That is the top – The Reformed Dealer

Girls and gents, that is the ultimate publish I shall be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.

After in the present day the location shall be inactive, eternally. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none thought the place it will take me. I had a unfavourable 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 write down. Truthfully, humorously, fearlessly. And also you started to learn. First a couple of dozen guests. Then a couple of hundred. Then hundreds. One million. Hundreds of thousands of readers have hit these pages during the last fifteen years. For those who’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 website. I obtained issues proper and obtained issues mistaken and did my finest to relay the teachings realized from each experiences. I left the brokerage enterprise and dropped my Collection 7 proper earlier than your eyes, making a profession swap that was the final word leap of religion – nothing to fall again on if it didn’t work. I met my companion Barry because of doing the location. I obtained a tv contract because of doing the location. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 workers and 4,000 shopper households because of doing the location. You, my followers, made all of that attainable. With out you, none of it will have been.

You’ll have seen that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing so much much less right here. The primary purpose 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 so far has taken up increasingly more 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 isn’t just a weblog. For me, it has additionally been a complete persona. Not fairly a pen title or a pseudonym – I’ve by no means revealed 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 it is a huge however, nonetheless optimistic regardless of all of the failings of Wall Avenue. That was who I used to be for many of the final fifteen years and the writing I did right here mirrored that.

I’m not that man anymore.

I’ve advanced. I feel 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 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 totally different now. I wish to let you know all about it. And I’ll. However first, we’ve got to place this specific weblog to mattress.

And so to all of you who’ve come right here through the years to study, to snort, to be impressed, to turn into higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I wish to let you know how a lot I recognize you. For those who’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a good friend or a coworker, despatched me an e mail or a letter (there have been hundreds of emails and letters!), retweeted me, linked to me, and many others, this final publish is devoted to you.

It has been the distinction 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 really like you guys. You’re the highest.

From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks.

– Downtown Josh Brown
New York Metropolis, November twenty ninth 2023

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