Now as many of you know, my trip to Italy would not have been possible without my daily dose of Dramamine. It got me through being in Venice It got me through the plane ride and it got me through the bus ride and even put me in a great mood. Now being in Venice was one of the funnest things I've done in a long time. It's so beautiful in such an interesting City It's a city unlike anything that I had seen before.

I of course heard about Venice but I'd never been there and to be in a city where everything goes by boat was just so interesting that the UPS truck, the FedEx truck, the the produce. so the the trash truck. everything is a boat and it seems that everyone has a boat. Everyone's driving around on a boat and so I wanted to take some video of being in a boat, driving or riding through the canals and the alleys and just taking in the sights.

Now one of the things that was also really interesting about my trip to Italy: I Was fortunate enough to meet up with Roberto and he's one of our students in the inner circle now. Roberto Grew up in Italy but he moved to the United States to get a job in Detroit working at a factory building dashboards for cars. Now that for him was a good job and he really couldn't find a lot of good work in Italy which is why he moved to Detroit for work. The reality is in Italy for people under the age of 25, the unemployment rate is nearly 40% and above the age of 25, it's still very, very high.

The average household income in Italy is 25 thousand dollars a year in U.s. dollars. So for Roberto to you know to get education and then move to Detroit and work building dashboards. It was actually a very good job compared to the type of working he could get in Italy The unfortunate thing for him was that he didn't want to live in Detroit He wanted to move back home and that's when we started thinking about what type of career he could bring home.

What could he do back at home? You know he thought, well, maybe I could start building websites I'm good on the computer, but not a lot of people and small businesses have website so that wouldn't be very good. Then he stumbled upon day trading. If it weren't for day trading, he wouldn't be able to live the life he's living. He wouldn't be able to be back in Italy making nearly four times the average household income in just you know, two hours, two hours a day of training the days that I was in.

Venice I traded from my hotel room and was able to make five hundred to a thousand dollars a day. Which means on those days I was making five to ten times what the average Italian would make in an entire day of work and I was doing that in just two hours. That's the potential of the market and a lot of people like to talk about the you know, the lifestyle stuff, the fact that you can travel around the world, you can drive a fancy car, and those things are all nice. but one of those things really represent.

They represent independence, They represent freedom, the financial freedom to be able to do those things whatever you want. so you know saying well, you know I Trading allows me to travel I Mean sure it does, but what it really allows is for me to have the freedom to work from anywhere that I want and most of the time that's working from home, which is where I'm content and you know that's that's probably true for a lot of our students, but at the same time, this was an opportunity for me to do a little bit of traveling to visit, Italy to explore a different city and a different countryside and my job came with me I traded the whole time I was there I Didn't take a single day off and had some some great trading. I Ended up coming back to New York City and doing a little bit more trading from the city before making my way back home. But you know that's the cool thing about this job.

All you need is a laptop. If you have a laptop and you have a strategy, those are the two things you need. laptop a strategy. and Internet those are the three things you need.

If you have those three things, you can make money from anywhere in the world. That's freedom. So if you want to use that freedom to you know buy a fancy car or easier to sell all your things and travel around the world or simply to live a more comfortable lifestyle working from home not have to go into your nine five. You know it's it's it's your call.

But the fact is, we are very very fortunate to be able to make as much as we can from the comfort of our own own home. Trading the markets I mean it really is an incredible thing And so this trip made me very grateful for this career. And I know that there are days especially in April where I was talking about you know being up 1200 or 1800 dollars and that that was not a very good day because I had gotten used to making 5 mm or $10,000 on a good day. But that is.

You know a very, very narrow sense of success that you have to make five to ten thousand dollars to have a good day. And that certainly is not true for the majority of people in the world. So any day that you can come into the market and you can take a couple of trades, you can have good accuracy, maintain a good profit lots ratio, and walk away with profit. You're doing something right.

It doesn't have to be a thousand dollars a day, It doesn't have to be ten thousand dollars a day. It can be a hundred or two hundred dollars a day. And if you're doing that in two hours, you are making more than than most people would make in an entire day. not just in Italy but but really all around the world.

And even in the United States the average daily income would be two hundred dollars a day. Fifty Two thousand dollars a year. So last year I finished with two hundred Twenty Two thousand dollars. I'm already up one hundred Fifty thousand dollars this year I Couldn't be more grateful for this career as a trader and I love empowering new traders with the skills to trade the markets side-by-side with me.

and that's what I've been able to do with Roberto with John with Mike with with Kevin with Jeff with Eduardo and and so many other students I Want to show you some clips from my trip to Italy and I Hope you guys enjoyed them and share with you some of the things that I was thinking about as I was exploring this really beautiful country. All right. So I'll leave it with that and I'll see you all back in the chatroom.