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I consider myself to be a fairly successful person. I didn’t achieve all the goals I reached for, but I made it to some of them. I played for my country, I played at Wembley, I made myself financially independent, and I started a family. I’m happy with my lot. Now I enjoy sharing what I have learned with others who perhaps didn’t have the good fortune I had.

I teach people to trade the markets and share my experiences because I want to help reduce the time and energy it will take people to get to where I am. While I believe everyone has their own individual journey to go on – their unique personal learning curve – it doesn’t hurt to know how to avoid some of the basic pitfalls. I love sharing the knowledge I’ve acquired, both from my experiences as a professional footballer and my years of trading. If I can help people jump a couple of rungs up the ladder on their way to being a successful trader, why wouldn’t I? I believe anyone can be a success and I’ll do whatever I can to help them.

It was actually an accident that I became a teacher. People kept asking me to show them what I did as a trader and I was more than happy to do so. I quickly discovered that I thoroughly enjoyed the process of teaching and this led me to set up a company through which I could teach people. What I didn’t bargain for was how I much I would learn myself through the process of teaching.

Teaching others has taught me so much about what makes people tick. When I was a footballer I didn’t have too much exposure to the general public. Of course I met fans, signed autographs and talked football with them, but I didn’t get to meet and talk in depth to a wide range of people from a variety of backgrounds.

Through teaching people to trade the money markets, I’ve had my eyes opened; it has been a revelation to see that everyone, no matter where they’ve come from or what they’ve done, carries their own personal baggage. Many people I would have assumed – judging from their outward appearance and demeanour – were perfectly happy, I discovered were actually feeling miserable and stuck in the rat race, desperate for a way out.

Hearing other people’s stories made me realise how relatively lucky I was. I may not have had the formal education or the big accolades, but my solid and happy childhood counted for much more than I gave it credit for.