Confessions of a Trader

This blog is my outlet.

My name is Andy Geller and I have been in the trading industry since 1997 when I interned for a relative who traded LIVE CATTLE FUTURES (LC) thru a broker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Since the day I walked into my mentors office to see ghostly look on his face as he managed to wipe out over $2 million of profits in one week in the Lean Hogs market, I was hooked. Makes sense, huh?

In this blog, I will give the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...oh yeah..and a ton of opinions too! I "clerked" in just about every futures pit Chicago had to offer, traded in about half a dozen others, and screen traded whatever symbol I could get a good chart linked up to. In the process, I made a lot of money, and lost even more. Thankfully and luckily, most of what I lost was not my own. I am here to let you learn from my experiences, my mistakes and my triumphs.

It is in my losses, and stomach-turning trading mistakes, NOT my winners, that you will hopefull find gold. I cherish every mistake I have made. I own them. They are what give me my winners today!

After trading in the pits for 5 years, I made the transition off the floor and onto the screen. I have tested pretty much every platform out there for stocks, options, futures and forex. I have charted every method available, found the things that work for me, and the ones that continue to boggle my mind. I respectfully fade all fundamental news.

I spend a great deal of time charting various markets, recently the forex markets. I am very strict with my trading rules and have gone from a literally hundreds of trades a day (somtimes dozens within one minute!) when I was in the pit, to at most a handful a month at my desk. It's a lot easier on the soul, the balance of my accounts, and my CHI, in general.

Let's see how much we grow in this blog.

Good luck and happy trading...and reading

Andy Geller


The picture: that's Patrick Duffy in the picture. This is the S&P futures pit, where I spent most of my days split between filling orders as a top-step broker for Wolverine Trading (bade was GLR 824), and as a local, scalping the market for a few dollars. The guy behind him is also a Duffy, but no relation, just coincidence. To his left looks like Matt Jones, whos brother was the director picked in the first Project Greenlight on HBO. I also see Frankie (FAP), SMURF in light blue (SMF) with his little trusty hand-held mini machine. Mario (DBR) is the bigger guy in the black jacket on the right behind the bar, and in front of him is a guy who's name escapes me right now. That's the crazy thing about trading in the pits. You stand next to a guy for 5 years, and all you know is his badge, not his name. You might not even recognize him in the supermarket!



MORE TO COME...!!!