I have worked in the financial industry since 1979 and started as a floor broker on the London Commodities Exchange. I moved into FX in 1985 and, apart from a 1-year sabbatical as an independent LIFFE local, I've been actively involved in currencies ever since.
An enthusiastic mentor introduced me to technical analysis early in my career and I immediately became interested. From then on I've used charts to formulate every single trading decision.
I happened upon Trading With DiNapoli Levels early in 2000. It was the first, and only, trading book I ever bought and I was amazed to discover that someone had written about exactly what I was trying to achieve. I'd been using Fibonacci retracements for many years to try and position myself in the direction of the prevailing trend. What the book described was way above the level I was trading at but here were clear and concise instructions written by someone who had undoubtedly done the things he was writing about. Joe's methods of determining trend, safe trade entry and exit levels and calculating logical profit objectives are extremely powerful weapons that every trader should have in their arsenal.
By reading Joe's book you've taken huge strides in the right direction to becoming a successful trader. The greatest challenge is to apply what you learn consistently, sometimes under extreme pressure from the emotions of fear and greed that drive the markets. I urge you to read and re-read the book - I refer to it constantly - and to use the forums to see how different traders apply what they've learned.
In 2001, after many years as a Market Maker in FX, I decided to concentrate on trading my own money. I moved away from London and now trade from a remote farmhouse in Wales via the magic of satellite broadband. When I'm not trading I'm in the great outdoors pretending to be a farmer or fishing for sea trout.
Nick Wadham, January 2004