MY STORY

I've worked in a variety of financial roles over the last 30 years or so encompassing investment analysis, portfolio management, market making and managing a team of proprietary traders.​ After 2000, I decided to focus on the retail trader and bring them professional strategies. It didn't work because the cost of trading was too high at that time.

Gradually there was more competition amongst retail brokers and costs fell. Trading became more accessible and platforms developed better functionality. But by then I'd decided to quit the industry and go it alone. Thus aandragon consulting was born.​

I still find it shocking that the majority of retail traders lose money but it's understandable: novice traders are given access to trading platforms with a myriad of indicators, charting functions and so on and no instruction on how to achieve trading success. It's a bit like giving a learner driver keys to a Lamboughini and hoping for the best! Financial losses are inevitable for the many and perhaps that's not surprising. After all, your losses are often the broker's gain.

Further, the internet is crowded with alleged experts, marketing affilates, fake gurus and shills who each claim to have found the "holy grail" strategy. Inevitably the information they provide is useless and expensive. For many traders, valuable time and money is lost trying out various methods and that is a terrible waste. ​

For the beginner, or indeed anyone else, it's hard to know which strategy actually works. There is a scientific method involved that requires a lot of data. If you test a strategy over a short time period on historical data (backtesting) and live data (forwardtesting), your results have a low probability of reflecting the true performance of the strategy over longer periods of time in live markets. Put another way, there's luck and then there's skill. Over time, skill is evident.

The purpose of my efforts is to​:

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• help traders discover viable strategies that have a real edge

• enable them to learn new strategies quickly

• apply them confidently in their trading and

• become a consistent and confidant trader.

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​This website assumes that users know the different types of orders, understands the concept of margin and can use their chosen trading platform proficiently to place orders, install indicators etc. There are plenty of websites e.g. BabyPips that give such information so I won't repeat it here.

My recommendation is to master one strategy that makes sense to you and apply it diligently to one asset until you are generating consistent profits. The temptation is always to trade many strategies or too many assets in the hope that something good happens. Trading is a physical and mental activity, so it's best to start slow and not overload your brain.​

If you want evidence of what I'm saying, go to the resources "Trading Books" section and read about the great Turtle Trading experiement where raw beginners were given one strategy with strict rules and became very wealthy. The experiment showed that successful traders were not born with some innate ability but that trading could be learned.​

I hope you will enjoy the content on this website and are able to make profitable use of the information I've provided.  I wish you well in your trading journey.

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