About Financial Widgets and Trading To A Million (TTAM)

If you are looking to make money in the stock market, shore up your personal finances, discover things that will save/make you money in the years ahead, or just want to have a little fun with life, then you’ll want to visit Financial Widgets on a regular basis.

Financial Widgets is an casual, eclectic blog aimed at doing just what it’s tag line says.  “Stock Market, Money, and Fun”  isn’t just a tag line but a commitment to it’s readers to educate, entice, encourage and add a little wonderment to the oft-times day to day slog through the politics and pressures of financial life.  Often, it is a walk to a wild side of the writer’s sub-conscious covering anything from macro-economics to the lightest,. most irrelevant and obscure humor available.

Patrick, the owner and editor, has been immersed in the stock market since his early teens.  While many of his peers viewed the market as a elite and mysterious force best suit to anyone else he has tenaciously clung to the belief that anyone could and should have a place at the financial table.

He choose to be an lifetime entrepreneur and in the past was president and CEO of a company he took public but his first love has always been stock investing and trading.  He has never ceased to learn as a common man might about every aspect the stock market has to offer.  And in a common thread, he still believes that exposure and education is the key to expelling those fears of the financial world he so astutely observed as a young man.  Remaining true to the ideal that prosperity should be earned rather than just an offshoot of breeding or position, he has always put the success of others above his own and that ideal still compels him today.

Now, with the advent of the Internet, Patrick has found a home passing on those little tidbits of profitable knowledge that before now must have been passed down through a Ivy-League education or through conversation at the dinner table, a conversation seldom had these days.

Mi Casa, Su Casa

Welcome to the family and welcome to Patrick’s home.  Think of yourself as family.  One family member to another, feel free to ask questions, make comments, suggest a topic, submit a guest post, and generally engage in the dinner conversation as it is your own.

Trading To A Million Virtual Portfolio (TTAM)

If this is your first visit here, consider checking out the Trading To A Million virtual portfolio.  It was started with a very simple concept.  Patrick wanted to show anyone that might be interested in stock trading how it’s sister activity, option trading, could be profitable with very little money at the start.

It’s inaugural balance on August 18th, 2008 was only $2000 but in not quite two years it’s value has ballooned to over $272,205 as of August 13th, 2010.  It’s simple concepts were ingrained in every trade ever posted.  It deals with one stock (An ETF actually) and one way to trade the options on that stock.  The method is uncomplicated and easy to learn.  Studying it won’t make you a world-class trader but it might get you started.

(Editor’s note:  For the last two years I have been trying out different formats to display the TTAM trades.  While the portfolio includes every single trade, good and bad, I haven’t really found a reliable and work-efficient way of posting them.  I am getting closer to a solution and so expect great changes in presenting those trades and to the blog in general to be coming on a more regular basis.)

Trading Disclaimer:

Everything on this website is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only.  It is not meant to replace qualified, professional advice, nor does it replace prudent personal due diligence. The publisher/contributors of this site are  neither a professionals nor qualified/certified to offer advice.   If you elect to make use of any information contained on this site, please be advised that you do so at your own risk and the principles and affiliates claim no responsibility for the reliability or timeliness of any of this information, or omissions, in any way.

Should you desire to utilize any of the aforementioned information, please enlist the aid of a trusted, qualified professional.  From time to time posts may list trades in progress.  These posts are not to be construed as any offer to buy or sell any particular stock or security but rather a method of learning what goes into the mindset of the post’s author as a trade progresses.