Thank you for reading this post. This blog is published by our YouTube Channel, BRO. If you are looking for reliable, no B.S. ways to supplement your retirement income each month, check out the channel's course on Udemy. Remote Jobs for Retirees and Expats.
Girls and gents, that is the ultimate publish I will likely be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.
After in the present day the positioning will likely be inactive, perpetually. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none thought the place it might take me. I had a unfavorable web price, was working at a dead-end brokerage agency job and completely no profession prospects in anyway – a washed up inventory dealer at 31 years previous in the midst of a worldwide 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. Should you’re a type of readers who got here alongside, tapped in, subscribed and stayed with me, I owe you every part I’ve. My profession, my agency, my livelihood, my way of life.
You watched me develop up on this website. I bought issues proper and bought issues flawed 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 swap 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 bought a tv contract because of doing the positioning. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 staff and 4,000 shopper households because of doing the positioning. You, my followers, made all of that attainable. With out you, none of it might have been.
You’ll 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 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 a tremendous feeling. I neglect how fortunate I’m. However getting us so far has taken up increasingly of my time with every passing yr. And so the writing needed to take a backseat.
Final December we employed a agency president who may slowly start to take day-to-day administration and management duties 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 title 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 – howeverand it is a massive howevernonetheless 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 information 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 now have 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 out to be higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I need to let you know how a lot I respect 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 hundreds of emails and letters!), retweeted me, linked to me, and so forth, this final publish is devoted to you.
It has been the glory of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me by means of all of the ups and downs. I like you guys. You’re the best.
From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks.
– Downtown Josh Brown
New York Metropolis, November twenty ninth 2023
***
Observe Josh’s subsequent journey right here.
