About Lee Shepherd
Lee Shepherd started (paper) trading at the age of 13 whereby he pretended to use his paper round money to invest in stocks he saw in the Financial Times. This was back in the days of Teletext and requesting information which would take days to come by post. At the age of 17 he had his first parent account (because the legal age for contract signing is 18 in the UK).
It was clear very quickly that Lee had something on his side. His pickings in pink sheets, penny stocks as well as blue chip stocks were fantastic. This enabled him to make money on the markets. Lee Shepherd then went on to purchase several houses and high end cars.
By the age of 26 Lee owned 6 houses in the UK, lived in a 3 bed maisonette kitted out like some kind of disco club with 2 gambling machines and a bar stretching 16 feet across topped ceiling to floor with every drink you could name at the time.
Lee also owned a holiday home in Westbay and drove around in a Mercedes C240 Sport and BMW 735I. These cars are probably cheap as chips now but at the time were the value of a small house. Even to fill up the tank in the BMW was a weeks wage (£110). The world has seen many set backs and vast quick changes including but not limited to the economies being practically shut down. When the world rapidly changed almost over night, so did Lee’s portfolio and he eventually filed for bankruptcy. This is something that Lee is not proud of but nonetheless is not ashamed of either, a lot of people have had hard times to some extent and can relate.
However, its pertinent to note that Lee took many sacrifices along the way including saving and working hard for other businesses, he done his best to fulfil their dreams in order to rebuild his.
It’s important in life to understand the pitfalls and dangers and these are best understood when experienced personally. Lee’s passion has only ever been property and financial trading. Although seemingly worlds apart, are both actually very much intrinsically linked with economics.
Ultimately Lee Shepherd is looking to work with those who have an interest in the broader economy and stock markets around the world and is always on the look out to work with and openly discuss ideas with dedicated analysts. Any information that Lee Shepherd has on positions or potential trades may also be shared at a cost in one to one private and discreet meetings. Any advice given is not to be construed as financial or trading advice.
Main picture is of one of Lee Shepherd's first dividend payments back in September 1997. That was equivalent to a weeks wage for a young boy just starting out in a job.
If you are ready to move forward with your investing then please send a short email introducing yourself to: leeshepherdtrading@mail.com
Teletrade - early forms of trading
Commission structure of the old days
How information was most commonly received - on paper. Just holding this one would have made you over 3 times return plus dividends
December 2001 Teletrade become regulated by FSCS
Broker recommendations were still very much sent through the post
IG Group (now IG Index) and is now one of the companies I go through to transact deals
Carillion - famous for going bust without Government intervention after they awarded them several network train contracts. I lost a bit on this one.
April 2003 DJIA (Dow Jones) was priced at 8069 and WTI (Oil) was at $29 a barrel
March 2000 I made which was at the time a large transaction in Worthington Group at £3,273.38