In 1997, when I was 22, I started dabbling in the market (the beginning of online trading) with the little money I had. I learned of a local trading firm, Maverick Trading, where you could go into the office which had a dedicated T-1 line (no home internet was available), trading computers and fellow traders with lots of experience to train you. Over the next few years, I traded in that office and was nicely profitable, but with many ups and downs.  I developed Maverick Trading's first stock trading course in 1999 and taught the course to many traders.   I opened my own satellite office in 2000 and became owner of Maverick Trading a few years later.

Since then, we have transitioned into a Proprietary Trading Firm where I've trained hundreds of traders to trade firm capital as a professional and I’ve spent 20 years watching over the shoulders of these traders as a Risk Manager on a daily basis, watching the trades made. I’ve seen traders fail and lots of traders succeed. I know the key to trading success isn’t external, but internal in self-control and trading psychology. I’ve dedicated the last 15 years to psychology, neuroscience and behavior modification to try to assist our traders. I feel I am in a unique position to truly understand what it takes to make it in the business of trading after 25 years.