Details on Company Formation.   Traderhouse Network (UK) Limited was formed in September 2000 and is the brainchild of Andy Shearman, Tim Finch and Geoff Gant, three seasoned market professionals with over 60 years combined experience of trading and systems development and marketing. Established to create a network of FX dealing facilities, Trader House will be located in out of town-golf and country house environments bringing the best of two worlds-trading and leisure-work and play together for the first time in a new way.

Company Aims

The main ambition and central theme of the Trader House ideal is to fuse together the experience and working of professional, ex - professional, and experienced individual traders in new and appealing environments with the premise that each group have differing skills and outlooks to trading foreign exchange and can add something to the mix. We are striving to achieve atmospheres in our trading rooms emulating that of a typical City bank dealing room where you would find people with a blend of character and experience.

We will have an eventual global franchise network -wherever there has been a "branch" of a major city bank there could be a Trader House where ex city professionals now join with us to form the network from each of their home countries, and in some cases maybe even their "homes". Initially in the UK , USA and Australia we will operate the first trading floors from our stunning country club environments with all the facilities and more (trading room-restaurant-gym-indoor pool etc etc) that the top banks would offer their staff, but in addition championship golf courses, tennis, and overnight accommodation that they would not.

However it is possible that expansion abroad in countries where we do not have access to country clubs could be in the form of trading "houses" where an ex City professional can open his doors of his home to up to say 5 other traders from the professional or ex-professional world which then links to our network of relationships and products.

We aim to spread the Trader House idea like a virus whereby to franchise your own "branch" magnifies our presence in that country/city, taps that local market for experience and knowledge and markets our products first hand in that center, putting it onto our global map.

Trader House HQ can provide the products -"the 3 oranges" which you market, and also rent seats to a small number of like minded individuals; we probably already have contacts within the banks in your city somewhere. Due to massive strides in internet technology and delivery we are now able to offer the trading products only previously attained at a city bank by professionals, opening them up to everyone interested in trading FX from wherever they are. We provide you with a choice of live trading prices for traders to deal with and we aim to have all our centers talking to each other like any international bank branch network.

Directors Profiles.

Andy Shearman.

Andy started his career at S.G .Warburg in London, after doing a business degree at South Bank Polytechnic in 1978. His first major trading role was at Banco de Santander in London where he traded spot and cross Spanish pesetas earning the bank a niche support role in this market. After being head hunted to other competitor banks in the "Spain" market-both Portuguese and Spanish -he was appointed as Chief Dealer at a new branch of Banco Sabadell S.A. in London, setting up a successful 5 man trading room from scratch, and taking the Bank from nowhere to number 2 in London in this market.

Hired by Citibank in London and featured in a new 3 man section of Citibank's main spot desk for EMS currencies, Andy was extremely active in the turbulent markets that saw sterling exiting the EMS and the peseta and lira devaluing many times in a five year period (1989-1994).It was here that Andy first introduced forecasting systems to the bank which now form the cornerstone of the Trader House 3 orange products.

Chief Dealer roles at both French and then Japanese Banks led to an approach to set up an "own account margin -trading operation" for a group of high net worth individuals in Dubai, followed by an appointment as Chief Dealer of an Italian Bank in Luxembourg.

Most recently prior to his latest venture Andy moved out of the city environment and started trading and looking to put together a "best of breed" suite of trading products that he had used in his career and new ones coming online, and thus the "3 orange" idea was born as he began marketing them to funds, city institutions and experienced individual traders.

Tim Finch

After serving an apprenticeship in trading at Allied Irish from 1979-1986 that saw him promoted to Senior Dealer, Tim joined Swiss Volksbank , and was an active trader and desk manager in the interbank USD/DEM markets in London and Singapore branches. Moving into proprietary trading, Tim gained knowledge of technical analysis in the Far East, and returned to join Bayerishe Hypobank in London in 1993. Headhunted to HSBC Singapore in 1994, Tim was appointed as Senior Manager of the Investment Unit, a small proprietary fund style operation trading FX, Bonds, Stock Indices and Futures. It was at this time that an interest in using neural networks to predict future market movements started, and Tim was a leading user of early systems to trade through into Europe and New York from Singapore.

After a short stint as Chief Dealer of the Sydney timezone shift at SBC Singapore, Tim returned to London as Chief Dealer of Bank Austria before its eventual merger. Opening Nostradamus as a research project in late 1997 with Geoff Gant, he undertook a Chief Dealer role in Alahli Bank Kuwait in 97-98 before returning to London to market Nostradamus full time. Since then Nostradamus has grown to be a leading provider of neural network predictions and Nostradamus proprietary COMPASS indicator to the interbank market over Reuters, and now to the individuals already trading the FX market and banks over the internet.

Geoff Gant

Geoff's early career was spent in the development of commercial and industrial systems culminating in the management of a 70 strong team at British Relay TV. In 1978 he left to form his own company developing and marketing from scratch bureaux services on the earliest PC's in the areas of print, commercial food and stock control.

His entry into the financial markets was via IDM, the company that provided the early video and digital data distribution services to LIFFE, LCE and leading London money brokers. He designed, developed and maintained a successful 20 - position multi - tasking system for Citibank before Windows was generally available.

Over the last 10 years he has designed neural networks, proprietary technical indicators and real-time display systems. Four years ago he met Tim Finch and has created and automated the Nostradamus neural network systems, and the internet delivered COMPASS indicator. Geoff will now be directing the development and delivery of the Virtual Trader House product over the internet.

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