Welcome to my Blog. My intent is to make this blog a meeting place
for friends; to provide you with not only good information, but some rib-
tickling entertainment as well. So, I hope you’ll explore around a little.
Feel free to post any question or comment you wish, about e-mini and
forex trading or about anything else that I post here. I enjoy the company
of people who inspire and intellectually challenge me, who have a good
sense of humor and don’t take themselves too seriously. Who are achievers,
but always ready to enjoy a laugh and have some fun along the way.
Being introduced to E-mini trading back in early 2002 was one of the most
esxciting things that has ever happened to me. The rewards have been
extraordinary. Besides being the best little ‘home business’ one could even
imagine--- with financial possibilities literally unlimited, the many friends I’ve
made through my book and their expressions of ‘thanks for turning [them] on
to this’ have come to mean so very much to me. So, I really encourage you
to learn to trade e-minis as well. You can have both time and money to do
anything you want. My wife has discovered that she really likes to go on
cruise ship adventures. I enjoy them with her, but my ultimate recreation
is my fly rod in-hand and exploring some new river. I’ve been fortunate to
enjoy many of the best fishing waters the world has to offer---from Alaska
to Argentina & Chile; from Canada’s Yukon to Labrador. I’ve enoyed salt-
water flyfishing and the thrill of all but one specie of bill fish--the swordfish.
From bluegills to black marlin, fishing is the most varied (and therefore,
challenging) of all sports...as far as I’m concerned.
May I invite you to enjoy a video of one of my Alaskan trips...for large wild
rainbow trout. CLICK HERE and I’ll take you to the ‘Great Land’ way up North.
Again, Welcome to my Blog; Enjoy. And, good trading!
Welcome to my Blog. My intent is to make this blog a meeting place
for friends; to provide you with not only good information, but some rib-
tickling entertainment as well. So, I hope you’ll explore around a little.
Feel free to post any question or comment you wish, about e-mini and
forex trading or about anything else that I post here. I enjoy the company
of people who inspire and intellectually challenge me, who have a good
sense of humor and don’t take themselves too seriously. Who are achievers,
but always ready to enjoy a laugh and have some fun along the way.
Railroad tracks. This is fascinating.
Be sure to read all the way to the final paragraph; your understanding of the point it drives home will depend on the earlier part of the content.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates built the US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
I'm an 'e-mini' trader; have been since early 2002. I recognized how valuable learning to trade them would be right off the bat, but I had no idea what it would mean IF a drastic downturn in the economy (like this DEPRESSION) were to come along. Learning that I can make money in the stock market whether the market goes UP or DOWN was exciting; that I could do it FASTER, with less RISK and at a far higher ROI than I ever saw investing in or even trading stocks, made me an 'e-mini trader' ….for life!
Then, September 2008 came along, then October…November…December…even January and a new year—yet the market was still going LOWER! Even a 1,000 point drop in the DOW in a single day—something that had never happened before in history!
I was invited to a 3-day seminar in San Francisco (Nov 1-3, 2008) for established stock day traders, traders making their living day trading stocks on their home computers. The seminar was hosted by Golden Gate University and TradeGuider, one of the foremost trading systems developed several years ago for the newly-emerging market of ‘e-mini’ traders. TradeGuider hopes to attract more stock day traders to its great trading software. Most good chart-reading (software) systems can be used to trade any of the stock market’s many financial instruments, besides stocks. Ask any e-mini trader and they’ll tell you that nothing (especially, stocks) even comes close to the advantages of trading the e-mini.
Most of us start out in life thinking that the Stock Market is:
1) Some mysterious place where the rich people gamble; then…
2) When we learn a little about it…. we see it as a place where we can put some of our money and it has a chance to grow (over time);
3) Even though our money is always ‘at risk’ in stocks, still the stock market produces better than a bank savings account or CD ever does. (Usually, that is.)
When you were a kid in school, and even through college, were you ever taught anything about the stock market other than the bare essential of ‘investing for the long haul’?
