Invest in Yourself: The AI Trading Dive

Most traders believe success comes from better indicators, faster data, or smarter analysis.
That belief is wrong.
In The Alpha Protocol, A. Cordero breaks down a reality most retail traders never confront: trading performance is dictated by biology long before it’s dictated by charts.
This episode explores how professional traders regulate their nervous system before market exposure through deliberate physical movement, controlled nutrition, and the elimination of external media. The goal isn’t motivation or mindset — it’s chemical and emotional neutrality.
When the body is unstable, decisions deteriorate.
When cognition crashes, risk management collapses.
When impulse takes over, capital disappears.
The Alpha Protocol treats the trader’s body as a precision instrument — optimized for clarity, restraint, and survival. Technical analysis only begins after physiological stability is achieved.
The episode also addresses the most overlooked professional skill in trading: the ability to remain inactive. Not trading is framed not as fear, but as discipline — and often the highest-probability decision available.
This is not a motivational episode.
This is not a strategy breakdown.
It’s a hard look at why most traders lose before the market even opens — and how professionals avoid that fate.

Retirement is a lie sold to people without leverage. Work for 40 years, invest passively, and maybe you’ll be free when your body is done and time is gone. That’s not a plan. That’s delayed dependency.
In The Anti-Retirement Guide, we dismantle the buy-and-hold myth and replace it with the only thing that actually works without inherited capital: time compression through controlled risk. This episode is about market survival first—because dead traders don’t compound.
We break down why most retail traders blow up, why intelligence doesn’t matter, and why emotional discipline and math beat hope every time. Income over appreciation. Probabilities over predictions. Execution over opinions.
This is not motivation. It’s a warning.
Either you learn how to extract income from markets and survive volatility—or you stay trapped in someone else’s timeline.
Listen accordingly.

A. Cordero didn’t come from capital. He came from Brooklyn projects, hazmat tanker routes, and a job where time is sold by the hour. In this episode, we break down how a blue-collar driver produced a verified 273% return in a single year by rejecting conventional investing dogma and embracing asymmetric risk.
This is not a motivational fairy tale. It’s a case study in probability, discipline, and structure. Cordero explains why SPAC warrants offer a unique payoff profile—capped downside, explosive upside—and how calculated aggression beats diversification when capital is limited. The goal was never comfort or approval. The goal was financial sovereignty: owning time instead of renting it out.
This episode is for working-class investors who are tired of being told to “be patient,” accept average returns, and stay in their lane. The markets don’t care about credentials. They care about edge, risk management, and execution. This is what happens when those three collide.
No fluff. No inspiration porn. Just asymmetric thinking, hard numbers, and a road out.

Most SPACs didn’t fail — they collapsed publicly.
After the 2020–2021 SPAC mania, investors watched valuations implode, sponsors disappear, and tickers get written off as permanent garbage. But beneath the carnage, a quieter pattern has been forming.
This episode breaks down the Phoenix Pattern — a repeatable recovery cycle identified in post-De-SPAC companies roughly four years after merger. Using data from the Kestrel Phoenix Fund, we examine how survivors rebuild through brutal but necessary moves: cost cuts, asset divestitures, management discipline, and a hard pivot from hype-driven growth to real operating cash flow.
We analyze real case studies, including Strata Critical Medical and The Oncology Institute, to show how distressed equities transition into functional businesses once capital markets pressure forces reality back into the model.
This isn’t a SPAC pump.
This isn’t a redemption-arbitrage play.
This is about post-washout fundamentals — and why the most hated SPACs may offer asymmetric upside aftereveryone stops caring.
If you’re looking for lottery tickets, skip this.
If you’re looking for long-dated recovery trades built on operating reality, this episode is for you.

Most people aren’t poor because they’re lazy.
They’re poor because they’re trapped by gravity.
In this episode, I break down why the first $100,000 is the most brutal and important milestone in wealth-building — and why most people never reach it. Early gains feel pointless. Progress looks invisible. Bills never stop. That’s the trap.
Manual labor caps your upside. Time doesn’t scale. Capital does.
Until you hit financial escape velocity, you are fighting gravity every single day. Once you cross it, money starts working harder than you do.
This isn’t motivation.
This is physics.
If you’re stuck in debt, living paycheck to paycheck, or wondering why “working harder” never seems to work — this episode explains exactly why.