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After a life-threatening brain tumor and overwhelming debt forced former architect David Capablanca to reevaluate his life, he launched an all-consuming, grueling pursuit of trading mastery that included living out of his car and showering on Skid Row just to trade the pre-market sessions. Today, he is a successful short-selling master who builds his edge on rigorous fundamental research, risk management, and exposing small-cap pump-and-dump schemes to survive predatory market algorithms. In this conversation, David pulls back the curtain on his extreme journey from rock bottom, detailing how he reverse-engineered market manipulators' strategies, the anatomy of modern short squeezes, his strict stock checklists, and why protecting capital during the learning curve is the ultimate rule for survival. For full episode show notes, click here: Episode 327
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327 · David Capablanca - From Skid Row Showers to Short Selling Master
David Capablanca pursued architecture for a decade, culminating in studying under a Pritzker Prize winner at UCLA, before a life threatening brain tumor, massive medical debt, and student loans forced him to completely reevaluate his life.After starting from rock bottom and carrying the weight of ma...
326 · Jason Berry - This Market Wizard Only Had 5 Losing Months in 14 Years... Here's How
Jason Berry co-founded Positive Equity in 2008. Built alongside partners and traders who raised the bar, the firm operates trading floors in Ireland and Croatia. Over a 14-year stretch of verified clearing statements, his small losses, long career approach resulted in only five losing months.Most pe...
325 · Jack Schwager & George Coyle - The 3 Timeless Rules Shared by 100 Years of Market Wizards
In this episode, Jack Schwager and George Coyle discuss what it takes to succeed in modern financial markets, drawing on insights from over 100 years of market history and the top traders featured in Market Wizards: The Next Generation. They explain how the most successful traders align their strate...
324 · Peter Robbins - The Hard Truths of a 50 Year Trading Career
Peter Robbins is the author of The Trader’s Journey. He entered the financial markets 50 years ago with nothing but a dream, his friend, and a parental signature to trade the markets, surviving decades of tectonic shifts to navigate the transition from outcry trading to the digital age. After starti...
323 · Alex Temiz - Starbucks Barista to 8-figure Short Selling Strategy
Alex Temiz turned a $2,000 account into over $16 million in trading profits, starting from nothing as a part-time Starbucks barista. In this episode, he breaks down the real journey: the years of losing, how he transitioned from long breakouts to short selling, and the mechanical "guardrails" he use...
322 · Stephen Kalayjian - What 43 Years in the Markets Teaches You
Steve Kalayjian started his journey on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in 1983, a time when the noise of the pits was the only heartbeat of the market. Over the next four decades, he didn’t just witness the evolution of trading, he conquered it, trading nearly two billion shares of U.S. sto...
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