TraderInterviews.com: Hello everybody. Welcome back to TraderInterviews.com. Thanks again for joining us for another show this week. Today, we're going to be speaking with Ken Chow, and I've known Ken for a couple of years. He's spoken with us maybe a year ago or more in an interview and he also do our Traderinterviews live events that we'd had a couple of years ago. And Ken is an interesting trader because from what I know and well we've talked about him in the past he combines a very Zen-like quality to his tradings. We're going to ask him how he prepares mentally for that but also something about how he approaches the markets as well. So, Ken, thanks very much for joining us on our show today.
Ken Chow: Well thanks for having me, Tim.
TraderInterviews.com: Now, you're not too far from me up in the valley above north of LA, correct?
Ken Chow: Right.
TraderInterviews.com: Okay. So, you're a full time trader. How long have you been trading full time?
Ken Chow: About six, seven years full time.
TraderInterviews.com: Okay. What did you do before you were a trader?
Ken Chow: Well, way back I was an engineer which is how I came up with an approach that works for me. Being an engineer, I tried different types of things and became a full time trader after several years of trial and error.
TraderInterviews.com: Yeah, that's interesting because when I've talked to other engineers, they told me that, now everybody is different, but engineering is very accurate. It's very precise. There are mathematical formulas and the idea is you always get the same answer and trading is very much not like that. There's an art form to it. Did you have a tough time kind of making that transition?
Ken Chow: Oh, absolutely,...
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