"Thanks so much for your help. This was a good discussion and will likely generate much reader interest. The story is getting a promo on page one of (Friday) morning's Wall Street Journal and may be made free to the public (Friday), making more outside links possible."

--WSJ

My late parents would be proud. It was just 40 years ago that I was awarded the Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award for graduating with top marks at the Waterloo Lutheran University (Wilfred Laurier) School of Business.

In the ensuing years I learned a lot about trading, which I try to communicate in this blog.

My blog btw is now read in 146 countries. The web stats for May show well in excess of 1 million hits a week from almost 55,000 unique servers, many of which are content aggregators or offices with multiple users.

Many of the readers (and commenters) are professional traders and capital managers. It would not be surprising to me if the total Assets Under Management (AUM) and Assets Under Administration (AUA) exceed the total invested in the hedge funds I was writing about in WSJ, i.e., $1.5 trillion.

What I find truly amazing is that someone who is retired (other than trading out of his home) could spend the grand total of US$2,000 (and his time) to create a communication tool (this blog) that could garner such a global audience after just 25 months.

My parents died eleven months ago a day apart, after 67 years of marriage, and they were quite aware of this blog. Before he suffered his fatal stroke, my Dad would check in daily on his ThinkPad laptop " the same one he used to trade electronically.

Trading was a lifetime joy to him as it is to me.

The blogging is another, and I intend to continue doing it until my final days. The joy of course is in sharing opinions and knowledge to all people regardless of their situation in this crazy world.

Thank you for reading, and commenting, and joining an intellectually honest discussion.