finally jumping in here b/c you guys send me these little emails from time to time, which is really a nice touch btw and i really like catfish lol.... my name is karen and i live outside of philadelphia, pennslvania... have a teaching/healing practice in alternative medicine, or maybe i should say "did" until the market kidnapped me.... have always had an interest in learning/playing in the market and computers have made it much easier to do so... consider myself to be a beginner/intermediate trader with very much still to be learned... joined my very first online forum back in 2004.. had a little money to invest - BURN - and that's exactly what happend to it with a couple of my stupid penny stock scam investments... after money was lost, i left the market in 2005 thinking/believing i was done....returned to try again in january 2006 and somehow had a bit more understanding, which was surprising because i had not studied one thing while away... in any event - became totally addicted, and have been trying to learn as much as i can.. have gotten fairly good at dd and am getting better at ta which gary's cd helped with.... so that's a little about me and i hope to learn more from all of you.