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Samuel Leach
Samuel Leach (born March 18, 1991) is a stock and forex trader. He is known for building a large investment portfolio by day trading and writing automated trading algorithms whilst attending Hertfordshire University.

Career Section
Samuel graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 2014 with a bachelors degree in Marketing with Advertisement. While at University, he frequently cut class to do day trading or traded whilst in his lectures and classes. During his studies he traded a £2,000 account into over £170,000 and founded Samuel and Co Trading where he has gone on to teach over 2000 individuals how to profit from the forex and stock markets.

While he was trading, studying at University and running an educational training company; he was also working at the leading independent private bank in the UK : C. Hoare & Co. He started as a programme intern at the bank in May 2013 and within 5 months had progressed to the role of Assistant Project Manager. He left the bank in March 2014 when he decided to focus on Samuel and Co Trading and his finals at University.

After completing University and leaving the bank, he has continued to grow as a success in trading and also as a social media influencer and Forbes writer. Throughout 2019 he has grown his YouTube following to over 100,000 subscribers. The interest has been through his documenting of the day to day life of a forex and stock trader, showing the ups and downs in the market place. While documenting his own journey, he also documents various students from Samuel and Co Trading in his documentary known as “The Real Forex Trader“. The series documents 18 individuals with no background in trading that have entered the financial markets and shows the public the struggles, successes and hurdles that are seen in their journey. Following this Samuel is a contributor to Forbes where he frequently posts about stocks he is watching and why he thinks the stock should be on your watchlist. Samuel has been featured in many mainstream papers such as CityAM, Metro, Daily Mail and many more articles and radio stations.

Teaching and other projects
Samuel currently works as a Stock and Forex trader and Director of Samuel and Co Trading. In 2012, Samuel leach launched samuelandcotrading.com. It serves as dedicated website to teaching stock and forex trading. It also shows various trading algorithms built using MetaTrader 4. The expert advisors he developed enable traders to trade and make profit without having to do any trading. One algorithm is in its fourth year of live trading and has a successful track record, returning 30% average per year.

Charity work
In August 2016, Samuel Leach swam the British Solent for charity, he swam 2 ½ miles open water across one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes. The swim was completed on 13 August 2016 to raise money for the Aspire Charity. Aspire is a national charity which provides practical help to people with spinal cord injury. Through grants, independent living advice, accessible housing and specialist technology it ensures that spinal cord injured people have the help and equipment they need to improve their daily lives.

In March 2017, Samuel Leach funded a project in Uganda, helping 150 schoolchildren to get an education by providing essential learning materials, textbooks and uniforms.

He continues to build innovative projects with the core value being to help others and uplift people who do not have access to traditional education options.