ou can be free. You can live and work anywhere in the world, be
independent from the routine and not answer to anybody.” With
those words I began my rst book, Trading for a Living. One of my great
pleasures in the years since its publication has been meeting and becoming
friends with people who became free thanks to successful trading.
Several times a year I run a Traders’ Camp, a week of intensive classes
at remote resorts. I enjoy my campers’ successes. A stockbroker became a
full-time trader, closed his business, and moved to Rio to pursue a life-long
interest in Latin women. A psychologist became such a successful options
writer that she paid for an early retirement for her husband and moved with
him to the Virgin Islands to become an expert in what she calls synchronous
hammocking. A man bought a mountain in Vermont and trades from the
house he built on its top. I wish all students could succeed, but it’s not that
simple.