"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."
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Growing up in a small beach town I started trading at the age of seventeen, towards the end of 2008 when I was a senior in high school, a time period many people have engrained in their memories. At the beginning of my senior year of high school my economics teacher introduced all of the students to trading. The teacher had us choose a basket of stocks in September of 2008, and we were given a week to do research before we made our decisions (our stock picks). Then after a few months in December of 2008, we would all see how our picks were performing in comparison to each other. I have always been a thorough self learner and truth seeker; and I dove deep into research over the following week and selected a group of stocks that I believed had a good shot at performing well. The stock market went through a massive crash during this classroom competition, and pretty much everyone in the class got wiped out. I ended up winning the competition and to my teacher's surprise, my stock picks actually went up. In hindsight, I was myself totally baffled at the outcome, considering the severity of the stock crash during the Great Recession, and my lack of knowledge for investing back then. After having success paper trading I decided I should make a stock trading account where I could put some real money on the line. I became completely consumed with this new passion for trading stocks, and everyday when I got home from school I would go and research different stocks, go on the old school trader forums and study what other traders were using to forecast the price action of the market. Months later, when I turned eighteen years old in January of 2009, I made my first stock trading account on TD Ameritrade, and from there I went deep into the world of trading stocks when not in school. My passion for trading had been born.
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"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
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I had saved up about $1,300 from working over the summer (high school summer break) as a beach lifeguard and I decided to invest the money in the stock market. I invested in a biotech pharmaceutical stock and went all in on one pick (this lack of risk management would eventually be my downfall). The $1,300 turned into $5,000 in a matter of weeks and I sold my entire position in the stock and moved the profits ($5,000) into a new stock that I had been watching. I had a plan to move my money from one trade to the next.
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"There is a path before each person that seems right."
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After another several weeks that $5,000 turned into $40,000 while I was in my senior year of high school. Now I felt the emotion of greed for the first time in a big way, and instead of selling like my mother had recommended; I decided to hold the stock because I thought, "of course it would go much higher" (greed). The stock began crashing for several days and I decided to sell and was able to get $16,000 for selling that stock (greed made me hold too long and not take any profits until the stock started crashing - so i took profits out of fear and held due to greed - emotional trading). From here I wanted to buy AVIS car rental company and just hold that stock for good (a long term investment that I planned on holding for a decade or so). The ticker was CAR and it was now trading for around $0.50 a share. I had previously told my father one night that AVIS Car Rentals was trading for $0.48 and that he should accumulate a massive amount of shares - I thought he should buy 60,000 shares (my father never did - whoops! - hindsight bias again).
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Instead of going with my plan of buying the AVIS stock at around $0.50 a share and getting 32,000 shares of the stock, I caught wind of some possible stock trade where a company was supposedly going to get bought out by another company. I thought that I could turn my $16,000 into $100,000 and then come back and buy AVIS Car Company stock and be able to accumulate a lot more shares. Yet again I was making another decision based purely off of the emotion of greed.
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"Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time."
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Again I was feeling that emotional rush of greed and I took my entire $16,000 stack and put it all in on this speculative penny stock. To my amazement the penny stock started to pump over the coming days and I was now at about $37,000 in my portfolio. Then news broke that the buyout was just some fraudulent news manufactured by the company in order to raise capital before going bankrupt (remember this is in 2009). The stock absolutely cratered and I ended up selling the stock before the company went fully bankrupt. Now that I had about $4,100 (and feeling the compounding emotions of a major loss because I was now down $12,000) I decided that I needed to do more research, and really figure out this trading thing at a higher level of understanding, and protect my capital from such large swings in volatility. This all happened during my senior year in High School, right when the stock market was crashing into the spring & summer of 2009. If I would have skipped the greedy trade, I would have bought 32,000 shares of AVIS and that stock would be worth over $6,000,000 today (14 years later). This just shows how it is better to be patient and not greedy, because in the long run the patience can pay off in an incredible way.
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"To learn, you must love discipline; it is stupid to hate correction."
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That is how I began my journey trading, through some wins and losses. I continued to trade stocks and study trading over the next nine years, and I even was able to make some major winning trades while in college to pay for my tuition in full without having to take out any student loans (but that is another story). When I started making money in my career, I dove even deeper into investing and trading, and really took my knowledge to another level of understanding. In hindsight now, I realize what a rookie I was even then. Learning to trade is such a long journey, to become successful at it really requires a lot of discipline and endurance. However, it is completely doable, and the rewards at the end can be enormous. They far outperform any other type of investment that is available in this world. It is a matter of will power, for me, I know that the LORD God has given me the will power, drive, and determination to see this trading & investing skillset become purified to a level that I can continually replicate results in a market; no matter the market I am trading. In this academy, my hope is to give you the necessary knowledge you need to be successful from my years of experience in order to fast track you to a place where you can be making the correct decisions in the different markets with particular emphasis on the cryptocurrency market
One night in September of 2016, I got a phone call from a friend while I was working as a maritime officer on an oil tanker that was docked in San Diego Bay in California. I was now a navigation officer in the maritime industry and was stacking up capital to take my trading to the next level. I knew that if I got a certain amount of capital in my trading account, that I could switch gears in my life and become a full time professional trader. I knew I had the knowledge and drive to do it, all I needed was the necessary amount of capital to make it happen. I really enjoyed trading, and I still do, and this is what motivated me to continue pursuing it. That night in September on the ship in San Diego, my good friend Bryan told me on the phone that one of his friends had made a fortune off of trading Bitcoin and that I should take a look at Bitcoin for investing purposes. The next day I went on my computer and looked up Bitcoin and saw that it was trading for around $605 per Bitcoin. I then began to do research on Bitcoin.
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"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps."
After looking into Bitcoin I was sure that I would buy 100 Bitcoin with the funds I had saved from sailing. And I set out to try and do this, but my future had a different course for me to take. I actually decided NOT to buy Bitcoin, but instead I made another investment in a friend's business; who I happened to run into the next day after researching Bitcoin. The business idea sounded amazing, and again, it seemed like I would make a several hundred percent gain in a short amount of time (years later that business has yet to pay out a cent! - what a bummer - but we learn from our mistakes and move on!). Oh man talk about regrets! It is easy to make sound decisions in hindsight, but in the moment it is much more difficult to make great choices when you are not an expert on a subject (and for me at the time, I knew next to nothing about entrepreneurship - which means I should not have been investing in it - this same principle holds true for investing in stocks or cryptocurrencies, before putting your money on the line, spend the necessary time required to learn from experts on the correct steps to take - you will have a faster road to success). When encountering something new in life an expert's guidance who has already mastered the subject can mean the difference between success and failure.
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"For lack of guidance a people falls, but victory is won through many advisers."
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Several months later in 2017 I saw that cryptocurrency was doing well, and surprisingly even my father mentioned Bitcoin to me out of the blue when it was trading for about $1,800. It was at this moment that I knew it was time to start trading cryptocurrency. I applied my knowledge of trading stocks to cryptocurrency and after about 18 months I started to excel at cryptocurrency trading as well (it took a while for me to learn the different programs and how to handle the volatility in regards to trading and risk management, and also how to forecast this market). During this time of studying cryptocurrency trading in depth, I was taken under the wing of several very successful cryptocurrency traders (most of them are famous with a million followers in the trading community). These individuals made several hundred million dollars trading and investing in cryptocurrency, and some of them were even professional traders as an occupation. These individuals invited me into their group and mentored me on a one on one basis (for free!) over the course of several years, teaching me their ways to be successful in the crypto market. This was nothing other than the FAVOR of God. And I thank the Lord Jesus for this radical favor that He had on me over those years to learn from the best on how to properly manage risk, trade, and forecast the cryptocurrency market.
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"So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man."
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I started to trade Bitcoin with leverage more frequently to put my knowledge to the test. However, due to my busy work schedule and desire to spend as much time as possible surfing and having fun exploring different travel destinations, I decided I needed to find a way to turn my cryptocurrency trading into a more laid back investment approach that took very little time to manage, but could still bring in massive rewards. Trading with leverage (on margin) required me to be around the computer all the time, and always available to close a trade. For my lifestyle this just didn't work, and it was not worth the amount of money I was making from this style of trading, nor was it worth the stress that I felt from this lifestyle of being a slave to my computer. Therefore, I spent several months researching and dialing in my strategy to be a more passive investor with a more precise way of investing than the average investor, and then I put my strategy to the test. This test lasted a couple years and I diligently adhered to my strategy.
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"Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth."
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I reaped significant rewards in the upper seven figures ($8.6 million) after following this strategy for just slightly over two years. I had finally achieved the level of success I had dreamed about when I first started trading. Yet even though I had made millions of dollars, the satisfaction was not what I expected.
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"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content."
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I actually ended up taking a turn in my life I never expected to take. And it really changed the course of my life, but that is another story for another time. I would like to tell you, if you think money will make you happy, and fill that void inside your heart, then you are sorely mistaken, and will ultimately be disappointed and unsatisfied as I was.
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I continue to use the strategies I teach in this academy today. And they helped me to absolutely nail the bottoms on Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market yet again. I expect this market to continue moving in cycles, and I do not think it is too late to learn this information. In fact, you are going to want to know this information of how to accumulate assets for good and fair value if you ever want to get involved with the cryptocurrency market, stock market, commodities markets, and real estate market. All world markets move in cycles and waves, and it is important to be able to look at these cycles with a clear eye, without the influence of the emotions of fear and greed. This course will definitely help you get there.
We live in a time where governments around the world are working together to constrict the human race through several demonic forces (spirit of antichrist) and remove what little God given liberties we have left. There is the natural world that we see around us, and the spiritual world that we do not see. But both realms are connected, and the attack against liberty and purity in the natural world is a direct reflection of the spiritual war going on around us.
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"The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles."
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It is written that a time is coming when humanity will no longer be able to buy or sell unless they take a mark in their right hand or in their forehead and worship the beast and its image. Due to the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency it provides a legitimate way to buy and sell outside of the government currencies, so as a Christian that believes in the entirety of the Word of God, I believe it could provide Christians an alternative way to conduct commerce without having to operate within the beast system. In addition, looking at the data it is obvious that cryptocurrency is accelerating in adoption, and due to the limited supply of cryptocurrency the price should eventually increase in value over time as well. These are two of many reasons why I believe cryptocurrency is a sound investment for the future, and why I believe it is crucial for people to learn to properly navigate the cryptocurrency asset class.
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The Lord Jesus has commissioned me in this venture of Victory Investment Academy to bring Victory to the body of Christ in their finances. The entire idea came from the Lord prophetically through visions from the Holy Spirit and multiple confirmations in His Word and from brethren in the body of Christ. I believe that the LORD Jesus has commissioned me in this venture.
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"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."
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"O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory."
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I have now created a course with the guidance of the Holy Spirit to share my knowledge that I have gained from over fifteen years of diligent study, and all of my experience in this realm.
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"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
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I have had supernatural favor from God with men, and these men took me under their wing and taught me all of their investing secrets that made them worth hundreds of millions of dollars and it eventually got me to the multimillionaire level. I want to share this knowledge and favor with others, and that is what Victory Investment Academy was created to do.
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"And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto a land flowing with milk and honey. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when you go, you shall not go empty-handed."
My goal with Victory Investment Academy is to help as many people as I can break the yoke of bondage that the fiat currency system has placed upon their necks, and lead them out of their captivity into a place of abundance; both spiritually & for the glorification of the Kingdom of Heaven in the physical realm as well.
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"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
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