Dear Readers,

My name is Andrew and currently I live in a beautiful city of Seattle in Washington state, USA. I am a software engineer by profession. Perhaps you might ask what a software engineer is doing with Stock Analysis? Let me introduce my background first, and then the reason why MasterFortune.com was established. This is the story of how I started this amazing journey of my life.

My first exposure to stock trading was in 1998 when I first got a job in Seattle as software engineer where I received stock options from the company where I worked. Many people that I knew kept telling me to keep the stock options as long as I could. When the stock went up for few points and had stock split 2:1, I was clueless when people told me how lucky I was. Then when economy crisis hit US in 2001, my stock options turned underwater. Unable to exercise and sell them, I was forced to watch them became expired. It made me feel something was not right but I had no ideas about it. Since that moment, I had hard time to believe what people told me about stocks or even the very idea of making a living by doing stock trading. In year of 2003, by fate, I happened to meet a young man who claimed he could make at least $20000 a month by doing stock trading alone. I did not pay attention on what he said to me because I thought he was just joking until he showed me his account statement at one stock brokerage in Seattle. When I asked what his plan now after getting some good amount of money from stock trading, he told me that he would have to leave USA after graduation and go back to his country for good. He wanted to open his own company and since then he will only visit US regularly for attending seminars and exhibitions in Las Vegas, LA and New York. He was very young but he managed to make me wonder how he did it. However, soon I forgotten about that incident since I was “busy” doing my day job work. Then I met parents of my friend who they were stock traders too apparently. They had left their day job to focus on doing what they love. They could do stock trading from anywhere and whenever they want to. I assumed their professions were already in finance and had formal trainings and educations in stocks trading. This was the part where my guess was wrong, they weren’t! They were just ordinary parents with no formal job in finance or stocks trading. It seemed both events were trying to tell me that there is something about those people who managed to be successful in stock trading, freed themselves from corporate job’s golden shackles, and gained financial freedom. They became independent and it made them wiser and could have more time for themselves and doing what they love.

Then I met a friend in 2004, whose stock portfolio was in very bad shape and he never had time to monitor and manage them. Therefore, he asked me whether I could help him to “fix” it. I told him that I had no ideas on how to do it. He then introduced me to a person who’s responsible of influencing him to make stock investments. From him, I learned his exhaustive way to scan stocks. He literally spent hours, reading stock data from newspaper everyday and made his own charts based on the data. I borrowed a book from him that was considered as his “bible” in stock trading. I followed his way but with no good result. So I thought it was probably because of my understanding about stock trading was wrong since the beginning. Hence, my search for the holy grail of an ultimate formula for stock trading had begun. Soon I was really hooked into this new “crusade”. Without I realized it, I had stepped into a journey of what many people called it as three stages of stock trader development: initiation, development, and mastery.

Between 2004 through 2006, those times were becoming my initiation stage where I made many beginner’s mistakes. Beginners always made victory lap run when they won. When they lost, they couldn’t accept it and not being discipline. Their pride hurts but they also tend to forget their past mistakes and are ready to burn their money again. The initiation stage was the most crucial stage in any stock trader development. This is where most newcomers give up after they have lost their spirit (and capital). I almost given up until I came across to a movie called “The Pursuit of Happyness” (fyi: The misspelling was intentional) which gave me a big motivation and inspirations. That movie gave me inspiration that there is no shortcut can be done if you want to become a very good trader. I decided to study further and developed my own learning plan. I bought and borrowed many books and periodicals about investments but I was interested particularly in Technical and Fundamental analysis of stocks. After a while, I learned that there is no such thing as Holy Grail in stock trading. Each trader has their own sets of methods but in general, there are few pillars of principles that we have to follow (which I will discuss in more details in my upcoming books).

As in development stage, it went into multitude of several real life exposures. I started to understand about what made the economy really is and its connection to the stock market. The world does not consist of few isolated economy lands but they are interconnected. What’s happening at one side of the world would affect others. It’s like a domino effect. In 2007, while I was on vacation in Japan, I learned about the Japan’s real estate market crash in the early 1990s. Not many people could afford buying homes in big cities of Japan. It reminded me about how expensive the price of housing market in the place where we lived. With Summer Olympic 2008 in China was forthcoming, people were really hyped and ignored the fact that we were living in economy bubble (I was surprised to know they had forgotten about economy crisis that happened previously). Many people in radio and newspapers were chanting about the bubble was about to burst but no one seemed to care. One thing that I learned the hard way was the fact about watching financial news channel on TV, which was proven to cloud my trading decisions and mindset. Many people were lured into news and stock recommendations without realizing most of them were just poison. News can be manipulated, even intentionally to be delivered late. Advisors and bankers, who work for big companies may have their own agenda and paid by commissions. So many info and data, they became blurred and people will get confused easily. To make matter worse, some people invented many ways to trick people into dirty schemes.

In early 2008, thanks to job outsourcing, I got an ultra demanding software engineering job that forced me to handle outsourced workers in 3 different time zones (China, Israel, India) that require constant updates and monitoring. It made me working 16 – 18 hours for three weeks straight until I fell really ill and unable to do my daily function. I was totally burnt out and my health was in very bad shape. Since then, I decided not to do any stock trading during that period because I was not sure if it was the right thing to do considering my health condition at that time. I had to take whatever that I could get and sold any positions in the stock brokerage account since I was afraid after seeing what’s shown in the technical indicators about US market was at its decline. I only kept few ones that I thought they would be less affected (which proven to be wrong). Because I could not take care of myself, I had to take total rest. I took a sabbatical leave (which turned out to be unpaid leave) for few months from my job. Little I knew about that moment which was actually the brink of major economy crisis in USA. I only could observe how the market took a dive. Many people lost their money, assets and some even took their own life. It reminded me of economy crisis in 2001 but the global impact was actually less severe during that time. Instead of getting confused, I took my time to study again and did analysis of the past data. Eventually when I felt better, I was able to attend few seminars about stock trading. I tried several different software that claimed could improve my trading outcome. Soon I found each software has their own problems. One of them was always crashed whenever I ran certain things. Some were very buggy. Some are relatively cheap and some are expensive. However, none of them gave ultimate satisfaction since nothing gave consistent results. When I returned to work, I noticed many folks had lost their jobs (which eventually including mine and all other folks in my team). Although I eventually was able to get my old job back, I felt miserable at the beginning but I was also grateful that I could still have a job. It actually gave me more reasons to find the freedom that I had been looking. After working in software development field since 1992, I felt that now I wanted to do something else that’s more rewarding. I had good job with good income but I still felt something is missing. There was no more sense of job security, even for those who’re working as full time employees.

Then when I went to a famous beach, watching people doing surfing at the beach, something brought me into attention. I noticed there are certain regularities that are happening in nature (despite the daily chaos), may also be happening in the world of stock market. Moreover, I happened to notice these regularities while watching people surfing at the beach! You will be surprised when you could see the relation between those waves at ocean with the stock price movements. Everything started to make sense. We, human, subject to the laws of nature. So what attracted those people to do surfing? Most folks said that they enjoyed it. They were always excited although knowing the risk of dangers associated with it. However, for those who can master surfing the waves, it seemed they were having a good time when doing it, while making sure they were well prepared for anything if the surfing goes wrong. I adopted this technique and created my own formula (MF Score™) based on that, as well as tested the system during the toughest time between 2008 through 2011. This was becoming a new phase of my venture in stock trading: hence, the mastery stage has begun.

This technique of mastering how to surf the waves (of fortune) is captured in our upcoming book. You will see how we did it during those amazing years. Since then, we were able to consistently getting spectacular 3 to 4 digits percentage gains. Only very few select Hedge funds could claim such results. Most mutual funds can only claim 1 – 2 digits percentage gains. With this achievement, knowledge, and experience at hand, I felt my life is finally more fulfilling and the work that I do is more rewarding. I could have freedom whether I want to trade or not and when to do it whenever and wherever I want. Since not many people have time to go through what I had done, a little guidance can be made based on experience and formula that I developed. It was made to make it easier for average people to understand (Please see the explanation about it in this newsletter). MF Score™ itself alone is not going to answer everything and allow a novice trader suddenly becoming an expert in stock trading. It is not a shortcut! It requires a discipline and due diligence from us in order to be able to take advantage of using MF Score™ to get a good trading outcome.

A good stock trader is like a good and well-behaved Kendo champion. Upon winning or losing, he/she remains calm without being emotional and stay focus, no matter what the outcome of the trade result is. The “small” price that you paid for buying this newsletter will repay you multiple times when you read and use the information that we give in this newsletter. Please learn all the aspects of stock trading and its risks before proceeding to do trading and read our Terms of Service & Disclaimers for your own good. We also recommend you to get familiar with terms, patterns, and techniques first.

Happy Fortune Trading!