Somewhere along the way trading culture went from showing your positions to showing your possessions We've replaced actual trading content with carefully curated lifestyles designed to sell the illusion of success I've spent enough time around people who genuinely live these lifestyles to notice they rarely feel the need to document them. When something is your everyday reality, it stops being something you need to advertise. You don't photograph every meal you eat, so why would you feel the need to prove every luxury you experience? Cobie is a perfect example of this The guy built Echo, which Coinbase acquired for $375M, and you've probably never seen him post so much as a watch to flex his wealth. He doesn't need to That's the difference He has nothing to prove to you, and more importantly, nothing to sell you about how wealthy he is You could spend an afternoon with someone like him and have absolutely no idea of the wealth behind the person. Completely normal demeanour, no need to make money his entire personality, yet the life he can afford behind the scenes is anything but ordinary. That's what people fundamentally misunderstand about wealth The real luxury isn't being able to afford expensive shit. It's being able to enjoy them without needing strangers to acknowledge that you can And beyond the desperate need for validation, how stupid have we become about personal security? We've seen kidnappings, robberies and people being targeted for their wealth, yet some of you voluntarily broadcast your assets, whereabouts and daily routines to thousands of strangers we're normalising effectively advertising a bounty on yourself for the approval of people you've never met The people most desperate to look rich are often the ones making their money convincing others they are. If you still haven't figured that out, I don't know what to tell you Can we bring back actual traders doing things other traders can relate to? The wins, the losses, the lessons, the setups, the alpha CT has become a theatre where the performance of wealth gets more attention than the creation of it We've reached a point where people are more interested in looking like successful traders than actually becoming them There was a time when forex traders were the laughing stock of the internet for flexing rented cars, fake wealth and lifestyles funded by selling dreams Crypto traders were the complete opposite Now CT is slowly becoming the very thing it used to mock The grift hasn't changed. It just found a new audience ig