The 3Dimensional Trading Breakthrough
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<strong>The</strong> 3 Dimensional <strong>Trading</strong> <strong>Breakthrough</strong><br />
Background on Brian Schad<br />
Schad Commodity Futures & Options <strong>Trading</strong> Corporation [<strong>The</strong> name changed<br />
in 2000 from PTA Consultation Services] was a real-time personal consultation<br />
service which provided personal assistance and guidance similar to that of a fullservice<br />
broker for clients involved in commodity futures and options trading. PTA<br />
was founded with a mission to provide innovative, practical, and expert quality<br />
service. It was designed to save traders money while enhancing their trading<br />
knowledge and strategies. I started the company in January of 1997 and it expanded<br />
exponentially due to the niche it services – that is professional, unbiased<br />
advice and position-monitoring for a reasonable flat fee and deep-discount<br />
commissions from a variety of independent discount brokerage firms. PTA had no<br />
connection with brokerage firm commissions either. PTA was designed to provide<br />
off-floor traders with two key benefits:<br />
1. PTA’s experience in trading and brokerage combined with personalized<br />
training.<br />
2. Substantial savings of commissions and fees versus full-service brokerages. I<br />
provided unbiased knowledge and advice without the threat of commissiongenerating<br />
“nonsense” trades which plague most novice traders in support of<br />
their $100 “full-service” brokers’ salaries.<br />
PTA catered to a wide variety of clients: spread traders, delta neutral traders,<br />
position traders, seasonal traders, and day traders. During the course of my many<br />
discussions with clients, I discovered a huge void of knowledge and understanding<br />
in this area.<br />
“Nobody can be so amazingly arrogant as a young man<br />
who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”<br />
- Sidney J. Harris<br />
What I will present in this text is certainly not an idea or a creation spawned solely<br />
by myself. Rather, it is an original plan for trading, derived from years of trial and<br />
error, which incorporates all of the instruments that are available to us traders by<br />
the exchanges. I do not wish to be classified or labeled as an arrogant person for<br />
thinking that this is an idea that no one else has ever thought of. I am sure there<br />
are many successful traders aware of this knowledge. However, it has never been<br />
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