25 years as a tech educator. A few months as a day trader. Both pointed at the same thing: the honest, no-fluff resource I wish had existed when I started.
Hi, I'm Jonathan.
I'm a few months into day trading — not years, not decades. I started where most of you are starting: figuring out which broker actually fits how I trade, which monitor setup doesn't wreck my back after a 90-minute session, and which scanner is worth paying for versus which one is just noise with a nice UI.
My interest in the market goes back further than day trading does. I got hooked in high school in 1990 — my economics class ran a stock market simulation where we'd track the newspaper every morning and make simulated trades. I won my class that semester. That itch never really went away. I've been a member of an investment club for over 20 years, serving as treasurer for the past 15. Stocks were always something I followed, just not something I traded — at least not in the active, scalping sense.
I got pulled into day trading almost by accident. I was researching modern brokers for my investment club — looking for something better than what we'd been using — and kept falling deeper into the ecosystem: scanners, momentum strategies, premarket briefings. At some point "researching tools" became "I'm actually doing this." I also liked the idea of building a flexible, early morning "extra" income stream I can run around my existing schedule. So here we are.
What I bring isn't trading guru status. It's 25 years as a technology educator — I teach Web and Digital Media Design at a technical college, and before that I built web platforms for a global healthcare technology company. I know how to evaluate tools, organize information so it's actually useful, and tell the difference between something well-built and something well-marketed. I also write the code myself — every tool on this site, including the calculators, is something I built and tested, not just researched. Developed by a developer, not a guru.
Bullish Tools is the resource I wished existed when I started: a straightforward, no-fluff rundown of the brokers, hardware, software, and learning resources that actually matter — recommended honestly, including where they fall short.
This site is also something of an experiment. I've built it in close collaboration with AI — I call mine Claudio — using it to research, organize, and keep the recommendations current in a market where tools and pricing change constantly. I think that combination, a real trader's perspective paired with AI-assisted research, is a more honest way to keep this useful over time than one person trying to track everything alone.
I'm not here to sell you a $15,000 course to pay for a Lambo and yacht. Just to help you get set up right — so you can focus on actually learning to trade with tools that make sense for you. I do wish to tell you that I may make a small amount of affiliate income from many of the links found within the BullishTools.com site to products and services — so if you find value in the information, help support my mission by using the links here. That said, anything with an affiliate link is a tool or resource that I personally use in my setup or have actually evaluated.
— Jonathan
The name isn't an accident:
Expecting a price to rise. If you're bullish on a stock, you think it's heading higher and you position to profit from that move. The opposite is bearish (expecting a fall). The term comes from how a bull attacks — horns thrust upward. It's the whole idea behind this site: finding setups with room to run. (Being bullish is a thesis, not a guarantee — plenty of bullish setups still fail.)