About Traders-Blog.com
My name is Thierry Martin. I am an experienced trader and investor, and I also own and operate several trading and investing websites and newsletters, as well as being affiliated in partnerships with several others.
With so much information flowing out of the different sites and newsletters, I felt that a blog gathering up all the material and publishing it in a new way would be fun and useful.
As well as posting material edited from my own sites and newsletters, I am also including articles from outside contributors and unrelated financial websites. The idea behind this is to create an essential resource for readers who want to sample the different services and products, before going their own way.
I don’t intend for this blog to be the final destination for traders and investors, but rather a spotlight that will discuss, illiminate and reveal the many interesting trading systems, advisories, software programs, books and learning materials that are available for both new and experienced traders.
I started this blog for 2 reasons.
The first reason is that I was 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 entered, 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.
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 had to work at it, while everyone else got to listen to the music and dance and have fun.
I don’t think this blog is going to be as popular as the Beatles, but I’ll still do my best to make it as good as I can.
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 so much that he kept insisting that I produce one also.
Eric 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 Eric 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.
You can contact me by going to the comments page or writing to thierry@traders-blog.com.
Your opinions and ideas, either about the blog in general or individual posts, are welcome.
And if you feel you could help make this blog a success as contributor, I can’t do it all by myself, so please contact me.
See you at the blog , and I sincerely hope you enjoy it.
Best wishes,
Thierry Martin
Traders-Blog.com
January 24, 2005
