I caught up with Avdo and Zach two months into our Trading Mentors Match-off challenge to see how Zach’s been progressing. During our chat we were also able to highlight one of the major traits every successful trader must has, and all of us newbies must master....
After watching Wall Street, the movie, Aussie born (now UK resident) Nick Bencino ended up winning his school’s trading competition called the Stock Market Game, at age 15. During class hours, Nick would sit at the back of the classroom with his laptop (not to take...
Originally from the UK, Paul Langham was attracted to trading at just 13 when he learned the math behind horse racing, odds, and stocks. After spending some time on commodity brokers trading copper, he landed a job as an order taker in a major banks FX division in the...
Can it be we’ve discovered one of the best trading strategies of all time? Has Trading Mentors Match-off been the genesis of such a strategy that can be used successfully on multiple time frames? If you’ve been following the series so far, you’ll be...
With $1500, Rag (full name: Raghav Tewathia) started trading equities when he was just 15. Four years later we have him on the show with an amazing “Rags” (excuse the pun) to Riches story. At this young age he realized the conventional education system...
We’re well into month 1 of Trading Mentors Match-off and today we hear from Derek Vandelinder and his student Alison Forsyth. For me, this episode highlights the biggest obstacle newbie traders face. And it’s probably not what you think. If you think...
It’s been a few months since my last trading update, but this one is special. Why? Because I share: 169 trades I’ve taken since June How I blew yet another account Why I found it so hard to stick to my trading plan My crazy discretionary trading strategy...
Let’s welcome Andre Stewart to the Trading Mentors Match-off challenge! It was unfortunate that Adam Lord had to pull out due to a conflict of interest. But the show must go on, so Andre takes his place as our new TMM mentor to teaching Adam student, Phil. Andre is...
Trading Mentors Match-off steps into it’s month one updates. We catch up with Zach and Avdo to find out how they’ve been getting on. Is Zach making a killing yet? Has he fallen at the first hurdle? Is it all much harder than he could ever imagined? Has he...
What an twist of fate to end up here! In this “quite amazing” episode, we have Andre Stewart back on the show after his short cameo earlier in the series as one of the students who took part in my series with the mysterious Nick (episode 31). Andre was a...
When Kiwi decided to extend his vacation, we had no option left but to bring in Alison Forsyth to replace him on Trading Masters Match-off. Alison is now wheelchair bound with MS, has been a spreadsheet analyst all her life and has been demo trading Futures for quite...
In this episode of Trading Mentors Match-off we bring back Adam Lord, the young Ozzie trader from episode 58 who had an amazing story. Adam has recently stumbled upon quite a few new things that can knock down even the best trading gurus and he is excited to tell us...
It’s Australia versus the “Rest of the World” in this week’s episode of Trading Mentors Match-off. We hear from, Sydney based, Phil Mullins who’s been teamed up with trading mentor Adam Lord from the Gold Coast. Phil works as an Actuary (which means he’s probably...
Growing up in Philadelphia, Scott Carney became interested in trading at an unusually young age. At just 15 he became fascinated in reading stock quotes in the financial section of the newspaper. He was also lucky enough to experience working on the floor of...
In this episode of Trading Mentors Match-off I welcome back our 2nd Forex trading mentor Avdo. Avdo shared his popular 1 minute GBPJPY scalping strategy when he was last on the show, which quickly became the most downloaded episode on 52 Traders, to date. And that’s...
This week we meet Avdo’s student, Zach Faraone. Zach, based in Florida, works in engineering and started out in stocks before finding Forex was the perfect fit. Zach is fairly new to trading and gives our Trading Mentors Match-off challenge an exciting edge...
Back for a second time, Derek Vandelinder shares how he’s approaching the Trading Mentors Match-off challenge and mentoring his new student from Denmark, Kiwi. Before you dive in here, I recommend listening to Kiwi’s interview to understand the challenge Derek has in...
From California, USA, John is a veteran trader. With 35 years trading experience he has seen it all. John has an engineering background that led to his technical approach to trading ignoring fundamental analysis (with one important exception). John strongly believes...
In part 1 of Trading Mentors Match-off we paint a “before” picture of both our traders and mentors – a bit like you’d see on a Reality TV show like Extreme Makeover. In fact, in these interviews our three traders are yet to meet their mentors....
Canadian native, Russ Horn, has an amazing trading story – he became a full-time Forex trader, with just basic math, after being owner/operator of a T-shirt printing shop. With a passion for charts and chart patterns, it took Russ two years to trade profitably....