What a Trading Week in Dubai Looks Like Day to Day

TL;DR

Trading the London session from Dubai means the market opens at 9:00 in the morning instead of 1:00 a.m. as it would in Miami, so the whole day can be spent watching setups. Alex Gonzalez sets a goal of making a million dollars in one week and posting the exact trades for viewers to follow, starting with a Euro USD breakdown. The rest of the trip mixes a trading expo, free diving, and car shopping.

Transcript

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Key Insights

• Trading the London session from Dubai is easier than trading it from Miami purely because of the clock: prime time falls at 9:00 in the morning in Dubai versus 1:00 a.m. in Miami, which allows staying awake all day to watch positions.
• A villa rental in Dubai roughly a year and a half to two years ago functioned as an annual planning offsite. The team planned all of 2024 and half of 2025 inside that house over about seven days and ended up exceeding the plan by three times.
• Dubai works as a meeting point for a distributed team because everybody's visa can clear there. Team members spread across that side of the world can gather in one place, which is why the trip doubles as both a planning session and a first in-person meeting.
• Melatonin taken at boarding can waste an entire premium flight. Falling asleep before takeoff meant missing breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a $20,000 first-class seat, plus no photo for social media, which he sums up as a loss.
• The luxury car market in Dubai is described as saturated in the same way Miami's is: Urus SUVs are treated like Toyotas. The pull toward Dubai was finding something lower key rather than another Urus or Rolls-Royce already owned in Miami.
• A wrecked purple Bugatti was assessed as fully repairable, with only a hairline crack in the transmission. The reasoning for buying it at around a million dollars was to wide-body it and hold it for ten years, treating it as money in the bank.
• Cash carries more weight than cards in some Dubai transactions. A vendor selling at 100 dirham refused credit card payment outright, prompting the line that cash is king and cash talks any language.
• Free diving without krill or current is significantly easier than open ocean diving. Krill are micro shrimp that make noise in the ears and add density to the water; the world's deepest pool in Dubai is fresh water with none of that, and a 25 m dive was completed there.

Questions & Answers

Q: Why is it easier to trade the London session from Dubai than from Miami?

It comes down to the time zone. Prime time for the London session lands at 9:00 in the morning in Dubai, whereas trading the same session from Miami means being at the screen at 1:00 a.m. Being in Dubai during London hours means being awake all day to watch the trades develop rather than fighting to stay up overnight. That is the reason given for feeling confident about the week's trading goal of making a million dollars while showing the exact trades taken.

Q: What was the trading goal set for the week in Dubai?

The stated goal was to make one million dollars during that week, and to show viewers the exact same trades being taken so they could replicate them and follow along. The confidence behind the goal was attributed to location: being in Dubai puts the London session in daylight hours instead of the middle of the night. The first trade laid out in the breakdown was Euro USD, following up on a Euro USD breakdown done just before.

Q: What happened on the flight to Dubai?

For the first time in his life he took melatonin, and he fell asleep as soon as he got onto the plane. He had a lay-flat seat, lay down, and knocked out. A flight attendant woke him by name during the last portion of deboarding to tell him they had arrived in Dubai. He slept through the entire flight and missed breakfast, lunch, and dinner, making the $20,000 first-class ticket pointless since he never enjoyed it and did not even take a photo to post on social media.

Q: How long is the Dubai trip and what is the reason for it?

The plan was to stay in Dubai for the next two weeks, possibly three. The anchor for the trip is a big trading expo happening the following week. They chose to arrive a week early for two reasons: to meet up and hang out with a couple of friends, and because there are a lot of friends on that side of the world he had never actually met in person. The first day and a half was consumed almost entirely by jet lag and sleeping.

Q: How did the team use a Dubai villa for business planning?

About a year and a half to two years ago, on a first working trip to Dubai, a villa was rented for roughly seven days. The whole team stayed inside the house and used the time to plan the year. According to the recap, they planned all of 2024 and half of 2025 in that villa, and they ended up exceeding what they had planned for the year by three times. With 2025 ending, the team returned to Dubai with a bigger plan for the next cycle.

Q: Why does the team meet in Dubai instead of somewhere else?

Because everybody's visa can clear there. The team is distributed across that side of the world, and Dubai is the place where all of them can legally gather in one location. That makes it the practical choice for both an in-person planning session and for finally meeting collaborators who had previously only been online contacts. The trading expo happening that week adds a second reason to be in the city at the same time.

Q: What is the case for buying a wrecked Bugatti and repairing it?

The assessment was that the car is 100% repairable, with the only noted damage being a hairline crack in the transmission. Matt Armstrong came to Miami and checked it out in person, confirming the condition. The reasoning was that if the car can be bought back for about a million dollars, you wide-body it, do whatever you want to it, and keep it for ten years. On that horizon it is worth the money and behaves like money in the bank.

Q: What makes free diving in Dubai's deepest pool easier than in the ocean?

There is no current and no krill. Krill are micro shrimp found nearly everywhere in the ocean when deep diving; they make a noise in the diver's ears and create more density in the water. The pool is straight fresh water with none of that. Coming in with about ten years of free diving experience and a breath hold of roughly four minutes, the goal set was 25 m, which is about 60 to 70 ft. That dive was completed, though it was described as not easy at all.

Summary & Key Takeaways

• The trip runs two to three weeks in Dubai, timed around a big trading expo happening the following week. Arriving a week early was deliberate: it leaves room to meet friends on that side of the world who had only ever been online contacts, and to reset from jet lag before any work begins.

• The first day and a half was lost to jet lag. Melatonin taken before boarding knocked him out for the entire first-class flight, so breakfast, lunch, and dinner were all missed and the $20,000 ticket went unused. A flight attendant woke him during the last portion of deboarding in Dubai.

• Trading from Dubai puts the London session in daylight hours. Prime time for London is 9:00 in the morning locally versus 1:00 a.m. in Miami, the usual trading base. The stated goal for the week is one million dollars, with every trade shown so viewers can replicate it, beginning with Euro USD.