Final thing before the holidays…
Remember what's the most important
I’m currently sitting in YYC, Calgary International Airport catching a flight to Toronto to visit families during the holidays.
While this newsletter has been primarily focused on finance and investing, I’d like to take this opportunity to refocus on why many of us do what we do.
To most people, we invest to put our money to work with the goals of having a comfortable retirement, providing for families, or leaving a legacy.
While I don’t want to speak for everyone, I think most would agree that we want the money we invested to work for us to buy back time, and give us more freedom and the ability to spend more quality time with the people we care and love.
I sent the following messages to my students in the ALT (Asymmetrical Leveraged Trading) program today.
Thought it’s fitting to share them with you as it applies to investing and life in general:
Final thing before the holidays…
The holiday period is known to have smaller trading volume.
The big Wall Street traders are on holidays.
Meaning the market could move more dramatic than usual because less people are trading it.
Do yourself a favor, once you’re positioned in those trades, put your phone and computer away and not look at your account for few days (even all the way to the new year).
It may feel uncomfortable, it could be some noise in the market that simply doesn’t even mean anything.
Take this time to be with friends and families
Enjoy the break and forget about trading.
After all, we trade to create income to give us more time and freedom to do what’s important - spend more quality time with the people we love.
Don’t let trading affect or ruin your holidays.
Trust me, this comes from someone who has traded for many years. It’s not worth the extra stress.
If you know that’s going to be on your mind the entire time, do yourself a favor and sell off some positions so you feel comfortable not having to look at the market every day.
All of these Example Trades are in anticipation of a nice pop in gold in the new year
If you are feeling anxious (which is normal when it comes to trading), it means you’re over leveraged.
May not be over leveraged financially, but emotionally.
An emotional tax on yourself is not worth any amount of money you could have made, especially during a holiday time when it’s meant for us to spend quality time with our families.
Sharing these thoughts for you as my gift 🎁 to all of you.
If you missed it
Our ALT (Asymmetrical Leveraged Trading) program will be completed in a month.
In less than 1 month, our results are as impressive as promised (if you attended our previous zoom call):
If you don’t know what ALT is, you can read about it here:
https://www.ecresearchgroup.com/p/the-power-of-asymmetrical-leveraged
Wishing everyone a great Christmas and holidays.
If you like my work, I invite you to share it with others.
Eric Chang
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
December 23, 2025
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