Millionaire Tradersleast 35 or 40 percent of the total assets in the fund at that time.
So she worked all kinds of jobs and worked just a ton of hours to
help us get by.
Q: Why did you decide to settle in West Virginia?
A: I’m in Wheeling, which is outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and this is a long version of the story, but I sold a business to a
group of people in Charleston, West Virginia. I traveled to West
Virginia, loved the state, loved the pace of life. I’d lived in big cities
my whole life, so my wife and I visited here and settled down to
live in a place that was safe, quiet, close enough to a big city that
we could get everything we wanted.
Q: Do you think that having children has changed your trading
style at all or at least the times that you can trade?
A: Significantly. In some respects it’s like anything else that would
take your focus away, but in another respect I want my to spend
time with them instead of doing other things, so it’s not like having
a regular job where you don’t want to be there and you’re thinking
about trading. With having kids, I could care less about the charts
and I just want to focus on them. Before I was much more used
to getting up earlier and taking far more short-term trades. But as
soon we adopted our first son, I became much more focused on
developing systems and trading from the longer term charts.
Q: Did you ever play any sports?
A: I was a wrestler, but I was 0 and 1 and the only reason I
scored any points was because the guy kept throwing me outside
that circle and every time he threw me outside that circle they gave
me two points. Which I guess was the penalty for throwing the guy