Girls and gents, that is the ultimate publish I can be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.
After at present the positioning can be inactive, perpetually. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none concept the place it will take me. I had a damaging web price, was working at a dead-end brokerage agency job and completely no profession prospects by any means – a washed up inventory dealer at 31 years previous in the midst of a worldwide monetary disaster.
So I started to write down. Actually, humorously, fearlessly. And also you started to learn. First a couple of dozen guests. Then a couple of hundred. Then 1000’s. One million. Hundreds of thousands of readers have hit these pages over the past fifteen years. Should you’re a kind of readers who got here alongside, tapped in, subscribed and stayed with me, I owe you all the pieces I’ve. My profession, my agency, my livelihood, my life-style.
You watched me develop up on this web site. I bought issues proper and bought issues unsuitable and did my finest to relay the teachings discovered from each experiences. I left the brokerage enterprise and dropped my Sequence 7 proper earlier than your eyes, making a profession change that was the last word leap of religion – nothing to fall again on if it didn’t work. I met my companion Barry because of doing the positioning. I bought a tv contract because of doing the positioning. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 workers and 4,000 consumer households because of doing the positioning. You, my followers, made all of that potential. With out you, none of it will have been.
You might have seen that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing quite a bit much less right here. The primary motive for that’s all my skilled desires are coming true. I used to dream of working at a agency just like the one I’m now managing as CEO. Which is an incredible feeling. I overlook how fortunate I’m. However getting us up to now has taken up an increasing number of of my time with every passing 12 months. And so the writing needed to take a backseat.
Final December we employed a agency president who might slowly start to take day-to-day administration and management tasks off of my plate. And now, for the primary time in a very long time, I’m able to get again to writing. However coming again to writing right here simply didn’t really feel proper.
The Reformed Dealer is not only a weblog. For me, it has additionally been a whole persona. Not fairly a pen title or a pseudonym – I’ve by no means revealed a single phrase secretly or surreptitiously in my whole life. The Reformed Dealer was who I used to be. Pugnacious, sarcastic, cynical, incensed, offended, vengeful – however, and this can be a massive however, nonetheless optimistic regardless of all of the failings of Wall Avenue. That was who I used to be for a lot of the final fifteen years and the writing I did right here mirrored that.
I’m not that man anymore.
I’ve advanced. I believe for the higher. I’ve gotten smarter. I’ve reached new skilled heights and unlocked new ranges. I’ve modified my thoughts about sure issues. I now have the data and expertise of somebody who has really achieved a couple of issues. Fifteen years in the past I had the righteous indignation of somebody who had survived a couple of issues, however little else.
Issues are completely different now. I need to let you know all about it. And I’ll. However first, we have now to place this specific weblog to mattress.
And so to all of you who’ve come right here through the years to study, to chortle, to be impressed, to turn out to be higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I need to let you know how a lot I recognize you. Should you’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a buddy or a coworker, despatched me an e-mail or a letter (there have been 1000’s of emails and letters!), retweeted me, linked to me, and many others, this final publish is devoted to you.
It has been the honour of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me by all of the ups and downs. I like you guys. You’re the best possible.
From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks.
– Downtown Josh Brown
New York Metropolis, November twenty ninth 2023
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