My success in
life can be summed up with this statement:
I've
planned my execution for business, and have executed my plan.
Let me explain...
I grew up with humble
beginnings in Northern California. I saw my mother and father work
hard to send my younger sisters and I to private schools. I started
working at a very young age and knew once
high school
was over, I would be on my own. I started planning for my future in
my mid-teens.
I saved up enough to put
myself through the Coastal School of Deep-Sea Diving in the San
Francisco Bay Area and when I graduated from that technical school in
early Autumn of 1982, I was the youngest certified "hard-hat" diver in the
country at the age of 17.
Right out of the school, I
started working for a salvage-master by the name of Lance Sundown of
Sundown Deep-Sea Diving Company. I traveled to the Orient, and
the Great Lakes before ol' Lance retired after his last big job in the
Caribbean Sea fell through. I then found my way to the New York City
water-ways in the summer of '83 and landed a commercial diving position
with East Coast Diving, Inc. on Staten Island. Life was good
at 18!
Then came the winter in New
York. The water was colder, the weather nastier. One December
morning at the Hess Petroleum plant in Perth Amboy, the air supply was
turned off while I was working underwater...twice! The second time
was no accident the way I saw it, and it was that day I decided to join
the Navy. (Give my regards to Broadway...)
The very next month, I was
marching to the tune of a different drummer - Uncle Sam's - on the grinder
in San Diego, California. Later that year, at the age of 19, I was
attending the Navy's official deep-sea diving school and was then
"certified to deport among the denizens of the deep, mermaids, and other
inhabitants in the realm of Neptune"...just as my graduating diploma
stated.☺
I was attached to the diving
locker aboard the USS Shenandoah
(AD-44) thereafter and traveled to Europe - diving all over the
Mediterranean Sea in the first half of 1986. In that same year, I
also managed to suffer from "the bends" - a diving disease affecting the
bodies neurological system, ran out of air 90' down at the bottom of
Augusta Bay, Sicily, and had to be re-supplied a scuba tank while
decompressing off the coast of France. As adventurous and exciting
as this may sound, I was just 21 at the time while most of my comrades
were in their late 20's, married, and "reserved." When I returned
from Europe in the summer of '86, I tried out for - and was admitted to -
the Navy's frogman school.
I graduated from
Navy SEAL training's BUD/s
Class 142 and my life would never be the same as I knew it.
I was first attached to a
special frogman unit (now decommissioned) at Little Creek,
Virginia, and with
SEAL Team
Five in Coronado, California. I traveled all over the world
(twice), talked to everybody once (it seemed) - I was away from home an
average of 310 days out of the year! My 12 year Navy career ended at
the school where my Navy SEAL life began as a trainee, only this time I
would be a
BUD/s
Instructor. Life was definitely better now well into my
late-20's!
Now if you've read this far,
you may be genuinely interested in mini-autobiographies, just plain bored
with nothing else better to do, or wondering "what in the heck am I doing
on this fellow's commodity trading site...what's this stuff all
about...what does this have to do with futures markets?!" What I
would like to demonstrate to you with this groundwork and story thus far,
is this:
I am no
stranger to decision making & risk. I am a straight shooter, used to
working "under pressure," and have been making risk decisions since my
teens.
I am a
straight-shooter... (Punching paper and stinging
steel in California's high desert.)
I work well under
pressure... (Preparing to enter water in Naples
Bay, Italy.)
...and am not shy about taking calculated
risks.
(12,000 feet over the Philippines.)
With a
background full of precise decision making and risk, I successfully
learned to trade the futures markets while stationed in San Diego as a
Navy Instructor. In the Spring of 1994, my luck turned for the
better - but not with the help of shamrocks. No, it was "coffee" and chance
meeting with the author of a book I was reading -
by Larry Williams - that
catapulted my trading by leaps-and-bounds. It hasn't been all blue
skies and green lights though, believe me...I've experienced two major
set-backs in my trading: the first in 1995, and the last exactly one year
later in March of 1996 (both with my favorite market - 10yr. Treasury Note
futures).
I separated from
the Navy in 1996 on a Friday afternoon and left a 12 year military career
with "nothing" but memories and ambition to prove myself in a completely
new field of decision making and financial risks. I went to work
bright and early the following Monday morning at a brokerage firm -
Opportunities in Options - just north on the California Coast in Ventura
County. This was David Caplan's options specialty firm where I honed
my option trading experience and knowledge. I put in 13 hour days
and even worked Saturday mornings to excel in this field. Although I
later admitted to myself I was on the wrong side of the telephone, I
wouldn't trade the time I spent there for anything. I needed to see
"the other side" of the trading industry for myself, and what I learned
was priceless.
Watching the
markets trade tick-by-tick in the capacity of a commodity broker, you tend
to see trading patterns unfold continually and frequently. One day
while in my usual commodity broker routine, I felt I needed to provide
more professional guidance for my customers because some of them were
quite "trigger happy." I put what I had learned from Larry (up to
this point) and my own special market observations on paper to create my
own unique rules for market entries and exits - or dare I say "insertions"
and "extractions?"☺...because my Navy instincts were merging with my
market convictions.
With each
passing day I felt I had something more worthy to share than I could allow
at the brokerage firm. I needed to remove myself from that side of
the phone and start my own trading service, so one early morning in
January of 1997 my decision was made. And that is how the
Schad Commodity concept began. Life
is at it's best now in my early 40's!
With 16 short
years "in the trenches," I still have seen many commodity traders come and
go (and this includes the professional ones). I have never claimed
to be a guru in the business, as I would like to think rather a highly
disciplined student of the market with most of my futures trading skills
learned from one main teacher -
Larry Williams.
[Sidenote: If you're newbie to commodity trading, this is the gent you need
to learn "Commodity Trading 101" from before he packs it up for a life of
solitude. (...and you'd better hurry!)]
My niche in this
business is:
1) personal
one-on-one tutoring during regular market hours,
2) developing
ambitious minded up-and-coming traders into confident lower-risk,
less-stress professional traders by incorporating options with futures
contracts (as I originally wrote in my advanced futures + options
home-study, and
3) doing the
same ol' thing each day with my two original signature futures report services
- Schad's Agricultural Futures Daily Trading Plan (developed during my
broker days), and Schad's Financial Futures Daily Trading Plan (first
introduced in 2006 as a permanent alternative to day-trading).
Bottom
Line: My
continuous 12 year track record speaks for itself. Nobody can take
that away from me.
If I can successfully teach little
English-speaking foreign frogmen the concept of Antenna Theory &
Wavelengths, then
teaching you buying / selling in the marketplace will be a breeze!
As a straight
shooter, I post my commodity trading recommendations in advance and only
record the results after a recommended broker has reported the buy and
sell prices (taken from my agriculture and financial daily reports) back to me.
Again, I have been doing the same ol' thing for years now and if ever
there were a problem, believe me, my customers and the regulatory body
would set me straight!
So if this fits
your style of trading - taking my signals and allowing an authorized
commodity trading broker to trade your account with it by "letter of
direction," then take a good look at my results over the years - win,
lose, and draw.
Are you at least
six months experienced with proper trading nomenclature, familiar with
price structure, aware of the types of orders that can be placed with your
broker, and want to be an independent trader someday? If you're
relatively new, and eager to get set on the right track, then you may be glad
to have found me.
I initially
started developing new, but promising traders, early in my
Schad Commodity career. I was
accustomed to getting traders already "beat-up" by the markets. Some
I helped, and yet others could not be helped...but the ones that found me
early in their trading have thanked me time and again - my
testimonials on file speak volumes!
Commit yourself
with me to be your one-on-one personal trading tutor and we'll be communicating
day-by-day until you are comfortable, confident, and independent (usually
no longer than three months, and Saturday mornings if needed). To make it
more cost effective, I'll be sure you're paying the lowest commission rate
possible with brokers that are familiar with my unique style of trading
(which you will develop into your own).
I'm always
a quick phone call away, and I always answer my own phone.
Friendly,
approachable in public, and I always return my calls and e-mail messages.
(Pit-stop in Salina, Kansas...hopping to Europe with a
teammate.)
I'm the
real-deal when you need me most - during market hours. As you can
see, I do not post my phone number on my website for just anybody to call
in at random. I need my phone to be free for my exclusive trading
partners. Once I am at your service, I do not hide behind a
secretary either.
Take a good look
around, and take your time - I have some really interesting statistics
throughout my website. You'll see each trade I have had - start date
to finish - going back to 1997 with the S&P 500 and Treasury Bonds.
It's all there.
To sum it all
up, I am only here 16 years later (and all my life it seems) because I
have carefully planned the direction I wanted to go in, and worked very
hard to get there. When I was a professional diver with work to
do, I would plan my diving mission, and then execute the dive according to my plan.
In my civilian life of trading, I plan my trades, and then
trade my plan. This is the level of expertise and confidence I would
like to take you to.
Will you make the
committment to jumpstart your trading to the professional level?
My commitment paid off 101-fold when pinned
with the coveted Navy SEAL insignia - over a year in the making!
I planned my execution how I was going to get this done, and executed my
plan.
Set a goal - make it happen. I'll see to it.
(SEAL Team compound Little Creek, VA)
I hope you do.
I hope you make the commitment of making the markets work for you with my
help. Others have, and you've heard what they have to say...why
can't you be next??
Respectfully, Brian
Schad
See you at the
top! (Sunset atop Hatcher's Pass, Alaska)
Can life get
any better than this...?!
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