Day one on the desk
I first stepped onto a bank trading floor in 1994, a nervous seventeen-year-old with nothing but an appetite to learn. I asked every trader on the desk endless questions and, like most retail traders, ended up drowning in information with no idea what to do with any of it.
Over time the noise started to thin out. I began to notice patterns. Flows that repeated. Behaviour that could be modelled, anticipated, and traded against.
What twenty-five years taught me
At 21 I found my calling as a market-maker in the fascinating world of commodity futures and options. The years that followed took me to ABN AMRO, Société Générale, Marex, Natixis, and the open-outcry trading floor of the London Metal Exchange.
I priced risk, hedged dealer books, ran prop, advised family offices, and slowly built a picture of how markets actually move.
The biggest lesson I learned was that markets are simpler than people make them out to be. Strip away the noise and you're left with positions and flows.
"Once you understand what the big players have to do, and when they have to do it, the guesswork falls away and the real trading edge arrives"
Off the desk
Away from the desk I built a life. A wife, three kids, a stint competing in mixed martial arts, and a slightly obsessive collection of books on financial history.
I've always been a puzzle-solver, I joined Mensa at twelve and never really grew out of it. Im the kind of person who can't leave a system alone until I understand what's really making it move.
Markets turned out to be the biggest puzzles of all, with the greatest reward for the people who solve them. After twenty-five years inside them,
Why I'm doing this now
Most retail traders never stand a chance, and it's not their fault. They're sold inefficient systems and get-rich-quick schemes that have no chance of working; and they pay for it with their savings and their mental well-being.
I've seen better-informed players and internet gurusi fleece retaili for years and ive had enjoyed. That's why I'm here to teach the average person the exact tools and mental models they need to really succeed as traders:
-Probabilistic thinking.
-Understanding expected value and payoffs
-Real risk management.
-Identifying and positioning ahead of the flows that quietly run the show.
These are the same edges that banks and hedge funds use to generate consistent profits year after year, taught plainly, by someone who actually traded it for a living.
No theatre, no mystique, just a mentor sharing how to solve the trading puzzle.