Speaker A
Well, good afternoon everyone. It's a great honor to be here. My father was a soldier, and he didn't tell me any stories about the conflicts, but he did tell me lots of stories about the weekends that they got free passes into London. This was about 1944, and I can tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that in 1944 the only place that there were naked girls in the whole of London—this will interest you—was in the Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street. You could walk there from here if you want to. It's still the same; it's still a lap dancing joint, I believe. But it seems that the girls would come on, and by law they could come on with nothing on, but they couldn't move a muscle. So they would come on smiling, and then we had to keep the smile and not move a muscle for 10 minutes. So can you imagine the auditorium full of soldiers in London for the weekend, all bevi up, as we say in this part of the world, full of Carlsberg for you Danish guys? And the girls would come on, they would stand there, not move a muscle for 10 minutes, and then the curtain would come down, and then a stand-up comedian would come up and tell jokes for about five or six minutes. For those British people here, all those stand-up comedians who actually grew up with them, they were on TV when I was a kid. So my father told me that within two or three minutes, the guys got fed up with the stand-up comedians, and they would fire fish and chip containers, they fired beer bottles until they got the girls back on again. That's how I feel after coming on after these two guys. So I hope that you don't chuck any pelino bottles at me in the next few minutes, folks. I've been trading a long time, not nearly as long as Larry, but I put on my first trade in October 1982. It was a winning trade. It was in South Africa. I was living in South Africa at the time. I went to South Africa to play professional rugby. Everybody says you're not big enough, but it's not the size of it, it's how angry it gets, folks. So I've played rugby at the highest level and nearly at international level, didn't quite make it. But the South African brewery trade was a winner, and I worked while I was there. I have a degree in engineering and an MSA in metallurgy, a PhD in mathematics, all of which is largely used in taking money out of markets regularly, I may add. I worked a while at the beers in South Africa, and I cut the corporate umbilical cord in October 1988, and I've been trading on my own ever since. The move, for those of you that are thinking about it, from being salaried to taking your wedge from the stock market, futures market, or forex market is quite a move, and I underestimated how difficult that move would be in October 1988. It took me three or four months or six or seven months to actually get the wind behind me. So don't underestimate that move, folks. It's quite a big move. I think in reminiscence of a stock operator, if you haven't read it, you should read it. He tries to buy his wife a fur coat, and after two or three chapters, he says to himself, "Well, if you need a coat that badly, the stock market won't give it to you." But I've been trading on my own ever since. I was lucky enough to work with Tom for many years, and certainly Larry has taught me a tremendous amount along the way as well. I have Larry's very, very first book. He sold two copies of his first book. I bought one, his mother bought the other one. So he's nodding his head as well. When I started to do a seminar in the stock market, my first seminar was done by pure accident because I was in a little town outside Johannesburg called Rustenburg. Have you ever owned a platinum share? That's where they come from, Rustenburg. It was at Rustenburg Golf Club in the late 1980s, around Wimbledon time, and the speaker was the mind manager of Rustenburg Platinum, which is the biggest platinum mine in the world. It's now part of Anglo American, listed here in London. He got Lenn Jadtis; he couldn't speak, so they asked me to come up and talk to the audience. I had no clue what I was going to say, but I just showed everybody what I do myself, and that's largely what I'm going to show everybody on Monday after, on Sunday afternoon, what I do myself. In the audience, there was a chap who was a desk head at a bank called Invest, a South African bank, and he asked me to actually come in and train his traders how to become consistent because they were making a heap of money and then giving it all back again, to get them off that roller coaster ride that so many of us have. That went well, and I did my first big technical analysis seminar to a crowd in an auditorium like this at the University of Stellenbosch just outside Cape Town, and that was in 1989. So where is Andrew? Andrew, yes, but just close to where we first met. It's in Bellville, as you well know, University of Stellenbosch. Some of the notes and some of the charts that I'll be showing you on Sunday, the schematics in fact, came out of that 1989 seminar. So I've been around the block for a long time. I've got the trades that I've got going at the moment. Maybe you can pull them up, Tom. Gold, not Bitcoin, gold on a 4-hour chart. Folks, I take a more leisurely path in my dotage than these two gentlemen. The tail should never wag the dog. Just remember what this is all about. It's all about lifestyle, in my humble opinion. I have no real interest in cars; I've done that. I have no real interest in flashy houses; could have done that as well, and when you've got one of them, they're a bloody liability. But I love horses, so I have a weakness for horses. I have a horse on both continents. I've got one in South Africa, and I've got one here. Four hours, four-hour chart, yeah. This week, I've been short of it twice. Sorry, Dave, I got a laser point on that thing there. Oh God, go, don't you? I know we've come on a bit, haven't we? Point, go bigger. So I've been short of it twice this week, and the work that I'm going to present on Sunday is my cut on something that's 100, 120 years old, made famous by a technician of yesteryear called Richard Woff. Tom and I discussed this over the years. It's amazing how you start this business with one methodology, and then you weave to dozens and dozens of other things, and you then come back to where you bloody well started. So I've been short of this this week. If I can get my fat finger onto this thing without breaking it, I've been short of it from about here, and I rode down to there, and I lost a little bit as it pulled back on me. I got back into it again last night, and I've held it. I'm still holding it. We shall see. As you can see, it in fact stopped at that low, and if you actually look at the volume in there, there was actually a bit of demand come into the market at that low. So looking at price and volume together is an edge, in my humble opinion. Price is the most important, but you can actually tell from price and volume relationships, and I assure you they're not rocket science, whether somebody's playing with you or not. The big players can easily manipulate price, but they can't manipulate volume that easily. So a volume feed is very useful. It's certainly not going to get you 100% trades, and many people will argue that an awful lot of the volume, even in the stock market, that's booked, that's done today, is only booked the day after that, and there's all this stuff about dark pools. But as a friend of mine says, "About his wife, it's better than nothing." Okay, so please excuse these chauvinistic jokes. He's an ugly little fellow about this size. I'm sure she says the same about him. So do I know where that's going to go next? No, but I, the longer-term daily c—











