abishop

Welcome to what I dearly hope to be a solid foundation of education, learning and financial market acumen for you, now and in the future.

I am the new financial trading author for laytheodds.com, my name is Alan-Charles Bishop and I am 36 years of age and 3 years ago emigrated from the UK to Malta. What I intend to do is to give you an open and honest insight into financial trading, how to trade, what software is good (and not so good), what websites offer excellent information, money management, risk profiling, automated bots, EA's, Trading courses and much more. In 1996 (yes long time ago!) I was part of a four man team who won a prestigious Welsh Entrepreneurial award, the Robert Owen Cup for inventing and completing a full 200+ page business plan. The Robert Owen Cup is the Welsh equivalent to the Entreprenuer of the Year Award. What was the product I hear you ask? Well, you may well laugh when I tell you but it sells millions of units per year globally...its the universal remote control television holder :-) and yes I do have media proof of this! Unfortunately we were young and didnt protect it and a local plastics factory stole it, thats where I first started to really learn how the world worked.

My experience in the financial markets extends as a current stock, forex and money broker in a professional capacity in which I am qualified and licensed and more recently into the field of escaping big brother and its clutches from tax...legally. I already write for several websites including the company I work for and for local newspapers (online and offline). I am also currently writing a book entitled “Divide and Conquer”, naturally this is based on the real world of finance and those who run it. I possess many years experience in that I started paper trading when I was quite young. I have been real time trading with actual funds (my own funds and other people’s money) for several years. My passion really took off when reading my first degree in which a tutor who was an ex stock exchange trader taught me. His passion rubbed off on me and since then I have always been involved in the global economy.

I have made money and, yes, also lost money. This is just the way it is in real life trading and there has never been a trader who has never lost on trades, period.

I have been lucky to build successful working relationships within the financial industry and have quality information passed to me, these include systems, professional programs, courses and how the wealthy stay wealthy and increase their wealth. In fact i have directly witnessed this in my work.

I spend at the very least 12 hours a day market watching and analysing, it’s my professional career. Naturally I love it and in turn I love to pass on my knowledge and experience, otherwise I would not be doing this. I certainly do not consider myself a guru or some other form of self styled high end teacher, far from it. What I have to offer is good quality information to help you with your trading arsenal in order to help you succeed in the markets as a great deal of what is taught mainstream is far from accurate and merely leads to entrap you. It certainly is possible to earn a living from investing, that is for sure, but you do need some capital to start. Certainly, do not expect to give up your day job when you have a thousand or two to invest with. Long term it just won’t happen due to the pressures you will automatically be subjected to. However, you can start using a small amount and by using compounding, small leveraging (as an absolute beginner its best to use no leverage) and leaving the funds actively working for you, then you can build it into a substantial sum. This should be one of your primary goals when starting out along with capital management/preservation.

Aside from this, I also trade financials and football on Betfair and have been doing so for a few years successfully. Again, of course, there have been periods where downturns have been realised, but I hope you know by now, no trader wins 100% of trades every time.
So, here is to the start of what I do hope will become a very popular and active section.

Regards

Alan