Welcome everybody to the steady trade podcast.

This is personally, will be, I'm sure, one of my favorite episodes.

And I've had a lot of requests.

I don't know if you know are not, Eric.

I've had a lot of requests for you to be on this because you did hit trading stardom,

I would say when you're releasing

your YouTube videos back in the day. But not only that, but your story is particularly

unique because you've done what many of us aspire to do. You've literally gone from trading

in a van, running a full-time job, and then you've gone on to not just have success

on that, but going to make thousands and then hundreds of thousands of dollars. So why don't

you start by telling us just from the beginning, how on earth you've done that? Yeah, I'll jump in

real quick like I always do.

The listeners love the king of interruptions, Tim.

But, you know, what I always like to start with is, you know, it's kind of like the Marvel

comics or the DC comics.

What was the origin story?

You know, you know, where did you first fine trading? You know, how did you, you know, how did you begin, you know, so. See, this is going on five years. I started about five years ago. Oh, wow. Okay. Everybody, you know, every trade you've ever talked to probably says, you know, I saw the stock market. I was interested. I wanted to get into it, but I had no idea what I was doing.

So I just randomly bought some shit and then lost some money and said, I really need to take a

step back and learn what I'm doing before I just randomly lose all my money. So I did that

for, I don't know, about four or five months. And then, you know, kind of looking on YouTube,

learning little bits and pieces here. And then, you know, of course, I did come across Tim Sykes' video. And that's kind of where I kind of get a lot of more interested. I learned a little bit from him. But, you know, I found out early that I don't really trade Mike Tim. so what I did is I kind of took bits and pieces and learned, you know, little information

here and little information there. And then I kind of developed my own type of style or what I

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