I think paper trading is only after you've learned how to actually, like not learn, but after you trade and lost real money. Because you've actually experienced what it feels like. Like you're saying, you experience that heart rate. You experience that emotion when you're like, crap, I just lost three in a row. Or I may I just won five in a row. And then you bet even too much and you learn that lesson.

Like you start to learn how those emotions feel. So then when you start paper trading,

you can think, oh, I know how I usually act in this moment. So let me make sure I stick to my plan not like budget, you know.

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We're back with Alex from The Story.

So, you know, you can definitely check out Alex.

We're going to talk a lot about a lot of stuff today.

You know, he is kind of what I think of as a great example of someone we're trying to reach out with this podcast.

I mean, the market is insane right now.

I mean, you know, I feel like I say

this every episode we record. SPY is at all time highs today. You know, Dow Jones is an all time

highs. SPY is at all time highs. You know, we've had these amazing Bitcoin runs. Now we have

the commission free stuff. You know, there's's just i don't think there's a better time

to be learning trading than right now and and you know you factor in again the commission free stuff

and the volatility we have and i mean just the information that is out there i mean i there

might have been maybe like one trading podcast when I got started.

Maybe. I don't even know if there was one. And, you know, when you think about the wealth of

information on YouTube and Twitter and just everywhere. So that's what we want to really talk about

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