Until 2020, I thought I was smarter than everyone else. I lived in California, worked as a manager, wore button-down shirts, and paid a crazy mortgage for a beautiful house.

I had a black 2010 Porsche Cayman S. It constantly broke down and ate my money, but man, did I look cool in it. My wife and I had saved $40,000 for the future. Another $20,000 was my personal "working" capital.

I was left alone. I rented a tiny, beat-up one-room apartment. My new reality became a giant logistics warehouse.

Every day I dragged heavy boxes. My back hurt, and only one thought spun in my head: how could I screw everything up so badly?

I swore to myself never, under any circumstances, to get into trading and crypto again. To me, it all became synonymous with scams and a ruined life.

For the next four years, I lived like a robot. Denied myself everything. Ate the cheapest food. And dollar by dollar, tearing money away from my poverty, over the last two years (2024-2025) I saved up $10,000.

These ten thousand were my shrine. My ticket to survival. I was terrified of losing them.

At the end of 2025 at the warehouse, I noticed something strange. My acquaintance Mark started constantly staring at his phone with a satisfied smile.

During one of the breaks he said: "Alex, I found a thing. ARB CORE. It's an algorithm. It automatically makes arbitrage trades between exchanges."

I almost laughed in his face. I yelled at him:

"Mark, you're an idiot! It's a casino! The brokers will eat you alive, I lost 60 grand on this crap, wake up!"

But Mark was calm. He just showed me his screen.

That day the system brought him $1. The next day — $2. Then $3. I watched him, waiting for him to lose everything. But after a couple of weeks, his passive income reached $10 a day. And then crossed $100.

And then came the day that shattered my ego.

Mark came in, put his resignation letter on the shift supervisor's desk, smiled at me, and quit. I was left standing among the boxes, realizing that my paranoia was making me rot alive here.

It took me a month to study ARB CORE. And I understood the main thing: this is not manual trading. The algorithm doesn't guess the rate. It buys crypto cheaper on one exchange and instantly sells it for more on another, taking the difference (spread). Without emotions.

But I was still scared. I'm not an idiot to throw in all my hard-earned $10,000 at once.

In February 2026, I took just $100. An amount I wouldn't mind losing. I put it into the system. That night I didn't sleep, expecting to be scammed.

But in the morning, the dashboard lit up with +$1. The next day — another dollar. The system was just doing its job.

Then I decided to risk a little more. I added $1,000 to the pool (exactly 10% of my savings). My passive income immediately grew to $10 a day. Three hundred bucks a month just for the algorithm spinning trades!