When I first mentioned my plan to colleagues, about trading large cap stocks for huge profits. They all, without exception, gave me that questioning but polite look of 'yeah, whatever.' Two years later, after paper trading my ideas, and documenting my fictional account. A few eyebrows were raised. This year I began in earnest to trade with actual dollars, I e-mailed my circle of fellow investors, before each trade and at its completion. Now I have a following. But way back when, in the beginni.