About Bottom Finders

This is the part where you are expecting to see a picture of a big building or two dudes shaking hands because this is what they do on the About Us page, but that’s not what is happening here. I am going to use this page to tell you about me. My friends call me Yaz. I do not wish to put my name out not because of anonymity, but to keep my professional life separate. If you look hard enough, you might actually make the connection on who I am through some searching. It’s no secret… You can also contact me through the Contact form on the homepage and I am more than happy to introduce myself.

I’ve been in IT over 30 years doing engineering work. I started as a developer in the 90s and came up through the ranks becoming an architect, and eventually a tech lead. Fast forward a decade or two, I am a Director of engineering at a well-known company leading many teams of engineers developing flagship products that cater to thousands of users. Through my travels, there were two key areas I kept gravitating to – trading and analyzing raw data. I thought of trading as a possibility to retire one day but that didn’t work, lol. The cycle went something like this. I’d scrounge up a few G’s and then I’d play in the market, lose my money, take a break, and wash, rinse, and repeat few months later. I kept getting fleeced. As for the data analysis part, it was part of my daily grind so I kept at it because I loved the work.

From 2008 to 2020, I lost my ass off in the market like to the tune of “it hurts”. I went through all the stupid mistakes everyone goes through. You know, mistakes like when you double down when you are all the way down because you want to prove you are right! Or when you convince yourself you know which way the chart is going… I always bought up top and sold in the pocket. The best mistake is all the techniques I learned on the web – the revision to the mean, RSI and MACD bullshit, candlestick patterns, and god knows what else. I did it all. It felt like I was always five minutes late to the party. Better yet, I sometimes felt like everyone was waiting on me to buy so they can sell it off. No matter when I entered or exited, consistently the stock position would do the complete opposite. It was clockwork.

I did believe in patterns that were accentuated by channels and wedges because you can see them repeat, however, I had no clue what made them. One day I stumbled on this very special podcast Confessions of a Market Maker by two cool dudes All-Day Ray and JJ the VWAPTrader1. It was like finding the key to life. The sky opened up and I was able to see the light. EVERYTHING came together for me and all the pieces fell in place. The epiphany was that it’s all about supply and demand. As you can imagine how stupid I feel saying it now. You can use all the indicators in the world, they are not going to help you. Furthermore, the support and resistance are intentionally placed by market makers as they leverage psychology to shepard the herd (you), and shake you out of your position. They call that supply, you call it becoming broke.

Remember the data analysis part? Armed with this newfound knowledge, I took all the knives out again and I went to work on carving up some data. One thing I know about myself is that I might not be the Jim Dalton or Peter Reznick of trading, but I am one bad ass mother fucker when it comes to data. I even impress myself sometimes! Anyway, I have come up with an algorithm to identify when buyers or sellers are drying up, which addresses the issue of supply and demand. To a smart trader, it’s called reversals. The amazing part to this is that I do not use one single technical indicator for any of my signals. I been testing it for sometime and I am ready to share the fruits of my labor. Like all the other traders that have epiphanies, I also want to share my knowledge for the up and coming try-hards who want to learn to do things right. Thank you for visiting this site.