I have almost thirty years experience of managing risk, both for investment banks and for myself.

After college, I joined Ackroyd & Smithers as a ‘blue-button’ on the London Stock Market floor. I progressed through the ranks as the firm was taken over by S.G. Warburg, and was made a director in 1992, at that time the youngest in the firm. I worked as a trader in UK equities from 1984 to 1994 until I moved to Amsterdam to run the Netherlands trading operation. SG Warburg was taken over in 1995 by Swiss Bank Corporation and when European trading was restructured, the risk management was relocated to London. Back in London I ran the equity and derivative trading for the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium until 1997.

I left the firm after 13 years aged 32. At the time of my departure I was responsible for a professional staff of 10 and ran a risk exposure of up to GB₤100,000,000.
In 1999 I began my own client advisory business, fully regulated by the UK Securities and Futures Authority, giving stock market advice to private clients, until 2003 when my wife and I moved to New Zealand.

Over the past fourteen years I have traded a range of markets, including stocks, indices, currencies, commodities and precious metals via a number of financial instruments including futures, options, CFDs and spread-betting. I have strong financial analytical skills, and a good understanding of Commodities, Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange and Economics.

I have specialised in trading using technical analysis and charting, giving me the ability to discern patterns or fractals over multiple time-frames. I have a particular interest in the Psychology of Behavioural Investing and the interplay between finance and sociology.