Uh, my avatar goes with my handle. The handle was born during the tech stock boom in the late 90's as I used it on a number of web sites and chatrooms dedicated tech stocks and more specifically tech IPOs. I was all over places like Silicon Investor, Raging Bull, Fly on the Wall, etc. I was part of a network of chatroom-connected people that dedicated their lives to obtaining and "flipping" IPO shares. At one point, I was managing almost 300 accounts at ETrade... I made close to $500K on IPOs shares, much of that for friends and family that had provided investment capital to help fund my endeavor, before the game ended and ETrade discovered what I, and people like me, were doing to tilt their system in our favor. That year of fun got me out of debt, allowed me to pay cash for my IS, funded the down payment for my condo, and paid for my wedding.
