Hello, I'm Matt Bernstein. I've been working as a U.S. Immigration Attorney for over 20 years and am looking to transition out of the practice of law. The only experience I have with equities is with long term investing, so day trading is a new and exciting challenge for me. I have clients involved in equities trading and learning about their trading philosophy and methodology has made me fascinated with price movement and mass (and individual) psychology. I'm also very interested at this stage in my life in being in a career that is not quite as all consuming in terms of my time (and sleep) as the legal profession. While I understand that trading has it's own stressors, I do believe that my fast paced, detailed oriented job and dealing with life and death issues for my clients has helped to prepare me for that. I have my own practice, that allows me some flexibility. I'm committing three hours every morning (except for the occasional work conflict) for the next three months to six months to learning and paper trading using the the DAS simulator to see how things go. My goal is to be making live trades with smaller positions within six months, and to slowly "scale out of my position" with my law practice over a three year period if I'm making a regular profit. At this point, I've finally gotten my DAS set up (more or less) and hope to start making some paper trades this week. Wish me luck!
