Life & Work with Hans Monfiston

Today we’d like to introduce you to Hans Monfiston.

Hi Hans, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I was born in Haiti and raised by my Grandmother, Camila Thadal until I was about five years old. My mother was in New York learning English and transferring her credentials as a Nurse. She then returned to Haiti to get me and my sister, and we flew back to New York. I remember vividly that it was a nighttime flight, and I was enamored by all of the lights as we flew into JFK Airport. I had never seen anything like it. Growing up in Brooklyn, NY was a very interesting story in itself with MANY trials, tribulations, and experiences. My father joined us in New York two years thereafter when I was around seven years old. I was a smart child, somewhat quiet, and hungry to learn. I wanted to belong. I was at the top of my classes until the end of my 6th grade year. My father passed away on 11/6/98 (13 days before my 11th birthday) due to a brain tumor (glioblastoma), and it dramatically affected my behavior and overall state of mind. I went from being in the top of my class to having behavioral problems and ended up in many fights throughout the rest of my Junior High School journey. These behavioral problems followed me throughout High School. I ended up going to five different High Schools in four years. I had a hard time focusing on my academic studies. I played Junior Varsity Basketball at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn, NY & played Varsity basketball at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, NY. Eventually, I was getting into so much trouble and fights that I stopped going to school at the start of what was supposed to be my Senior year. My mother saw all the trouble I was in at the time and decided it was best for me to move to Florida and stay with my Uncle. I ended up enrolling in Job Corps my senior year, and due to the fact that there were no openings in Florida, I ended up in Greenville, Kentucky at the Muhlenberg Job Corps Center, where I earned my G.E.D. in March 2005.

I attended a few different Colleges for my undergraduate studies (City Tech in Brooklyn, NY, Fulton Montgomery Community College in Johnstown, NY and Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. Initially enrolling in Criminal Justice studies as I was interested in becoming an Entertainment Lawyer. Still, I struggled with dedicating my mental capacity to my studies and ended up “taking time off” after my 3rd year of undergraduate studies. After almost two years out of school, I decided to take a Certificate program for Surgical Technology at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. Surgical Technology opened the door for me to have peace of mind and a form of stability that I had been searching for. I spent many years assisting in the Operating rooms at North Shore University Hospital. I learned to assist in almost every subspecialty of surgery aside from Cardiac and Complex Vascular surgeries. My main focuses were Neurosurgery and Orthopedics. I’ve always wanted more for myself and continually try to push myself towards a greater potential as I’ve always felt that I sold myself short by not performing academically at a younger age when I had the chance. Soon after the birth of my 1st child, I moved to Tampa, Florida (without ever visiting) to simply give myself and my family a new perspective and a change of pace.

Two years later in 2018, we purchased a home in Miami, Florida and this is where I started truly pushing myself towards Entrepreneurship and freeing myself from the stresses of working in surgery. I started looking into the stock market. I had always been interested in what the stock market was, but it felt scary and foreign AT FIRST. I spent 12-18 hour days over the next few years studying everything that I could about the stock market. Initially, I was a longer-term investor and would often make trades off my phone while I was at work at the hospital. After a few years of non-stop studying and applying myself, I turned from a longer-term investor into a full-time day trader, specializing in short-term options trading. I learned how to read charts from a technical perspective, follow economic events of importance, and have now helped design custom tools and scripts to use along with TradingView and TD Ameritrades’ trading platforms that helped me to find a GREAT deal of success. The stock market enabled me to quit working in surgery and transform my life into something I long envisioned. I now own six residences. Three Brownstones in Brooklyn, New York. Two houses in West Palm Beach, Florida. & a house in Miami, Florida. All are mortgage-free and paid off. Four of these residences are rented out and bring in a nice passive income stream. My latest venture is a production company, Camila T. Productions, which I have named after my Grandmother. My initial focus with this production company is Production Coordination, Screenwriting, Script Development, and Talent Management. This newest venture continues the dreams that I’ve had for a better life and the freedom to create without inhibition. (www.CamilaTProductions.com) I now have three children, two girls, and a boy. This venture also enables them to create without limits, as I’ll be able to help guide and translate their creative visions into reality.

My story is a long one, and there are many gaps in what I have written, filled with hardships, experimental drug use, mental health issues (depression), and so many things that I’ve had to fight through to be where I am at today. I have overcome MANY struggles and never gave up on myself, regardless of how life was going.

These days, I trade $SPY options primarily, but also have reinvested profits into longer-term holdings in companies like Tesla ($TSLA), NVIDIA ($NVDA), Apple ($AAPL), Amazon ($AMZN), etc… & a few dividend yield holdings of interest. I’m also working on developing a few scripts for projects that I plan to roll out through Camila T. Productions in 2024. I have plans to expand my real estate portfolio within the coming years with additional multi-family residences as well.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I struggled with confidence at an early age… Being a Haitian immigrant came with its struggles at a very early age, and it made me question if I was good enough, cool enough, etc… I struggled with passion as well, not knowing exactly what to commit myself to. As someone who has no brothers and only one sister, I had to fight a lot growing up in Brooklyn, NY as I wanted my respect, and I made sure it was non-negotiable.

I’m proud to say that I am 100% sober. I do not drink or smoke anymore. I have experimented with a few different drugs, especially in my 20s, as I was battling depression and not knowing where life was going to take me. My struggles at first with the stock market I have always looked at as Market Tuition. I had lost around $14,000 before things started to turn around.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am an active stock and options trader specializing and focused on short-term options trading strategies and long-term investments. I’m known across a few social media mediums as one of the early investors into $AMC before WallStreetBets and other popular names bought in. I’m mostly proud of my resilience and ability to learn. I took a chance on myself by learning how to trade stocks, and it paid off. What sets me apart from others is my passion for sharing knowledge. I pay it forward. I have and continually spend time teaching others who want to learn the stock market. I gladly share what I have learned and what works for me.

I am the owner of a production company specializing in film/media productions. We are relatively new in this venture. I am proud of this endeavor as it is something I am able to pass down to my children, for them to create without limits and push their creativity to new heights.

I am the owner of six fully paid-off residences, with four of them for rent that brings a passive revenue stream.

Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
The best advice I would give is to GET STARTED and BE DEDICATED. You can do anything you want if you want it bad enough. No one taught me about the stock market. I was HUNGRY; I was struggling. I took a chance on myself and spent sometimes 16-hour days at a computer screen, learning, writing, applying myself… and the more I did that, the more things started to make sense. I created an opportunity for myself out of nothing. Find people with the same interests as you. It does NOT have to be your close or personal friends.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.CamilaTProductions.com
• Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hvns.m
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/camilatprouctions
• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/haus_of_hans
• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@CamilaTProductions
• Other: http://www.instagram.com/Camila.T.Productions