Women and gents, that is the ultimate publish I shall be publishing at The Reformed Dealer.

After in the present day the location shall be inactive, perpetually. I started this weblog in November 2008 with none concept the place it will take me. I had a adverse internet price, was working at a dead-end brokerage agency job and completely no profession prospects in any respect – a washed up inventory dealer at 31 years previous in the course of a worldwide monetary disaster.

So I started to put in writing. Truthfully, humorously, fearlessly. And also you started to learn. First a number of dozen guests. Then a number of hundred. Then 1000’s. 1,000,000. Thousands and thousands of readers have hit these pages over the past fifteen years. When you’re a kind of readers who got here alongside, tapped in, subscribed and stayed with me, I owe you all the pieces I’ve. My profession, my agency, my livelihood, my way of life.

You watched me develop up on this website. I acquired issues proper and acquired issues flawed and did my finest to relay the teachings discovered from each experiences. I left the brokerage enterprise and dropped my Collection 7 proper earlier than your eyes, making a profession change that was the last word leap of religion – nothing to fall again on if it didn’t work. I met my associate Barry because of doing the location. I acquired a tv contract because of doing the location. I constructed a $4 billion registered funding advisory agency with over 60 staff and 4,000 shopper households because of doing the location. You, my followers, made all of that attainable. With out you, none of it will have been.

You might have seen that within the final couple of years I’ve been writing quite a bit much less right here. The principle cause for that’s all my skilled goals are coming true. I used to dream of working at a agency just like the one I’m now managing as CEO. Which is an incredible feeling. I neglect how fortunate I’m. However getting us thus far has taken up an increasing number of of my time with every passing yr. And so the writing needed to take a backseat.

Final December we employed a agency president who may slowly start to take day-to-day administration and management obligations off of my plate. And now, for the primary time in a very long time, I’m able to get again to writing. However coming again to writing right here simply didn’t really feel proper.

The Reformed Dealer is not only a weblog. For me, it has additionally been a complete persona. Not fairly a pen title or a pseudonym – I’ve by no means printed a single phrase secretly or surreptitiously in my complete life. The Reformed Dealer was who I used to be. Pugnacious, sarcastic, cynical, incensed, offended, vengeful – however, and it is a huge however, nonetheless optimistic regardless of all of the failings of Wall Road. That was who I used to be for many of the final fifteen years and the writing I did right here mirrored that.

I’m not that man anymore.

I’ve advanced. I believe for the higher. I’ve gotten smarter. I’ve reached new skilled heights and unlocked new ranges. I’ve modified my thoughts about sure issues. I now have the data and expertise of somebody who has really completed a number of issues. Fifteen years in the past I had the righteous indignation of somebody who had survived a number of issues, however little else.

Issues are totally different now. I wish to inform you all about it. And I’ll. However first, we’ve to place this specific weblog to mattress.

And so to all of you who’ve come right here through the years to study, to giggle, to be impressed, to develop into higher knowledgeable, to be entertained and enlightened, I wish to inform you how a lot I admire you. When you’ve ever learn my stuff, shared it with a pal or a coworker, despatched me an electronic mail or a letter (there have been 1000’s of emails and letters!), retweeted me, linked to me, and many others, this final publish is devoted to you.

It has been the honour of a lifetime writing for this viewers – an viewers that has lifted me up, supported me, cheered me on and caught with me via all of the ups and downs. I like you guys. You’re the perfect.

From the underside of my coronary heart, thanks.

– Downtown Josh Brown
New York Metropolis, November twenty ninth 2023

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