Pradeep Bonde (affectionately known as Easyguru) has been successfully trading the US Stock markets for more than 20 years. He founded the Stockbee trading community and has helped many members become successful traders that have extracted millions of dollars from the markets. You can learn a little bit more about his background by watching his interview with Richard Moglen and a recent interview with Rajeev Aggarwal

"I entered the stock market actively at precisely the wrong time—right at the beginning of the bear phase in 2000. During the raging bull dot-com era, I was busy working for a start-up and my involvement in the market was sporadic. My interest in trading was initially sparked by the majority holder in our dot-com. He was an avid investor and he tracked his portfolios all the time. As the stock market peaked, the investors in the company started to lose money and as a result the funding for the business dried up. That's when my real journey toward successful full-time trading began.

Like most other traders, I was lost at the beginning. I was buying or short selling stocks at exactly the wrong time. Determined to make trading work, I exhaustively studied the equity markets by reading up on successful traders and their methods. During 2000 and 2001 I spent over $100,000 buying every book, course, software, and research I could find on stock trading.

All this study and exposure to research was enhancing my market knowledge ..."