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Bio: Stock Options trader. Can be found at investingwithoptions.com
Location: Gulf Coast
Web: http://www.investingwithoptions....
I've always been interested in the financial markets, but my interest accelerated during college. I'm a signals processing guy, and I realized that market auctions are nothing more than a signal: price over time. You can process that signal to remove the noise and trade against it.
My speciality is equity options, but I also trade forex and futures.
My worst trade is easy: SNDK. That was all the proof I needed that losers average losers. My best trade is actually a group of trades, buying puts on BSC and LEH throughout all of 2008.
Howard Lindzon mentioned it in passing and I was on board back when it was a Tumblr hack.
Do not trade on the advice of others. Impulse trades will get you burnt. When you're first starting off you don't know which user shares your trading style, risk parameters, or timeframe; it's best to watch them trade and find the group that's best suited for you.
I like to say I'm brokerage-independent; however, my main platform is thinkorswim, due to their options analytics software.
I listen to non-vocal electronic music. My main stations are di.fm and somafm.com. No TV-- talking heads don't improve my expectancy. I also check my Google Reader every 15 minutes.
No mentor; self-taught.
I lift weights and play sports. I've got a wife that puts up with me and a welsh corgi to keep me company.
McMillan's "Options as a Strategic Investment"
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