We are looking for the best and the brightest to trade for us.
Sync your MT4 trading account with UNION and prove your worth.
We will fund a R500,000.00 account, you keep half the profits.
For at least the next twelve months we're going to invest $1,000,000.00
in you, the next generation Asset Manager.
That's twenty accounts of R500,000.00, and twenty chances to change your life.
When you sync your account, UNION takes periodic snapshots of your trading account and in return gives you access to a full suite of trading insights. Each synced account gets a link to a Factsheet, and once you've sent us the link, we'll add your Factsheet to a watchlist so we can track your progress.
Your trading account data is yours and private, and can easily be deleted after you have synced your account. Once deleted, the private Factsheet link will also no longer work.
For more detailed instructions, please visit UNION help.
If you have any questions, or need help getting setup, please feel free to reach out to us.
We love the markets. All of it, stocks, forex, commodities, the lot.
We love trading, and we know you love trading too. It is clear to us that there is incredible skill in the Day Trader. We see it all the time; we see it in every style of trader from the conservative to the risk taker, the position builder to the long player, the algo trader or the scalper. It's fantastic.
We want to be a part of it, and we can't wait to share in your success by investing in it. That's why we're going to invest our money along side yours. But, more than that, we're going to work with you to grow, to advance and to take your skill out into the world.
Sometimes you hear a story, and you can’t help feeling that you’ve heard it – or
something like it – before. Like, ‘How Legendary Individual Started Small, Made
Mistakes, Lost Big, and Then Made It Big’. Boy Takes On World, you might say.
We see this trope everywhere.
And yet, the story of Morgan Sampson, Lead Portfolio Manager of MS E ALFA, and
Founder and Managing Director of the MS Equities Group (which specialises in
strategy, research, capital management, and financial education), contains many of
the same threads: bits of rags-to-riches, loads of overcoming personal obstacles,
even plot-points straight out of Margin Call, The Big Short, and Wolf of Wall Street.
Plus, Morgan’s 22. It doesn’t get more DiCaprio than that.
Morgan, who battled to read as a child due to learning difficulties and experienced
the trauma of a broken family and relocation to a new city at a young age, taught
himself to trade the markets in his teens. How? YouTube videos and audiobooks.
Using this typically Millennial platform, he devoured Tony Robbins, Richard Branson
and other experts. “My academic problems made it a fight to get ahead,” he says, “so
I had to use unorthodox methods to create my own education.”
Morgan opened his first trading account at 17, took a “simple and straightforward
approach to investing”, and lost most of his investment. Going back to the drawing
board using a demo trading account, he realised that he had to apply to trading the
same unconventional thinking and eccentric approach that served him in learning.
And then, bizarrely, Morgan’s high school Maths Literacy came in handy.
That’s right: A fair chunk of this man’s success, he says, is down to this controversial
and often disparaged school subject. Driven by life-related applications
of mathematics, Maths Lit enables learners to think numerically and spatially, to
interpret and analyse everyday situations and to solve problems.
In contrast to the technical yet abstract nature of ‘pure maths’, Maths Lit taught
Morgan to use shapes, distance, time, volume and probability to predict trends.
He says, “Trends are just numbers. They pull back, move forward, accelerate. At that
stage, at age 19, I was looking at things like the law of averages, probability ratios,
price dispersion, Fibonacci, wave analysis). I took a position (I had a private client
who supported me unquestioningly), and had a fantastic outcome. And then, another.
Suddenly, my unorthodox approach was winning.”
Today, Morgan explains that his investment decision-making process still involves
searching for anomalies in volatility; using the measurement of price dispersion to
create a grouping of robust probabilities that help to predict future movement.
For instance, robust processes deal well with faults, problems, and unexpected
events, evidenced by the uncorrelated returns that Morgan achieved in February,
October, and December 2018. While the market saw its worst three months of the
year, MS E Alfa had its best three months, ending with a 27.1% annual return.
Over the years, Morgan has worked in his family’s business, for a fancy Sandton firm
that mired him in “toxicity”, and then for several “truly good people” that he credits
with teaching him about the kind of market he wants to operate in.
“I changed my life,” he says, “and others can change theirs as well, but only through
the right kind of financial education.” In South Africa, he says, we don’t have a
supportive educational system that yields ethical and honest financial services. Yes,
there are induction programs, bridge programs, and internships. But this type of
support is reactive, and it comes too late. “I believe,” he says, “that a considerable
portion of the corruption that is committed in financial services is due to a lack of
knowledge of how to produce returns in the market. If FSPs focus on educating the
fund managers of our future, this will promote a strong message to follow the rules.”
With ethical financial education as his passion, Morgan built an online training
platform that now teaches students in 28 countries to master essential elements of
the trading, investing and wealth management industries. To effectively lead, market,
build and develop this entity, MS E Academy, he says, “I use absolutely everything I
learned as a kid, plus some progressive people management.”
To anyone wondering whether they have what it takes to be Morgan’s kind of trader,
he says, “No matter where you come from, weather your storm. Translate it into your
trades. Dedicate as much time as you can to becoming the absolute best at what you
do. Realise that a lot of that time will be spent failing. And be unorthodox.”
As for Morgan himself? “I want to be undeniable,” he says. He already is.
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