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Gender	Male
Occupation	Day Trader
Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction	I have Masters in Business (Accounting and Finance 2003) from Michigan State University. I have been trading the market since 1998. Prior to picking up trading as a full-time career in 2008, I was a management consultant at Alvarez & Marsal and Conway MacKenzie for four years. I provided turnaround, crisis management and restructuring services to financially distressed firms. Prior to working in turnaround, I worked in Audit & Assurance at Deloitte & Touche for two years. Trading in the market has always remained my side business ever since I started college. 90% of the time, I trade through options. I love volatility skews and positive Theta plays. While I make a lot of directional bets, in general my favorites are to take advantage of high implied volatilities through calendar or butterfly spreads and vertical credit spreads. I never buy straight calls or puts and I do a lot of exotic multi-leg option trades.
Interests	Trading, Researching, Blogging, Travelling
Favorite movies	The Patriot, Angels and Demons, Pirates of the Caribbean
Favorite music	Eagles, Toby Keith, Enya, The Cranberries, The Doors, Enrique Iglesias, Loreena McKennitt, Junoon, Adnan Sami, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Favorite books	Angels and Demons, The Bible of Option Strategies, Swing Trading