That is the top – The Reformed Dealer

Women and gents, that is the ultimate submit I will probably be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.

After at present the positioning will probably be inactive, ceaselessly. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none concept the place it could take me. I had a destructive internet value, was working at a dead-end brokerage agency job and completely no profession prospects in any respect – a washed up inventory dealer at 31 years previous in the course of a world monetary disaster.

So I started to jot 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. Thousands and thousands of readers have hit these pages during the last fifteen years. In case you’re a type 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 way of life.

You watched me develop up on this web site. I received issues proper and received issues flawed and did my finest to relay the teachings discovered from each experiences. I left the brokerage enterprise and dropped my Collection 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 associate Barry because of doing the positioning. I received a tv contract because of doing the positioning. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 workers and 4,000 shopper households because of doing the positioning. You, my followers, made all of that doable. With out you, none of it could have been.

You could have seen that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing quite a bit much less right here. The primary cause for that’s all my skilled goals 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 neglect 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 complete persona. Not fairly a pen identify or a pseudonym – I’ve by no means printed a single phrase secretly or surreptitiously in my complete life. The Reformed Dealer was who I used to be. Pugnacious, sarcastic, cynical, incensed, offended, vengeful – however, and this can be a huge 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 truly completed 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 over time to study, to giggle, to be impressed, to develop into higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I need to let you know how a lot I admire you. In case you’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a buddy or a coworker, despatched me an electronic mail or a letter (there have been 1000’s of emails and letters!), retweeted me, linked to me, and so on, this final submit is devoted to you.

It has been the respect of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me by way of all of the ups and downs. I really 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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