Edoardo Ciotti is a Swiss engineer that worked like a business consultant in many countries for a decade. In 1999 he left the job to become a full time trader. He lives in Bologna since he comes from the Italian part of Switzerland and here in Bologna his Argentinian wife opened a restaurant. He trades US and Italian stocks, cash bonds and futures. He developed a scanning system that every day in a few minutes is able to check all the US and Italian stocks and to select the best ones for scalping and swing trading. His main trading technique on stocks is to look for explosive stocks according to the patterns of some among the best US traders. His trades can last many days like minutes. He like to keep a low risk profile. He advises some big Italian banks and lecture in rare seminars for institutional customers. His equity line is very stable.