In 1993, after retiring from my consulting business and developing several real estate projects, I was looking to experience something new. I started trading futures, full-time, believing all I had to do was apply myself like I had done before and I would achieve success. However, after four years of self-study, training courses, mentors, and trading, I decided to quit based on my dismal results. In the process of winding down, I discovered the Market Profile. My understanding of the market increased exponentially as I gained proficiency interpreting market activity. The Market Profile gave me a solid edge in my trading and was a primary factor in reversing my failures to achieve the success I sought.In 2001, after trying almost every software application on the market and doing real-time profiles by hand, I purchased WindoTrader, a small Chicago trading software company. It had a unique way of displaying data that fascinated me and I felt confident I could find a developer to tweak it to my specifications.Other traders wanted to use it, and I created a company, to offer my software to other Market Profile traders. WindoTrader helped traders increase their ability to synthesize and interpret market-generated information and make higher probability trading decisions—their way.Jim Dalton and I partnered and delivered Market Profile-based courses for traders transitioning from the trading floor to the trading screen. During that period I gained a deeper understanding of traders, from the highly successful to those that struggled. This taught me about the best ways they learned and used technology.With this new understanding, my developer, Eric, and I designed the next version of WindoTrader. With Eric’s unique ability to translate concept into code, he developed WindoTraderBLUE, now considered by many as the “ultimate” Market Profile software”.I also created BEYOND BLUE to focus on life skills beyond the software that helps traders achieve their trading goals.
