Who are we?
Dr David Paul was born on 19 July 1955 in Northern Ireland. He grew up in London and attended the Rainey Endowed School where he also played rugby for the first team. After his schooling he attended the Queens University in Belfast in Northern Ireland where he did a BSC degree in mechanical engineering and in 1981 completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
He played rugby for the Harlequins in London during the late 1970’s. He came to South Africa in 1981 and played for the then Transvaal rugby team during the 1980’s. He was Head of Engineering research for Boart International.
He started his own company—manufacturing mining tools, which he sold in 1992. He then joined Progressive Systems College in January 1993. He took over the managing of the Rivonia branch in 1996 and was invited to the board of directors in 1997. During this time he developed the Peak Performance seminar and the Forex Trading course.
He resigned as manager from Rivonia in 2000 and started trading the forex market on intra-day while lecturing for Progressive Systems on an ad hoc basis. He sold his share holding in Progressive Systems in January 2003. He is a self employed equity, futures and forex trader and present seminars to all levels of traders.
He has developed courses and specialize in short term trading in futures and forex. In addition he presents a course on developing the mindset necessary to win. The futures and forex course are taught in a live trading room and the trading methods are taught while the market under examination is up and running.
Since 1993 he has researched every possible method of consistently removing points from the actively traded markets. He has attended hundreds of mainly US based conferences and has participated in many. He has distilled a novel approach to trading markets which are a composite of all he has been taught and has discovered in the last 15 years of study. These methods have been presented and have been well received by experienced traders in both South Africa and the UK.
The trading approach has been used in training of many listed South African banks. These are:
Investec - Nedbank - Rand Merchant Bank - First rand - ABSA - Development Bank of Southern Africa - Unemployment insurance fund of South Africa
Tom Hougaard was born in Denmark in 1969. He moved from Copenhagen to the UK in 1992 and studied his Bachelor and Masters degree in Economics and Finance in Wales and Birmingham. After graduation he went to work for Chase Manhattan Bank. In 2000 he quit to trade his own funds. In 2001 he was hired by Finspreads (later to become IFX, and to be taken over by City Index) to run trading workshops, and provide market and trading comments on TV.
In 2002 he was hired by City Index to do the same, and he was a prolific market commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC and CNN for 8 years. In 2009 he started WhichWayToday, with David Paul. WhichWayToday had been running as a SKYPE service since August 2008.
Tom Hougaard also runs www.tradertom.com
Tom Hougaard on YouTube:
CNN Interview with Charles Hudson
CNN Interview with Richard Quest
CNBC Interview ahead of 2009 plunge