Meet Diana

Empowering Your Financial Journey

“I knew from a young age that finance was my calling. At the age of 9, I was charging my sister interest on $5 loans (my “risk premium”), and by 12, I started my first small business venture. At 18, I negotiated my first car loan using the concept of the time value of money, pointing out to the car salesman that the second offer presented by his manager actually left me worse off than the first. (I recall using an unusually high 12% discount rate to prove this, but it worked.)

During college, a virtual trading competition fed both my competitive nature and newfound interest in the financial markets. Shortly after graduating with a degree in Accounting and Finance, I opened my first brokerage account. After nearly ten years in accounting and technology, I left my corporate career to join a proprietary trading firm as a full-time options trader. During my tenure with the firm, I had the opportunity to work with hundreds of options and currency traders. Working with this group of aspiring professional traders became the best part of my day, alongside closing out winning trades, of course!

Fast-forward to today. With more than two decades of experience across a diverse professional background—spanning public accounting, business process design, technology product management, global strategy consulting, and over fifteen years trading equities and stock options—I have found my passion in trading the financial markets.

With this, I have also realized a mission to help others who are eager to make sense of the financial markets so that they, too, may partake in the exciting world of stock trading.

And thus, Trading with Diana was born…”

– Diana Perkins, CPA

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