What Almost Dying Taught Me About Trading

Grief, silence, a ruptured spleen, and why letting go is the most powerful tool a trader has.

When I was younger, death hit hard…

In second grade, I lost immediate family members, one after another. Then the people closest to them started passing as well. I was surrounded by loss at an age when I couldn’t make sense of it.

So I didn’t, I shut down, I stopped talking, and I suppressed my feelings.

Everyone wanted me to be strong.

Not for myself—but …