Monday, December 31, 2007

Bill Poulos: From a pencil-pushing engineer to successful financial trader

I want to share with you an inspiring trading experience and success of an engineer-turned-trader. This character may be fictitious or not, but the experience he shares in his website is real. It could actually happen to any upstart trader.

Bill Poulos has been trading the markets since 1974. He's a retired automotive executive who holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, and a Master's degree in Business Administration, with a major in Finance.

In his over 30 years of trading experience, he has developed dozens of trading systems and methods. In 2001, he formed Profits Run, Inc. to impart his trading experience and wisdom to others so they could shortcut their learning curve and ultimately potentially skyrocket their earnings in the markets.

As stated in his website, he's been passionate about trading the markets since 1974. He believes that he had made just about every mistake a trader can make. He learned trading the hard way.

Since, he is an engineer by trade, he thought he could figure out the perfect way to trade the markets… but he was wrong. His personal life suffered quite a bit, too, as he spent countless hours with his nose buried in trading manuals, staring bleary-eyed at hundreds upon hundreds of charts, carefully drawing trend lines with his mechanical pencil and straightedge as there were no personal computers back in then in the 70s.

In a nutshell, he finally figured out the keys to being a successful trader after years of perseverance and determination. And it was a long and hard journey.

Here are more details about him published in his firm's website: http://www.yourfxplan2008.com/ComeAndGetIt

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