Investor claims growth to $510,000 before disappearance

From $140,000 to $510,000 in six months, then silence

A private investor claimed to have multiplied his account from $140,000 to $510,000 in six months. He shared everything openly: purchases, sales, successes, and a 55% crash in a single position. He built a project around his trades with a business plan behind it: charging trinc for real-time signals. Then came the silence. His website is no longer available, and readers ask, unanswered, what became of him.

From DAX futures to American blue chips

The history begins in 2002, with Mini S&P 500 and DAX futures, ending with the usual result: they gave him "but well." He then moved to stocks, first with technical analysis—using stop-losses, sweeping after sweep—and later with fundamentals on large-cap US companies. He acknowledges the tailwind: since 2008, he argues, "a monkey would have made money" in the American market. He doesn't touch the IBEX "with a ten-foot pole."

Options were the next obsession. Four years studying iron condors and sold strangles before discarding them. His verdict: selling them is "very difficult," enslaving, and didn't balance risk and reward. Today he trades long calls and long puts—buying options—four to eight times a month, almost always during earnings season, leveraging the pre-earnings volatility spike.

The business: free until May, then €12 per month

The project wasn't just a trading diary. There was a messaging channel with "almost 90 subscribers in a few weeks" and an explicit roadmap: keep access free until May, then charge about €12 monthly. The logic, exposed without shame, was the usual one: first prove you make money honestly, then monetize the audience. He published trades and uploaded broker statements.

That's the crux. A signal service is worth exactly as much as its alleged track record, and that record rests on a context he himself described: an almost uninterrupted bull market. One reader summarized it bluntly: when everything rises, everyone looks like a great investor. The correction, he said, arrives.

Hits, misses, and a 55% loss

The documented trades cover the entire spectrum. He closed an OCN position with a 65% profit in six weeks, bought SHLL at $19 and sold at $55, and his Intel long call ended flat: volatility didn't rise, closing at breakeven. On the other side, Nikola cost him a 55% loss; he exited citing capital increases and bad news, warning it would likely rise again long-term.

His universe was very specific: software, cloud, e-commerce, streaming, electric vehicles, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. Cloudflare, Talend, Fastly, Roku, Alteryx, Jumia, Asana, Pinterest. No traditional Spanish banks, except occasional forays into US financial firms.

No stop-losses and a long-term view

His philosophy was explicit: trade long-term, without stops, "giving time and space for the price to do what it has to do." That works while everything rises, but also turns a bad thesis into a slow bleed. Warnings came from within, noting hard times would come and only then would we see who held out.

A discourse that unsettles

Beyond the numbers, his message had an uncomfortable part for the local audience. He despised the Spanish market and argued opportunities lie in US tech companies, claiming dozens are being born that "will define humanity's future." According to his own account, he was kicked out of two dividend investment communities after publishing his trades and linking his site, an accusation he found incomprehensible.

His response to criticism escalated: he described his country as a land of critics and mediocrities. He even joked that the best investment recommendation was trinc himself.

What peine to the project author?

The last messages aren't about companies, but about him. A forum user noted his website no longer existed. Another recalled seeing him in a video months ago, "face distorted" by heavy losses in the small caps he had accumulated. A third directly asked if he was still alive. The conversation that began with a greeting ended in a cascade of messages demanding explanations.

Does this change anything about paid signals' utility? The thread had already warned: in a rising market, everyone looks like a good investor, and losing streaks are the acid test. One user considered that warning fulfilled before a year passed. No one has published the final tally yet. If the project returns, it must do so with numbers upfront. If it doesn't return, the silence is already an answer.