During my 19 years of interacting with the share market, I have developed and refined my skills and mind as a trader, as a market researcher and as a trading systems developer. Now I’d like to share my thoughts on the everchanging and always uncertain environment of world markets and the numerous variables that influence them.

I think that every investor, regardless of their level of skill and experience has felt almost helpless from time to time with the way markets behave and react to the almost limitless variables and outside influences that combine to make the markets what they are – a melting pot of human emotion. Events like recent developments in the sub prime mortgage market in the US, the ensuing credit crunch, the continuing impact of rising and falling interest rates, the FED, fear, ego, greed, and euphoria from the various market participants plus much more. I plan to write a weekly journal about how these variables affect us all and how to overcome them.

What I hope to achieve by writing this Journal, is that you will feel compelled to contribute to my thoughts. Hopefully I can challenge the way you think as an investor and give you some insight into the way that I believe investors need to think, feel and act to be successful as a trader. By sharing my thoughts, observations and experience with you, I hope we are all inspired to become better at what we think, feel, say and do as traders and investors.

I now encourage you to read my post's. Feel free to post a reply. The more people that become involved the more collective benefit there will be for all that read and contribute to the Journal.

I wish you consistent and objective trading.

Gary Stone.