Actually from an interview with him in the fall 2005 tradersworld mag/rag How long have you traded the market and tell us what you used in the past decade for trading? I have traded for 19 years, 3 years as a broker and 9 years of these 19 years also as a professional trader. Other times that I was not trading full time, I owned Oriental rug stores throughout the Northeast U.S. I traded mostly stocks 18 out of these 19 years.