After losing my ability to do my life long career of 35 years I had to develop other streams of income. One natural activity to pursue was trading the markets. Let me share my experience.Over the years my trading has taken several directions. I first started trading commodities in 1979 while living in Chicago. I had friends who where floor traders in Commodity exchanges, traders and Brokers .My relationship with CME member friends proved to be invaluable. This allowed me to have access to resources and the CME members library that began an informal education. Soon I was developing trading plans and in 1983 I started a commodity pool and obtained a Commodity Trading Advisory (CTA) license.In the late 1980's I moved to Virginia. It was during the 1990's that I published a web site that marketed trade recommendations for the Futures market. And in 2004 I became familiar with the Forex and gradually decided to focus on the currency market. This is what I do full time now.