How it all Started

I walked into the Chicago Board of Trade on Jackson Ave., downtown Chicago, on September 2, 2001, and walked out for the final time sometime in February of 2008, that day wasn't quite as memorable.  In those 7+ years I learned alot, made alot, and lost alot, more than I made as a matter of fact.  And that day in February when I left for the last time, I didn't ever want to see a market to trade again.  Yep, that didn't last.

First day of work in the big city, where this story
has its beginning

Similar story for Adam, I'm sure we'll go into much more detail in the upcoming days and months, so just know that we were both there for pretty much 7 or so years and had similar successes and similar failures.  We worked all hours of the day and night, some good, some bad, some real bad.  And we met some interesting people along the way, some good, some bad, some real bad..... 

But here we are again, both have moved on to new careers, I'm in medical sales and Adam is in the athletic Department at a D-1 school.  And over the recent months we've had many conversations, mostly on BlackBerry Messenger, about our thoughts on the S&Ps, Employment, and economy in general.  And just last night, on another one of our BBM conversations, we came up with the following idea:

Let's get together $1,000 and see what we can do with it.  Sounds pretty simple, sounds like everybody has thought about this once or twice.  But we want to use what we learned in the trenches day trading, and what we've learned since looking at the market in a much larger picture, to see if we can make some sense out of any of it.  The plan is to be diverse, frugal, and smart.  We're going to take a chance when we feel it's the right move and we're going to leave everything in a cash account if that's the move.

Hopefully this works out the way we would like, we're going to blog about all of our decisions and thoughts.  We don't have much money to start with, so we need to make good decisions, because as we found out, the money seems to go alot quicker than it comes.  

Keep checking back, see how we're doing.  Should be fun.  Should be entertaining.  Should learn something.