Anton
Kreil was born in Liverpool in 1979, into a
poor family where money was a very scarce commodity. During his early years,
he’d to live through a series of hard times, but at the age of 13, he decided
to try whatever he could do to get out of poverty and become successful in
life. From the age of 18-21, he was at Manchester University
He
became a Vice President of JP Morgan European Equities at the age of 26, and
retired from the investment banking industry at the age of 28. He toured the
world and went back to the UK
in 2008 to produce a BBC program titled: Million Dollar Traders. Several
neophytes were provided with funds to speculate on the markets during the
credit crunch: they even did better than some hedge funds managers. Although
certain contestants failed emotionally and had to drop out of the program, it
became apparent that ordinary folks will really perform like skilled traders if
given proper training. That show became popular throughout the world -
something that threw Kreil into limelight. Kreil is currently the CEO of the Institute of Trading
Lesson
There
are helpful lessons you can learn from Anton Kreil.
a)
Your background doesn’t determine your future. Even if you were born into a
poor family, that doesn’t mean that you’d be poor for the rest of your life.
Your life is what you make it.
b) As
a trader (especially as a professional), if you can continue in this journey to
financial freedom (a goal that many traders like Anton Kreil has reached),
you’d eventually not need to judge yourself by average national salary. I’ve
seen financial experts calculating the income of a lifetime of a BSc, an MSc or
a PhD holder, they never can calculate what a great trader might earn in his
lifetime. It’ll usually be far bigger than what an average civil servant/employee
earns in her/his lifetime. You can trade your way to financial freedom.
c)
You can experience breakthrough if you’re mentored and coached by successful
traders. You can look over their shoulders, see how they trade and imitate them
to your own advantage. Just make sure you choose mentors that have track
records.
d) A combination of fundamental and technical
analyses is important. Endeavor to know the fundamental factors affecting the
instruments you plan to speculate on, then look at your charts and trade what
you see.
e)
Kreil is big a believer of truncating positions that don’t go in the expected
direction, while giving profitable positions enough leeway. It’s one of his
simple secrets. We’ll surely do ourselves much favor by trading in the same
manner. He doesn’t trade against the trend, and you could choose to do that.
The market that is rated as being oversold or overbought might still go far
further than that, even it’ll reverse. Those who trade against the trade might
be forced out of their positions before the markets turn eventually. Running
losses with the hope that they’ll go back to positivity would eventually
backfire.
Conclusion: Anton Kreil was interviewed
in TRADERS’ (January 2012) - one of the best interviews in this year. More
information about him can also be found at Antonkreil.com. This article is
ended by one of his quotes.
“Success in the
long run for me is defined as consistently positive returns with a consistency
for never losing too much money when things go wrong. For those starting out I
think it is very important to develop a trading strategy that will stand a very
good chance in working through all business cycles. The world looks very
different now to what it looked like in 2006, 1999, 1991, 1982 and is forever
changing. Trading strategies that depend on a certain market environment will
always get found out when the market environment changes. As a trader you want
to be trading from now till the day you drop dead.”
Azeez Mustapha
Market Analyst, Trading Signals Provider and Coach
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