Gavin Holmes was born in the United Kingdom in Southampton, and after leaving 
college served with both the Hampshire Constabulary and Metropolitan Police in 
law enforcement. GavinΓÇÖs drive and enthusiasm to help others better themselves 
led him to start his first business in 2000 and shortly afterwards he was to have 
the meeting that changed his life. That meeting took place in London in May 
2001 when Gavin first met former professional syndicate trader and author of 
ΓÇ£The Undeclared Secrets That Drive The Stock MarketΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Master The 
MarketsΓÇ¥ Tom Williams, a fellow British gentlemen who had retired at 40 having 
worked for a major trading syndicate in Beverley Hills, California, in the 70ΓÇÖs and 
80ΓÇÖs. 
Williams had developed a computer program called Wyckoff Volume Spread 
Analysis that was able to produce trading signals based on the principles taught 
by Richard D Wyckoff in the early 1900ΓÇÖs. These signals were uncannily accurate 
and as Gavin did due diligence he discovered that  Williams had discovered a 
major breakthrough in charting the financial markets to track professional money, 
and so shortly afterwards formed TradeGuider Systems Ltd with his long time 
friend and business partner Richard Bednall  to bring this valuable and timely 
methodology to the trading community worldwide.