Lex van Dam
Lex van Dam is one of the UK's most respected hedge fund managers and leading financial educators, dubbed as the man who teaches traders how to trade. He is a short-term swing trader with a diversified portfolio specializing in equities, currencies, and financial derivatives. Van Dam is the Founder of SFO Alliance, a membership club for active single family offices, where he focuses on finding new investment opportunities. He is the creator of the BBC TV Series Million Dollar Traders and founder of Lex van Dam Trading Academy, which aims to teach people how to trade and invest in the stock market based on his 5-Step-Trading® methodology. He is also a key opinion key leader frequently quoted on CNN, Reuters, Financial Times, and Bloomberg. Previously, he was an Investment Manager at Hampstead Capital, where he focused on equities, real estate, credit, fixed income, equity long-short, portfolio management, and risk.
Lex van Dam Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder
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Head of Proprietary Trading Desk
Academic History
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M.Sc., Econometrics and Investments
CAREER
He gained prominence for his appearance on BBC's Million Dollar Traders, where he put up $1M dollars of his own capital to teach novice traders to become profitable.
In 2009, he branched out with Million Dollar Traders, a reality show in which he trained novices to outperform professional traders.
He started his career at Goldman Sachs where he was most recently Head of the Equities Proprietary Trading Desk, then later ran money at GLG, which was Europe's largest hedge fund.