My name is Vladimir, I am a software engineer by trade (pun intended).
I have a full time job which I like, but it can be pretty demanding at times.
I am located in Northern California, San Francisco bay area (not a geek though).
I got interested in stock trading about a year ago and was doing so with various degree of success
(gee, during the bull market one must really work purposely to lose money

I joined PFA in the hope of expanding my trading knowledge by looking more closely into supply-demand based strategies.
My trading interest has been stocks, but I would like to expand it on options and futures.
I am also looking for ways to augment my trading IRA account - buy and hold strategy certainly does not seem to work well .
Many thanks to WIll for his patient explanations about this site and the community.
-Vladimir
Michael and Brenda Camardese - responding to your post. We just joined Will last week. We also live in the SF Bay area. He is an excellent teacher and we are very excited to be a part of the team!
We are in the middle of relocating to Kentucky, so will be in and out of trading while moving, then hope to be full time once settled.
Blessings!