Traders Story - Eric Grant

Get to know your fellow traders: Kel Butcher speaks with aspiring full-time trader Eric Grant.

Originally from Fiji, Eric Grant now lives in the western suburbs of Sydney with his wife and three children. Working shifts as a steel maker with OneSteel allows Eric flexibility to pursue his goal of trading the share market with a view to that becoming his full-time business in the near future. Eric enjoys playing chess, reading, rugby union, and hanging out with his family.

How and when did you first become interested in the markets?
Life presents us with many challenges. Sometimes it is not until we are challenged that we take a step back and look at our lives to evaluate what is important and what we need to do. My challenge, and when I became interested in the markets, was after hurting my back at work. I now have two bulging discs and the realisation that I cannot work in the steel industry indefinitely. Many 45-year-olds in physically demanding jobs tend to look at the future and not be happy with what they see if they have no other plan than to keep doing what they have always done. I needed an alternative source of income to replace my wage, and following my injury I had the motivation to make it happen...

Excerpted from an article originally published in the Sep/Oct 2011 issue of YourTradingEdge magazine. All rights reserved. © Copyright 2011, Your Media Edge Pty Ltd.
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