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I fell in love with options, futures and trading in 1987, a few days before the infamous Wall Street 25% crash, that October.

If there is one person I have to thank for my passion, it is Prof. Emilio Barone, a very unique person and a truly dedicated teacher, the one who, among tons of other contributions, translated the monumental work of J.C. Hull in plain Italian. 
Thank you Prof!

This blog will be an open diary about my approach and what I have learnt in 5 years of study about trading, scalping indeed.
It is a challenge to myself, to my ego and the lessons I've learnt in those years; am I a guru, an expert, a man who can turn a grand into a million? Not indeed. I am and always will be a learner in an endless fight with his ego who likes to win, as everybody, and is keen to obnubilate his defeats.

However, I am confident that I can also be a dedicated teacher with a genuine passion for teaching and sharing my knowledge, provided that somebody finds it of any value; I am a honest person, open to criticisms and with really no interests in catching day-dreamers, looking for the latest trading "Holy Graal" and planning for the 100K BMW they are going to buy with their trading proceeds.

My goal is to create interest and discussions about trading the free markets, the very ultimate bulwark of capitalism!
So, please, dear readers feel free to join my blog, read, criticize, insult my posts, but always bear in mind the following:

1. This site is for educational and discussion purpose only
2. Trading is a risky and hopeless business. Only a tiny minority of traders are successful and the chance to be part of that tiny minority is smaller than the Higgs Boson. Future trading is even more dangerous because of the derivatives leverage (if you are now switching to Wikipedia, chances are this blog is not suggested for you).
3. Trading, therefore, should be not be approached at all or, if you are so crazy to still be willing to deal with it, you must look for appropriate guidance and tutorship from qualified professionals in your own Country.
4. The author and all the future contributors make no claim they are those kinds of professional, neither financial experts, nor trading advisors or consultants.
5. Furthermore, they are probably idiot, surely incompetent and unreliable. In short: they are complete morons, so that reading their crazy posts is a total waste of time.
6. Even though, from time to time, you might find a good trade on this blog, this is due either to the law of large numbers, unfair luck, damned randomness and indeed current results are not at all a guarantee for future performance.
7. At the end of the day, every reader is responsible for his own financial decisions and especially to ascertain whether or not the particular types of trading described here are suitable with his lifestyle, his Country's laws and regulations. If they are not, please cease immediately to read this blog.

Having said that, I will humbly start my travel into the desolate lands of trading, wishing to find a good bunch of virtual friends, my personal "Salvation Army" to nurture and grow my long time passion.

Welcome aboard to whoever will follow me