Hi!

I’m Maíra. Welcome to my blog :) This is my little corner of the internet, where I write about whatever I feel like. My dogs, recipes, travels, trading struggles, piano progress, learning to draw, baking bread, life…

daytrader 💸 photographer 📷 pasta lover 🍝 mother of dogs 🐶 plant lover/killer 🌵☠️ wine enthusiast 🍷

A photo of me drinking beer, stylized with a watercolor filter.

A few random facts

  1. 🎡 I’m a futures trader. Before that, I was a frontend developer. Before that, a professional wedding photographer and videographer. And before that, a video editor in the TV and film industry. I think I finally found my thing, I like trading enough that I can see myself doing it until I get old.
  2. 🍿 I watch a lot of movies but I’m not a Godard-or-nothing kind of girl. I’m interested in all genres, from silly comedies and super hero movies to French Nouvelle Vague. I can rewatch the same thing many times. Sometimes I get hyper focused on the film editing and the photography.
  3. 🌎 I’ve lived in five countries: Brazil, Chile, France, Sweden and Spain.
  4. 💬 I speak fluently five languages: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish, Swedish, French. I’m entirely self-taught in English. I also learned Esperanto years ago and I truly love it, unfortunately the creepy old dudes wanting to see my photos instead of practicing the language on the web have put me off forever.
  5. 😍 I am a proud atheist and freethinker!
  6. 🎹 I’m self-learning the piano since Jan. 2021 with the help of an online piano course. Progress has slowed down immensely, after four years I’m still only around Grade 2. But in Oct. 2025 I decided to renew my commitment and dedicate about an hour a day to the instrument.

Slash

GNR was my favorite band and I loved Slash more than anyone on the planet. I dreamed of marrying him. Anyway. Here are the Slash pages on my site.

Photo of guitarist Slash