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How To Celebrate Your Birthday! 🥳

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 4/16/2025 5 min read
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My Birthday was earlier this week, on April 15.

I appreciate all of the birthday wishes. Thank you so much!

It fills me with a lot of pride to know that I’ve touched so many lives in a positive way.

See some of the posts below from friends and students of mine:

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I made it around the sun once again! 😆

And more than ever before, I’m dedicated to:

  • Trading.
  • Teaching.
  • And giving back.

A lot of people spend their birthday’s partying, celebrating themselves, and receiving gifts.

But trading taught me an important lesson …

It Feels Good To Give Back

You might have seen this picture of me:

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When I first made a lot of money, I did everything that society says you’re supposed to do.

  • I bought expensive cars.
  • I dressed in expensive clothes.
  • I got regular hair cuts. 😆

But I felt empty.

After some soul searching, I opened a charity called Karmagawa to build schools and protect endangered wildlife.

And as of April 15, 2025, school #125 is now open! I spent my birthday cutting the ribbon and celebrating with all the people that helped to complete this project.

These schools are built for underprivileged communities in poorer areas of the world.

Look at my post below for more details:

I sold all of my cars.

These days I usually just wear Karmagawa t-shirts.

And you can forget about hair cuts. Look at my photo below: 😆

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Everyone wants to make a lot of money.

Because money can solve a lot of our problems. And it allows us to live more comfortable lives.

For example, my millionaire student, Eduardo, moved his family out of a dangerous country with his trading profits.

But there’s a limit to our happiness when it comes to money …

How Much Money Do You Need?

Over the years, scientists and economists have struggled to peg a yearly price point where happiness flatlines.

But they generally agree that there is a limit to a person’s happiness as it relates to a growing income.

People can keep chasing expensive luxuries. But in reality, it only inflates their material standard of living. And as a result, it becomes more expensive to grow their happiness by a smaller amount.

Until, they can’t grow any happier no matter their income …

This is the truth that I’ve found: Money gives us the freedom to find what makes us happy.

  • It makes me happy to build schools for underprivileged children.
  • It makes me happy to help save beautiful and endangered wildlife.

It definitely makes me happier than a Lamborghini ever could.

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And my Karmagawa t-shirts are a lot more comfortable than a suit and tie 😆

Find Your Happiness

As I mentioned, my millionaire student Eduardo was able to move his family out of Venezuela, to a safer community. That’s what makes him happy!

Another one of my millionaire students, Bryce Tuohey, is a world traveler now in his sprinter van. That’s what makes him happy. Check it out!

One of my most successful students, Jack Kellogg, gave his parents $100k!

Money is the tool that my students and I use to find happiness.

To make money in the market, we follow a very specific trading framework.

We’re not gambling …

The goal is to take calculated trades on the hottest stocks in the market. But only when the chart matches our trade patterns.

>> Learn My Full Trade Process Today <<

There are new stock spikes every week.

And the patterns are always the same!

Cheers.

 

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* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”