Well, I haven't had a job since Feb '08 and a live in a somewhat expensive area in LA. It is a very expensive area relative to most of the rest of the country. Does that count?
My $0.02, if the guy's clearly not coming around, why not click "Ignore" instead of fueling the fire and lengthening the less useful portion of this thread?
No mention was made of trading, numb-nuts. And what's the point of mentioning real estate if it had nothing to do with how he made his money? Nevermind, it was just another unbelievable trading fable anyway. Six months starting in March ends in September, you clueless dildo. And according to your fairytale: " Made back all my losses in August". That's the 90% you lost. Recovering your losses is making money, dumbass. The market wasn't holding it in escrow for you. No surprise that your 3rd point would also be labelled '2'. LOL! More to the point of your math illiteracy: Going from $1K in June to $160+K in December is an increase of about 16,000% in six months. Yes, fool, that is killing it, even if you only went from one dollar to $160 and change in six months. It's the percent gain that counts. You would know this if you had any math proficiency beyond the elementary school level. But all this is moot, because you're just a pathetic liar. The most likely story on you is that you are at best a porn addict living in your mom's basement. But it would be very easy for an actual multi-millionaire ("Me = 8 figures in trading profits") to prove me wrong. Selfies of you tooling around in your luxury yacht should do it. Or posing with your most expensive cars in your car elevator. Whatever you feel like photographing to prove your alleged wealth. But we both know this will never happen. Because you're just a lying-ass poser. And you live in your mom's basement.
Are you a teenager? What grown man takes "selfies"??? I'm being stalked by a high school kid with a paper route and an Ameritrade account! LMAO. Oh and to answer your questions- a legitimate luxury yacht costs millions (5MM+, plus I'm guessing @500K a year for crew, gas, and docking). Thats way out of my league. I have a 2014 Chapparal SSX (28'10") and two Yamaha FX Cruiser SHO wave runners (had 2010 models that were destroyed by Sandy. Now I have 2013 models). And my vehicle is a 2003 SUV with 103,000 miles on it. I don't drive very many miles a year and I couldn't give a crap about exotic cars. I bought one in 2000 and spent almost every month at the dealership dropping a fortune getting new rims from the NYC potholes. After that I bought a vehicle that could drive through a crater and keep cruising along and I love it. And before you come back to continue fighting with me, just please take a look at a few charts from late 1999 and you will see how ridiculous the opportunity was for a novice to do well. One example I remember was BAMM (Books a million). The Friday after thanksgiving (half day trading) the stock went from $3-$45 in one day just because they started a website or something. That nonsense happened all the time. People with no trading experiencd were making millions. What I did was peanuts. The difference is most of them lost it in the crash because they either never learned how to trade or were greedy.