TraderInterviews.com: Hello everybody, thanks for joining us for another episode this week. It's Tim Bourquin with traderinterviews.com and our guest today is John Gilner. I met John at the Trader's Expo recently held in Pasadena, California. If you haven't been to a Trader's Expo you should really think about going to one. There's actually a Forex and Options Expo in Las Vegas in August and another Trader's Expo in November in Las Vegas so consider going to one of those. It's a great chance to talk with the traders and kind of get an idea of what other people are thinking about their own trading strategies. And that's what we're doing today with this interview and all of our interviews, of course, it's to help you get an idea of maybe something you can add to your own repertoire of things you use in trading to find more opportunities, so we'll be talking to John today about that and his evolution as a trader as well. So, John, thanks very much for joining us on the show today.
John Gilner: Hi, Tim. Thanks for having me.
TraderInterviews.com: Well, so talk about your background. I always like to start it there, how did you get into this trading game in the first place?
John Gilner: Well, after graduating from college in 1990, I had what I would probably characterize as a typical career progression. I worked a few years for one of the major national accounting firms and after a few years of that, I realized I didn't want to make a career out of it and went to work for a client company and then it was in the health care industry and during that time I went back to school and earned an MBA in finance and that experience made me realize that I ultimately needed to find an ownership's taking something if I was ever going to make the real forward progress I want economically. So, in the mid to late 1990s, actually 1997, I earned a small stake in a local manufacturing...
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