TraderInterviews.com: Hello everybody. Welcome back to TraderInterviews.com. This is Tim Bourquin. Thanks for joining us for another show this week. Our guest today is Johnson. He's got a trading blog. He's a full-time trader. We're going to talk to him about his trading style, what he looks for, and opportunities in the market, some of his favorite trades and setups, that sort of thing, as we usually do, to help you find something for your own trading strategies. So, Johnson, thanks very much for joining us on the show today.
Trader Johnson: Well, thanks for having me.
TraderInterviews.com: Well, so talk about your background first. I always like to start with that. How did you get into the trading game?
Trader Johnson: Sure. I would say my background is typical of most of your guests. I'd say, I got interested in the market when I actually had a college fund that had been set up a long time back. And my dad was able to successfully kind of navigate that college fund in a way during the dot com boom, that left me with no debt coming out of school. So, that is obviously a good thing. And so, I got to see the peaks there, and I got a little bit of the down side as well. I took the remains of that fund and I think I was in Corning. My first stock trades were Corning and Nvidia and I bought into Corning at about $40. I think it went to around $80 and I owned it down to $2. So, it is very small money, but I got the full range of emotions on my first couple trades and I think. Nvidia was the same way. And now Corning has coursed back to like $26, but I didn't get any of that move. I got the $80 to $2. So that's kind of how I got started.
TraderInterviews.com: So what lessons did you learn from those very first initial trades?
Trader Johnson: I would say that, you know, my father, at that time had been preaching buy and hold...
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