“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’
But we dream things that never were; and we say, ‘Why not?’”
— George Bernard Shaw

Dear Friends and Supporters,

We hope you had a warm and peaceful holiday. As the year comes to its end, we send you light and a quiet wish that everything heavy, unfair, and painful may stay behind in 2025.

For our family, this year was extremely hard. We lived through deep losses, saying goodbye to people dear to us, and learning again how fragile life is.

There were the already familiar legal battles, court silences, delays, dismissals, and appealed decisions. And above all — the pain of an ongoing war in our native land, and the suffering we see every day in the Middle East and Africa. These are wounds that are with us every moment and do not simply close with time.

Yet we are not alone. Friends have held us — often invisibly — with patience, kindness, and quiet presence. Here in The Bahamas, many people continue to do their work with honesty and heart, and we are grateful for that. And our witnesses — priceless, steadfast — have stood with us for more than seven years, waiting, enduring, determined that the truth must eventually be seen. For life itself, for hope, and for the small miracle of this last Friday of the year, we are deeply thankful.

Legal updates will come separately.
Today, I want to write about something else. Something unexpected. Something that felt — truly — like a Santa Claus gift. Not only to us, but to everyone who still believes that fairness is possible.

26 December 2025: What Happened

Recently, JP Morgan attempted to dominate and suppress the silver market — and failed.

What matters is not simply that the attempt failed. Markets have faced stress before. What matters is why it failed.

For the first time in a very visible way, a broad, decentralized crowd of independent, self-directed traders made manipulation so difficult, so expensive, and so exposed that it could not be sustained.

The market held.

JP Morgan did not.

As pressure mounted, on December 26, 2025, JP Morgan required a $17 billion emergency liquidity injection from the New York Federal Reserve via the repo facility. This was not the market being rescued. It was an institution being rescued.

This distinction is essential.

Retail traders stood in the market with their own capital, their own risk, and their own consequences. No bailout. No Fed window. No safety net.

This was not chaos.
Not violence.
Not rebellion.

It was collective price discovery — and it worked.

Why This Is a Turning Point

For decades, we have lived inside a system shaped by a critical political decision: the Clinton-era repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act through the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act.

Before that repeal, banks holding public deposits were barred from proprietary trading and major market risk. After it, the protected savings capital was merged with speculation. Risk became private when profitable — and public when it failed.

What self-directed traders do is something entirely different.

This is not institutional trading.
This is not “too big to fail.”
This is capital at risk, learning paid for with losses, discipline earned through pain, and survival, the victory with unexpected returns.

Two completely different trading models collided on 26 December 2025 — and for the first time, the fragile one needed help.

Once Fictitious Trading is exposed and stopped, such market manipulation becomes structurally impossible.

A Revolution Without Violence

This is a revolution without violence.

No riots. No slogans. No burning tires.

Just people learning, failing, adjusting, becoming disciplined — and growing stronger.

When individuals master risk, they stop being desperate. They stop being easily manipulated. They stop needing someone else to save them. They become calmer, more responsible, and — naturally — more generous.

This is why this movement is feared and misinterpreted. Not because it is dangerous — but because it quietly removes dependence.

Why This Matters Beyond Markets

This is not only about silver.
It is not even only about trading.

Today, the real economy is dominated by financial markets. Prices, wages, investments, housing, energy — all are shaped there first.

When price discovery is distorted, everything downstream is distorted.

Fair price does not just clean markets — it heals the economy beneath them. It allows work to be valued properly, risk to be visible, and corruption to struggle in the open air.

Calling trading “gambling” was never an innocent label. It was minded and crafted by banksters. Because disciplined, decentralized participation threatens systems built on opacity and abuse.

To Those Who Choose the Trading Path

To traders everywhere — to those who felt the call and had the courage to answer it — we wish you strength and clarity. This path offers more than financial independence. It offers freedom from fear, from excuses, and from self-deception.

We wish to thank a dear friend who has supported us for many years — including stepping in, at a crucial moment, to help as a unique trader-friend and even occasionally the editor-in-chief of this website, and coming to our rescue in many other difficult moments. All this while continuing his successful professional path and, in parallel, building his trading career. Today, he stands in a strong and steady place as a trader, among the top 1%, yet he keeps it quiet, remaining as humble and noble as he has always been. We are genuinely happy for him, deeply grateful for his unwavering support, and thankful — simply and profoundly — to the Universe for this friendship itself.

Pax777 was among the first traders on the E-mini and later among the earliest to transition successfully into electronic markets. He lost everything once — and rebuilt. He has provided for his family, raising five children through trading. His  “We are trading for freedom.” stand as the Trading Manifesto and a plan for 2026.

A Closing Thought

As this year ends, we wish you peace, balance, and courage. And may you stay open to miracles — because they arrive quietly, disguised as effort finally paying off.

“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein

Please share this post and support our petition by signing it — it truly matters and genuinely helps. The silver collapse has shown that we, as human beings, when united and committed to a just cause, can stand up to powerful institutions and force real change. In today’s world, collective determination can break manipulation and restore fairness.

With gratitude and blessings,
Irina