I remember the mid 90's, the first time 1986 I bought a stock was through Shearson Lehman Brother and I bought 1000 shares of DHL, then I started trading on line through Scottrade in mid 90's, I am not as active as I was before, I made a promise to my mom, I won't get consumed with it anymore, she told me, you don't need to this. From 2016-2021, literally wasn't watching TV or news, just MSNBC in the mornings to watch the tickers, I would only sleep 4 hours a day 6 days a week, I was lucky if I didn't trade on Friday's, the rest was DD and research and had enough buying power to move the market, kid you not, one morning I bought close to 1.8 million dollars of Tesla calls made, 350 grand in just 2 days. Three ticker that got me on the map, Tesoro, Alpine and AMC theaters. 15.8 million shares of Tesoro 0.0072 entry, 618,000 shares of Alpine, 44,000 shares of AMC with 490 calls, the rest was history and I had humble beginnings, no one gave me to money to amass, all I knew it took hard work and due diligence and discipline, trading is not an easy task, if it was easy everyone would do it. Now I am sitting on a few stocks, in the hopes of one will be a grand slam and get in the history books.