It Could Be You

I get quite a few emails every day from blog readers and students. I'm going to post one of them today, cutting out the personal parts. This guy made a plan and then executed it, coming out CP at the other end. Was it easy? Probably not, as we all know, but with a structured plan and methodology, it could be you.

Tom,

I wanted to email and thank you for the contributions that you have made to your blog, and, specifically, for your replies to my comments.

Though I have been trading for about 15 years in my long-term account and short-term trading for 10 of those years, it was only in the last 5 that I decided to transition to full-time trading. I've been a successful software development project manager for a little over 20 years, but I'd grown weary of either being the boss or working with one...... I knew that I wanted work that I could do from anywhere, and that would challenge my curiosity for years to come.

So I began to plan my leap. I won't go into all the details, but it involved transitioning first to a job with smaller development teams, then to a part-time consultant/part-time trading, then, finally, to full-time trading. It was within that transition that I found your blog (among others). Learning to understand your style while creating my own trading plan resulted in many "a-ha" moments for me. Risk management, decisions based upon incomplete information, understanding how complex systems might devolve into chaos--I saw echoes of skills from my previous career in your writing and in your work, and I admired your experience and your generosity with advice.

I'm still in my infancy as a trader, but thanks to your reminders to keep trading simple and profitable before moving forward, back-testing until I'm confident that I understand my strategies, and trading my plan, I feel more and more confident in my interpretations of the daily flow. I'm consistently profitable, and I'm beginning to increase the number of contracts that I trade.

I've attached a screen print of my trades today. I have a partially automated notification/entry system, but my screen looks like a Xmas tree compared to yours. I tend to think in icons and color, so I try to take advantage of that....

Thank you, again, and thank Kiki, as well.  I hope everyone is your family is well.

Getting mails like this one more than make my day. Trading successfully is life changing. Good on you Jeff!!


I've posted Jeff's chart below.