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OK, we're a husband and wife team. Tom and Robin W. Married on the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, 2005. I (Tom) have been trading on my own since Morgan Stanley lost a significant part of my portfolio when the tech bubble bust. I've been a semi-successful long term trader since then (which means I had gains a little over 10% a year). I've been a Pharmacist for 35 years. During the 80's and early 90's I had a software and consulting business that was a lot more fun then counting pills every day. I'm still involved with Open Source software and Linux and can be found sharing my knowledge in selected Linux Forums daily.
It was during my daily surfing and use of sites like identi.ca and twitter that I found the stock social sites. I won't mention competing sites, but, it was on one of them where I first saw the tweets of stockgod, kunal and urban ryno. I followed (twitter-wise) stockgod and at one point a tweet pointed me to an upcoming BullOnWallStreet site. When the site launched I became intrigued. I opened my mostly dormant Ameritrade account and started investigating the stocks I saw tweeted, eventually following the stream, and profiting from the interaction.
Robin, on the other hand, is new to stock trading. She won awards in culinary school, and before last October, we had planned to open a restaurant. The banks were impressed enough with her business plan to finance the part of project back then, but, it's insane to open a business like that during a recession. The stock market is less risky than opening a restaurant on Eastern Long Island.
Somehow we wound up spending most of our time in the computer room together, she watched what I was doing with stocks, got interested, and started reading the lessons of copperstl. When I was at work in the Pharmacy, she would be in front of the computers trading stocks. While we haven't totally got the hang of it yet, we are learning (she faster than me). We do intend on learning enough to make it an income producing venture. This we are determined to do.
This is the other half of GZ9, Robin. It must seem to others that Gz9 has multiple personality disorder. I was a nurse, after getting married I was able to go back to college to pursue an old passion, culinary arts. I had my house to sell and had hoped to make a greater profit than we did with the sale in July and open a business. Having a hunk of cash and time, Tom encouraged me to learn how to trade by following the BOWS experts.
My first solo trade was 9/1, I followedKunal00 into $ACAD, bought 400 shares at 1.91 and sold them at 2.06. I made a wopping $60 that day and I loved the feeling. It was a week or so later that I found out that Long did not mean to hold a stock a 'long' time and Short was to only hold a 'short' while. I have not yet to take the plunge into options or shorts but I am getting my nerve up. I now buy stocks in the thousands, scaling up and down. I have learned so much from the BOWS community. I don't know if other traders dream of stocks, but I do. I am trying to gather all the information I can on trading and implement it. This trading obsession may have crossed over into some sort of trading addiction. I need a little green fix every day. I find myself waking at odd hours and checking the news and tweets and I love it all!
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