brookinsbuys est 1991

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Give me the courage Lord, to sail my boat out from the shore;

For I'd rather know the Ocean's gale, and hear the Tempests' roar,

than anchor safely in some bay, because Fear conquered me;

Let craft less daring inland stay, be mine the pathless Sea.

  

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Born:     Mobile, Alabama

Schools:     B.S. US Naval Academy 1986, M.S. US Naval Postgraduate School 1993.

 
Work:

Star Wars Program, Washington DC under Reagan, 1986-1987

Propulsion Engineer, Weapons Engineer, and Ship Driver: deployments to Persian Gulf, Med, Caribbean, Western Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean

The Investment Years:

     When I was at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, I was talking with a buddy about Mutual Funds, and he showed me his brokerage account in which he had been successfully trading stocks using the "CANSLIM method."                      (http://www.investors.com/learn/)

     About the same time I took a couple of "tips" from people "in the know" and lost 18k my first year in the markets. On a salary of 32k at that time, it didn't take this boy long to do the math. If I am going to lose 18k, I can do it myself without relying on others!

  

    Also around 1991-1992, I found Prodigy's MONEYTALK bulletin board. On that public stock forum, I listened a great deal to people who traded for a living, and I asked a ton of questions. I did not want to be a "lottery winner," I enjoyed the challenge so much that I wanted to be in the stock market the rest of my life. So I studied a million methods and a bzillion books, subscribed to a quadrillion newsletters, and did a lifetime worth of post-trade analysis. By 1993, I was still successfully posting on the MONEYTALK bulletin board under brookinsbuys, to the point that people asked me to start my own newsletter. I was still a Naval Officer working 12+ hour days. Didn't have time.

     In 1995, I took "shore duty," and caved in to my destiny. I started the growth stock newsletter "brookinsbuys," issued weekly at that time. After 2 successful years, I left the Navy and issued the newsletter. I have been writing the newsletter ever since.