Rhody Trader
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Hello. I'm John and I'm a Trade2Win addict. :cheesy:
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In all seriousness, I'm John Forman - currently of the Boston area in the U.S. I'm 38 years young and for the time being I'm working as a stock market analyst/strategist for Thomson Financial (soon to be Reuters). If you count when I opened my first trading account, then I've been in the markets for about 20 years. If you go back to my first stock holdings it's a bit longer (mom forcing me to put part of my paper route money into a Dow Chemical DRIP). As a professional analyst (primarily for an institutional audience) I have covered Fixed Income, Forex, Equities, and Energy (albeit very briefly in the latter case). In terms of trading, I've done all of that stuff plus the occassional commodities too. Pretty much if it's something a retail trader can trade, I've done so, but forex and stocks are by far the markets I have most actively traded over the years.
I got involved in trading education a while back, particularly in terms of working with a professor friend to introduce trading in the finance classroom. That lead to a particularly hare-brained idea to write a trading book of my own because I couldn't find one on the market which I thought suitably general to serve my classroom needs teaching students the very basics. That book became The Essentials of Trading, though it had a much less attractive title during the conception stage.
I am primarily a technician in my trading and analysis. It's basically volatility and price action upon which I focus my efforts in that regard. Over the years I've look at just about everything at one point or another and just fell into this stuff as what I'm most comfortable and successful with.
Aside from the trading stuff, I also spent about 7 years as a professional collegiate volleyball coach. Well, I was definitely a collegiate volleyball coach. The professional part is somewhat questionable given how little I got paid for it, though.
Oh, and once upon a time I was the Content Editor for this wonderful site. You can thank my very sore fingers for much of the Traderpedia. Sharky made me do it!
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In all seriousness, I'm John Forman - currently of the Boston area in the U.S. I'm 38 years young and for the time being I'm working as a stock market analyst/strategist for Thomson Financial (soon to be Reuters). If you count when I opened my first trading account, then I've been in the markets for about 20 years. If you go back to my first stock holdings it's a bit longer (mom forcing me to put part of my paper route money into a Dow Chemical DRIP). As a professional analyst (primarily for an institutional audience) I have covered Fixed Income, Forex, Equities, and Energy (albeit very briefly in the latter case). In terms of trading, I've done all of that stuff plus the occassional commodities too. Pretty much if it's something a retail trader can trade, I've done so, but forex and stocks are by far the markets I have most actively traded over the years.
I got involved in trading education a while back, particularly in terms of working with a professor friend to introduce trading in the finance classroom. That lead to a particularly hare-brained idea to write a trading book of my own because I couldn't find one on the market which I thought suitably general to serve my classroom needs teaching students the very basics. That book became The Essentials of Trading, though it had a much less attractive title during the conception stage.
I am primarily a technician in my trading and analysis. It's basically volatility and price action upon which I focus my efforts in that regard. Over the years I've look at just about everything at one point or another and just fell into this stuff as what I'm most comfortable and successful with.
Aside from the trading stuff, I also spent about 7 years as a professional collegiate volleyball coach. Well, I was definitely a collegiate volleyball coach. The professional part is somewhat questionable given how little I got paid for it, though.
Oh, and once upon a time I was the Content Editor for this wonderful site. You can thank my very sore fingers for much of the Traderpedia. Sharky made me do it!
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