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- Welcome to my New York City hotel room.
The first thing you see coming in is the bathroom.
I mean, this is a pretty standard hotel bathroom
in New York City.
And I know what you're thinking, looking at my countertop.
Oh my gosh, Shay, you bring so much stuff
with you when you're traveling.
And yeah, you're right!
Coming into the room, now, this is where the magic happens.
No, not the bed, my travel-trading setup.
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- So over here I have my travel-trading setup
of two computers.
So the first one is my gaming laptop
and my MacBook Pro.
I use my MacBook Pro for my scanners, like Trade Ideas,
web, also Benzinga, and other news wire websites,
SEC filings, and as well as my discord server
for the Humble Trader community.
Now, as for the gaming laptop,
it's connected via USBC cables
to two of these USB portable monitors
that I've had for a couple of years.
These portable monitors are from ASUS
and they're extremely lightweight.
I mean, it's really easy to travel with them.
And of course my gaming laptop is still the same one
from last couple of years.
And one thing that's really essential,
you should not forget when you're traveling is to bring
an Ethernet cable that you can connect to the hotel
Ethernet cable jack if there is one.
This time around I brought one that's 25 feet.
So there's plenty of cable length right there.
It really makes a huge difference when it comes
to the internet speed using the Ethernet cable
versus the wireless.
I can get about 90 megabytes per second
versus using the wireless in the hotel room,
the wireless internet, I could get about 5 to 10.
So when you're traveling
you definitely wanna bring your ethernet cable.
Of course, the wired mouse, always bring wired mouses.
As you recall, from my 2020 travel set-up video
that I filmed in Taiwan in the hotel room,
when I'm doing my quarantine,
I had a huge water bottle box
that was holding up my top monitor.
Now this time around it's 2022.
So due to inflation, the only cardboard box I could afford
this time is,
this tiny, tiny box.
And of course the free hotel tissue box
on the top over here.
So this is my setup.
That's propping up my top monitor.
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- And over here, beside my trading monitors,
we have this tiny little charging bull.
I got this a couple days ago from the financial district.
I thought it was going to bring me good luck.
And just by having it here
the market's gonna go to the moon.
But it hasn't exactly worked out that well.
As you can see it's kind of broken
just like the market is now broken.
All the stocks are having a lot of trouble breaking out.
The only breakout that's been successful
is the one on my face.
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- One of the many things I love about this hotel room
is the amount of space.
Believe it or not, I know this doesn't look like a lot,
but this amount of space in New York City hotels,
this is a luxury.
And of course, it's also the views outside my window.
I'm on the higher floors and I have a pretty decent view
of the Empire State Building.
And I love chillin by the window sometimes
while taking a break from trading
and just watching all the cars and people walking by
and all the busy, buzzing streets of New York City.
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- I actually don't like travel-trading in the hotel rooms
that much, but the one advantage you can have is
that when a market sucks, you can do this.
Stupid market!
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Hey guys.
So I have my flight back to Vancouver from New York City
in a couple of hours, five hours to be exact.
And I'm probably going to be running late
and get to the boarding gate five minutes
before the closing as usual.
And also I'm running on like three hours of sleep.
But I really want to just get this one out.
This New York City trip is going to be one
that I will never forget.
And I'm about to get really emotional here,
so please just bear with me.
I don't even know where to start.
This is actually not my first time
in New York City, but my second.
My first trip here was actually more than 10 years ago.
I was still in college.
I remember, I came here during Christmas break
with one of my other friends
and it was a very, very different experience.
Prior to the trip I just got dumped by a college boyfriend.
So not only was I lonely, broke, I was also heartbroken.
And fun fact, that ex-boyfriend was Mike Bagholder.
Well, obviously that's not his real name,
but yes it was a real person.
Fast forward, 10 years later,
I can't believe I'm sitting here
in a New York City hotel room telling you the story
of my experience here.
In preparation for this Humble Trader meetup,
and this New York City trip in general,
I honestly dreaded the trip a lot, deep down inside.
Most of you probably would never have guessed
that I'm naturally really, really introverted and very shy.
I'm not going to lie.
Flying to New York City to meet
over 30 Humble Trader community members,
and their plus-ones, meeting the CEO of brokers,
and other professionals in the stock market industry.
Well, yes, I was excited, deep down inside.
I was very, very horrified for the last month.
As it turned out, that was not the case at all.
The city was warm and welcoming.
And honestly, I don't care about any
of the sight-seeing places, the sunsets, or the skyscrapers,
the drinks, or the food that I have at here.
Oh my God.
It's the people.
Real life traders and humans I've met on this trip
that really made it so unforgettable.
I talked about cats and joked about bag holding
with Anna and Paul.
I met Kelsey's adorable kids.
I talked about nails with Liza,
the wife of one of my community members, Andrew.
They both flew all the way out from UK.
I rode the subway and ate pizza
with a CEO of Trade Zero, Dan Pipitone.
Not only did I get to trade, chat, and eat together
with my members, we also went bowling and played laser tag.
My members beat the (*) out of me in laser tag
in both games.
Okay, I generally don't like taking losses,
especially in trading, but this time around,
I am proud and unashamed to say,
I enjoyed every moment of it.
I don't know about you, but as a trader,
trading in the financial market
sometimes could feel really cold, meaningless,
and once again, extremely lonely.
A lot of times while trading in front of our monitors,
looking at tickers,
and all the flashing colors of green and red,
we forget that behind those tickers are real people.
And I'm extremely proud and grateful
that this Humble Trader meetup
in New York City really pushed many traders to take a break
from the cold, cold tickers
and meet with other like-minded people
and make friends in real life.
I want to thank all of you.
All my YouTube followers, HT members,
and families, Trade Zero team, CenterPoint team,
my own video and marketing team,
and close friends from Vancouver.
For all of your support and believing in me
when I didn't 100% believe in myself.
Coming into this trip, I never thought
that shy, little, Taiwanese-Canadian immigrant girl
from 10 years ago could be brave enough to return
to the Big Apple again.
Thank you all for pushing me and motivating me
to create even more opportunities like this
for traders to meet and connect in real life.
And I want to do the same again
for all of my subscribers in the future.
And that's what this channel, Humbled Trader,
is truly all about.
Our mission is to inspire traders
from around the world to connect, prosper, and live in
an authentic way.
Thank you so much, once again.
Stay green, stay positive,
and I will see you guys around.
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