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I have sat in most of the seats. I am not handing you my portfolio.

Mark Gardner. Sydney. Independent author of Invest Like You.

Thirty years in markets: trading, derivatives, ASX and US stocks, structured investments, and financial media. Founding CEO of MPC Markets — a separate advisory business, not the publisher of this book or site.

The lesson from those seats is not “my method won.” It is that different methods worked for different people, and the ones that blew up were usually a bad fit, not a stupid idea.

Seats, in order

• Back office / settlements, Sydney Futures Exchange, 1990, age 17
• Floor broker
• Exclusive execution for a large bank-bills trader
• Traded his own book for about a decade, then a 2015 size mistake that wiped months of gains in hours
• Genesis Trading — watched different methods work for different temperaments
• Founded 42Trading (quant / systematic)
• Head of Investment Committee and Senior Advisor, Maqro Wealth (2021)
• Founded MPC Markets (2023)
• Founding President, Australian Securities Traders Association (ASTA)

Media

SBS World News, Sky News, Reuters, AusBiz, 7+, Livewire Markets, Market Index, Stockhead, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Public bio: markgardner.bio. X: @markgardn.