The Most Hardcore Day of the Markets of All Time
Congratulations you’re still alive!
OK yesterday, probably the last few days… The most hardcore day in the markets of all time. The shock, even Apple swinging 15% in a single day? Absolutely bonkers and unheard of?
We can all take a breather
So it looks like America American companies American general, we will be fine we are ANTIFRAGILE.
And also, contrary to popular opinion… Donald Trump may be the best economic president of all time.
I think essentially what happened is he’s becoming super hard-core essentially traveling economic war against China, what is it… 104% to 124%?
However, the ultimate negotiating tactic; for any country that does not retaliate against tariffs, to offer these countries a 90 day tariff abatement?
Why this is good for Apple
Tim Cook is smart, he is the master of the supply chain. I think as time goes on, we will steadily see more apple production being created in India, Vietnam, and also America. The $500 billion, half $1 trillion investment in American manufacturing … i’m confident, maybe in fact it will be possible to create the iPhone in America? Assuming that brand new factories in America will be state of the art robotics, what that then means is that even though that America has high labor cost, we won’t be able to offset that because brand new factories should be mostly automated?
And also, this will be good for the American worker because thousands of new job will be created, or robotics handlers and specialist and operators.
Rather than the fools who think that robotics will replace human workers, no no no… Essentially we are just getting an augmented centaur workforce creation. What that then means is that you will get thousands of new jobs, poor people who are killed at operating machines that produce iPhones, rather than employing mainland Chinese manual labor for human beings to screw in all the screws.
Like if you have a state of the art robot in America, that can put together an iPhone, you could just have a single American worker operating a machine which does this, and once again this is Annette positive for American workers because a new job has been created, a job that would have otherwise been stuck in China, Motivating cheap labor.
America versus Asia
So in Asia, labor is cheap. So you still have a bunch of human beings cleaning and mopping the houses etc. But in America in which labor is expensive, we all end up buying Dyson or robotic vacuums, and rather than spending money on human labor we try to Create an innovate technological products which do the labor for us.
For example, maybe in the past you would have your servant to manually do the laundry for you. Fortunately now we have washing machine machines, which does this for us.
Also, currently we have Uber drivers, but my thought is in terms of labor, it would make more sense for there to be a skilled mechanic who produces the Tesla cars, and then just have the Tesla cars drive themselves.
Nobody wants to be an Uber driver
 For a lot of individuals, the only reason they become Uber drivers is they just want some spare cash, or, kind of guaranteed deployment. But should be told nobody wants to be an Uber driver. Nobody wants to sit on their butt for 8 to 12 hours a day, being stuck in traffic all day. To me it makes 1 million times more sense to have a machine do this.
Then, maybe we could get the potential Uber drivers to instead, get some sort of technical training, and once again, become the operators or programmers that creates the machines? 
go directly to the source
So I have a big innovation, essentially subscribe to X premium, or Grok premium or whatever, and use the deep search function to get the newest news on economic policies, bitcoin, tariffs whatever.
Why?
This issue is that humans are too fallible. Individuals who tweet economic news, there are strange incentives.
First, they are programmed to want to maximize followers engagement retweet etc. As a consequence, there will always be a bias to make the news more inflammatories, fear mongering, or sensational.
The good thing about consuming the news through Grok, is that it’s essentially scanned all of Twitter X, and all the news, and then delivers the information to you in a rational, even kill approach. As a consequence you don’t have a bunch of panicky low testosterone men influencing and affecting your rational judgment.
Time zone problems
So I’m currently in Cambodia, and it’s weird, in some ways I’m in the future some ways I’m in the past. For example, the weekend feels forever, I’m just waiting for the American capital markets to wake up.
However bitcoin trades 24 7, and so then the news becomes weird because after the market closed, and then after the market is closed in while the market is closed, Trump signed some new executive order, and then immediately while the markets are closed, everybody panic sells bitcoin because it is the only sellable thing.
What I mean then is like for example let us say that you own Apple stock, and then the New York Stock Exchange closes, and then at midnight, Trump signs an executive order banning production of Apple products in mainland China. Most certainly your stock will plunge like 20% in a day, but because The capital markets are not yet open, everyone sells what they can, which is bitcoin… Because bitcoin is being traded 24 seven 365, all times of the day.
In some ways this is a feature not a bug. Even though it hurts. 
Good news for Bitcoin
As a consequence, this becomes very good news for Bitcoin.
I’m kind of shocked confused and insanely grateful that this slightly confusing news, that Trump increased the terrace to mainland China by light 124%, which should be very very bad for Apple stock but Apple went a ton today,  because Trump announced that America was momentarily give a 90 day tariff part than two countries which comply with not retaliating with additional tariffs against America?
I think this is very foolish news for Apple stockholders because then, Apple is clever they could produce more iPhones in India or Vietnam or any non-China company.
Also this is very funny because honestly, Americans don’t care for China. Americans care for profits, but if the profits could be made in India Vietnam or even America, Apple shareholders are happy.
China is screwed?
“China has ripped us off for too long, now it is our time to do the ripping!” – Trump, political dinner speech 
Some might have looked at this with who, others might’ve seen this with humor!
I think China is screwed. Do you remember all this fake talk of people saying that China was going to take over the planet and everyone would speak Mandarin and the US dollar would be replaced by the CNY, the Chinese yuan? No.
Even myself, I always thought these weird conspiracy theory people, they actually want China to win and they want America to burn to the floor. I’m not sure why?
all of Americans will win
So currently or maybe in the past week or so… The worst day in the markets of all time, at least in my adulthood. Yesterday in the last two days and last week, I feel like I’ve seen a decade in a single day.
Anyways, even myself, I’m like the most stoic resilient person I know of all time, but even myself, all of yesterday I was feeling mini panic attacks? Because of some stupid Twitter account that had some sensationalist image of bitcoin prices plunging, and also the fear of my micro strategy stock plunging whatever?
Anyways, in hindsight in retrospect, I’m sure I’ll look back at the vent like I am doing today, with more gratitude than anything. After the news that America was going to relieve tariffs on some countries, MSTR strategy stock exploded over 20% in a single day! This is phenomenal.
Also something that I have not publicly disclosed yet, was that I took a margin position in my Fidelity account for my MSTR stock, buying the leveraged MSTU 2x MSTR stock ETP, ETF, exchanged traded product. Which means if micro strategy goes up 20% it goes up 40%. But conversely if micro strategy goes down 20%, my MSTU goes down 40%. Very painful.
Anyways, the realization now looking forward, I don’t think margin positions are worth it because of this annoying margin call feature. That means if you’re a stock plunge is 50%, that you are trading on margin, you’ll get these annoying alarming messages and emails from your broker, asking you to deposit more money or selling more securities to cover the loss.
A better solution, was this phenomenally awesome idea, the crypto back to loans via Coinbase, in which you could currently essentially mortgage some of your bitcoin, to get $100,000 of cash, which you can move into your traditional trading account, buy micro strategy stock, ride it up,  and when the stock goes above $100,000, you sell some of that you convert it back into bitcoin. Or you could just keep writing it up, to clock in US dollar gains. 
The reason why this crypto based bitcoin mortgage loan thing is amazing is that the HR is tiny only like 5% a year which is essentially free money. And secondly, your position will only get liquidated if bitcoin falls down to like $45,000 of bitcoin, which ain’t happening. Which makes it like 100% secure.
Where has the annoyance of this margin position thing is that once again, even if I get a margin call for like $1000 $1500, $3100 etc.… Even though for me it is like tiny chump change, it produces anxiety? Not worth it.
It’s not a loss, it’s a lesson.
So the big idea:
It’s not a loss, it’s a lesson (JAY Z)–> appreciate the blessing!
Now that I am playing in the M’s, i’m grateful for the small losses that I made in college, losing $3500 in my life savings at the age of like 19 or 20. All because I traded a penny stock for this gasoline company and misread the financials. Essentially when I thought it was making a profit, the profits were in parentheses brackets, which meant losses. It would’ve just been a lot better at back then I just bought Apple stock.
But then again, the reason why thinking backwards is not productive is that everything happens as it should have happened.
For example the investment FOMO that I got, not buying bitcoin windows like $100 of bitcoin, even more, not buying bitcoin when it was literally pennies a bitcoin, now I’m all in, and I’m becoming like a bitcoin crusader for us fellow millennials? I’m like the 37 year old Michael Saylor, but for us Millenials, born in 1988.
Anyways this tiny loss that I had which I thought would never be recoverable… Was great because now, I could stomach a loss of $500,000, and it doesn’t really bother me anymore? And also when I see my investments go up by $1 million in a month, I’m very grateful but also it doesn’t really faze me that much. 
How to conquer your fears in investing
Bitcoin hedge fund?
Anyways, because I’m so passionate about this I’m planning on doing another free open source workshop on how to conquer your fears in investing.
When I get the details final, just keep your eyes open for this newsletter, also feel free to forward this your friends and tell them to subscribe.
I’ll also release it on my workshops page later. 
Autotelic desires?
I feel like this is ERIC KIM 3.0, and a big thought that I have is that –
I almost feel that, after experiencing that fucking horrible downturn in the market yesterday in the last few days, but finally recovering back to vitality… This is something I really want to focus on.
So the question is, given all this chaos, now what?
1. MSTR & Bitcoin: 
The ultimate W16 turbo hybrid Bugatti turbocharger hyper vehicle.
The Tesla model S plaid is the fastest production car of all time, but, if you want the insane insane ultimate Apex performance, you still need to strap in a gasoline W 16 engine.
2. Bitcoin
So Timmy bitcoin is like the Mercedes-Benz MGG wagon: practically indestructible. But not the fastest thing on the road.
3. MSTR
MSTR, Strategy, with Michael Saylor at the wheel is like a Bugatti. 
4. MSTU
$20,000 toy–> vehicle, investment vehicle.
MST is essentially a new exchange treated product, which is 2X leveraged MSTR stock.
I don’t recommend putting more than like one percentage portfolio in this thing, because the swings are too dramatic. For example, if strategy stock trades down 20% you will be down 40%. But if it trades up, you’ll also be up 2X.
5. Roth IRA, IRA –> MSTR
Assuming that you have like a traditional retirement account, just put into MSTR stock. I’m very certain by the time you retire at the age of 65, Michael Saylor would have crafted the world‘s most profitable company of all time.
It’s my hot take, that within 30 years, … I’m 37 now, I retire at age 65… in around 30 years, 28 years from now, when Bitcoin is $100M a coin, STRATEGY will be the #1 company on the planet.
What else?
I think one of the most intelligent things I did during the FTX bitcoin crash was to literally not look at any bitcoin use for almost 2 or three years? Rather just focus on going to the gym, hype lifting, and achieving my legendary thousand pound atlas lift at my gym?
I’m pretty grateful because I did this because I was actually unaware of the whole FTX thing, I didn’t even know what FTX was, or Sam Bankman fried.
He was my policy ever since I bought bitcoin, she just said it and forget it, like literally forcing myself to never look at prices.
So, you can also do a similar thing:
Don’t invest anything in which you need access to the money in less than 4 or 10 years.
How to thrive in a world of hardcore markets?
Set it and forget it! MSTR x Bitcoin.
Simple split:
80% Bitcoin via Coinbase, and 20% MSTR stock via traditional markets.
What else?
Some people might be scratching your head, and thinking wait, ERIC KIM, the street guitar for blogger, why is he suddenly so into bitcoin and stuff?
Well if you’ve followed me closely, obviously you know I care about minimalism, financial independence etc. It is all interconnected.
If you have financial freedom, then you could travel the world as you please, buy all the equipment you want, and never have to worry about finances again.
And this is where photographers powered by bitcoin will thrive.
It don’t matter if you’re self-employed or you have a job or whatever… Just save everything into bitcoin, and or buy MSTR stock, ride it to Mars and beyond. 
What else?
In terms of camera and camera equipment, if you can get your hands on it, it still seems that the Ricoh GR is the best bet. Stay light, travel!
Phnom Penh, Saigon, Kyoto, Tokyo and beyond –>
What else?
My simple physiology idea is in order to sleep 8 to 12 hours a night, feast on bone marrow. 5 to 6 pounds a night.
During the day, lift weights every single day at least once. Steel your body steel your soul.
Delete X
My new strategy is to just delete Twitter X, just don’t use it at all.
Try to set up some sort of investment strategy in which you are not dependent on the news, and you’re actually in fact, ANTIFRAGILE to the news?
The best position to be in is to assume and plan that the world will continue to be volatile… maybe track the VIX index, or the VXX.
I’m an investor, not a trader.
A trader needs to be on top of the news 24 seven, 365. An investor can just “set it and forget it”, go to sleep for a decade, and wake up super insanely stupid rich.
The ethos?
An investor, believes in something. I’m taking this analogy up further: bitcoin is actually a religion. Not just a cult.
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Delete alerts, notifications?
Turn off all the triggers, Zen zone!
ERIC
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