I started trading to own my time. Then I built the floor.

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The floorEst. 2018
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Irek Piekarski
Irek PiekarskiFounder · trading since 2012
The point

I never wanted a career. I wanted to own my time — and go as far as the work could take me.

Trading is the rare work that gives both: real money, and no one to answer to but the market. No office. No boss. No ceiling someone else sets.

The money is half of it. The freedom is the rest.

The work

Most days look the same.

Research in the morning.

Execute when the setup shows up.

Review what happened.

Build tomorrow's plan.

Fourteen years in, it's still those four things. No secret, no grail — the same loop, run at a standard most people won't hold. Not the trades. Not the wins. The standard.

“The work itself is what makes the freedom real.”
The path

Every year, in motion.

2012

Started. Early twenties.

No plan B. A way out of trading hours for money.

2014

Both incomes replaced. We quit for good.

2015–17

Years on the move.

Different countries, same screen. The freedom was the whole point.

2018

Costa Rica. I built the floor.

2020

The door to institutional capital opened. I closed it.

Private. My terms, my capital. Freedom over a bigger title.

2022

Vancouver.

A loft downtown, then the full floor. The life kept getting better.

2026

Ten acres of our own. Built how we wanted.

Still trading. Still on the floor. Freer than ever.

2012
2026

If that's the life you're building toward, the floor is open.

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The life the work built

I started trading to own my time. This is what owning it looks like.

Nobody handed me a single hour of it.

On my own terms.
The floor

Freedom is the point. The standard is what makes it last.

With no one above you, that standard is the first thing to slip. The floor is where it doesn't — operators who answer to no one, choosing to hold each other to a standard most never reach.

When the work is hard, there's a room. When the work pays off, the same room.

If you trade real capital, apply.

If you want operators around you, this is where the work begins.

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