About Smart Trading

Smart Trading is a company that is operated by Justine Pollard - a private Australian stock market trader who not only trades the markets, but enjoys educating others in getting started and improving their skills and knowledge of the markets.

Justine's experience of trading the stock market started off as a hobby 15 years ago and has now become a full time career. In December 2000, Justine left her full time Account Management position in the Internet industry to pursue her dream of trading the stock market on a full time basis as well as to educate others how to trade the stock market via technical analysis.

Justine offers a home study course for beginners on technical analysis trading and teaches her trading plan and trading systems through training courses. She shares her knowledge and teaches her methods as she would have wanted to be taught herself at the same stage.

Throughout her development as a trader, she attended many public and private courses on trading the stock market and on personal development, as well as educating herself through books and online courses. Some of the well known professionals that Justine has been educated by, that have had a major influence on her trading style include:

Chris Tate - private Australian trader and educator Louise Bedford - private Australian trader and educator Colin Nicholson - private Australian trader and educator Dr Van K Tharp - US based psychologist and coach for traders Chuck LeBeau - US based professional trader and trainer Plus many other books which are listed in the Resources section Justine's approach to trading is very simple - she is a trend follower that uses strict money management rules in order to take advantage of trending shares (both up trends and down trends). Trading is all about letting your profitable trades run and cutting your losses quickly. She has traded many instruments over the years including equities, derivatives and indices. These days she mainly focuses on trading equities and CFD’s using a long term and medium term mechanical trading system. Justine has been teaching privately in an individual and group environment since February 2001 and publicly at the Adult Community Education College since May 2002. You can find out more about Justine's personal training and public courses and seminars on this website.