My Story

I have been spending a fair bit of time working on my trading plan and thinking about my approach to trading so I thought I would write a bit about it.  My background in the markets is purely non-professional and dates back to the mid 80's when I used to chart share prices on graph paper .  Our family never understood … [Read more...] about My Trading Journey

I did some more digging about spread betting and realised I might do well since I keep abreast of economics and the stock markets. So wife and I went to Birmingham to a free seminar about spread betting and we decided that I should take the training that was being sold at the seminar. The seminar was over 2 days … [Read more...] about Sharescope and Power Plays

So I quit my job today :) I literally walked up to the store manager halfway through my shift and said 'I'm leaving'. Let me put you in the picture. For the past two years I have been working seven days a week. This was due in large part to: A lack of personal financial education, which lead to Excessive … [Read more...] about Trading Simply Announcement

Episode 1   ***Announcement: Apologies for the lateness of this post which was due to the extended pre and post production time of the podcast*** Positive psychology plays an extremely large role in my own trading. In a recent post I mentioned how a change in psychology helped me to become a profitable … [Read more...] about TS 001 : 9 psychological traits every trader should avoid