TraderInterviews.com: Hello everybody! Thanks for joining me for another episode this week at TraderInterviews.com. Our guest today is going to be TJ Noonan. He is a trader. We are going to talk to about his strategies and his philosophy of approaching the market and maybe get from him some ideas about how he finds opportunities in the market each day. So, TJ, thanks very much for joining us on the show today.
TJ: Oh, it's my pleasure to be here Tim.
TraderInterviews.com: Well, I usually start with background. Tell me how you got started trading?
TJ: OK. Well, it's an interesting story but I'll try to keep it brief. Back in the early 90s, I was introduced to trading. I think I just received something in the mail and it just struck as being kind of intriguing and seemed really easy and a great way to make some money, and boy was I mistaken! But that kind of hooked me in and it's been quite a journey ever since.
TraderInterviews.com: Well, so what markets are you primarily trading these days?
TJ: These days I primarily focus on E-mini futures.
TraderInterviews.com: That seems to be the popular one; the S&P E-mini contract is that what you're trading?
TJ: Actually no. I pretty much stay away from the S&P these days. I believe there are better and easier markets to trade. The S&P, I think, has some unusual challenges that I don't feel I should have to put up with, so I pretty much have been trading the Russell E-mini, trade the NASDAQ and the Dow E-mini.
TraderInterviews.com: OK. All right. So, a little bit different than a lot of traders these days. What made you pick those markets as the E-minis to trade?
TJ: Well, I have different reasons for each of them. The Russell, as you know, it's moved recently...
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