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About Me | Carl's Finance & Investing Blog

About Me

My name is Carl Rodriguez.  I’m in my 40’s living in central Florida.  I am a retired U.S. Navy submariner for 21 years.  I was a submarine crew member on the USS Von Steuben (SSBN 632 Blue) from January 1986 to 1990.  I was a Certified Naval Instructor from 1990 to May 1994 in Kings Bay Georgia.  I became a crew member of the PCU Maine (under construction) May 1994.  I commissioned the USS Maine (SSBN 741 Blue) and made the first few patrols until 1997.  I was a member of the Naval Ordnance Test Unit, Cape Canaveral from  1997 to 2001.  I then became a crew member of the USS Tennessee (SSBN 734 Blue) from 2001 to 2004.  My last duty station was the Strategic Weapons Station Bremerton Washington, where I worked in the Tomahawk shop and later became the Assistant Admin Officer for the Weapons Department.

My financial background is practical in nature.  I was a financial counselor for many of my duty stations.  I counceled many navy personnel in the fine art of saving, investing and spending thier money wisely.

Since 1990, I have invested in many different types of investments; mutual funds, stocks, stock options, LEAPS, Futures / Commodities, Futures Options, Foreign Currencies (FOREX) and binaries.  I have many years in the practical investing strategies of all types of investment vehicles.

Also, since I was in high school, I was very interested in computer programming.  I self-taught Basic, Assembly (Apple) and am now actively programming in proprietary Windows / Linux cross platform development in RealBasic and Windows development in Emergence Basic.

Livio and I have known each other since 1996, and we have collaborated on many trading strategies that I wrote testing algorithms for during the past 13 years.  MarketCycle360 was borne out of the years of testing we had done.  However, my hobbyist programming skills weren’t quite what Livio needed to be to bring MC360 to what it is today.  Livio now has a brilliant programming staff which has seen his vision come to life.  MarketCycle360 is an absolute brilliant masterpiece not only of programming, but the logic of economic macro investment no one has dared to reveal to the public.

If you don’t do anything else today… go see ‘How MC360 Works’ click the MarketCycle360 link in my Links.
I guarantee, you will not regret it.

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