Ever wonder why some traders stick with white backgrounds?

My story goes back to 1974. That's when I first got into trading—way before screens took over. Back then, we did everything by hand. Graph paper, rulers, pencils. Every single price movement had to be plotted manually.

Think about it: if we'd used black paper instead, we'd need white, red, and green ink just to mark things up. Sounds ridiculous, right? But that's how we learned to read markets—one data point at a time, drawn with our own hands.

Computers? They didn't exist in our world yet. When they finally showed up, the white chart just made sense. Old habits die hard, especially when they're burned into your muscle memory from years of plotting lines on paper.

Sometimes the simplest explanations are the real ones.