I didn’t begin my career as a trader. I started on the tech side of a trading floor at Thomas Cook Financial Services, and later at Mellon Bank, which would go on to become Bank of New York Mellon. Back then, I was an IT guy — building systems and solving problems. But I was surrounded by traders. Brilliant ones. Ruthless ones. Winners and losers. And from the corner of the room, while writing code and supporting their systems, I was watching. Learning. Absorbing. I saw the best of what trading could be — focused, strategic, sharp. I also saw the worst — addiction, overtrading, emotional chaos. By 1997, I’d built the Virtual Trading Desk, one of the first digital tools to help traders analyze setups, manage their risk, and streamline their decisions. It was ahead of its time, and it opened doors for me — not just as a systems thinker, but as someone who could see the bigger picture. Over the next 30 years, I taught trading to tens of thousands of people across the globe. I stood on stages. Ran seminars. Launched businesses. Built platforms. Saw fortunes made — and blown. And through it all, I kept circling back to the same question: The Early Days
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