Pelican Trader

“There are three classes of people: those who see.
Those who see when they are shown.
Those who do not see.”

Leonardo da Vinci.

The Pelican is a unique creature that survies on the predictable feeding habbits of fish. Fish feed in the same places where food has been plentiful, some just follow other fish and most only feed in large groups.The pelican is a large bird and is very well fed. Nothing seems to have changed in so many thousands of years. So I beg to ask, why do the fish never learn? The price to pay could not be higher!

The truth is that the smart fish do learn, they do not feed in the same places as the new or young fish. The older wiser fish, have seen and observed, stood the test of time and know the good from the bad.

As with everything in life, knowledge is not enough. Timing is everything. A minute too late and the fish are gone. Too early and you risk finding nothing. There is high price that to pay for failiure. Even Pelicans have predators. Being well fed by many fish and long time survival against bigger preditors are the only values you can judge the success of a Pelican by.

Happy fishing my dear Pelican friend.


Trading can be a very simple process. And it is for this reason, opportunities in the predictability of buying and selling habbits of short and long term retail investors can be used to create trading situations.

When a retail trader places a buy or sell order on the trading pit there are “pelican traders” hunting for that order. And when the retail trader buys, usually after a few seconds the protective stop loss order is hit because of an unprecedented unlikely move. Memory is short and the feeling for the retail trader is unbelievable, they cannot understand, the market is out to get them…. Yet they do it again and again.

… A simple unfortunate trade or the result of the killing action of the pelican traders?


“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time”

Friedrich Nietzsche, (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

Pelican traders are a group of professional pit traders, that know by heart
where retail traders will place their next stop or entry order, for example where
a Stochastic signal will trigger an entry point, a pivot point will unfold
or very simple Fibonacci retracement will be in place.

Pelican traders we are the reason why 99% of the retail traders lose money.
And we make money.

I am a pelican trader and for many years including 2009 my job was to pick up the money YOU as a retail trader you were leaving on the floor. The naked truth is that simple technical analysis is no longer enough to be successful.

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them”

Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

Now that I have put behind me the young and frivolous days of my 30’s and am at the golden gates of the 40’s, I am almost retired. London, New York, Paris, Rome although wonderful, my dream has taken me to live in Tuscany under the Italian sun where God gave to the world the best things he could imagine: delicious food, wines to dream about, history and unquestionable art, a fabulous landscape and peace.

But the calling from the jungle of trading was too strong and even though I live and trade off the floor I have decided to start this information service where I can deliver to you, my readers 2 decades of experience on the markets. Adrenaline from helping you is what I am still looking for and I want to sell my creative aspirations to you together with nice profits.

Buy and sell intraday signal points on e-mini SP and on Euro Dollar will be sent to your I-Phone device in real time as they happen on the market, or better to say ‘as the pelican traders start to fly targeting retail traders orders’.