tactical trader

Thomas Bulkowski is a successful investor with twenty-five years of experience trading stocks. He is also the author of the Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Second Edition, Trading Classic Chart Patterns and Getting Started in Chart Patterns. With over 70 articles published, Thomas is a frequent contributor to Active Trader, Stocks, Futures and Options and Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazines.

Before earning enough from his investments to “retire” from his day job at age thirty-six, Thomas was a hardware design engineer at Raytheon and a senior software engineer for Tandy Corporation. He was the vice president of membership and later treasurer of the Keller Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Keller Parks and Recreation board, president of Keep Keller Beautiful, vice president of the Friends of the Keller Library and a member of the Keller Writers’ Association. He also authored the Keller Recycling Task Force report and Park System Study.

In his spare time, he likes to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in his garden, play guitar in his gazebo, read and write fiction, and sneak up on his dog.