Women and gents, that is the ultimate publish I can be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.
After right now the positioning can be inactive, without end. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none concept the place it will take me. I had a detrimental web value, was working at a dead-end brokerage agency job and completely no profession prospects in any respect – a washed up inventory dealer at 31 years outdated in the course of a worldwide monetary disaster.
So I started to write down. Actually, humorously, fearlessly. And also you started to learn. First just a few dozen guests. Then just a few hundred. Then 1000’s. 1,000,000. Tens of millions of readers have hit these pages over the past fifteen years. In case you’re a type of readers who got here alongside, tapped in, subscribed and stayed with me, I owe you every little thing I’ve. My profession, my agency, my livelihood, my way of life.
You watched me develop up on this web site. I acquired issues proper and acquired issues unsuitable and did my greatest 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 change that was the last word leap of religion – nothing to fall again on if it didn’t work. I met my accomplice Barry on account of doing the positioning. I acquired a tv contract on account of doing the positioning. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 staff and 4,000 consumer households on account of doing the positioning. You, my followers, made all of that potential. With out you, none of it will have been.
You’ll have observed that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing lots much less right here. The primary motive for that’s all my skilled goals 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 overlook how fortunate I’m. However getting us up to now has taken up increasingly more 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 revealed a single phrase secretly or surreptitiously in my whole life. The Reformed Dealer was who I used to be. Pugnacious, sarcastic, cynical, incensed, offended, vengeful – however, and this can be a huge however, nonetheless optimistic regardless of all of the failings of Wall Road. That was who I used to be for many of the final fifteen years and the writing I did right here mirrored that.
I’m not that man anymore.
I’ve advanced. I feel 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 just a few issues. Fifteen years in the past I had the righteous indignation of somebody who had survived just a few 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 explicit weblog to mattress.
And so to all of you who’ve come right here over time to study, to chortle, to be impressed, to grow to be higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I need to inform you how a lot I respect you. In case you’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a pal 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 so forth, this final publish is devoted to you.
It has been the respect of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me by means of all of the ups and downs. I really like you guys. You’re the best.
From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks.
– Downtown Josh Brown
New York Metropolis, November twenty ninth 2023
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