Our day trading blog just went through its 2-year anniversary! Wow; time flies! It was actually on November 3rd, 2008 that the blog section of Day Trading Tutor turned two (see “News” section on navigation menu).

For two years, we’ve embarked on a wild journey through the forex day trading market. In that time, we’ve learned the hard way about all the games many FX brokerage firms play, the advantages and shortcomings of the technology behind the scene, and how a historical credit crisis impacts every global market in existence. We’ve also met an endless number of day traders and money managers in the process.

I almost forgot that the Day Trading Tutor website also underwent a major revamp in the middle of it all (read Day Trading Tutor gets a New Look) - and we launched a series of live forex webinars to help day traders become more successful (after years of requests from our visitors).

Happy Anniversary Day Trading Blog!

When I started my Day Trading Tutor (DTT) website in the late 90’s, it was more like a journal where I dumped megabits of information about the trading of stocks and currency day trading in general.

New Day Trading Tutor Structure Implemented

Many new and experienced traders have visited the site over the years and sent me their testimonials. I never expected that a non-corporate-like experiment about day trading would help so many people. One of my friends, Giovanny “Geo” Gutierrez, a brilliant web designer and internet marketer, was really impressed by this. He is the owner of Ionic Studios and he suggested redesigning the site to make it more user-friendly, cleaner, and more “professional” (whatever that means).

That’s how the Day Trading Tutor redesign began in 2006. Geo came up with the new look and structure; then went on to apply cascading style sheets (CSS) to the entire DTT website.

DTT’s Dan Alvarez gets Iconized

Despite being overwhelmed with many other projects, the brilliant artists of Iconize Me were nice enough to then embark on the icononization of your’s truly, Dan Alvarez (Day Trading Tutor). See the transformation below of one of my ugly pictures. The three extremely talented artist of Iconize Me (Paul Sahner, Shalimar Luis, and José Ramos) came up with their own unique versions of me. These images are rotated at random on the upper left corner of each page, to add a little flavor to the whole operation!

I love all three versions of me, especially José’s design. His unique and witty style of caricature resonates with my jovial personality.

DTT Day Trading Information Orbits The Blogosphere

Internet Marketing Consulting and Entrepreneur Coach, Barry Welford of Strategic Marketing Montreal, then took over. Barry, an exceptionally bright and talented professional, stressed the importance of implementing a blog for Day Trading Tutor and having an architecture or navigation structure for the site that made sense to my visitors.

With the help and talent of web designer Denis Doyle, Barry succeeded in creating and launching a Day Trading Tutor News Blog section using WordPress, as well as implementing a better site navigational structure. This also transformed DTT into a more search engine friendly site. Barry is also handling the gradual move of DTT’s original GeoCities pages into the new domain www.mydaytradingtutor.com.

Will DTT Be Making Further Improvements?

Day Trading Tutor is not done by far! The trading robot program has witnessed demand from many corners of the world. I have also provided a free day trading e-book to my visitors and will be including more powerful educational tools from talented traders I work with on the site in the near future. All of these things (and the birth of my handsome baby boy, Kaiser), should keep me busy and make DTT an ever-changing and growing place over the years to come.

May the new Day Trading Tutor be a blessing to you and your family.

On Wednesday February 7th from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST, Day Trading Tutor members will be able to join a free webinar hosted by the firm that provides one of my trading platforms of preference. The forex trading platform is based on a non-dealing desk or ECN model, which is the model that prevailed for stocks in the late 90’s and will dominate the currency trading world going forward. We have considered using this same trading platform for our day trading robot program, but are waiting for the broker to have the ability to control multiple accounts from one master account; an essential requirement for money managers and professional traders who trade for clients.

If you are interested in this event or another even like this going forward, please shoot me an email.