I am ending this paid newsletter

Why I'm shutting down subscriptions, issuing refunds BUT not stopping the writing.

Hey friends,

After much thought I’ve made the decision to end the paid version of this blog…

Later today I am going to issue refunds of the remaining period to everyone that still has an active subscription…

Since 2022, I’ve written 211 posts here about how I trade, and sometimes just random stuff, as I was learning my place in this business.

As a result of all that work, in 2026 alone, my portfolio is up close to the 100% mark, just trading crypto, while the general crypto market is, well… collapsing.

Also I am close to breaking through ATH’s in my portfolio, despite the decent drawdown we went through, after the summer of 2025.

In late 2025 I made the decision that I could no longer continue taking the risks I was taking then, and that forced me to upgrade everything from scratch. To take a look at all the things I was neglecting and to fix them once and for all. I went through it in detail here:

Performance Update: 2025 Review & 2026

I barely left the house after September 2025. I ordered in all my meals, I only left to go to the gym, sometimes to family gatherings, and sometimes to play games with my friends at the end of the day, just a few times a week. The remaining time I was completely absorbed in building the next iteration of my trading, which culminated into what it is today.

The 10/10 was a wake up call. Looking back, despite going almost into a -60% drawdown after that, it was one of the top 5 best things that ever happened to me in my life. It woke me up to review and fix all the flaws in my process. I could not rest until that was done.

I honestly thought it would take me much longer to recover to peak equity I was in the summer of 2025. Maybe a few years, but here we are.

This is not advice, this is just my experience which a lot of it is luck. But if one is willing to take risk, look at his mistakes directly in its “eyes” and fix them, it’s hard to bet against that individual. He will eventually do decently well, and maybe if he gets lucky, do outstandingly well.

Crypto market sentiment has been the lowest I have ever experienced. Everyone is leaving to markets where attention is (aka AI, commodities, etc), people are blowing up, liquidity is drying up, etc. Yet my portfolio continues to produce results despite that. It’s not because I am smarter than anyone else, probably equally as dumb as everyone else, but rather because I adhere to principles that have worked well for me. That’s it. A structured process that appears to produce results. I don’t change my approach just because trader A, B, or C, that I may even respect a ton, is doing well in something else. I take note, test, and proceed according to my beliefs.

These results were achieved mostly by the ideas I have shared here.

I will write a more in-depth performance update another day, but I want to make the point that, despite ending the paid side, I am happy with the content provided here, because I know the value it brought to me.

This is an extremely tough business. Over the years I have seen plenty people that seemed like they got it all come and go. Grifters and scammers of the worst kind, come and go, or switch to lifestyle content (lol). I tried to adhere to my principles and show you the real side of trading, which is that it sucks. Every day is a grind. Every day is avoiding the next land mine that might take me out of the game. Also telling you that you probably should be doing something else with your time and you’ll do much better there than trying to trade.

I have nothing to sell to you, today I can say that. Not that is wrong to sell stuff. If you have a valuable skill I dont see anything wrong in monetizing that multiple ways, while helping your customer achieve what they want.

If only grifters were the ones that sold or produced content online, no one would learn a valuable thing.

There’s very few people producing content that you can go back and validate their track records, up or down.

I’ve always merged, to the best of my abilities, what I was working on with writing this blog.

New idea? Write about it as I build it out.

I won’t stop writing what I think to be useful content to you, but I can no longer keep up the paid side with the expectations we’ve set at the beginning, specifically of trading strategies.

I had the ambitious goal of continuing to provide trading strategies and data behind those strategies, on a regular cadence, of at least once a week. Back then I had a very naive view of what a portfolio of strategies looks like and the scalability of that. Over time I found that is something really hard to achieve because I spend a lot of time maintaining what I currently run. Also a trading strategy is not just a buy/sell >/< certain indicator and add a few more rules. That’s not a strategy to me, its a signal at best. I could provide one of those signals a week, but I don’t feel like that’s something that would add the value I want to produce, and over time, as i’ll mention below, becomes economically impractical for me to do that.

I also have friends that regularly share ideas with me, and despite them never saying that to me, I feel like that them knowing I have a newsletter where i publicly share stuff I am working on, stops them from talking about certain things with me, or get into places with people that are more secretive. That’s just the reality of working in a secretive industry.

Today I spend most of my days implementing new ideas into a portfolio that keeps growing in complexity. Especially with AI , I spend most of my days managing agents and watching their output, which makes it really hard to have time to stop, think about stuff, and write, with the cadence set forth. Most of the features I am currently working on are built through a very streamlined pipeline, meaning that anything I write has to be duplicating topics we’ve already discussed in the past, and that’s not the most optimal approach for my time right now… It would be if my purpose was maximizing engagement and subscriber growth, but that’s not my purpose anymore.

I have 8 portfolios running, each with their own uniqueness and dependencies that require maintenance.

I am a one man shop and I no longer am trading simple stuff. I also am no longer trading stuff that I feel comfortable sharing completely as they become more capacity constrained.

So over the past few months, there were many days, when I wrote something for the blog, I had to step back from my research, turn what I was working on into a shareable piece of content, detach it from all I had built on the portfolio, and ship it to you. That is fine and it’s what you paid me for. But this took a lot of time and if I want to grow to the next level, I cannot keep up with that.

I also have reached a point that I monetize my research much better through direct market exposure rather than having a paid subscription.

Trading is a capital intensive business right? Capital to me was for a long time the constraint, but having a paid version of this newsletter helped to monetize my research, and at the same time help you as I shared what worked for me in a market that not many people talk about, in a serious way.

But as I’ve acquired capital, the ROI on my time is much higher developing new ideas and trading them, rather than having to stop each time to write about them.

Also with the advances in AI I find myself constantly building new features, and the time to stop and write is growing thinner and thinner each day. I will write, because I think that’s important, but I just can no longer in good conscience keep a cadence I know I wont uphold. There’s too much to do and I want to expand to the maximum extent that I can handle.

I thought about automating my writing and having AI write stuff to you based on what I was working on. But I came to the conclusion that if I can’t find the time to personally write stuff to you, it is disrespectful to send you AI written letters. I have tried it , trust me. I developed entire pipelines to structure my work into a written AI article. You probably sensed it in some of the posts. But I always felt wrong about it. It’s not me, it’s something else. I also didn’t take the proper time to understand what was written. It takes time to think through all the complexities of this job. If it was just about pure raw intellectual power, then this job would have been solved long ago, and that’s just not the case.

I’ll continue producing content for you guys, as I want to be a positive force in this space. A space filled with grifters and scammers all trying to extract from the naivety that is warranted of a new trader or a trader that has yet to experience what good trading really is. Not that I know what good trading is. Far from it. But I at least know what NOT losing money trading is. And that’s something. Something that I feel is worth being shared.

If my “online footprint” is a positive one, I’ll be glad. If I have helped at least 1 person escaping the endless pit of grifters out there, I’ll be glad.

I highly appreciate your support over these last few years and this isn’t the last time you will hear from me.

All the articles I’ve written led me here, I hope you’ve found the same value in them as I have.

See you on the next one, friend!

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