Believe it or not this is actually going somewhere with my random thoughts. As I understand it, in a simple sense, the original purpose of a Blog was “a web log”. Somewhere along the line they have become a source of revenue. Write interesting Content, things people want to read, attract links to the Blog build a following and either sell advertising space or load the blog with affiliate links hoping and praying someone will click on them.

Well, I currently have no intention of becoming a Blogger but if I did it would be about the Automobile Industry, more specifically auto sales. This blog was intended to serve as a platform for me to learn and someday be a “log” of where I came from and how I built the project I am currently working on, providing it gets built. Additionally this Blog is a great way for me to get Ideas from others and possibly locate the technical expertise I need to get things going.

If I can stay on target this week I should have a list of of the things I have done on the internet, nothing big, just little baby steps for someone who 10 months ago knew nothing.

David G.

I believe I have successfully waited long enough to miss out on the contest that Jeremy had over at Shoemoney.com, Come To The SEO ThinkTank 2008 ON ME!. Procrastination will keep you from getting everywhere you don’t really want to be anyway.

I just started learning the whole internet marketing thing so other than my insane ideas, what do I have to offer? Nothing.

So dgvito.com/blog will be nothing more than my stomping ground to learn:
1. Better writing skills.
2. A place to put into practice the newly acquired and very limited web design skills I am learning.
3. A destination to practice playing with code, so if I’m here one day and gone the next, fret not I’ll get it back in gear.
4. Lastly a test pad, to see if I can actually attract visitors, with my limited knowledge.

So here we are, my first Wordpress blog, so is it wordpress.org or wordpress.com? What’s the difference and why should I care?

I started with what I think is a very cool looking free template, complements of www.roam2rome.com. Next, I successfully changed the side colors to burgundy, and darkened the coffee; both tools provided by roam2rome.com. While it may not be a big deal to most, I’m very proud that I was able to change the RSS feed color in the coffee cup, and place Jeremy’s art work on the IPhone. Remember, I’ve only been doing this 10 months.

So why write a blog anyway? Well I’m broke, and out of work officially this week. I work in the Automobile Sales business, and business sucks. I do however, optimistically believe, that everything happens for a reason, and the ups and downs of life are somehow controlled by a being higher than us; I call him God. You are free to refer to him/her/it, as you wish.

That said, the last 10 years of life have been very interesting. Trying to offset the slumping auto sale business, my friend John and I decided that my talent at trading the Stock Market may help. I had previously traded on a swing basis, and over a 5 year period turned $600.00 into nearly $40,000.00. So why not try day trading? As some of you may know, it’s a whole different world. I like many, crashed and burned. My problem was, I always played with scared money. The fear of loss kept me from winning and kept me well grounded in loss.

I literally have collected thousands of indicators, both for Tradestation and NinjaTrader. For 3 years I sat my butt in front of 3 computers, with 3 keyboards and mice, 6 monitors and 2 headsets which; I used to communicate with traders in chat rooms, calling out mostly successful trades for them too take. I was too afraid, and continued to pick the wrong trades, and spiraled into disaster.

How do I know it was the fear of loss? Only because I started Simulated Trading (real trades with fake money) using the same TradeStation platform, on a different computer. In the last 4 months of my trading career, I only had 3 loosing days out of about 90 with the simulated account. Same trading platform, and same contracts: Russell, DOW and S&P; With anywhere from 8 to 20 contracts.

I had many great trading mentors. Will Scheier, at TrendFund.com tops the list, he in my opinion is one of the most talented traders I know, with the best proprietary trading system I have ever seen, I consider Will more than a mentor, a great friend. My personal problem trading Wills’ system, I just ain’t that smart, disciplined and way too emo (as my kids would say). If your trading the markets and you think you know it all get a copy of Will book, Pivots, Patterns and Self Recognition; I think you’ll be amazed, I have an autographed copy and it ain’t for sale.

John and Hubert at TradetheMarkets.com, introduced me to some of the best “visual” trading indicators and techniques, that work for me. Remember I have thousands, most of which don’t work consistently. Trading in the chat room with John, kept me very calm. I traded the real money account only when he was in the room. Even If my position was counter his trade, his calm, logical, and non excited trade talk kept me in the game. The only two problems trading with John Carter 1st “Me again”, 2nd is kind of like golfing with Tiger Woods, and having him hit all my shots, that sucks. David G. is not a trader, David G. is not a trader, repeat after me David G. is not a trader. Additionally he sucks at Golf, LOL.

The End of My Trading.

I read in SFO magazine, I believe, an article about Simulated Traders never becoming successful Traders and their inability to trade real money. Man that hurt, I felt it was written about me. Then there was a YouTube Video that was done by the guys over at TadetheMarkets. ‘Shit is that my wife’? These two major things ended my trading career. BTW on a simulated trading account, TradeStation or NinjaTrader I could smoke anyone, guaranteed.

OK done with that. I am proud to say, that as addicting trading is, I have been able to turn it off completely and i have not looked at a chart for over a month, it hurts I love the Market, just can’t trade it right now.

So how can I believe that everything happens for a reason? First, I choose to. Second, had it not been for three years in front of 6 monitors with two headsets, I would have never learned the ability to multitask; I call it Turbo Multitasking. Additionally, I would never had learned about programing, code, chat rooms or blogs.

So Trading the Market did not work. Now what ?

John and I agreed Automotion of Hendersonville could not support 2 families. He wanted to go into real estate, and agreed to sell me the entire business; property and all. I headed off on the Web and tracked down anyone and everyone that would listen to my pitch. I had no takers on the internet. I believe you have a better chance of borrowing 35 Million if you are a 19 year old college student with a Web based idea, rather than a 50 year old trying to borrow 1.5 million for a brick and mortar business secured by real assets and a solid 10 year track record. Top that with the fact that it was a used car dealership. Traditional bankers hate the used car business, and unfortunately I agree with the bankers.

I was on the verge of giving up my purchase of the business, when out of nowhere a very successful and wealthy real estate investor basically walked through the door. Funny thing is he was a local resident. After several conversations (spanning about three weeks) he liked my ideas, my work ethic, and my beliefs about business. I think this deal is done. He requested three different proposals from me regarding the amount of money to be borrowed, the only difference being the amount of renovation to be done on the property. One proposal, for just some TLC on the facility. The second involved building a new building, only slightly larger than the current one, and better located on the property. Last, an entire new facility.

I got to work fast. Three proposals; 750K, 1 Mil, and 1.5 Mil. I used, what I think are the easiest loan repayment calculators at Virginmoney.com. Aside from being easy to use, Virgin Money will actually handle all the loan details, including collecting all payments. So armed with spreadsheets, charts, and graphs; I contacted my money guy. But disaster strikes again, not for me, but for him. Mr Money just had a Florida real estate deal blow up in his face, 10 Mil or more. My deal is off, but in a weird way, I felt worse for him than myself.

Written by a 50 year old and edited by my daughter Autum. Stay tuned in for the next post coming up soon, hopefully, if my daughter will edit it for me.

David G.

P.S. I’m working on the next Crazy David G. idea, but can’t reveal the secret yet, stay tuned.