Spencer Li speaking at a Singapore Exchange podium

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Bio

Spencer Li is The 15-Minute Trader. He founded Synapse Trading, a Singapore trading school, and has traded for 15+ years, run from 70+ countries. He teaches a rules-based swing trading system built for people with day jobs: about 15 minutes a day, one system for any market. More than 700 students have graduated from his Trading Mastery Program, out of 3,000+ paying students. He became a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) through the International Federation of Technical Analysts in 2014, and holds a B.Acc and B.BM from Singapore Management University. Business Insider has quoted him, and The Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao and Money FM 89.3 have interviewed him. Every trade he takes is public and dated, losses left in.

Short bio

Spencer Li is The 15-Minute Trader. He founded Synapse Trading in Singapore and has traded for 15+ years, run from 70+ countries. He teaches a rules-based swing trading system that takes about 15 minutes a day, built for people with day jobs. He is a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) with a B.Acc and B.BM from SMU. Every trade he takes is public and dated, losses left in.

What Spencer can talk about

  • Swing trading by rules. How one rules-based system screens any market down to a handful of candidates, and why he skips most of them.
  • Trading part-time. What 15 minutes a day of trading looks like beside a full-time job. And what it cannot do.
  • Trading psychology. Why most traders lose to fear, greed and position size rather than to bad analysis.
  • Trading while travelling. Keeping a trading routine on the road.
  • The human edge in AI-assisted trading. What AI analysis now gives every trader for free. And the judgment it still cannot supply.
  • Checking a trading educator. What a public trade log, losses included, tells you that a testimonial cannot.

Sample interview questions

  1. What does trading for 15 minutes a day actually look like? And what can’t it do?
  2. You publish every trade, losses included. Why, and has it ever cost you?
  3. Most traders who lose aren’t bad at reading charts. So what beats them?
  4. A market has thousands of stocks. How do you get down to a handful, and why do you skip most of those?
  5. You’ve traded from more than 70 countries. How do you keep a routine on the road?
  6. AI can read a chart for anyone now. What’s left for a human trader to do?
  7. How can someone tell whether a trading course is worth paying for?
  8. When should someone not trade at all?

Selected press

  • June 2022, Business Insider. Quoted by Weilun Soon on the TerraUSD and Luna crash, and on why the onus falls on investors to do their own due diligence.
  • September 2018, Money FM 89.3. A radio interview.
  • June 2016, Lianhe Zaobao. An interview on market views and basic technical analysis, and his first time in a Chinese-language newspaper.
  • May 2014, Big Fat Purse, now Dr Wealth. An interview on trading strategy based on behavioural analysis.
  • October 2012, Shares Investment. A guest article he wrote.
  • October 2011, The Business Times. An interview by Teh Shi Ning, published as “Discipline ‘key to success in trading'”.

Selected speaking

  • Singapore Exchange. Speaker and panelist at the SGX Active Traders Conference in 2015. A guest spot at “Live Trading Mondays” in 2017.
  • Brokerages. CIMB Securities, City Index, CMC Markets, Maybank Kim Eng Securities, Phillip Securities and Lim & Tan Securities have all had him speak, starting with a technical analysis seminar at CIMB in January 2012.
  • Conferences. The National Achievers Congress in 2015, INVEST Fair in Singapore in 2016 and 2017 and in Kuala Lumpur in 2016, and the Traders Fair in Manila in 2018.
  • Universities. Panelist at the SMU Business Forum in 2017. Talks at NTU, the NUS Invest Fiesta and SIM between 2013 and 2014.

Credentials

  • CFTe, International Federation of Technical Analysts, awarded 8 October 2014.
  • B.Acc and B.BM, Singapore Management University, Dean’s List.
  • Synapse Trading Pte Ltd, UEN 201316168H.

Photos

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Contact

Media and speaking enquiries: info@synapsetrading.com

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