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Water worker trades place The Sun NewsSun Money: "Water worker trades placeBy CHARLES RAE
Sun Money
Published: 22 May 2007
ALAN KINGDON was finding it hard to bring up a family on the £1,200 a month he earned as a water board worker.
To boost his finances he began a hobby trading on the stock market and within five months he had turned a £5,000 fund into £14,000.
Within a year, there were five days in one month when he made more than his monthly take-home pay.
In fact, he became so good that he gave up his job and is now a full-time trader, working on a computer in the spare bedroom of his home in Barnstaple, Devon.
In the past two years Alan, 40, has been able to take his wife Vanessa and daughters Gemma and Hannah on holidays to Disney World in Florida and the Caribbean. He also bought a new BMW.
The change in his life came after he attended a free seminar on how to trade the stock market in a low-risk way.
He had worked at South West Water for 15 years as a leakage team leader and had started trading on the stock market - without any great success.
In May 2005 he attended a seminar by stock market expert Greg Secker, who claims he has come up with a way for ordinary people to begin trading in stocks and shares sensibly without taking great risks."