Self-taught, passionate about the markets, spend free time paper trading and researching equities/options/reading prospectuses, etc… No formal education.

Is there anyway for an individual to break into an investment firm without a degree? I’m very focused and extremely dedicated to learning about investing, the overall global economy and how it operates, and how asset management firms have in their custody almost all the accumulated wealth of the world. Following what’s going on with China very intensive, watching for when the war begins(2030?), and also BRICS and how this is effecting the future of US dollar and gold valuation. I am at the point where I have realized that without a professional mentor willing to pull back the veil from my eyes, I am never going to be able to satisfy my insatiable need to figure out the world and “what is really going on here?” I am 35 years old, homeless, living in San Diego county. I have not got any formal education, although I would jump at the opportunity to obtain my 57 and 65, 66. Is there any realistic way that anybody could see this happening for me, I am more than willing to move anywhere needed.

Thanks for your time, Nathan M Priest

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