The charities all say a GREAT BIG THANK YOU!!!

You can click on the letter to make it larger so you can read it.....:)

The deal was....I would put on a workshop and instead of charging a fee, I said, that all you needed to do was open your heart and write a check for what you believed would be right and just.

Here is the letter from Jane at the Humane Society, you remember Jane...she was in the presentation at the Woodies CCI Club World Universal Conference held in Las Vegas back in December of 2003. Wow, that was a long time ago...wasn't it????

Well, as time has moved forwarded we discovered that Traders helping Traders, Lighting someone elses candle doesn't take away from yours, there will be better trades down the road and of course....we donate all the money left over from the TAL to MAW has only been a smoke and mirror, dog and pony show. Jane was there as was the fellow from the Eagle Foundation, The Bear Center, Dolly Foundation and hell I even had one of the largest donors from Make-A-Wish come to Vegas and speak about her grandson and what MAW meant to her and her family.

What a waste, to have the right message only to have the wrong messenger, those who have come and seen, in person, understand completely when they visited my office and saw the mantle over the fireplace. It's of the market, of course, with the NYSE cut out in wood, a bear, a bull and chart patterns running on both sides of the NYSE. On the bottom of the mantle there a some traders waving their hands and ticker tape laying across the front of the NYSE building. In that tape is a message and it reads.......KM 5 7/8....HD 25.......BMI 34 1/2.....JNJ 53 and so on, but the first one is the important one.......it reads CCI 666.

Why you might ask, because that is the "Mark of the Beast", and the "False Prophet" among other things I could think of.....but it tells a lot. The Woodies CCI Club and Ken Wood could have been the best thing since peanut butter and chocolate found their way inside a candy wrapper, but instead he and Tony choice the dark side of things. Having Tony fly over the pond was never about just hooking up the internet....it was about talking privately "after hours", it was about being face to face and talking business at the expense of the attendees and "the kids". We all know now, that "The Kids" were never in the mix, but it does sound good...doesn't it.

Back in 2003, I got a lot of shit from the Woodies CCI Club and all thru 2004, but if you look back, I am exactly what I was back then....nothing more...and nothing less. Just a person who wanted to help others, share ideas and network with traders, I didn't sell out for a few pieces of gold, and once I figured the truth out....I WAS OUT OF THERE!!!!!!

I enjoy doing a workshop for a number of reasons, but one of them isn't to make a living, to sell books, t-shirts, coffee mugs, trade-a-longs, advanced trade-a-longs, provide a platform so other can sell their wares, click thrus, promote data providers and of course a "preferred" broker.

The people that attended the educational workshop and trade-a-long came with an open mind, watched and got some ideas to study at home after the market close, they met other traders and shared war stories, met new people so they could develop new friends, and they watched as I traded live with all the problems of trading live in front of a group of people, in unfamiliar surrounding, people asking questions, people talking and walking around, the news media was there for the upcoming Oktoberfest and phone calls. They came, they saw and there wasn't any smoke and mirrors.

I have to thank everyone that wrote a check to my favorite local charities, you showed me the value of good friends and for that I am so blessed...THANK YOU ALL!!!