camron.com.au

We are not financial advisors.
We do not give investment advice.
We do not do road shows or seminars.
We do not do tipsheets or newsletters.
We do trade.

It is easy to sit on the side lines at a sports event and see the mistakes made on field. And so it is in business. It's easy for an outsider to observe. Solutions to problems are always simple. They have to be.

There are many aspects of the Australian market which, from a pure trading perspective, do not make sense. As a trader, an accountant and economist I start with the view that every thing happens for a reason. If you look long enough and ask the right questions you will usually find a reason that is logical and makes sense.

I came to trading from a set of disciplines that required precision and perfection and dealt in absolutes. Right or wrong. Correct or incorrect. It works, or it doesn't. With a background in robotics I was asked by a data-vendor to help their trading clients to produce some sophisticated software that they had commissioned elsewhere without success.

The original web site (not this one) was established in 1994 as a vehicle to offer to a wider audience some of the product that arose out of the collaborative efforts with these "professional traders". By 2002 most of the broking industry were offering competing, high quality, on-line services for free, effectively making our services redundant, and the web-site went into a slow death spiral.

This material has been gathered from dealing with many hundreds of specialist trading clients. Most had professional backgrounds. Medicine, Law, Finance, Engineering. A common characteristic to stand out was a determination to master it. We became intrigued that so many professionals experienced difficulty in trading the SPI. If disciplined professionals had difficulties, non-professionals must also have difficulty. To fully understand the problems and provide appropriate solutions, we began trading ourselves.

After trading for 2 years, my partner, a mathematics genius, became interested. We spent long hours going over the notes and documentation I had accumulated over the years from client interviews and specifications, answers to questions from data vendors, brokers, and institutions, undertaken during the initial research and development years. At a time when access to these people was possible. She began trading and each morning she would be awake before me studying the previous day and overnight market action, making detailed notes.

Sadly she died in a car accident early 2003. Weeks later while cleaning up her stuff for her family I came across 3 A4 notebooks into which (unknown to me) she had meticulously transcribed all my notes and documentation plus her own added observations and ideas. I threw them out thinking they wouldn't be of any interest to her family. Having second thoughts I retrieved them, went through them to see if there was anything new, and threw them out again. The next day I rescued them again.

They were unique. Her perceptions of market behaviour were far more insightful than mine which were analytical and less intuitive. I came to the conclusion that the information contained in those books would never be put together again as the sources of the information disappeared. The thinking was there would be a lot of beginners out there who would give their right arm for this. Thus I decided to publish them as a memorial to my late partner.

Traffic to the website was stagnant, we simply weren't getting the exposure we wanted, and many lone traders were missing out on vital information. On many occasions thoughts of shutting the website down would entice.

In 2011 help came from abroad, from another continent, and from that help arose this new website. Different format. Different organization. Different presentation.