Uncle Mike – The Founder of the Bonsai Trading System

Mike traded actively for almost two decades.

He grew his crypto portfolio from almost nothing to over $1.3 million. He traded aggressively and with leverage but had timing, conviction, and the kind of screen-time that few traders ever put in. He would review charts constantly, wake in the middle of the night to trade (bitcoin trades 24/7) and continue trading throughout the day, monitoring for the trends he needed to pull the trigger on trades.

Then the market moved against him. The bull market ended, a bear market started, and he continued to trade aggressively, hoping the next bounce would stick.

The losses compounded and he took bigger bets trying to recover until he lost it all. He tried to repeat the original system. He couldn’t. The winning system he’d built faded and stopped working in the new regime.

But that major loss became the lesson he refused to repeat. After years of reviewing charts, researching trading rules and learning how the quant funds operate, he tried to develop a new reliable system that works in all conditions. The breakthrough came with AI tools that accelerated the testing. With faster research, he could rule out thousands of strategies that didn’t work, and test variants of ones that did. He layered multiple strategies together and created a custom recipe of algorithms that other mathematicians and famous professional traders developed that worked. He ultimately laid down the foundational rules: when to enter, when to ride a winner, when to trim and when to exit to protect those hard-earned profits. He learned that when hunting for trades, many investors try to force the trades. He learned to be patient and that not all rules work on all stocks.

He created the Bonsai Trading System to cultivate trades. The Nebari entry signal and the Hasami exit signal exist because Mike got severely cut once, and he engineered a system to never get cut deep again.

He passed before he saw it launch to subscribers. Carly, Jocelyn & Cody carry it forward. The system Mike built keeps speaking. The MIKE-AI agent (Market Insight Knowledge Engine) delivers daily intel to subscribers, and every signal bears his discipline.

Our uncle built it. He passed it to us. Now we’re sharing it with you.