Bill Cara is an experienced finance professional: after earning two professional accounting designations (CA and CMA, while working for KPMG and then PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto) as well as an MBA at McMaster University, he worked for Dominion Securities, Dean Witter Canada, and set up the first office in eastern Canada for Canaccord Capital. He envisages his award-winning blog, which he started in early 2005 at www.BillCara.com, as "what every independent trader of securities needs to compete with Wall Street."