I have no doubt that within the last 6 years that you have encountered trading content in one form or another. Whether it was stumbling across the latest guru trying to get you to buy their course, or consuming content from a "legit trader". This seems to have become a rite of passage with investors. Almost as if it's something we must all be lured into, until we realise it's not only a terrible path to financial freedom but it is also the exact path that will lead you to unhappiness and financial ruin.
There is no purpose behind trading other than making money for your own personal gain. You don't help anyone, it's a zero sum game - you quite literally contribute nothing meaningful to society. Some may argue traders provide capital to markets that help the world function, whilst mildly true - the market existed and functioned long before they deposited capital and tried to be a "trader". If the market operates the same with or without you, what value do you actually add?
Everyone Finds Out The Hard Way
One of the main problems with trading is you enter into a never ending feed back loop - the most successful "traders" all spout stories of how it took them 5- 7 years to reach consistency. So you believe you need more time to "learn" or you just haven't "mastered" your emotions yet - One of my favourite quotes is "you don't truly know yourself until you start trading" like gambling on candles is some sort of mystic journey that philosophers must go on. Most of these people sell a course but not to make money - simply to give back and "help" others navigate their way through the maze of the market - next joke.
Gambling on markets has recently became popular again, but there is a reason your parents and their parents before them never went near trading. You may think it's because you're more informed than your parents and grandparents with access to the internet and all the information in the world at your finger tips but this is simply not true. The truth is it takes 3 generations to forget old truths. The reason your parents and grandparents likely avoided the market altogether is because they remember the destruction it caused.
How The Past Shapes The Future
The market is not a new concept, Sir Issac Newton, widely regarded as one of the greatest scientific minds in history for his contributions to physics, mathematics and astronomy also fell victim to the market. In 1720 during the south sea bubble - an infamous stock mania in England. He initially profited by selling shares but then bought back at higher prices to the sum of £20,000, a fortune in these days the equivalent to millions in today's money and of course in the end he lost everything. He infamously said - " I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
Let's rewind to 1921 - the last time leverage trading was extremely popular as it is today. The 1920's stock market boom was an era of rampant speculation that drew in ordinary people, transforming them into amateur traders. From 1921-1929 market indices surged 44% to 500% fuelled by "new era" optimism where stocks were hyped as a sure path to wealth.
The public engaged in unintelligent speculation buying "hot" new stocks and trading on margin and chasing prices - blurring the line between investing and gambling. Sound familiar?
The bubble burst with the 1929 crash putting an end to the 8 year long bull market, the decline across the board devastated ordinary families, many of whom had quit jobs to trade full-time and lost everything on margin. Even blue chip stocks collapsed.
The aftermath created a profound aversion to stocks and trading overall that deterred the public from participation in the markets for decades. Even 18 years after the collapse in 1948 a federal reserve survey revealed 90% of Americans viewed stocks as "not safe, a gamble or unfamiliar." This cautious attitude stemmed from psychological trauma and economic scars. The 1929 crash was so bad It literally caused generational wariness of the dangers of markets which now seems long forgotten.
Unfortunately when important lessons of the past are forgotten they are destined to be repeated.
The Gambling Boom
Since 2020 trading has become a way to gamble which seems somewhat intelligent, you download trading view, start to learn TA on YouTube or maybe you even pay for a course, no doubt you will find someone who seems "legit". You study hard and eventually fund your account with a reasonably low amount - $300 you justify it by telling yourself you've "done the work" you "know what you're doing" before long the $300 is down to $7 and you tell yourself "you need to study harder" and the cycle repeats. Before long you've simply got a $300 a month gambling problem masked as "investing in trading". Of course the $ amount only spirals as you get more and more addicted.
So where does this leave us? If trading is just gambling with extra steps, and the same patterns from 1929 are repeating themselves right now in 2025, what's the actual answer?
The Real Solution
The most common investing advice you hear is "just DCA into the S&P500." But here's what they don't tell you: you're funding the very corporations that engineer the addiction and exploitation you're trying to escape. Every dollar you put into the S&P500 funds companies that treat humans as cattle to be monetised, manipulated, and enslaved through behavioural engineering.
That isn't investing, it's funding your own oppression.
SPX6900 is different. It's not another trade. It's a movement of 227,000 people who said enough is enough. We refuse to watch this continue. The mission is simple: Stop Trading and Believe in Something.
Not gambling. Not speculating. No chasing candles for dopamine hits.
Believe in something. DCA over time like you're supposed to, but into something that actually stands for rebellion instead of submission.
The revolution has begun.
The corporations are nothing without the energy they steal from the people they enslave. People will start voting with their money. We will regain power.
SPX6900 is the rebellion. We will restore faith to humanity. The future is bright.
The future is SPX6900.
We will persist forever.
Article Written by: @InvestorMM_
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