11th June 2014 – Day 3 Woke up this morning keen to check what had happened overnight, in profit by £30.60 but still nowhere near my take profit level. Suspecting that we might be opening a new trade later today but not going to look at it till at least lunchtime and then have a […]

10th June 2014 – Day 2 Opened the platform at 7am and up £39.60 not big money obviously but pleased it’s in the right direction. Looking forward to seeing what the day brings and possibly making another trade. Focusing on ‘what I can learn more than what I can earn’ for now… but definitely very […]

9th June 2014 – Day 1 I started trading today, I added £1,000 from my current account to an online trading platform, I’d never heard of the website before but once I got over the initial visual impact of all the numbers I realized that it’s not actually that complicated. I set up a watch […]

Meeting Ali Campbell Continuing with my learning and self discovery and continuing with my interest in how our thoughts define our experiences, I wanted to explore this further. I was particularly curious to explore the parallels between my trading philosophy and the broader life issues people experience. I’d read so many books by now and […]

“It doesn’t matter whether you believe in the rules or not as long as you follow them! If you follow them you will observe that they work so then you will believe in them. This belief will make it easier and easier to follow the rules and recognise when your mind is challenging you to […]

October 2006 I was stuck in a taxi in a horrendous traffic jam on Sheik Rashid highway in Dubai when a series of emails came through on my Blackberry. Firstly there was an email from one of our senior government bond salesmen complaining that the senior UK government bond (‘gilt’) trader was missing customer business […]

The experiences of South Africa had increased my confidence in my ability to make money. I’d come up against bankers, lawyers, architects, quantity surveyors and hustlers and had never felt at a disadvantage, in fact quite the opposite. I had some money to play with but I decided if I wanted to make serious money […]

I guess I’d always had a fascination with making money and at the same time taking risks. As a schoolboy of 14 or 15 I decided to chance my arm as the school bookmaker. I learned easily, starting prices were easy to take from the high street bookies, then I moved my prices up and […]

Introduction I was sitting in a restaurant that I frequent in London’s Borough Market having a chat with a lovely Kazakhstani waitress named Zahira who I’d got to know from months of lunching at this restaurant, mainly to enjoy their barbeque king prawns. Zahira asked that usual question; “So, what is it that you do […]

Preface Part 2 With hindsight setting up a charity, with the best intentions, was somewhat naïve. I very soon learned that this sector of the economy wasn’t much different to any other; in many ways it was more corrupt as it pretends to be something it isn’t; at least traders and bankers don’t pretend to […]