Trading Full-Time Since 2001 (opens in new tab)

I’ve been trading and investing full-time since 2001\. Before that, I was fully discretionary\. I was not particularly successful, and it was hard to make decisions\. My biggest revelation came when I read Victor Niederhoffer’s The Education of a Speculator in 1999\. It’s not an easy read, but it changed my thinking\. I spent over one year doing backtests - for the first time in my life\. I switched to fully systematic trading when I started prop trading in 2001 \(see my Series 7 exam, which ...