About Us

Hello Everyone!

I am the DaVinci Trader.  DaVinci, the real one, saw the common things of the world and conceived unusual ideas.  

For a long time I was confused by the simple common trading ideologies.  Successful traders seem to repeat same ‘secrets’ over.  Somehow, I was not able to put those trading ’secrets’ they mentioned to use in a practical way.  

Then one day, it all started to go together.

For sure, for me, trading has been a rollercoaster ride.  Perhaps your trading experience has been similar.  The journey, in part, is about where we have been.  More importantly, is the part about where we are going.

When I first started trading, it was with a small amount of capital.  I eventually was trading a large amount of capital.  I have made more money than I imagined I could.  I have lost more money that I wanted to.  Success took me much much longer than many of the success stories you read about.  Two of my losses were massive, unimaginable.  The last loss took me back to square one….

I had been trading well for 10 years, then came massive loss number one.  September 6, 2011, in the middle of the night USA Eastern time, the Swiss National Bank announced they would be pegging the Swiss Fran to the Euro Dollar at 1.20.  The market gapped up in seconds over everyone’s stop loss orders.  I was asleep when this happened, even if I was awake, there was nothing I could have done.  Even thought I had a modest position on short, Instantaneously I was down almost 90%.

While I was not happy about this, I knew I could recover.  How did I know I could recover?  Because I had been trading using trading strategy that has worked for 35 years or more.  An unexpected, never before seen event is something none of us has control over.  It took less than 24 months to recover from that loss.

Then came April 19, 2020….  Oil was at some of the lowest prices in decades.  I was long oil with a modest position.  April 20, 2020 Oil closed the day settling at -$37.63, that is below zero!  It has traded close to -41 during the day.  It was down -306% for the day, marking the lowest futures finish and biggest one-day price drop on record.  Impossible but it happened.

It takes skill to be in the market the wrong way for two of the most unusual market events in history but I was able to manage it.  LOL, with some tears.

I had to start over.  I had to start a business in order to get capital to start trading again.

This website is about what I use to trade and why I know I will recover again.  Also some adjustments to never lose such a large portion of my capital again.  I hope you are able to learn something from this journey.

Have a wonderful day!