Six years ago, I made myself an outrageous promise.

The short version

I hit pause on advancing the cybersecurity career I’ve run since 2012 and put six years and 17,000+ hours into mastering Elliott Wave. Every call I make is sealed on-chain before it resolves, so the record can’t be edited and you never have to take my word for it. Skip the story, read the receipts →

At the onset of COVID, my logic, my outlook, and my priorities all shifted in a matter of days. I walked away from the life I’d been building and set my sights forward.

Part of that decision was learning my wife was pregnant with our third child. Right before we found out, I tallied what a decade of creating, performing, and promoting music had cost me: somewhere between $15K and $20K. At the time, that number felt ridiculous.

The clarity had been building; COVID just made it impossible to ignore, and I walked away from all of it without looking back. Everything happens for a reason.

When I stepped away, I set my sights on two things: sustaining my career in cybersecurity and mastering the science of price action. Around 2020, two people pulled me into the investing world: a friend from back then, and a fellow Air Force vet I’d been stationed with at Eglin, deep into leveraged forex. After a few months of lackluster results, I left the group and set out to understand the markets on my own.

For a couple of years I ran 500X leverage on offshore accounts. I stacked winning days, then watched the money wash away over the next 24 to 72 hours, undone by overtrading and reckless risk. The tuition came to about $60K. That’s roughly three times what that chapter had cost me, and leverage took it in a fifth of the time. It didn’t dismay me. I’d already made my peace with paying to learn.

Big number? Compare it to a degree that lands no job, or one that underpays. It’s all perspective.

Even the degree that lands a great job comes with a ceiling on the salary.

I still haven’t recouped that $60K. But what I gained, the knowledge, the market psychology, the performance, is worth far, far more.

Even while I was blowing up accounts, I noticed something: a natural knack for finding alignment with the wave. It just wasn’t consistent yet. The rhythm of the market was almost tangible. I believe completely in cause and effect, so I knew there had to be a framework for reading the market’s intentions.

Research led me to Gann, to Harmonics, to Elliott Wave. Gann still fascinates me, but something about Elliott Wave called my name. And I didn’t get there alone: a trader named WaveNerd on TradingView helped me learn the science of price action. We talked around the clock back then. It was crazy. His daughter was just starting college at the time. He was a good teacher, and a real part of this foundation is his. Years back, the last time we’d spoken, he told me he was stepping away from Elliott Wave, so it meant a lot to reconnect with him recently and find he never did. Real respect, WaveNerd. Long overdue, but we’ll finally break bread soon.

A year of study and trial and error in, I knew Elliott Wave was what I needed. A year after that, I nearly walked away from the study altogether. In those early stages I was reluctant to keep going, because the skill kept evading capture: what I thought I’d mastered kept slipping the cuffs. Then I understood what mastering markets could really unlock, and I locked back in for four more years. The 24-hour cycle of crypto accelerated everything: a market that never closes gave me reps I could never have gotten from stocks alone, and the more I saw what trading could really do, the harder I dug in.

Six years. Seven days a week. Eight to ten hours a day. Do the math: 17,000 to 22,000 hours studying and applying The Wave. The best investment of time I’ve ever made.

Mastery is said to take 10,000 hours. This is nearly twice that.

So if the knowledge is that sharp, why am I not rich yet? Because I’m still early, and the bets I place with my own money are deliberately high-risk. Since 2023 I’ve leaned into OTC, penny stocks, and memecoins, a category I believe holds unmatched upside. Plenty of those pre-2026 plays are underwater right now; a few blew up and vanished. Between splits and thin liquidity, some may not pay off until closer to 2030.

Here’s the distinction that matters: Elwasci didn’t exist through any of that. It was born after. Those years, 2020 through 2025, the wins and the tuition alike, are exactly what it stands on. That hard-won knowledge and foresight is how we serve now, so the signals move with a discipline my early swings never had.

To be clear: I trade some of these signals with my own money. Not all of them, but real skin in the game on the ones I take. Those ride in the same feed you get, each sealed on-chain before it resolves, so you judge the record for yourself instead of taking my word.

I passed on “safe” 3X to 10X in Bitcoin and Solana at their lows. With the pockets I had back then, every play had to be strategic, and against that category’s history a 3X to 10X just wasn’t enough to move the needle for me. And I’ve paid rookie tuition too: sent about $5K in tokens to the wrong address, lost a $2,000 check somewhere between my car and the road. The market used all of it to build resolve, patience, and balance.

The TSUKA Sangha held me up through lows like that. The few still with Elwasci today have my lasting respect.

I’m adamant about transparency for one reason: the metrics behind my work are, frankly, unbelievable. I know that. So I put every call on-chain, sealed before the outcome, where no one can edit it after the fact.

Unlike any path that depends on other people buying, co-signing, or handing down approval, the results of my analysis are 100% merit. No crowd to please. Just the chart, the call, and what the market does next.

Six years ago I told myself I’d spend whatever it took to become the greatest market analyst who has ever lived.

I don’t have millions. I’m a Cybersecurity Officer, and I’m staying close to this field even after this hits, though on the other side of success that looks less like a day job and more like direct investment, board seats, and building new companies. The science of protecting systems and the science of reading markets are cut from the same cloth. Strip either one down and you find the same discipline underneath: managing risk.

Investing, for me, is about lifting the experience of my children, my family, my aging parents, the people I love. A time will come when the waves reward this work massively, and I’ll be fine. But I’ve always been about community, long before it was trendy.

Elwasci exists to hand people with aligned minds an unmatched service, so they can build the same sustained future I’m building for mine: the people who believe in cause and effect, who understand what smart investing can bring, who know their time is now.

I’m not interested in maximizing reach. The analytics and teaching The Wave are genuinely fun for me, but my time is my most valuable possession, and I won’t give it away for free or water it down chasing scale. The masses won’t be able to copy-trade my every move or gain open access to the analytics I share, and that is deliberate: scarcity here is a conscious decision, and a factor I weigh heavily. The subscription limits are intentional, and they’re permanent. Fair, locked for life once you’re in, and scarce on purpose.

I won’t discount my integrity to get there. I won’t take advantage of anyone. I’ll prioritize fairness. I’ll prioritize transparency. And by the grace of the God who made me, I’ll keep finding alignment with any market where humans, or the bots that run on human logic, choose to invest.

Don’t take my word for it.

Every call is on the chain, timestamped before it resolves. Read it yourself.