Financially Trapped

The Real Account Behind the Book

This is not a simulation. On May 14, 2026, the author reset a real TFSA with approximately $31 CAD from gold proceeds and began deploying $1 per day into income-generating positions — exactly as described in Financially Trapped: Engineering of Persistence.

Every transaction, every dividend, every month-end value shown below comes directly from a live Wealthsimple account. Wealthsimple's $1 fractional share purchasing is what makes this specific strategy possible — the system only works because you can deploy exactly one dollar at a time into income-generating positions.