plan was to get into marketing for other people, and a few simple Clickbank products for myself, just to make enough to get back into trading..but its turned out I like trading, I LOVE marketing.
As far as ET goes, I still have a lot of friends here and I talk to them in PM since I don't tend to reply to my emails. When I'm over here talking to them, then sometimes I stop over to some of the threads and make an ass of myself, because i have nothing better to do.
The people who do drive by spamming are broke, low class idiots. I don't hire anyone who doesnt have at least a $70,000 budget, including the money upfront to hire me.
As far as the guy from Microsoft..you can see that I had that offer on the table, and was going to do that. About three weeks after that offer was made to me, I ended up in the hospital for about a month and a half..he revoked the offer and hired someone else, because he needed someone right away. I'd have probably done the same thing. This is probably the sixth or seventh time I've said that here.
Brandon