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October 19th, 2023

I’m beginning a new adventure. Starting new things keeps us all young at heart, I truly believe that. I can’t kid myself though, I know I will probably be really bad at this in the beginning. Everyday is a chance to improve, though. I just gotta put the work in.

I created this page to talk about my adventures in trading. It is purely for entertainment purposes. Really! Don’t follow what I do here, there should be a warning label. In fact I think I just wrote one? <–This is it!

I started learning how to trade in April of 2020. I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there that can relate. It was the popular thing to do at the time. I was laid off from work, and totally freaking the fuck out about how I was going to make money if I couldn’t get my job back. I’d been at the same job for 23 years! The future looked bleak for me, because I worked in the entertainment and hospitality sector. COVID was wreaking havoc there for sure. I got my job back a year later, but I decided to focus on making trading my new career in the near future.

The last three years I have focused mainly on educating myself. I have done some trading, but not very successfully. I’m working through trading psychology issues, and I am still trying to find a strategy that fits both my personality and my personal schedule. I have a goal to be profitable within the next 2-3 years. I’ve studied penny stock trading, options trading, and trading using the dark pool prints. I love the different things you can do with options strategies, so that is my main focus. Lately I have been studying how the $SPY trades, and I have dabbled in playing Iron Condors on the $SPX during distribution periods.

In future posts, I will discuss my journey to success in the markets, and the lessons I will learn from my setbacks.