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I have been involved with the futures markets as a trader and an analyst for 25 years or more. This was after I retired from a successful career in the car business as a trader in the wholesale area – dealer to dealer. When I first began with the futures industry I started trading ad hoc as everyone does and after a few months realized I needed more knowledge to keep doing it. I then looked at systems trading and did that for several years and was mildly successful at it until I realized that was not the way to proceed long term. I realized I needed more knowledge so I went and studied all the esoteric market material I could lay my hands on as far back as I could and in the search found out about the Elliott, Gann, and Edwards & Magee teachings which were more to do with discretionary trading principles. I even found some good material reading books written by Larry Williams and one by J. Welles Wilder Jnr. I had a taste for trading due to my background and my gambling habits; I have studied every gambling system and odds at one stage or another to try and beat the bank. Nevertheless I can never say any of these things I learnt and was good at were ever that consistent. I never lost but I never wanted to make a life out playing cards for a living. I was better at backgammon and always won. What appealed to me about the futures markets was the fact that there were no limits and you never had to deal face to face with your adversaries. You could be a virtual unknown and as long as you had money in an account you could place trades on anything you wished and no one asked any questions. I am not publishing my work to brag about it but simply not to let it go to waste as I have what you could consider half a life time invested in it. Trading is a lifestyle and you are either in it or out of it.