December 2024

I did my first ever 7 figure year from trading 

finally there, the plateau of sustainability

Been thinking about this lately. 

What if it all went away? 

Could I get it all back? 

Probably 

But what's a smarter alternative to ensure I don't find myself in that position?

grind for years to become profitable. 

Finally start pulling consistent monthly profits. 

Hit 5 figure months

Then what?

Most traders I know don't have an answer to that question.

They just keep trading. Keep making money. Keep spending money.

But they never actually get wealthy.

There's a difference.

Trading income dies with you.

Your family can't inherit your ability to read price action. 

They can't take over your liquidity sweeps. 

They can't execute your bias-sweep-entry system.

When you stop trading, the income stops.

That makes trading income the most fragile form of wealth building possible.

You're always one bad month, one health issue, one life event away from zero income.

Meanwhile, you're competing against algorithms and institutions that treat trading profits as seed capital for everything else.

Banks don't get rich from their trading desks.

They use trading desk profits to buy real estate, 

fund private equity deals,

 purchase government bonds, 

invest in infrastructure projects.

The trading funds the wealth building, Trading isn't the wealth building.

Most retail traders get this backwards.

They think the trading IS the wealth. 

They lifestyle-max with every good month. 

Buy cars, upgrade apartments, expensive dinners.

Then wonder why they never actually get ahead long-term.

If you make $300k trading this year and spend $250k on lifestyle, you saved $50k.

If you make $300k trading and spend $100k on lifestyle, you have $200k to deploy.

Over 10 years, that difference compounds into millions.

The guy making less but keeping more ends up wealthier.

Because wealth isn't about earning. It's about keeping and deploying.

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“The man with the most toys at the end of his life is the winner” 

I mean sure, from the outside

But the guys who actually have all the toys didn't start there

They buy rental properties that pay them monthly rent.

They buy dividend stocks that pay them quarterly distributions.

They buy businesses that generate cash flow without their daily involvement.

They replace their active trading income with passive investment income.

When your investments pay your bills, trading becomes optional instead of necessary.

That's the difference between being a profitable trader and being actually wealthy.

Trading teaches you risk management. 

Systematic thinking. 

Probability-based decision making.

These same skills apply to wealth building.

But it’s easy to miss that connection

Spend months backtesting entry strategies but won't research dividend yields.

Calculate risk-reward ratios for every trade but buy index funds without reading the holdings.

They think institutionally about markets but emotionally about investments.

Every dollar of trading profit gets allocated:

Some percentage goes back into trading capital to maintain your edge.

The majority goes into income-producing investments that don't require your daily attention.

A small portion covers lifestyle expenses.

The exact percentages depend on your situation. 

But the principle remains: most of your profits should work harder than you do.

Ask yourself: 

"If I couldn't trade for the next five years, what would happen to my family's financial situation?"

If the answer is "we'd struggle," 

then you haven't built wealth yet. 

You've built dependency on your trading skill.

Wealth means your money works even when you can't.

Dividend-paying stocks with decades of consistent payments.

Real estate investment trusts that distribute rental income.

Government and corporate bonds that pay interest.

Private equity and business opportunities for larger capital deployments.

The vehicles for building real wealth in today's landscape are endless

The Truth

Most "successful" traders are just well-paid employees of their own skill.

They depend entirely on their personal ability to generate income.

That's not wealth. 

That's a very profitable job.

Real wealth outlives you and transfers to generations.

The choice is whether you'll build skills that die with you or assets that live without you.

The infrastructure is there when you're ready to make that transition.

Talk soon,

Atif 

P.S. Hopefully you can all resonate with this current positioning of financial standing, and if you need help elaborating on that specific skill that will allow you to operate like this, you know what i have to offer. Your success is written, the universe just hasn't caught up yet.