About Me

I’m a trader who loves his job.  I’ll trade any market that moves, and have been trading since I was a 17 year old kid who caught the huge 1973 soybean move and was hooked.  I trade a lot of futures, stocks, financials, currencies, options, equities, and bonds.   I generally am in a market for a short time, however, I will stay in a spread for months if need be.

My downtime from trading allows me to surf, play poker, add to my extensive art collection, and just have fun.  I am a conservative, and like to check out liberal blogs.  Some of them are pretty good…even if they are rather misguided. 

I’m dispassionate about my trading and money in general, never fall in love with a position, and am willing to change my mind 400 times a day. I tend to go for the base hits, and not the home runs.  The purpose of this blog is to chronicle my trading days, good and bad.  I might throw in a little politics here and there, and I might give y’all a sneak peek at my art collection.

I hope you enjoy my musings.  I like to discuss common sense, as common sense will make you money in the markets, and will help limit your losses. All of the information needed to make money in the market is contained in the tale of the tape.  Making money is simple, but over-analyzing a market will kill you and cost you money in the long run.

I never take stock tips, nor will I ever give them, for obvious reasons.  If you develop your own thinking about the market, use common sense, and don’t take tips, you’ll probably make money. 

Remember that you don’t make money in the market from fundamental and technical analysis, you make money by actively buying and selling the market.

I live in sunny Florida, in a funky little beach house.

My lovely wife recently died from cancer at the tender age of 49.  She was the my best friend, and words cannot describe my loss.

My son is in his first year at Yale after a successful four years at Phillips Exeter Academy. He’s majoring in Latin and Classic Greek.

I am a Freemason.

I am an amateur radio operator.

I have a PhD in physical chemistry from Northwestern University.

The objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand is the guiding moral force in my life.

 When I’m not doing anything else, you’ll usually find me surfing at our local break, or traveling over to the other coast for some waves.

Art is my passion, and we’ve built an extensive collection over the past 25 years.  Although we mainly collect drawings from masters, I’ve been hitting the auctions at Sotheby’s recently, and have been adding some paintings.  Currently, we have a moderate collection, and I’ve posted pictures of some of the works throughout this blog.

I play a pretty mean guitar.

I’m a family kind of guy, and put family over all.

I have had a very interesting life, and at age 51, feel better than I did at 30.

Jeff