I restarted my golf career, this year, after a ten-year hiatus. 

The last time I played golf with any regularity, the only thing regular was my position as the worst player in whatever group I played. 

I took a few lessons, but I never practiced. 

Finally, after one particularly embarrassing round, I decided that I would never play golf again.

This year, I was invited to join a regular foursome from our neighborhood at the lake that has been playing together every Saturday at 7:05AM at Delbrook Golf Course for twenty-five years. 

I was excited to restart my golf game and vowed to take lessons and to practice. 

For the entire summer, I dutifully played at 7:05AM on Saturday with my friends.  Each week, I would have a smattering of great shots mixed with an otherwise pitiful performance.  On every Saturday, except for one, I had the highest score in our foursome.

At the end of the match each Saturday, I vowed to get serious and practice before the next week, but I never did.  I even vowed to take some lessons, but, once again, I never did.

Without any practice and without any lessons, I remained almost as awful at the end of the summer as at the beginning. 

I know that taking lessons would help me and I am sure that time spent on the practice tee would be rewarded with better performance. 

I realize that I am destined to remain exactly where I am, like it or not, because I will not do anything to help myself.

Struggling traders are often just like that except, in the case of the struggling trader, finding someone to help them is not so easy. 

Certainly, there are all kinds of trading courses available, but after a trader has taken several of these only to find that they are a waste of time and money, he doesn’t know where to look next.

This is where my Electronic Trader Mentoring Program comes to the rescue. 

I help traders get serious about their trading.  I show them how to practice to perfect their trading skills.  I give them the tools and the coaching to move beyond the place where they are to the place in their trading that they deserve to be.

I am not much of a golfer, but I am a damn good futures trading coach. 

My Mentoring program is filled through the first of October, so if you want to get serious in your trading give me a call.

Wishing you success in your trading,

+1-312-685-5333

Jeff@JeffQuinto.com

Copyright © 2010 by Jeff Quinto, all rights reserved

Jeff Quinto’s new Foundations of Futures 12-part video course is designed to dramatically help:

• Newer traders looking to start their professional futures trading career in the most efficient manner; and
• Struggling traders looking to move from frustration toward trading success.

Jeff has been called “America’s Preeminent Futures Trading Mentor“. For the first time, he offers you the benefit of his 37 years of successful futures trading expertise in a 12-video course so that you can learn at your own speed in your own time at a fraction of the one-on-one charge to work with Jeff individually.

The 12 videos include:

Four Steps to Success in Futures Trading - Success starts with a mindset. We start by establishing that mindset as well as how to set yourself up for success.

The why and how of using a futures trading simulator – The trading simulator should be an important tool in starting your career as a professional trader. Learn how to use it to your maximum advantage.

My Theory of Trading – Jeff explains his personal Theory of Trading to help guide you to your own. You may decide to use Jeff’s theory as your starting point.

Develop a customized trading plan using Jeff’s Trading Plan Template – The Trading Plan including specific setups will be given to you in a clear, understandable fashion. From this day, forward, you will have your own professional Trading Plan.

Setting up your charts to execute the trade setups from your new Trading Plan – Jeff shows you exactly how he sets up his charts and how he uses them to signal the setups he shows you.

The Method to My Madness – Jeff’s Five Steps – Jeff explains the step-by-step process that this course envisions in helping you go from a new and unsure trader to a confident professional, one step at a time.

Immediately and profoundly – A good trade works immediately and profoundly. See how this mindset can help you advance in your trading.

Programming Confidence – Learn how to program yourself for success even before you attain that success.

Grading Your Trading – Learn how to monitor your progress and how to grow from an “F” trader to an “A” trader one grade at a time.

The Eight Steps to Success in Futures Trading – Lastly, you will learn what you will need to do to become the long term success in trading that you want.

For a limited time, the $1,295 Foundations of Futures12-video course will be $995. This is a $300 savings. Also, included is 3 months of Full Access Membership in professionaltradermentoring.com, a $150 value.

For further information, e-mail info@professionaltradermentoring.com or call +1-312-685-5333.

Everyone would agree that finding Free Lottery Tickets would be a great thing.

What if I told you that your trading, done correctly, should yield trades that produced, you guessed it, Free Lottery Tickets.

In my Electronic Trader Mentoring Program, I show traders how to convert successful trades into what I like to call free lottery tickets – trades where the risk of loss is zero and the upside is unlimited.

Does that sound like a great idea, or what? 

Successful professional trading is not about enduring pain from losses, as many traders seem to think, and it is not about taking small profits, regardless of how satisfying it feels to take a profit, even a small one. 

It is, instead, about cutting losses and exploiting profits. 

That is why I use the description of a good trade becoming a free lottery ticket with traders I coach.

The idea behind a free lottery ticket is to:

• First, get the stop on a given successful trade to breakeven as soon as practical and,
• Then, and this is an important “then”, let your runner run. 

Giving a runner the breathing room to become successful is the second half of a free lottery ticket. 

Too often traders are so excited to see a winning trade go in their favor that they jump out, afraid that the market will retrace and take away the profits it has grudgingly given them. 

However, the way to make real progress in your trading is to give runners the room they need to reward you to the fullest extent possible.

Allowing runners to properly reward you is done by not trying to get the high of a move, but by staying in the move until the market changes. Following your runner with a loose stop will allow you to give it the room it needs and, at the same time, capture most of the run.

Letting a runner run is the penultimate skill for a trader.

The ultimate skill for a trader is adding to a winner, but that is the topic for another day.

If you would like to learn how to earn your own Free Lottery Tickets, you should look into my one-on-one Electronic Trader Mentoring Program.  Spaces are filling up for the fall, so don’t delay. You will want to secure your place before another, more serious trader beats you to it.

Wishing you success in your trading, 

Jeff

Jeff Quinto Jeff@JeffQuinto.com +1-312-685-5333

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I was mowing the grass on my side yard, last Friday when I felt a sting on my right ankle. I looked down to see a bee with bright yellow stripes stinging me through my sock.

I stopped the mower and slapped the bee away.  Then, I felt a sting on my right calf, then another sting on my left ankle, then another and another and another…

I was being attacked by bees!

My immediate thought was of the killer bees from the TV movie of the same name.

Seeing no point in standing there frantically swatting one bee and then another, I ran around the house to the back door yelling at the top of my lungs that I was being chased by bees so my wife could ready whatever remedy she had for bee attacks.

One of my neighbor’s grandchildren saw the whole thing and has locked himself in his room where he will probably stay until they take him to therapy, next week.

I have always prided myself in mowing my own lawn.

I know that from a purely economic standpoint, anyone making over $45,000 a year would be better served by having someone else mow their lawn.

However, for me, it is not about the efficient use of my time or my money

It is about exercise.

Mowing my lawn walking behind my self-propelled lawnmower is good forced exercise, every week.

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