My journey in trading began nearly 15 years ago. At the time my employer offered an employee stock purchase plan where you could purchase company stock at a discount to the market in addition to the stock options they granted. This was in a large telecommunications company in the late 90s so anything you looked at made money. I watched most of the value of those accounts drop to nearly nothing after 2000.
I became aware that there must be a way to make money in financial markets – there wouldn’t be the industry around Wall Street if there wasn’t. I received my first real introduction to options at an InvesTools event in 2003 and accelerated my learning of trading from that. I traded full time as a retail investor for nearly 3 years and did alright for myself. During that time I learned a great many things about myself and about the amount of risk I could actually handle. I also began researching and building complete trading systems based on quantitative data rather than just discretionary trading.
I hope to give some worthwhile content around trading system developments and options trading through this blog. I’ve made a great many mistakes as a trader and I may be able to reduce the learning curve for some.
Hope you enjoy!