Most financial advice sounds good on the surface and for a long time I actually believed that was enough. It’s always presented in a way that feels structured and safe, built on ideas like consistency, diversification and long-term thinking and to be fair, those principles aren’t wrong. But
For a long time, I thought the entire game of investing revolved around one thing: returns. Like most people who enter the world of trading and investing, I became fascinated by performance. Strategies that could generate higher returns. Systems that could outperform the average investor. The idea that if you
Over the last few months I’ve started noticing something subtle happening across finance. Quietly, underneath the surface of the industry, the way financial advice is delivered is slowly beginning to change. For most of modern history, financial planning has been a human conversation. An investor sits across the table
There was a time when war headlines would completely hijack my focus. I’d wake up, see escalation between the US, China, Russia or Iran, watch Oil, Gold or Bitcoin gap higher, see prices flashing red and immediately feel like I needed to do something. Not because my portfolio was
I’m writing this from a café in Phnom Penh, the mother city of Cambodia and it still feels strange to say that this is just… normal now. No commute. No fixed office. No city I feel permanently tied to. My “workspace” changes every few months, but the work itself
I’ve reached a point where ideas on their own don’t mean much to me anymore. I want to put them to the test and see how they actually behave. Pressure has a way of revealing whether what you believe actually holds when capital is on the line. That’
I used to think tax was just one of those things you couldn’t escape. You earn money, SARS takes their share and whatever is left is what you’re allowed to build a life with. Almost like a penalty for doing well. I never really questioned it - I
Most people enter the world of investing believing that a good portfolio is determined by selection. The right stock, the right fund, the right trade, the right moment. I started there too. Like many people drawn to markets, I assumed that progress came from being right more often than wrong,
Growing up in South Africa, money is something we’re taught to fear, not understand. We’re warned about debt, told to “save where you can” and encouraged to work harder for promotions that barely outrun inflation. But very few of us are ever taught how money actually works. We’
Seven years ago, I started as a day trader with nothing but charts, ambition and a deep passion that grew for the financial markets. No team, mentor, or advanced institutional systems guiding decisions or providing capital funding. What I had were long nights, inconsistent emotional flows with internal psychological volatility,
Leaving your home town, yet alone your home country is never easy. I didn’t leave South Africa because I'm running from something. I left because I'm growing into something. Most people don’t struggle because they lack talent or ambition, they struggle because their environment