About Spencer Li · Founder, Synapse Trading
I’m a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) and I have taught live in Singapore since 2012. Every trade I take is public, losses left in.
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Spencer Li, Singapore.
I got interested in markets during my army days. My first foray was options, where I blew my first account, and that got me hooked. Before any of that I was a ranked chess player, which is probably where the patience comes from.
I did a double degree at SMU, in accountancy and business, then traded professionally for a few years. After that I moved to trading my own account full time, which is what I still do.
Swing trades, from a short set of rules, in about 15 minutes a day. The first rule is to limit what I can lose on any one trade. I scan once, set my alerts, and get on with the day.
Every trade I take is public, dated, with the losses left in. The Business Times wrote in 2011 that I had “developed his own way of reading charts”. In 2014 IFTA awarded me the CFTe, which is the professional designation for technical analysts. I have written 900+ free articles on this site since 2009, and I have taught the routine live in Singapore since 2012.
Books, mostly. I have read 1,500+ of them, on markets, psychology and business, and the ones worth your time are on a short list I give my students. Travel: 70+ countries so far, and the routine comes with me, which is rather the point of 15 minutes a day. And tennis.
A class in Singapore, 2017.
Interviewed by The Business Times: “Discipline key to success in trading”.
A trader-profile interview with the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
An early class in Singapore. I have taught live here since 2012.
Awarded the CFTe by the International Federation of Technical Analysts.
On stage at the National Achievers Congress, 2,500+ in the room.
A full room at The Synapse Program, as the course was then called.
On air at Money FM 89.3.
Started publishing every trade, dated, losses left in.
Fair question, and in this industry you should ask it. Four things you can check without taking my word for anything.
“A better solution would be to impart the basic universal skills that allow a retail investor to manage the risks.” My words on the 2022 stablecoin collapse.
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Spencer Li, founder of Synapse Trading