Hello everyone — my name is Sean, and I’m grateful to be here. I’ve been self-employed for many years. Over that time I’ve started businesses that turned out wildly successful… and a few that turned into miserable failures. Both taught me a lot. My primary business for many years has been insurance, and somewhere along the way I became fascinated with a different question: once you’ve built some money, how do you get that money to work for you? That question pulled me into trading. I had been tinkering with trading since the mid-1990s, and in 1996 I actually went to Chicago intending to become a professional trader. During those years I made a lot of money, but not from trading itself — I made it helping raise money for successful hedge funds. I learned a tremendous amount from that world, but not quite enough at the time to have the confidence to make trading my actual business. So I came back home to Buffalo, built my insurance business, and kept trading on the side. I made money, lost money, and overall stayed mildly profitable for a long time. Then a client of mine named John said something to me that completely changed the way I thought about trading. He said: “Sean, it’s all about positioning — not trading systems or strategies. You simply want to be in position for success to come to you.” That hit me hard, especially coming from someone whose sole business was managing his own wealth. That idea eventually led me deeper into convexity — the concept of risking a little for the opportunity to make a lot, while structuring trades and capital in a way that puts the odds on your side over time. Earlier this year I started a YouTube channel called Convexity Trading, https://www.youtube.com/@ConvexityTrading, to teach some of what I’ve learned. Over the past few months, a small number of people reached out wanting help managing their capital more like a business rather than just “taking trades.” Then something interesting happened.