The thing is we get into trading for freedom. If you stay on the charts all day, you

Very stressful. I think it's a really bad way to live life. People who want

to break the 9 to 5, buying into Bitcoin and then

thinking they're going to get out of that within the next 6 to 12 months is not going

People might roll their eyes at this, but the reality is it doesn't matter if it's Bitcoin,

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jump in. Again, thank you for

taking the time to come on, Daniel. I really appreciate it. I've been

following some of your videos, and they're like, you know, congratulations

on what you're doing, honestly, because it takes a lot of balls to obviously do

what you're doing, and particularly moving

out to bloody Dubai. I'm sort of a little bit jealous in a way that you're

Everything I thought it would be to be honest. Yeah, it's insane

Just a lifestyle and just there's so much wealth here minutes insane and

everyone's killing it Everyone's doing really well, and I don't know it's

everything you probably think it is So let me just frame this

So Daniel Holmes trader and

I love the name homes by the way, so just a BMX bike

called homes I love it. So

Yeah, gold and NQ. NQ, so not crypto?

Nah, because I don't know if day trading crypto is

Yeah, and so you made some splash

on the TVs of Australia through the maths program, which

was probably a couple of years ago now. Would you say

you used part of that sort of celebrity to help leverage into the

Maybe, but unintentionally. Not in the sense that the show did

anything for me, but more in the sense that the show made my life stop.

Yeah, everything is just like, okay, stop, go on this show.

And then when the show ended, it's like, fuck, what do I do now?

Because I didn't want to get back to what I was doing prior, which was personal training. And

that point of like, oh shit, my whole life stopped to go on this show and now

I have to kind of figure it out again, that's where

Right. So you've gone from married at first sight, things are going fantastic, you're

all over the TV, girls everywhere, no doubt,

right? Signing autographs and

selfies, yeah? No, not quite by the way. Okay. I'm

Well, I had a girl from the show, so I was straight in the relationship after

But yeah. And the question there will be then, well,

When you go on the show, it's just like, it's like a quick burst and

then it's over. So anybody that goes on the show for the

fame or whatever, it's very short lived. Very

What made you then, so you've finished the show, you've then, as

you said, you sort of came to a point where you're like, you know what, I don't want to do this anymore, I don't want to

Well, it's a bit of a deeper one, but I guess coming off the show, there

was definitely like depression. I was pretty

lost because I came off the show, I think I was 30 years old. I'm

like, man, I'm a 30-year-old dude. I've done one particular thing

most of my life, which is work in the fitness industry. I've always

had the urge to try to venture out and find wealth in

different departments. I've always tried to start small businesses publicly and

behind the scenes, and nothing really worked out. I

was super depressed, super depressed. I

was just like, I specifically remember typing to Google top

earning jobs in the world because I was like, I'll do anything. I'll go back to university, I'll do anything. It

was like doctor, engineer and one of the third ones down was trader. I was like,

that was a trader, man. What is that shit? I've heard of a trader, I don't know what it

is though. I started looking into it and

realizing you don't need a degree. It doesn't care about

what you've done in the past. It's just you on a screen. And I was like,

there's no way that this has been here all along. So

Wow. It's interesting you say you reach rock bottom. And

just to share a little bit about myself to you, Daniel, I went through a phase recently.

In the past 10 years, I bought a Hungry Jack's restaurant with

my wife when I was 29 years old. We

thought we'd made it. We were like, we're the kings, right?

We've got this store. And one year down

the track, the government did roadworks, right?

Like a highway. The sales went south. And

we went into, the short version is, Daniel, we went into another further million dollars

of debt. We had no money. We were living on credit cards. And

I, as a Hungry Jacks owner, was now on the

Gold Coast doing Uber. Wow.

Right. I was driving Uber for probably six to 12 months

on nighttimes, weekends, right? Because we just didn't have

any money. I've got this fucking Hungry Jacks store that I've now got a

service, right? Pay wages on, and all the rest of it. And

that to me, and I remember, and this just might resonate with

this, but I was just walking on the street one day. I was sort of in my

depressed state, right? Thinking, how am I, a young 30-year-old

with a Hungry Jacks restaurant, Have no money. This

is not the life I had envisaged for myself. How do I get myself into

this shithole? Because I was on the course of the tax

office every couple of months putting bass on debt payments.

And I remember just thinking, All I want, it's like I was praying to

God. I was like, look, all I want is a four bedroom house in

the suburbs and a WRX car. That's all I want. That's

all. I'll be happy with that. And it's just funny because, and

it was at that moment, I started, other doors started opening

up for me as well. I started thinking about bringing

more money. Obviously I did Uber, as I said, but then I found Amazon, selling on

Amazon. So ultimately that's kind of where I Sort of made myself

through amazon did about 70 million dollars through amazon and now i'm in

the crypto space but It's interesting in your

story though, because you can you there's these times in our

life where like you said, you're at rock bottom You're depressed. Yeah

Yeah, I know it's insane yeah, and I I

honestly think most trader stories stem from something like that a

rock bottom moment or something or an entrepreneurial spirit

because there has to be a component of that in order to find success in trading, I

believe. It's a hard game. It's very difficult and

can be very painful at times. And it requires a

certain type of hunger in order to push through that, I think. Yeah.

Most traders that find success, it does stem from

Yeah, I know, of all things. And the funny thing is, I forget about it. Because my

wife now runs it, and I now do the Bitcoin thing.

And I have a small little online community. And mainly what I do, Daniel, is I

now help people move their super into Bitcoin. through an SMSF, that's

basically what I do. And then I get to talk to cool people like yourself on

a podcast, you know what I mean, which I just love to do, you know, meet people

and stuff like that. I met a guy just before you from the United States, you know what I mean, he's big

in the Bitcoin space, you know, so that's kind of cool. I

just want to dig a little bit deeper, Daniel, into your story because what

was it? So you basically, you've started trading, you're

living in my old hometown because I used to live in Brisbane, funny enough. Oh,

really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I think from the shot, were you

living in the Fortitude Valley? Yes, yep. Yeah, I

used to DJ in nightclubs in the Fortitude Valley. For like

10 years, can you believe it? So you're there. You're

now doing this trading thing. What was the moment where you went, you know what, I'm

going to go to Dubai? What was that

Well, from the moment of finding trading, so at a real low point found trading,

decided I would rather die until I make this work. This

has to work. There's no plan B. So obviously there was two years

of eating shit. I sucked at trading for two years. I just gave back all

my money for two years straight, started to find success, still

had a nine to five at this point. Like I just had a side job just to make money

to keep the the ship afloat. You

know, fast forward like four and a half years to now, that

success started to come in, you know, three years, two and a half years

into the game, I started to find actual financial success through

trading. And then the interesting thing with trading is once

you make $100, you make 200, 1,000 a

day and then it just compounds so quick that it's unreal, like

it's weird. So, you know, things are compounded quite

fast for me the last six months, I would say especially. And then

to the last like three months, I quit my nine to

five, started finding massive success with the trading and

just said, man, I've got to get out of here. Like I

just, it's just a calling. Like it's just, as I just start to find more

success in life, I get closer to God. I find that I'm just making the

right decisions. I'm removing all vices and just, I always say

in trading, it's not about like, the technical side of trading is easy. It's

about who you are, because who you are on the market is either going to dictate whether you're going

to give back the profits or keep them. And if

you get better as a person outside of the charts, your success on the charts

is going to reflect that. And I went on a massive journey of that in

the last two years of getting better as a person. And as

I started that journey, my success in trading just

went through the roof to the point where, yeah, quit the nine to

five, move to Dubai and just bite the bullet and say, man, I'm doing it.

Well, this is what I'm getting at. And I want you to be

completely up front and say, look, hey, I moved to Dubai because I'm

making a shit ton of money in Australia. The government's taxing the bejesus

out of me. And I'm like, no, fuck this. I'm going to go to a tax-free jurisdiction.

I mean, mostly tax-free. Oh, of course. That's one

of the biggest factors, for sure. It's the tax-free component. It's the lifestyle. It's

Did you go to Dubai, Daniel, before you've made the move? and

sort of like suss it out or you just went... No, just bit

But I'm that type of person like you just got to make the decision and I'm pretty tapped into

like the calling like I feel like I'm just called to do it so I just listen to

the voice, I just do it. And the thing is if I came over here for a

visit and said I'll just feel it out, I'd go back and I wouldn't come

back. I know it. So it's like you got to make the decision. You

basically burn the boats. Yes, exactly. It has to be done.

And that's like, I think that's for all major life decisions. Put your back against the

Yeah, that was exactly right. That was like in my case, you know, my back was up against the

wall. We had to make things happen and I When I did

Uber, you know, but obviously there was things that led after that, right? I

found the Amazon course and then I basically just started selling

things around the world. My biggest mistake that I wish I'd

knew that you've done, and this is probably why I sound a little bit envious in

a way, and I congratulate you for doing that, is because I didn't move or

go to a place that was going to be financially treated

I've stayed in Australia. I've copped all the taxes. One of

my last tax bills recently was like a million dollars for the freaking

year. It was ridiculous. And I should have

done what you're doing, is actually move to a low tax or no

tax jurisdiction. So one of the things I'm coming to terms with now

is like, hey, should I do that now? Well,

Yeah, I was in a family and yeah. Well, that's where my benefit was. I don't have

kids or a family just yet. So it was like, act now. Yeah.

And so what's happening now in the trading space? Do you operate like

out of a group of people or are you teaching

Yeah, I've got a community of guys, like I've got a community of just like

free online presence, I guess, I live stream, I

trade in every day on YouTube. So I trade live every day and then have

a mentorship community where I'm teaching other guys to do the same. But

yeah, it's a show up twice a day live. I

only trade live. Well, I do trade off stream, but I trade two sessions,

Asia session, the London session live both times. So

one with the mentorship and one of the free YouTube community. And

that's it, man. Just show up and trade these funded accounts and just Pull

And what sort of what sort of results are you seeing? And just so you

know to Daniel, I don't know much about training. Sorry Whatever

you tell you like, yeah, you know more than me. Okay. I'm more

of like a I'm in the crypto space I'm just pretty much buying and holding

Bitcoin for the most part. I'm not sort of playing the markets

as per se So what you do is like your wizardry to me like day

Yeah Do you know what prop firms are?

No. Okay. So like essentially you can, and this

is like what most traders are doing. You come into the space and you can pay a fee to

prove that you have the ability to put a certain amount of money on an account. And

then they give you access to that money, like a hundred thousand dollars, $200,000. And

that's called prop trading. And that's what I do. And that's what I teach my students

Can you just break that down a bit more for me, Danny? Because I didn't quite understand

It's hard to understand, but it really is that simple. a

company will, it's not real money, but the

What's that? You're talking about using leverage? Not necessarily. It

really is a sense that you'll have a $100,000 account and then you

But how do they back that then? You

They'll give you a simulated account. Oh, I see. And

say, if you can put 6% on this simulated account under these conditions with

this stop-loss, you can't lose this much, we'll give you access to this money.

And again, it's not real money but the profits you make

And then like once you profit on that, it's a 90-10 split.

So you'll get 90% of the profits, they'll get 10. Oh, okay. And it's

called PropTrading. That's what I do. I just milk these guys. I

will get funded on this account, this account and just stack them all. So you don't even have to have

your own money now? No. This

is like a light bulb moment for everyone watching this. The barrier of

entry into trading now is just insane. But believe me, it's

very difficult to get funded. The statistic is about 97% of

traders fail to get funded. And then those that do

get funded only like 1% get money out of it.

So it's very difficult. But once

Wow. I think we can probably just end the podcast there. Everyone's got

what they need. It's insane, right? Yeah.

So what sort of success are you seeing, I guess, with these other guys? OK,

let me ask you this. If these guys are coming to

learn from you, do they also have access to this same prop

They have to have their individual account but they have access like it's free to the

So do they have access under your account is what I'm getting as like a sub-account with

No, I've got like connections with some and I can get

like obviously discount codes and stuff like that but yeah, anyone can just buy their

So tell me about some of the things that you're doing with

Yeah, it's simply guys just come in. So I have the entire method

in which I found success in trading in terms of strategy. I have it all mapped out.

So they come in, they learn the strategy. dive into the content and

then we're in this small community, we work one-on-one and

it's just like every day the goal is just to get a bit better than we were yesterday. And

we do it live as well, like it's all live trading so we're talking through

it as it's all happening and yeah, that's it, man. Every day you get better than

is yesterday. And it's not about, I don't care about that dollar amount, I don't know how much they won,

lost, draw, I just want to know if they got better than yesterday. Because consistency

is a goal. If you can win a hundred, if you can get a hundred dollars a day over

a month, that's better than me hearing that you made 10 grand today.

Because 10 grand you made today, you'll also lose tomorrow. But

$100 a day shows me that you have the ability to stay consistent emotionally. It's

Yeah. And so would you say this is a good question? You

talk a lot about mindsets. I've seen a lot of your content, a lot about

mindset. Can mindset and trading be

That's a good question. Yeah, that is a good question. But

yeah, it's taught. It is taught. You can come in preconceived ideas.

You can come in with like a stronger mindset for trading or weaker. Typically,

the more successful guys in the business department come in with bad mindsets because

the mindset of like a successful business guy is smashed through barriers, hard

work. If you fall down, you come back twice as hard. But

that in trading, Is counterintuitive because in trading when

you lose a trade you got to close the computer down walk away And get

on with your day where like that might not cry Yeah, but the

mindset of a winner is now let me get back in there and make that money back That's

the mindset of a high achiever. But those guys that mindset kills

traders, right? It's the opposite Daniel. It's the opposite Which

is interesting. So like in the mentorship, we talk a lot about mindset and the attitude

to walk and come into the market. It's like, man, you get two trades a day. Because

anything after two trades, you have the potential to go on tilt, like emotional tilt, and

I was watching one of your videos and you were like, you were saying to some dude, you're like,

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what does tilt mean? Tilt means it's

going off. I think it comes from like Blackjack. What's

the game, the card game, how they have to hide their emotions? Poker?

Poker, poker. Yeah, I think that's where the term stems from where like

somebody is so like nervous because they know they've got a bad

deck that they're tilting, they're showing their emotions and their

emotions are coming up and that's the same thing on the market. If you lose a trade, you're

going to feel the emotions come up like, oh, there

goes $100, let me take another trade and you lose another trade. Now, there's $200 and

you're like, Fuck that, I'm getting this back.

I've got to double down now." And then that's where it spirals out

of control. So what would the advice be at that point, then Daniel,

just walk away? There's so much advice for

that and there's so many different ways to approach it. Unfortunately, nothing

I can say will ever change anybody. from going on emotional tilt.

I can say you have to put these barriers and entry and these things in the

way to avoid it, but it comes, it eventually, the unfortunate

thing is it'll come to a point where that person is so mentally exhausted

from giving their money back and going on tilt that they're just gonna be like, man, I just

have to stop. I have to stop. In my mentorship, the rule

is you get two trades a day. Win, lose or draw, two trades

And that's it, so once you've done those two trades, then that's

it for the day, right? You go have a sleep, you have to think about it, you move on to doing

Because the thing is, we're gonna trade for freedom. If you stay on

the charts all day, you might as well go back to a nine to five. It's extremely stressful

It's interesting you say that, because I've seen videos, not yourself, but just other

traders, and they seem to be glued to the

computer, right? So that's kind of like the

opposite of what you're saying, right? You're now just traded your

Yeah, exactly. I think it's a terrible way to

live life. I think it's a really bad way to live life because there's going

to be plenty of days where you sit there all day and then you finish the day down thousands

of dollars. Terrible way to live life, where it's much easier if you

All right, go ahead. I was going to say, it's interesting, Daniel, because what you're saying then is

there's enough money to be made by just doing two trades a

I sit down for the Asia session, which is about an hour and a half, and then again for the

London session, which is an hour and a half. So that's three hours a day I'm sitting in

front of a chart, talking to the community, having a good time, talking about freaking pyramids

in Egypt, like we just have a silly goose time. Now you

can talk about Dubai. Yeah, talking about Dubai, and then here I set up, and

then we take the trade. All right, guys. Good trade. See

And so what is the success rate, I guess, of your trading?

Yeah, just like you. In terms of the strategy, I have

a high win rate strategy, right? So I'm not taking massive RR

trades, like massive risk to reward, where I'm risking $1,000 to

make $50,000. I'll typically risk $1,000 to make

$1,000. So with that being said, the hit rate is relatively high. Yeah,

interesting. Yeah, yeah. And then with proper accounts, like, Like,

it's hard for me to say because my, in terms of the money I make on the market is

just, it goes up and up every day. Like my first day in

Dubai, I made 4.2K in Dubai as I got here,

just taking a train. I was like, yes, what a great way to get, like to

What, you're in the taxi, you're in the taxi doing the train on the way to the

No, I got back to the hotel and set the computer up because I'm like, hey, I got a live stream

and then boom, but yeah. Wow, that's insane. So that's,

and that'd be USD. Oh, that was Australian dollars. I'm still doing Australian

Which is powerful because, and that was done in the space of what?

Yeah. And I'm just sitting there in a Dubai, just like, what the,

what even is life, bro? Like, why are we not getting taught this in school? But

it's very difficult at the same time. I wonder if you should actually

become a Bitcoiner. You guys aren't

going to like me. Totally It's

a scam your whole audience is gonna kill me. No go.

I Think bitcoins going to zero, okay This

Can I say why? Yeah, absolutely. And

this isn't me influenced by anyone else, I was just thinking about this. And

Yeah, we're going to say Daniel Holmes tells us right now

Okay, this is my opinion. I think as humans, we're

terrible at telling the future. Think about the

movie Back to the Future, we thought we'd have hoverboards, any like time we've tried to

predict what the future is going to look like, we've got it terribly wrong.

And I understand that Bitcoin is based on the logic of

this is the way that society is moving, this is the way digital

currency is moving and the You know, I guess

however else you would explain it. It's a monetary system, I guess. Yes.

And I guess in short terms, I just think that as

humans, we're really bad at telling the future. And if we put so much

of an emphasis on what we think is going to happen, it's

typically been wrong. That's all. That's all it is. Interesting. I could

I think you're way off. But I appreciate your comment

because there's obviously a lot of FUD out

Well, I would say that, first of all, the network adoption is so large right

now, it's very hard for it to go to zero. There's a statistic, Daniel,

which is any asset class that has reached $2 trillion

has never evaporated. It's never gone back down. It's

OK. I won't say zero. I mean,

you know what I mean, like just 10, 10,000 or like, you know what I

Well, I mean, it may. There is an argument that

it could. However, statistically, this will

be interesting for you, the Bitcoin price has never gone below the

previous presidential election. So President

Trump was elected November 5th. The price around that date was about

$71,000 USD. Statistically, in the next

cycle, it won't go below that figure. So

71. Now, for some people, though, that's practically what you're saying, though. Because if

it went from 100,000 USD now to 10, that's like a 90% drop. Right. Right. Now, it could go

all the way to 300,000, 500,000. Some people are saying, right? this

cycle right so basically between now and maybe early 2026 let's

say it goes to 500 000 and then has a retracement it

could possibly come all the way back down to 70 which is

basically what you're saying is could be the equivalent of going from 110 right people

will see it as that makes it's gone to zero right yeah So

I think that is absolutely on the cards. And

that's why you say that if someone has held Bitcoin for

more than four years, a minimum of four years, they're in the green as

opposed to red, because it always comes back around. And history

shows it will always be higher. What I'm getting at, though, Daniel, more

so, is I can see where your mind is at.

You're talking about God. You're talking about freedom. You're

talking about a higher calling. You talked just before about,

oh, and these are all like Bitcoin things, right? You talked about- God comes

into Bitcoin? Yeah, yeah. I just had Brian DeMint

on. Brian DeMint is actually the The author of

this book here called Bitcoin Evangelism, very, very

religious, a good Christian guy. Yeah, so

he does Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He's probably in

his mid to early 40s now. Very much into health. I mean, I

know you are. You're a healthy looking guy, you know what I mean? Obviously been a personal trainer,

everything like that. So yeah, it's... Ultimately,

I think, also, it's a freedom movement. That's pretty much

where Bitcoin stemmed from. And you talked about schools.

That's what I was going to lead to there before. We're not taught about,

really, the true monetary system in schools. The

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you, hey, look, you know, I applaud you for doing what you do. I'm genuinely

saying that, you know what I mean? Because to me, when I look at you, I think, man, this guy, he's

onto something. He's, as you mentioned,

come from rock bottom, found himself. I know you've also stopped

drinking, right? I don't drink alcohol. I

don't do drugs, don't do alcohol, nothing like that. And

because I don't want to be, I don't want to have my mind altered.

I also didn't succumb to the C-19 shot. I

avoided that. I stood against that. All

my family stood against it, my children, everyone. I'm not

saying I'm better than people who did, because

I know some people were forced to take

it because they had to put food on the table. That was pretty much it. I

was in a very good position where I could basically not do that. And just, it's

very interesting, you know, I sat down with my wife and I said, look, the

government is now trying to impose this on everybody.

What are we going to do as employers? Because

we've got this store, right? And I said to

Paula, we will close that store down. We'll

just shut the doors before we force any one

of our employees to take something that perhaps they don't want to take. Love

it. Yeah, awesome. And that was because of our own moral

values. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That's

where I'm coming from. And yeah, so there's just some

of the things you just said there really resonated to me, which kind of led me. So

this was interesting as I was talking to Brian about this, was the whole COVID thing

made me question now authority, question doctors, which

up until that point, doctors would say something like, oh, OK, that's right.

I didn't question it, right? Now I'm questioning like everything, including

Especially that, yeah. And especially once, so here's, you know,

an interesting thing is here, I've been broke my whole life

until the age of 32. I was broke for

32 years. So then going from that to I'm 34 now,

I've only really had money for like a year or two. And

then that went from like, hey, I have a nine to five to, I can't

do what I want. Now the perspective I have from

being like, oh my God, I was broke for that long. And now

I have money. It's like, I can see exactly what you're talking

about. And I know this is like

a weird thing to talk about, but society is genuinely structured for

you to be poor. Because having a nine

to five, I used to think everything was really expensive. And

now I have money, I'm like, shit, things are kind of cheap. A guy just

cleaned my car for $90. Back in the day, I would have been like, that's so

expensive. I'll do it myself. Yeah. But now I'm like, fuck, I

feel like giving him more. You know what I mean? So it's just interesting

the perspectives change I've had to be like, wow, I've been broke my whole life and now

I have some cash. My whole perspective has changed on everything. It's insane.

Yeah. Well, I'll tell you something interesting. I'm now dematerializing things,

right? And when I saw your video, and you were like, I'm selling off

this stuff, and then, you know, in your house to move to Dubai, and

I looked around in my house, I'm like, A lot of shit in this house. There's

a lot of stuff to have to get rid of so to speak, right? Before I was to up

and up and move out, but I'm actually making steps So in

recent times, I have a car collection Daniel. So just

for interest. It's a Subaru WRX Clark collection because

I just love them and Like the 90s versions and I had

like seven of these cars in in this I bought this commercial property I

stripped it all out made it more like a fucking like a showroom basically and

That's because I think, like yourself, as I grew

up in Caboolture, we didn't have much money. I lived

a good life though, like my parents provided, but we weren't rich. And

then I was working at Macca's, and I was working as a cleaner, and all this kind

of stuff. And my dream was like, oh, I've got to buy these things.

And it's not to impress anybody. I just want to say, I wasn't like, I was just

because I thought, you know, I've got the money, I'm going to buy it. Yeah, exactly. I'm now

having a full shift, though, now, after having these things,

like selling off the cars. I'm allocating it to Bitcoin, of course. And

so, you know, there's this quote now, which is obviously, you will own nothing

and be happy. My new quote is, I won't own nothing but

Bitcoin. and be happy, right? Because

I think it comes back to this whole freedom thing, right? Because these

Right, definitely. And there's some sort of emotional attachment to every material

possession you have as well. So it's like, do you want your emotions kind of spread out like

that? But on that point, do you know what's interesting with the idea of

me selling everything and coming to Dubai? And this is probably good for some

people that are trying to do like a similar thing, which is to find massive success in

the markets. Because that's what most people are doing, right? Especially in Bitcoin,

they probably are 9 to 5s and trying to find massive financial

For me personally, and I truly believe this whether it's Bitcoin or

any sort of financial success, typically the person

you are, the way you've lived life and the mindset you've had is

the reason why you haven't had that financial success. So for me, moving

to Dubai and selling everything, it's kind of me just saying goodbye to my old life.

Yeah, I'm finding success now, but I have plans to make that triple time. And

in order to do that, even Physically, I've got to shed

all this past shit. I threw away all my bodybuilding competition belts,

like first place, trophies, everything. Nothing means anything now

because who I am and the character that I am now, I never want

to break character, is none of that. That was who I was. So

I think that's an interesting component of going from who you are to who you want to be, is

And also having a different response to money.

You know, when you talk about being broke before, maybe at some

point, a lot of people, I'm not saying you, but other people think they're not worthy of

having monetary success or having abundance of

money, right? Other people have that, I'm a broke person,

you know. And you hate the other people that have got money, you know. Like, you hate them. Yeah,

I see this all the time for sure but people have to I

think the one thing I say is people need to first of all take responsibility for their

own actions massively and When they've made

bad decisions to say look I made a bad decision. I've done it. I'm

human You know, I mean I make bad decisions still right? I'm trying

to also improve just like you and be a better person and

Provide a better life my family and that's what you're doing. Can I

just switch this Daniel? Yeah now that you've you've come into this

money and What is your, what are your goals now?

Do you, have you, have you set goals like, hey, I've got this money now,

I'm gonna, for example, I would be like, hey, I'm gonna allocate to Bitcoin now

as a building wealth. Cause you obviously, the trading is almost like

building the money, but where are you thinking to store

Well, the first thing is, none of this is for me. It

really isn't. It's for like a vision in my head of a future family. Because anytime

I make it about me, it goes bad. Every

time it goes bad. So that's the driving factor. It's like, who is this for? It's

for a few, it's an imaginary thing. I'm making money for an imaginary people

that don't, I don't even know if exist yet. So that's like the

core of it. But in terms of like taking the money that I have or that I'm making

and making more of it, I can trade.

I just keep trading. Like the more capital I get, the more I can make.

And obviously I'll allocate to longer term holds. But really

like trading is it, it's everything. I do other

things on the side, like I have, Affiliates and other

money sources incoming but trading is trading

is my baby So there's no real like, you know,

hey, I want to buy you know properties or No,

And is that You know, I'm just so strange, but I

honestly think that you are set to become a Bitcoin as a

store really value Yes, you've got all the traits. And

so what a lot of people do is they might do trading Okay, and

they're like, you know what? Let's just say you've got half a million dollars sitting in

a bank account. Because at some point, you're going to have this money sitting there, right? Yeah,

right. It's like, what do I do with that now? If I leave it in the bank, it's

basically going down at like 10% to 15% a year, value-wise, right?

So what you do is you then just allocate to Bitcoin, which

currently is doing 60% per annum

I couldn't do it. You guys are going to hate me. I couldn't

do it. And you hold it

Because, okay, let me ask you this. The S&P 500, for instance, like that

has, and you probably hear this argument a lot, which is like, it's got a

Yeah, but Bitcoin has been the best performing asset.

And it doesn't have any more than 16 odd years, though. Yeah.

And don't you love that as a trader, the fact that it is volatile? They say volatility

Yeah, it is. It is. For day trading, but for my long holds... Yeah,

I'm going to send him some videos now. Watch this guy, Michael Saylor,

I was going to say, have you ever had him? He must be your ideal guest.

You know, do you know Michael Saylor? Yeah, you know, he's put a billions

in He's like that I guess you would say

like the face of Bitcoin is like the ultimate Bitcoin evangelist.

He's now got 600,000 Bitcoin within his company crazy and But

he had this wake-up moment, Daniel, after 2020. COVID

happened. He was living in it. He could see the money printing that

was happening, which obviously made everything go up in value. Not

value, but all prices went up because of the money printing. He

had a business that was doing a software company, like

a mini Microsoft, basically. And he had about, I

think it was $500 million in cash. And

he's like, shit, what do I do with this? So according to him, he

researched everything. Do I put into paintings? Do I put into

wine? Do I put into bonds, gold, real estate,

right? Eventually came to Bitcoin was the only

thing that wasn't going to, well, it was the best store of value, put it that way.

It was the best store of value. And so it grew from there. So

now I do hold some micro strategy shares, which might

go down for sure. I mean, it's only a small percentage of my portfolio, but

I also have a tiny bit of Tesla as well, right? But most

Yeah, you go. Oh, I was going to say, did you see one of these whales just pulled

out a billion from the market? He didn't. I don't think he

pulled it out. He moved it to a different wallet. And this came up on a conversation I

just heard about today, actually. And there's

a bit of talk about quantum computers and how it might be

able to hack not so much Bitcoin wallets

as a whole, but the early Bitcoin wallets, right? Because they're on

basically like a different code, right? And so there's

some suggestion that the early Bitcoiners who are holding billions

of dollars in these early wallets have moved it out and

put it into safer, more secure, current cyber

Move from one wallet to, yeah, just move the Bitcoin from one wallet

to a more secure wallet. That was the discussion that was actually I

Yeah, absolutely crazy. These Bitcoin guys scare me, man. Oh, I

don't know. I don't know. I think I'm going to bring him around at some point. Daniel

Holmes becomes the Bitcoiner. You heard it from here

first. But look, I absolutely love what you're doing. Before

we wrap things up, Daniel, you've been an excellent guest. I really

do appreciate your time and everything. Share with us some of

the ways that people who are interested, because I'm open to everything, right?

People want to make money. And I think people who, let me

say this, people who want to break the 9 to 5, Buying

into Bitcoin and then thinking they're going to get out of that within the next

6 to 12 months is not going to happen. So that's

why I love what you're doing. It's like, hey, you want to get out of the 9 to

5. Trading could be the option for you. Whether

you allocate to Bitcoin later in life is irrelevant. So

how do people then get in touch with you, get into your community? And

I also ask, what is the perfect student for

you? And how much money would they roughly need to get going?

Well, I guess the first question which I think you

were saying is how would somebody get into this or

how would they make money out of this or whatever it may be. And my answer

is probably gonna be different and people might roll their eyes at this, but the reality is

it doesn't matter if it's Bitcoin, trading gold, day trading, whatever.

You will not make money in these markets until you work on

yourself. So when I say before I drink alcohol, quit all these vices,

all these self-sabotaging behaviors. In a sense, drinking alcohol is a self-sabotaging behavior.

You have to quit all that shit because if you don't, when it gets emotional

on the charts, you will revenge trade, you will lose your money, it's inevitable. All

right, that's the first thing. The second thing is, man, I'm on all the social medias,

TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Daniel Holmes Trades. There's different

tiers to the mentorship. You can get the lower tier, mid tier, up tier.

It is like relatively expensive for the one-on-one stuff. I'm

But can you tell me like, I mean, when you say expensive, you just made the

point before about what's expensive. Yeah. What

is expensive? I mean, five grand maybe. Like five grand

a what? A year or like? Yeah, for

six months. Yeah. Oh, really? Okay. I would say that's

Yeah, yeah. There's another tier above that but that's

on a case-by-case. Yeah, it is. And that's kind of like the mid-higher tier,

right? And then there's a lot of stuff but people think

they come in and learn the strategy and then that's all they need. I'm like, This

is a long-term game. There's no golden strategy that

you're gonna learn and make money from. It's about time on the charts,

time learning the strategy, getting a real good pulse on it, and then that's

That's awesome. I mean, I'm a big believer in learning from others who are

doing. That's why I think people should, if they're interested in

trading, certainly hit you up, see what you're about, learn

from people who are doing it right now in the

trading world. I've certainly done really well. When I went and did Amazon,

I bought an Amazon course. I learned from a guy who was already doing Amazon. And

then I did the VIP program because I wanted to learn one-on-one.

I then got into the Bitcoin space. I then spent 20 grand for a year. learning

Sorry. But that's the winner's mindset. A winner knows that because what

idiots do is they think they're going to reinvent the wheel. I'm

like somebody else has already figured it out. Just pay them

money and then you do that. Because the reality is it's

an ego thing. They try to prove that, oh I did it. I did it

all me. It's like You're just trying to make money. You're not trying to do anything other

than that. There's nothing to prove. So yeah, I'll do the

That's awesome, Daniel. All right. Well, look, let's leave it there. I just want to say thank

you so much for taking the time all the way from Dubai. Habibi.

Habibi, all the way from Dubai. Daniel Holmes, the trader. Make

sure you check him out on all the socials. And if you're interested in his program, just hit

him up. And I'm sure he'd be absolutely happy to help you, especially if you're someone who

wants to break out of the 9 to 5 and maybe even follow his footsteps,

end up in Dubai because it's zero capital gains tax.

Yep. Awesome. All right. Thanks, Dan. Take it easy. I

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