Page 40 - Market Times October 2024

40 MARKET TIMES • OCTOBER 2024
NMTF’s Spring Into Markets guide for new
traders is online — and completely free
YOU’RE never too young or old to become a market trader — just look at our highly successful Young Traders Market campaign, and the many stories we carry in our Market Times features of entrepreneurs who .have joined the industry later in their lives.
The NMTF’s comprehensive guide to retail market trading aimed squarely at mature people looking for new livelihoods is well and truly out there.
The fully interactive Spring Into Markets is available now, completely free to view and use — click here.
NMTF CEO Joe Harrison said: “This incredibly useful guide was born out of the Covid crisis and is meant as practical encouragement to think about trading on markets as a living.”
He said that for a number of years the NMTF had nurtured many young traders from starting on markets to growing their businesses.
“Our major project is the Young Traders Market for 16 to 30-year- olds who have an idea to sell,” he
added. “Culminating in a national final it has worked extremely well — even in the difficulties of the pandemic — but we see no reason why older people cannot spread their wings by springing into markets.”
This means that the guide is not exclusively for new traders, since the help and advice it contains will also benefit those who are already well established.
But for those interested in becoming a trader it describes how a business can be built up gradually, and about the flexibility of being able to work different markets on different days.
The guide also outlines how market trading can help develop business skills and stresses the importance of communication skills and building a network of customers.
In total there are 15 topics spread over more than 100 pages, covering all manner of subjects ranging from starting up to monitoring performance.
Each section is linked to assessment modules which can be downloaded and completed at the trader’s own pace.
TO ACCESS THE GUIDE CLICK HERE