Alistair Crooks
Frontline speaker for Teach Me To Trade
Frontline speaker of Teach Me To Trade, Alistair Crooks has been teaching and speaking to groups and large audiences for the past three years. His overriding passion is to empower others to achieve more than they ever thought they could.
Alistair has not always been a high flying investor on the stock market though – he learnt the hard way, having left university with the urge to be his own boss and started out trading, albeit unsuccessfully! With that came not only a dent to his bank balance but also a dent to his confidence. Not one to stay down for long, Alistair became joint owner in an exclusive vehicle hire business and sold the business two years later.
This first step encouraged Alistair even more to get involved in other business ventures and his next project was in his area of passion, health and fitness. This demanded a financial commitment of £55,000 and within two years of the concept being born, Alistair, along with his business partner, developed a revolutionary IT product. This prompted the two of them to win the Department of Trade & Industry’s Award for Innovation back in 2003.
Not wanting to be haunted by his past, Alistair decided to face his past challenges: namely trading, as he was now convinced that he could and would create an income from investments. This time he had learnt from a professional re how to trade the stock market correctly, with the help of his first mentor. Trading then became Alistair’s top revenue generator and gave him the chance to live life on his terms.
It wasn’t until 2004, when Alistair became much more involved in speaking, teaching and training, where he took his experiences to the next level, becoming a speaker for one of Europe’s largest stock market education companies. Here, he taught to groups of up to 250 people over a three day period, across the UK and Europe.
Today, Alistair is closely linked with the ‘Global Angels’ Foundation run by Molly Bedingfield, mother of pop stars Daniel and Natasha. Together with one of his close working partners, Alistair was asked to attend the foundation’s US opening.
Alistair loves to speak to groups of all sizes and hopes that he can help people take a new look at where they are and understand that anything you want to do is possible if you change and expand your thinking first.
When it comes to trading, Alistair is 100% committed to helping every person he teaches understand what they need to learn and do to become successful traders. Alistair is an adept trader who regularly trades the UK, US and foreign currency markets both as a day and swing trader and is passionate to see others benefit in the same way he has done.
Andrew Bamford
Advanced trainer for Teach Me To Trade
At the age of 34, advanced trainer of Teach Me To Trade, Andrew Bamford has been teaching and speaking to groups for over for ten years. Andrew has studied and successfully applied many different types of trading as well combining his extensive knowledge of global economics of which was his chosen subject at university.
Andrew started to gain interest in trading 11 years ago. After attending one of Anthony Robbins’s exclusive personal and wealth development seminars in Hawaii, Andrew went on to study with some of the world’s top traders in London. He started trading himself and worked with other traders and investors from all over the world. He created a number of investment clubs throughout the UK and soon realised that he enjoyed helping others to learn to trade just as much as achieving his own success.
Since then, Andrew has taught to over 3000 people in the UK, Guernsey and Ireland many of the skills he uses regularly to achieve success in the market place. Andrew has also spoken at some of the largest investment and trading expos in Europe.
Being dyslexic Andrew has not always found it easy to assimilate knowledge and believes that people telling him that he could not succeed has empowered him and turned what most people see as a disadvantage around. He now sees his dyslexia as an advantage because he sees things in a different way. It has also given him a great desire to pass on knowledge to others in way that is easy for them to understand, so that anyone that wants to trade can.
Andrew makes a pledge to all his students to never leave anyone behind and makes everyone follow the in-depth, detailed, yet fully practical trading techniques he teaches. Andrew’s passion is to make sure you apply the theory you learn. It’s advised you do your pre training prep to really get the most out of what he teaches you. As a trading software expert and detailed individual, Andrew has the rare skill to make the so called "hard stuff" seem simple.