Hi friends, so this is where it all begins.
Let's start off with a little about me! I hit the floor in '94 in a little college town in Texas. I'm an only child, and born to young parents: so we grew together. I was a smart kid, riddled with ADHD and always dealing with the consequences of my decisions. Normal childhood for the most part. Then came high school: If you wanna talk about hell, my mom raised the QUEEN of it during my high school years. I was a student athlete and on the olympic trail for my passion, shotgun shooting. While also on the school dance team. Every parents dream, really. But the bad news crowd called my name a little too loud, and I couldn't help but take a peak. In a matter of a fuzzy year and a half I was in private ranch school scooping horse poop for punishment, and then you guessed it: Pregnant!
Here's a flashback to 17 YO Jamie in 2k13, attitude and all.
This is where the journey began for me. There's parts of my story we'll reconnect on when I'm 100% sure I'm allowed to talk about them on the internet, but we're gonna time travel for now! Not too far just to November 2014. After "finding myself" AKA: running the streets, I saw someone I thought I knew at the convenience store and holla'd out the window. Yes I cat called the man who is now my husband. No shame, get what you want or someone else will, right? No lie I moved right in, and we moved fast for the most part. Theres stories in here we're gonna break down later, they really need an entry of their own. We have the best relationship, we had our little in the middle in 2017, bought our first house together in 2019, and in March of 2022 we had our super surprise baby boy!
March 2022 our final crotch goblin came crashing in to complete our party!
The man that makes it happen, y'all dont get it. He's a saint, I'm insane.
I found Heaven in a man that gives me the world and stands behind me ten toes down no matter how wild my ideas are. Find you a Dylan, but mine's taken for eternity. (:
How I started trading:
Dylan has always been the main provider for our household, but ya girl has raging ADHD, and cabin fever comes quickly. To add insult to injury I got champagne taste on a beer budget. So I always worked night and weekend jobs bartending for extra money, and to keep me busy. Also tried college once, but I was way too good at it, and got bored. 4.0 forever though, can I get an amen? When I decided to cut the crap and quit school I was offered a dream job from a friend from shotgun shooting. I was making compareable money to bartending (IYKYK) and I was only working nights from 10PM-6AM, so I was able to be fully present in my kids lifes. Shortly after, Ronie ruined the world. When covid hit, it knocked my husbands long time oil field job out of the park. This was all while we were set to move into our house that we just closed on, so chaos was created. While Dylan stayed home with the girls, I was offered a second job doing the same thing from my neighbor. My main job had made my hours 2 days a week, one 24 hour day, and one 16 hour day: so adding a second job was managable. About a year and a half into this my husband got the opportunity to make a career switch, and work with my dad in the chemical and gas industry. While the money makes it worth it, being a boiler maker requires alot of time away from home. I was nervous to be working 2 jobs, one kid at home, and one in school. But God had me! I have never been one to sit at tables I don't belong, and I will always givemore than I recieve until it's taken for granted. After some crying on my part, and many "just do it's" from my husband, I stood up for myself finally (which got me fired) and decided to enjoy my last year at home with what I thought was my last baby before she started school. After working full time for almost 2 years talk about culture shock! That did not last long before I decided to look for ways to make some serious cash to bring Dylan back home full time while I was collecting unemployment.
Enter the Covid crypto/meme/millionaire making bull run of summer 2k21: I WAS SOLD! LFG.
Shortly after I rang robinhood to start my million making journey, I came across Team Bull Trading on Tiktok.
My trek through trading:
After joining Team Bull I was stoked, so excited to make money!
My husband games, and I had never been a fan of online communities. I'm not gonna lie I thought it was wierd to talk to people you don't know. But I tried to dive in and make friends. I joined Team Bull in April 2021, and I made some mooooney. I would like to note the start of my TB journey Grizzly and Dumpster were two of the most notable people I traded with, never hesitating to chart stocks for me, and answer any questions I had. TB peeps will be name dropped here, because many of them have moulded me, and I'm gonna make sure they know. A few short months after joining TB my world was wrecked, my grandma (granny) fell ill and quickly past away in July of 2021. July has historically been a bad month for me as my oldest typically leaves for the month, and it's hard to be away from my kids. This July was the worst. The day after my grandmas funeral my husband left for a long job, and my oldest left for Mimi's. I was lonely, but not alone my little in the middle and I decided to try to have nice summer. But life said "Don't get ahead of yourself hooker" and I wrecked my car on July 12, that I bought in May.
This hurts.. Thankfully no one was physically hurt, just my pride.
My rental insurance didn't get switched to my new car, so I was our of a car. That's a whole fiasco, I didn't get it fully fixed until April of 2022. As the Bull Run of '21 came to a close I began to realize I sucked at trading! This next few senetences isn't fun to write or read, but I promise there's a happy ending, I'm counting on it! In September of 2021 my moms half brother past away, and in October I got super exciting news that my best friend Nicole was pregnant! 2 days later, I got the same news.. Not quite as exciting for someone who was sure they wouldn't have anymore kids. In an alley style ultrasound the next day my lifelong rida Bo confirmed that not only was I pregnant, it was a boy! WHAT, I just found out. how in the world could I have been pregnant since July and not know? I decided to pull a Kylie Jenner, and told on a handful of people I was pregnant, until I had the baby.
Loooooook at that little gummy bear!
At this point trading halted for me, but I stayed a part of Team Bull for the community. Remember I'd already decided I sucked at trading. I popped in the chat periodically, and every single time Savage wrote me, and recognized my absense, and returns. The feeling of just being a part of a community is what I needed at that point, even though I wasn't utilizing the community to trade during this time. Around Christmas, we got confirmation that my father in law was not doing well in his battle with Liver Disease. From January to March I spent my time researching how to heal him, finding ways to spark conversations with drs for new perspectives, spending days in the hospital with him when I was allowed while the kids were in school, and just praying my kids wouldn't experience more loss this year. I get carried away, and couldn't take my meds while pregnant, so I was spriraling. Just 6 days before our boy was born his grandpa went to be with the Lord.
Sweet Papa John, one of the greatest men I've ever known, and we love him so much!
In April 2022 I decided it was my time, I jumped back in trading full time, focusing on $SPY and $QQQ using Savages strategy. While the gains were no june 2021, I was becoming consistant! On June 17th 2021, CBOE gave all traders a huge fuck you, and my edge was born! TB friends were stuck in trades while I was not, so I took the liberty to call our brokers, and ultimately called CBOE themselves. Ronnie at the help desk proceded to ask me if I was a member to to which I replied "There's memberships?" I still cringe at this. Ultimatey I got owned on the phone, and I'm a petty Italian that doesn't let grudges go. So I decided to make it my mission to make myself, and as many people as I can using the VIX. As I started using the VIX I noticed some unique things. So I began to bounce my ideas back and forth with none other than my first true trading friend, Ghost! He's a machine, a great motivator, and the first person that took notice that the things I was finding were working, and consistantly. The VIX strat is going to have it's own detailed blog. (: As time went on I got more active and Team Bull became family. Later in June, the formula crisis hit, how many crisis are we gonna have? After exhausting local resources I wrote in TB to keep an eye out for me, without much thought that results would pair. Within days multiple members had reached out and had formula in the mail to me. FAMILY.
Insane, this was an eye opeing moment for me on how good people are.
Around this time is when JDun and I really actually starting chatting, and I became an Active and helpful member. JDun is a force to be reckoned with! THE most giving, relatable, down to earth rich MFers I know. I'm forever grateful for him, and I'm thankful for connections with people that value other people like he does. Team Bull is the Meca for trading education, and the creator of it wants you to win, whether you're a member or not. It's September now, and I've learned alot more as a trader. I've learned alot about myself, and I've made more friends. K-luv, is my best trading friend, and maybe one of my best real friends too. I don't know much about him, but I know he always answers my calls, and he gives what I have to say a fair chance no matter how wacky it is. While also being sure to let me know when he thinks I'm wrong. He's never too busy, and the best kinda friend you could have. @me with precisely 434 unread text messages at this moment. (I'm gonna work on being better) Recently I dove into the world of futures trading (I have a ton to say about my futes peeps, but it'll be in it;'s own blog) and I found that I have been an amazing trader the last few months.. HOWEVER the champagne taste with a beer budget contracts I was buying were getting double penetrated by the damn Greeks. So I've toned back options for the futes, but what's Jamie's Joy with out a reality check every 45 days give or take? The next few weeks I've got chaos that I can't control, which is driving me mad, I'm a control freak. Not knowing things is just not good enough for me. But I'm gonna take my free time to break down all my processes, really captivate this precious journey I'm on, share what I know and even more of what I think, because this is my world remember? :P
Lets do this y'all, I'm so excited to have a little space to organize my thoughts and share my market anlysis with y'all. Or maybe I'm sharing to myself, either way I'm happy with it.
Lets Make Some Money Friends! 🌻
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