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6-Figure Move (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 6)

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Coming Up Together with Ash

High frequency trading is a great distraction because it’s fun. It’s endlessly mentally and emotionally engaging since markets are always changing. It presents countless technical and analytical problems to gnaw on. It was also far easier and more profitable for me to focus on this infinitely deep game than deal with real life. Thus for the first few years of my parents having cancer, I did what I always did—threw myself into my work. But life had a way of heaping on more and more until something broke. One day, I pulled the trading leader into an office on the trading floor. Without even…

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