Invest in Yourself: The AI Trading Dive

Most people prefer you broken. It makes them feel superior. When you struggle, they offer advice. When you succeed, they offer silence.
In this episode, we break down the dark psychology of "supportive" friends who turn into saboteurs the moment you level up.
We cover:
The Savior Trap: Why they loved you when you were miserable.

Concern Trolling: How "be realistic" is actually a suppression tactic.

The Mirror Effect: Why your growth insults their stagnation.

The Good News Test: A simple way to identify enemies in your circle immediately.

Stop apologizing for your growth. Start cutting the dead weight.

Most traders don't lose money because they can't read a chart. They lose because their biology betrays them. In this episode, independent trader A. Cordero reveals the results of his "Fear Inoculation" experiment: using high-altitude skydiving to reprogram the brain's response to financial loss.
We break down the concept of "Terminal Velocity"—the moment a market crash stabilizes—and why most traders panic during the acceleration instead of waiting for the clarity of the fall.
In this episode, we cover:
The Skydiving Experiment: Why A. Cordero wrote "INVEST IN YOURSELF" on his hands at 12,000 feet (and what it means for your P&L).

The "Freeze" Response: How to stop your prefrontal cortex from shutting down when you see a massive red candle.

The Fear Dojo: You don't need a plane to train your nervous system. We detail three accessible protocols you can start today:
Cold Water Immersion: Controlling the vagus nerve to prevent anxiety spikes.

Combat Sports (BJJ): Learning "defensive management" when you are pinned.

Live Poker: Separating "good decisions" from "bad outcomes."

The Bottom Line: You cannot paper-trade fear. If you want to stop freezing like a deer in headlights, you have to upgrade your biological hardware.

Five years after the GameStop short squeeze, the "dumb money" narrative is dead. In this episode, we break down an exclusive CNBC report by Yun Li, Kate Rooney, and Alex Harring that reveals how retail investors have evolved from a pandemic fad into a dominant market force.
Key takeaways:
The Numbers: Retail now accounts for nearly 20% of daily equity volume.

The Shift: Why hedge funds are now forced to "respect" and track retail sentiment.

The Future: How a $120 trillion wealth transfer will cement retail investors as the new kings of capital.

Source: CNBC, "Five years after the GameStop mania, retail investors have become a force Wall Street can’t ignore" (Jan 27, 2026).

Most people think wealth is a spectrum.
It isn’t.
It’s binary.
You are either building income-producing assets or selling your time to fund someone else’s vision. There is no neutral ground—only motion toward freedom or deeper dependence.
In The Binary Path to Wealth, A. Cordero breaks down why traditional paths—degrees financed by debt, oversized homes, and linear careers—mathematically delay or destroy financial independence. Every financial decision is framed as a simple equation: does this move you closer to ownership, or closer to servitude?
This episode dismantles the paycheck-to-paycheck loop and introduces a system built on:
Asset acquisition over credentials

Cash-flow over status purchases

Disciplined risk over false security

Systems over motivation

If your income stops when you stop working, you don’t own your life—you rent it.
This isn’t inspiration.
It’s a framework.
Choose the side you’re on.

Most retail traders don’t fail because of bad strategies—they fail because they’re trading under a permanent margin call. In The Trader’s Debt Manifesto, A. Cordero breaks down why personal debt functions as negative carry, mathematically stacking the odds against traders before a single position is opened.
High-interest liabilities create forced decision-making: over-leverage, refusal to cut losses, and emotional trade management. This episode explains why eliminating debt isn’t personal finance advice—it’s a trading prerequisite. We cover why brokerage accounts may need to be liquidated, why trading profits are the worst tool for paying down balances, and how separating survival income from speculative capital restores mental and financial edge.
If you’re trading while paying guaranteed interest, you’re not investing—you’re bleeding carry.