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I currently reside in Orlando Florida and trade investment securities to make a living. I enjoy the limitless challenge of divining the direction of the securities markets in an attempt to affect profitable trades.

My other interests, time permitting, include music, philosophy, writing, keeping pace with domestic and international political developments and events as well as keeping track of computing and information technology. And, oh, did I mention I like to party with my friends? :)

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, but have lived in Florida (Orlando - 11 years), Texas (Dallas and Houston - 16 years) New York (Manhattan - 1 year) and Virginia (4 years). Career wise, I worked three years in corporate banking, twelve years in venture capital investing and three years in economic development finance. I have traded stocks full time for the last six years. What a ride it has been!

I went to high school at St. Paul's School in Brooklandville Maryland (class of 1974) and to college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia (class of 1978). See the links below for information on these schools.

St.Paul's School

St. Paul's School was founded by the Reverend William Edward Wyatt on February 9, 1849, in a Sunday school room of Old St. Paul's Church in downtown Baltimore. It was given a charter by the State of Maryland in 1853 as the Boys' School of St. Paul' s Parish.

During its history, St. Paul's has occupied six sites. The most notable among these locations have been Franklin Street, Mt. Washington, and Brooklandville, where the school currently stands. St. Paul's relocated to this 64-acre campus in 1952. The focal point of the grounds is Brooklandwood, a mansion built in 1793 by Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Over the past 150 years, the enrollment of the school has grown from 13 students to more than 800; it's plant, from a town building to a large campus; its faculty, from two instructors to a current full-time faculty of 88.

The founding philosophy of the school called for a "Christian education," once described as that found in British cathedral schools. In modern times, the school's goals have been manifested in emphasis on the mind, spirit, and body, as modeled in part by the Greek ideal.

http://www.stpaulsschool.org

Washington and Lee University

In 1749, Scotch-Irish pioneers who had migrated deep into the Valley of Virginia founded a small classical school called Augusta Academy, some 20 miles north of what is now Lexington. In 1796, George Washington saved the school from possible oblivion, giving the school an endowment gift valued at $20,000 - at that time the largest gift ever made to a private educational institution in America. In 1798, the trustees expressed their gratitude to Washington by changing the name of the school first to Washington Academy and later to Washington College.

In 1865, the trustees offered the presidency to General Robert E. Lee. Lee was president for only five years, long enough, nevertheless, to prove himself one of the most farsighted educational statesmen of the 19th century. By greatly expanding the range of instruction at Washington College, he transformed it into a truly national institution, a place where young men of both North and South could study together in harmony and unity. Lee died in October, 1870, and early the next year the name of the institution was changed to that which it bears today: Washington and Lee University.

Although Washington and Lee was historically an all-male institution, the School of Law became coeducational in 1972. Then, in July of 1984, the University's Board of Trustees completed a comprehensive, year-long study by voting to extend coeducation to the two undergraduate divisions. The first women undergraduates enrolled in the fall of 1985.

http://www.wlu.edu/