Welcome to my Slice Page! This is the place to be if you want a closer look at the way I navigate the markets, why I invest the way I do, and the tools and techniques I use to inform my trading decisions. Markets are designed to go up. You don’t notice this if you zoom in too much, but a weekly or monthly chart will show you this principle clearly. Your bread gets more expensive over time, but so does a share of Apple, or the Bitcoin you’ve stored in a cold wallet – so why not take advantage of that? Many people originally started investing because it was presented to them as their golden ticket out of their financial status at the time. You simply buy this company, or this altcoin – and you’ll be a trillionaire in the next three weeks, guaranteed! By now you’ve likely figured out that things do not work that way. At least, not on a large scale. There are exceptions to this rule, but it is important to remember that’s exactly what they are; exceptions. You could get lucky – but it’s a thousand times more likely that you won’t. I recognized this very early on and decided to build a system in the way Warren Buffett has built his wealth, by letting time do the heavy lifting. If you’re trying to catch a quick 3-5% move in the markets, many times over – it introduces many opportunities for you to make mistakes, or to just flat out do stupid things because of your emotions. People are not designed to day trade, they are designed to hunt. To strike when opportunity is there and reap the rewards for a long time. One deer kill feeds a family for weeks. You get the idea. The point is, I try to make as few moves as possible and let my positions run for a long period of time – which depending on the market, could mean something very different. In the case of stocks, history has shown us that the S&P 500 – or a good selection of profitable businesses outperforms inflation by a wide margin. In other words, it goes up because of inflation and then goes up a lot more. That’s the kind of returns I’m after – you want to end up with more spending power than you had before, if you can. Bitcoin is unique in the sense that it’s not going up because of revenue, but because of true scarcity. It’s digital gold, but better – because there will never be any more. You cannot suddenly find a new supply vein of Bitcoin that we didn’t know about before. In a vacuum, this means that the more money they print, the more valuable a bitcoin will be. Add human greed to the mix, and you get the cyclical nature of Bitcoin that we’ve grown accustomed to. This cyclical nature is about as close to trading as I want to be. I try to sell towards the tail-end of the greed cycle and want to buy those coins again once the fear starts dying down. I’m not too concerned with buying the exact lows or selling the exact top – so long as I can keep selling coins for significantly more than I acquired them for and then buy them back for a lower price, the trick keeps working. Doing this is incredibly difficult. Greed, FOMO, and other emotions come into play, and after nearly a decade in the markets – I still haven’t found a way to be immune to it – and thus, I trade altcoins. With a tiny portion of my portfolio. Just small enough that if I lose it, I don’t lose a second of sleep over it, but if I win big, it’s a nice chunk of capital to feed into the long-term strategies again. Over time, that trading too has become a profitable endeavour, but replicating that on a more meaningful scale is a whole different ball game – again, because of the emotions it introduces. I keep myself occupied with small trades here and there, but the real engine of my strategy is doing nothing. Buying stocks, buying coins, and letting time do the rest. That’s the gist of what I do. If you follow me on Twitter, this should come as no surprise - but it’s something I’ve never really explained in much detail. And that’s exactly what my Slice page will do. Don’t expect a secret layer of ‘alpha’ that you only have access to because you pay me for it. This is the place to be for more detailed thoughts, detailed reasoning, more insight into the exact mechanics, how I go about diversification, et cetera. It’s also the place to be if you want to be able to ask me questions and get a detailed answer. It is not the place to be if you’re looking for trading signals, or a quick and easy way to get rich by just mimicking exactly what I do. In fact, even if you manage to exactly copy my trades – you likely won’t get rich quick. It’s simply not what I’ve designed my strategies to do. In the coming weeks, I’ll share more about these different topics, through articles, live Q&As, and weekly market updates – and I’ll keep you posted on the moves I make, and why. These moves will not be frequent, but that is by design. I’d rather get rich slow, than poor quickly. Follow me on the journey?