The inevitable has happened, the wave of global layoffs in IT has hit the peaceful little corner of the world where I carry my existence. Not a problem since I have a new job yesterday in addition to the generous severance package, more of a time to reflect on the past and steer towards a brighter future. Overall I gave up on trading, after 15+ years of trying (10 in professional finance) and nearly a PhD in mathematics, I know enough of the domain to know it's a rigged, impossible game for the layman. There's a saying in poker: "When you sit yourself at the poker table and in half hour you don't know who's the sucker, you're the sucker". I'd say 15 years is enough to conclude I'm the sucker and with all sunken cost ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost ), leaving the trading table for a different adventure is the way ahead. Trading, for me, wasn't just an occupation / hobby / try to make money thing. It was essentially ... my religion. I'm an atheist. A polite atheist, I don't feel the need to spit religion in the face like say, woke movement needs to spit in the face of the traditional family. If I go into a church (drawn by events such as birth, marriage or death), my hand doesn't fall off if I make a cross sign. Helps blend in and reassures weaker consciences who aren't prepared to stare into the abyss. So when traditional religion fails, what's left? Well... energy. And hope. It was never a problem to make an above-average living, I bragged about my IQ before, it didn't help me become a billionaire (yet) but sure as funk ensured I had enough to make a decent living without having to immigrate and shit. I see money as energy. You only need a little for a decent living. For indecency though... sky is the limit. Literally. Conquering death (reaching "the singularity") takes a hell lot of energy, before and after reaching it. In fact you know, I have a little SciFi story I use to motivate my atheism. God doesn't exist. Yet. Right now, there is no God, it's a sham like the stock market. If you subscribe to a linear evolution of time, it's reasonable to think that it starts with a Godless universe and as time progresses and life finds a way and manages not to autodestruct itself, if may reach the point where it invents the singularity and time travel, basically invents God. In short, I believe we are at a point in time where time travel and God doesn't exist yet and it's still to be invented, if possible. Once that point reached, we reach paradox point: God can travel back in time and basically invent itself so we're not God-less and atheism is wrong. Anywayza. I'm leaving finance (and my job) for a newer, better perspective. A steady, stable job in the EU, providing enough for a nuclear family and a hobby. My hobby of inventing the singularity. I'm certain to be making millions out of my business idea. Question's weather (and how) to make sure I hold on to it enough to make billions before it inevitably transpires and gets copied to oblivion. I already have 2 potential business partners, one in US another in Canada. Apart from EU (my residence), I'll attack the wealthy front first, although that's not a rule. If you think you have some money and time to invest and would be interested to make it to local billionaire, write me in private.