Traders-Blog.com

That’s the sound of me landing here, in the commander’s chair, of Traders-Blog.com.

My name is Thierry Martin, I love just about everything to do with trading and investing, and I am going to explore it with you on this blog.

I own and operate several websites about trading and investing, including my flagship trading service, Fiasco Trade of the Day.

Although I will recycle the best material from my different trading sites and newsletters through this blog, I will also conduct exclusive interviews, have guest traders posting, and bring you exclusive offers and special discounts through my contacts in the trading universe.

I am starting this blog for 2 reasons.

The first reason is that I am fed up looking for a decent blog about trading. It’s not as if blogging just started yesterday. Every few days, for the last year, I have been looking for a blog by entering “traders’ blog” or “trading blog” or “stock market blog” or “stock trader blog’ into either Google or any other search engine that might yield an interesting link or site.

Well, no matter what I typed, I got trash results. It seems that trader types don’t want to talk. Maybe they don’t want to share their secrets. Maybe they can’t write! I don’t know, but I’m telling you, there is NOTHING out there.

If you don’t believe me, just look at the top right sidebar and under blogroll you can see the sum total of the trading blogs I have managed to find worth looking at.

Now I’m sure that someone is going to point me to some great trading blog, and this whole process of starting a trading blog myself will seem ridiculous. That is a chance I am willing to take. Having invested this much work into it already, I’m not going to quit now.

As a matter of fact, if there is another great trading blog out there, I’ll be happy to share the info with everyone, so let me know what I have been missing!

In the meantime, I am going to work hard at making Traders-Blog.com in the image of the blog I have been looking for.

The downside of this is that I have to produce it, instead of just reading it.

I remember reading an interview with George Harrison where he said the worst part of being a Beatle was that they he had to work at it, while everyone else got to listen to the music and dance and have fun.

I don’t know if this blog is going to be as popular as the Beatles, but I’ll do my best to make it as good.

The second reason I started this blog is my brother Eric. I want to thank him for bugging me for the last year to start a blog.

He started his own blog at his terrific photoshop site and has enjoyed the feedback and attention so much that he kept insisting that I produce one also.

He knows that I wrote a few articles for RealMoney.com / TheStreet.com until my editor there was booted out. (I hope it had nothing to do with my articles!) And he knows that I love trading. And that I enjoy surveying and exploring and learning about the whole field of stock trading, option trading and forex trading.

So, a big thank you to Eric for getting me going on this. I hope to make him proud.

See you all soon.