As a former investment analyst and a individual trader for over ten years, I have had my good days and my bad. My strengths are in technical analysis with special interest in gap trading strategies, chart pattern recongition, and derivatives strategies. I am a big believer in the theory that "the trend is your friend" but I also enjoy being a contrarian at times. Especaily when trends get to extreme. I am not a daytrader as i believe that the best trades are the ones that you can hold for several months at a time and benefit from the larger trend in play. Overall, trading these days is a lifestyle for me and I could not stop doing it even if I tried. My goal here to share insighful and creative ideas about the financial markets that will help us all make better trades and investments, and ultimately improve our financial well being,