LAIRDBALD

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” – Zig Ziglar

The Rationale
Operating from the UK Lake District, and Monterchi in Italy, Lairdbald is a wholly- owned private company, investment vehicle, and five-year mission created to manage our founder’s transition from full-time employment through part-time, and onto retirement.
In the spring of 2024, I committed to an extensive re-training process. I began my career in the 1980’s within financial services, it’s an industry that’s retained my passion across the decades so it’s fitting to return to the same sector for my last roll of the dice. After reconnecting with my financial network and becoming accredited and certified across a range of asset classes and instruments, I have remained part of an institutional mentoring programme to master trading disciplines and behaviours, manage risk, and adapt to the many changes, improvements, and developments the sector has experienced since my career first began—not least the birth of the internet and, more recently, the rapid deployment of AI.
Lairdbald execute trades that consider price movements across the world’s indices, futures, commodities, equities, and foreign currency pairs; with the latter, Lairdbald speculates on the price variations of one currency strengthening or weakening against the other.
Prior to establishing a position across any asset or instrument, Lairdbald undertakes a methodical and forensic approach to both fundamental and technical analysis across a variety of time horizons, while also availing of research analytics that include historic behaviour, earnings, artificial stimulus, news calendar, market impact, sentiment, and other global events.
Lairdbald’s role is neither to predict, hope, guess, or assume the outcome of a position, but instead to respond to market conditions and signals. Our #1 priority is to manage risk while adhering strictly to our trade plan.
Technology
Prior to launch, Lairdbald trialled several asset management platforms to complement its business operations. Despite the existence of some fine products on offer across the market, we felt that none delivered on the UI/UX, versatility, automation, monitoring and wider functionality we desired. We envisioned a device- agnostic suite with sophisticated endpoint management, weapons-grade data protection, driven by smart cloud technology.
  • Following some chance and productive discussions held at C-level with leading international hedge funds and institutional investment houses, Lairdbald moved to invest in designing and creating its own technology.
  • Today, Lairdbald manages and reconciles all private transactions within “Claymore”, our proprietary asset management platform.
  • V1.0 go-live took place on 1 st September 2025. Currently, Claymore functionality is leveraged exclusively by Lairdbald.
TOTAL HOURS CODED
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16 LANGUAGES
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60,000 INVESTMENT ASSETS
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Acknowledgements
  • Short clip recognising the contributions from lawyers, hedge funds,institutional investors, and training academies across Italy. 
  • Short clip acknowledging the vast contributions and support received by our partners across Europe, the USA, and the Republic of South Africa. 
  • Deepest thanks to Laurence Alexander, a visionary Chief and President with whom I had the privilege of serving across three organisations. Under his stewardship, I gained invaluable exposure to the digital capabilities, protocols, systems, processes, and technologies that ultimately became the catalyst for creating the Claymore platform. Thank you, Laurence, for possessing the rare skill not only to listen, but to truly hear.
  • To the late Mark Douglas, award-winning author, educator, coach, and trader. Deepest thanks for his compelling literature, for his candour while chronicling his own issues encountered while finding a path through trading, and for making it to the winning post. Thanks also for underlining the importance of maintaining psychological health and emotional control when embracing uncertainty. “The market is not your enemy; your mind is”
  • To the late and eternally great Christopher Hitchens. To express gratitude for his compelling literature, incisive journalism, objective commentary, and in particular for his stimulating debate, where Christopher always demonstrated an unrivalled ability to dismantle or obliterate an opponent’s argument with such eloquence, and wit: a process coined today as a “Hitchslap”. In acknowledgement of his remarkable stoicism, fortitude, and candour as he
Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, the site's content is limited. Since we currently offer nothing for sale, there is no marketing fluff or the typical accoutrements. Although we hadn’t planned to build a site at this stage, we eventually followed advice and put one together to meet two key objectives. First, the site acts as a repository for current and future information about the Claymore platform and its ongoing development. Second, it serves as a space to express our gratitude to the individuals and teams whose exceptional support and collaboration have been vital to Lairdbald’s journey. We also use the acknowledgements section to thank the remarkable people who have shaped our founder’s career, expanded his capabilities, and influenced his thinking.

Claymore, as it is known today, will serve Lairdbald exclusively for a minimum period of 18 months (until March 2027)—essentially a long-term road test. After this period, the name may change. At the time of publishing this website, Claymore has benefited from more than 4,700 Lairdbald-funded programming, coding, and testing hours. This number will continue to rise as we progress through our feature- development programme and deploy additional functionality. Claymore now carries intrinsic value and could, hypothetically, become an attractive IP acquisition. Any future acquirer would be free to select their preferred trading style or brand name, and eventually pursue their own trade-marking if they wished. For now, Claymore remains an internal tool used strictly for private purposes—hence the limited information provided.

The initial business plan did not envisage Lairdbald operating as a developer. However, a chance opportunity arose, we made a quick decision, and we leaned in. While we do not possess the necessary coding skills internally, we engaged a highly distinguished team of engineers with whom our founder has previously collaborated on several domestic and international projects. This team works exclusively on Project Claymore, and now, with V1.0 operational, ongoing platform development will neither detract from Lairdbald’s day-to-day operations nor extend the strategic timeline set at launch.

There’s no need for one at present. All partners, suppliers, and key contacts already have our details and can continue to reach us as they always have. We have no requirement for customer-facing calls, which leaves only cold callers—and, respectfully, we prefer to avoid those, along with the detritus that so often accompanies today’s scam calls.

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