T2W Trading Community

Biography

Andy Shearman 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.