Women and gents, that is the ultimate put up I shall be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.
After at the moment the positioning shall be inactive, perpetually. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none thought the place it could take me. I had a unfavorable internet value, was working at a dead-end brokerage agency job and completely no profession prospects in any way – a washed up inventory dealer at 31 years outdated in the course of a worldwide monetary disaster.
So I started to put in writing. Actually, humorously, fearlessly. And also you started to learn. First a couple of dozen guests. Then a couple of hundred. Then 1000’s. 1,000,000. Hundreds of thousands of readers have hit these pages over the past fifteen years. When you’re a type of readers who got here alongside, tapped in, subscribed and stayed with me, I owe you all the things I’ve. My profession, my agency, my livelihood, my life-style.
You watched me develop up on this website. I obtained issues proper and obtained issues unsuitable and did my finest to relay the teachings realized from each experiences. I left the brokerage enterprise and dropped my Collection 7 proper earlier than your eyes, making a profession swap that was the final word leap of religion – nothing to fall again on if it didn’t work. I met my companion Barry because of doing the positioning. I obtained a tv contract because of doing the positioning. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 staff and 4,000 consumer households because of doing the positioning. You, my followers, made all of that potential. With out you, none of it could have been.
You could have observed that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing lots much less right here. The principle motive for that’s all my skilled desires are coming true. I used to dream of working at a agency just like the one I’m now managing as CEO. Which is a tremendous feeling. I neglect how fortunate I’m. However getting us up to now has taken up an increasing number of of my time with every passing 12 months. And so the writing needed to take a backseat.
Final December we employed a agency president who might slowly start to take day-to-day administration and management obligations off of my plate. And now, for the primary time in a very long time, I’m able to get again to writing. However coming again to writing right here simply didn’t really feel proper.
The Reformed Dealer isn’t just a weblog. For me, it has additionally been a complete persona. Not fairly a pen title or a pseudonym – I’ve by no means printed a single phrase secretly or surreptitiously in my complete life. The Reformed Dealer was who I used to be. Pugnacious, sarcastic, cynical, incensed, offended, vengeful – however, and this can be a large however, nonetheless optimistic regardless of all of the failings of Wall Avenue. That was who I used to be for a lot of the final fifteen years and the writing I did right here mirrored that.
I’m not that man anymore.
I’ve advanced. I believe for the higher. I’ve gotten smarter. I’ve reached new skilled heights and unlocked new ranges. I’ve modified my thoughts about sure issues. I now have the information and expertise of somebody who has truly completed a couple of issues. Fifteen years in the past I had the righteous indignation of somebody who had survived a couple of issues, however little else.
Issues are completely different now. I need to inform you all about it. And I’ll. However first, we’ve got to place this specific weblog to mattress.
And so to all of you who’ve come right here through the years to be taught, to snicker, to be impressed, to turn into higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I need to inform you how a lot I recognize you. When you’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a good friend or a coworker, despatched me an e mail or a letter (there have been 1000’s of emails and letters!), retweeted me, linked to me, and many others, this final put up is devoted to you.
It has been the dignity of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me by way of all of the ups and downs. I like you guys. You’re the absolute best.
From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks.
– Downtown Josh Brown
New York Metropolis, November twenty ninth 2023
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