Trading is in My Blood
My Father
Before the screens, there was the Open Out Cry.
Long before I stepped onto a professional trading floor, I was raised on the stories of the London Metal Exchange (LME). My father spent 35 years navigating the LME ring—an era where your word was your bond and your only tools were a phone, the ring, and a naked price.
He wasn't just my father; he was my first mentor. He taught me that markets aren’t moved by algorithms or "magic" indicators, but by human intent.
He survived the International Tin Crisis of 1985 and worked for legends like Henry Bath and Triland Metals.
The logic he used to survive is the same logic I used to navigate the 2008 financial crash from the desks of SocGen and Natixis.
From the Ring to the Desk
In 1994, I started at the bottom as a market clerk for Credit Lyonnais Rouse. I didn't learn to trade from a PDF; I learned by watching the largest orders in the world move through the market.
I’ve seen how the "smart money" actually operates because I was the one executing the trades for firms like Goldman Sachs and Codelco.
Today, I don’t teach "retail" supply and demand—I teach Trading Floor Logic. It’s the raw, unpolished truth of how institutional order flow works in a digital world.
The Philosophy
- Trade Intent, Not Indicators: Markets are moved by institutional orders, not retail oscillators. We strip away the noise to find where the "Big Money" is actually positioned.
- Simplicity is Power: On the desks of SocGen and Natixis, we didn’t use "magic" bots. We used naked charts and raw logic. If you can’t explain your trade in one sentence, you shouldn't be in it.
- Survival First: On the London trading floors, if you couldn’t manage risk, you didn't last a week. My philosophy prioritises capital preservation over "get-rich-quick" fantasies.
- Logic Over Systems: Systems eventually break; logic is permanent. I don't give you a "strategy" to follow—I give you the institutional eyes to read any market, in any era.