Girls and gents, that is the ultimate submit I might be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.
After right now the location might be inactive, eternally. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none thought the place it will take me. I had a detrimental web value, 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 course of a worldwide monetary disaster.
So I started to write down. Truthfully, humorously, fearlessly. And also you started to learn. First a number of dozen guests. Then a number of hundred. Then 1000’s. One million. Tens of millions of readers have hit these pages during the last fifteen years. When you’re a type of readers who got here alongside, tapped in, subscribed and stayed with me, I owe you all the things I’ve. My profession, my agency, my livelihood, my way of life.
You watched me develop up on this web site. I bought issues proper and bought issues mistaken and did my greatest to relay the teachings realized 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 location. I bought 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 might have seen that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing loads much less right here. The primary motive 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 a tremendous feeling. I overlook how fortunate I’m. However getting us thus far has taken up increasingly more of my time with every passing yr. 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 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 identify 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 it is a large 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 developed. 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 information and expertise of somebody who has really achieved a number of issues. Fifteen years in the past I had the righteous indignation of somebody who had survived a number of issues, however little else.
Issues are completely different now. I wish to let you know all about it. And I’ll. However first, we’ve to place this explicit weblog to mattress.
And so to all of you who’ve come right here over time to be taught, to chuckle, to be impressed, to change into higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I wish to let you know how a lot I respect you. When you’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a pal 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 dignity of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me via all of the ups and downs. I 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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