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Estéfano Santos defends autonomy in life and in the market: "governments pass, what you build stays"

In a video on X-Trader TV, the founder of X-Trader says that he does not hand responsibility for his own path to politicians and presents the method he created to decide in the market.

BY THE X-TRADER NEWS NEWSROOM · REPORTING FROM X-TRADER TV · 2 MIN

Trader Estéfano Santos, founder of X-Trader, stated in a video published on X-Trader TV that investors should not transfer the responsibility for building the life they want to politicians. According to him, the knowledge developed along the way is what remains, while governments and promises pass by.

Estéfano, who has worked as a Nasdaq Futures trader for more than 10 years, opened his speech with a criticism of political polarization. He cited, on the one hand, the "picanha promise" and, on the other, the "patriotism speech". In his opinion, anyone who spends four years defending one side and attacking the other sees their life continue "in exactly the same place."

He said he didn't have a "pet politician" and explained that he stopped placing responsibility for the path he wanted to build in the hands of third parties. The message, however, is not one of neutrality: Estéfano stated that each person can choose right, left or center and have their own opinion. The central point, according to him, is not to delegate the construction of their own future to any politician.

From political discourse to the market

Estéfano applied the same logic to the financial market. According to him, he didn't want to depend on a "guru's hunch" or someone telling him whether it was time to buy or sell. The need, he stated, was to build its own decision-making process.

From this need, according to the founder of X-Trader, the Confirmation Clock was born, a method that he says he developed throughout his career in the market and that he now teaches to students in different parts of the world. The transcription does not detail how the method works or present its results.

For Estéfano, there is a difference between what is learned and what is invested in politics. He argued that method "can cross borders", unlike politics. Presidents, governments and promises pass, he said, but what a person learns and develops follows those who built it.

What does this mean for the investor

The message speaks to a principle dear to those who invest: individual responsibility for decisions. In reading the channel, investors who depend on external tips, whether political or market, give up autonomy over their own results. The video does not deal with the stock market, interest rates, dollars or public accounts, and does not make projections for any asset.

The closing summarizes the argument. Estéfano stated that each person's future "needs to be bigger than the next election" and invited the public to discover the Confirmation Clock. The speech is intended for personal reflection and disclosure of the method, and does not constitute an investment recommendation.

Automatically translated from Portuguese.

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