My entire working life has revolved around trading. First at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, and then in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade—screaming, jumping, and waving my hands in the air all day long in an effort to make a market for anyone looking to buy or sell soybeans. You’d be amazed at how much trading in soybeans, corn, and wheat goes on in a day. I had started out a year after graduating college, after selling my car and putting the $5,000 into a trading account. Aside from a little money from writing, everything I’ve ever made grew out of that first, and only, deposit.

In the waning days of open-outcry trading I left Chicago, and headed west to circle the globe on Bumfuzzle. By the time we’d come back around to the States from the east, trading in the pits was a relic of the past. Trading had moved on to computers. Which, coincidentally, fit quite well with my new wandering Bumfuzzle lifestyle.

These days I trade online from anywhere. I carry around a laptop, and an iPad with cellular to use as my hotspot or to take with me when a day’s adventure doesn’t fit well with a 15″ screen in my backpack. Most mornings are spent trading from my boat wherever I happen to be anchored at the time, and afternoons are spent enjoying the area with my family. The dream of the digital nomad lifestyle is becoming reality for more and more people these days—you just need the right skill set to become mobile.

With Wanderer Financial I offer a weekly newsletter that breaks down the markets, and throughout the week trade alerts are sent out. I can’t guarantee success, as this is the stock market, where ups and downs are the rule, not the exception. I can guarantee that you’ll learn a lot about the financial system, how to take control of your own investments, and how world economies are affected by the news of the day.