The story so far ...

David Schirmer is a wealth coach, entrepreneur and private share investor and trader, regularly trading shares, options, warrants, CFD's and futures on the Australian and overseas markets. David is also a market commentator with articles published in various mediums including being a contributor to the ODDS Data weekly stock report, The Australian Investor magazine and the Melbourne Herald Sun. David is the only Australian to appear on The Secret, a world wide television event documenting the use of the Law Of Attraction in 27 lives who have all achieved incredible success.

His story is nothing short of amazing. He was born and bred on the land ... a farmer from birth! He spent the first 23 years of his life on the land, first on a cattle station near Mackay, North Queensland, Australia and later in Central Queensland operating the family lucerne (alpha) farm at Goovigen, near Biloela. He co-invented machinery to handle baled hay and went on to establish a manufacturing company to supply the machinery Australia wide. After three years of creating a success story, he sold his 50% share of the business and never got paid for it! This took everything he and his wife had plus more and was thrust deeply into debt.

For the next five years he struggled to make enough money to even provide for his family, and for much of that time was on social security benefits. Even though they had four children under eight years old, his wife Lorna had to go out and seek employment just to put food on the table, let alone service the $50,000 debt they had been left with from the manufacturing business. During this time they fell 4 months behind in rent, had their electricity turned off, the phone was disconnected four times, the car was driven unregistered and many weeks they wondered how they were going to feed the children. David's integrity made him refuse to declare personal bankrupcy.

Lorna had been gifted some shares from her Grandfather, and even from when David and Lorna were married in 1982 they had an interest in the stock market. In 1993 that interest in the stock market turned to desperation for David ... he turned to the futures markets, trading markets such as wheat, gold, silver, Australian dollar, SPI etc. because of their extreme leverage. In the first three months he averaged 13% per month profit, and even though this was on a small account of $10,000 it was massive for them. Then for the next two years he proceeded to lose all their money ... not once, not twice but three times!!

The one thing that sets David apart from many people is the he will not quit. Each time he lost money he went back to the drawing board and figured out what he was doing wrong. Finally after two years of trading unsuccessfully he started to make consistent profits. David studied the markets intensively for a period of six plus years during which time he developed his own strategies for trading the futures markets and investing in the stock market. His successes became known and he was asked to speak to trading organisations, companies and even for a course ran by the Monash University. A poor uneducated farm boy teaches commodity hedges and banks how to analyse the markets!

David started to receive requests from friends and colleagues to share his self-taught knowledge and expertise. After much reluctance he ran a workshop and found that most people have no idea how the market works or how to make a profit. In fact, David still says that many people treat the stock market as a casino ... throwing their money at it with no idea on the probability of making a profit. During his years of studying the markets he discovered that there are many pretend 'experts' trying to teach people. And the naive people who pay out lots of money for software and education end up the big losers.

In 1998, David started Trading Edge with the purpose to bring quality education that is proven and works to the general public.

David practices what he preaches. Everything he teaches he has thoroughly researched and implemented first. He doesn't pretend that he is a market "guru" but rather shares his information in a simple down to earth manner using his own personal experiences to draw upon that everyone can relate to.

David has been involved in the stock market now for nearly 25 years and is committed to the idea that all Australians can invest directly in the stock market, and all people need to be successful is some simple, practical skills to help them make better decisions.

He has shared his information with over 43,000 people already, many reporting excellent results. He has had a wide variety of attendees in his workshops including stockbrokers, dentists, doctors and house wives, which is testament to his unique style as a presenter, teacher and educator. Some people have even tried to copy his methodologies and teach them to others ... which is a testament to David's knowledge and skills of the markets.

David's analysis on the Australian All Ordinaries Index and US commodity markets is held in high regard by many in the know because of his high degree of accuracy. These people eagerly await the publication before they make decisions.

The seminars and workshops are frequently booked out, as they are without doubt the most comprehensive nuts and bolts approach to trading shares available in the world today.

One more thing you will learn about David is his 'down-to-earth' no-nonsense honest farmer approach. He still trades his own money and unlike many educators and authors ... still makes consistent profits. He also insists that all seminars, workshops and home learning systems have a full money back guarantee, that insists full refund of any monies paid if the participant isn't totally convinced that the information will dramatically improve their investing or trading returns.

His clients have averaged just on 30% per annum over the past 8 years investing in blue chips stocks. The Professional Traders he has taught have returned up to 50% a month consistently. This makes him one of the greatest stock and commodity teachers of our time.

He now drives the car of his dream, the latest BMW M5, owns real estate, has numerous businesses and this year will make a personal income from trading and business in excess of $1.5 million.