The Bullion Voyage Begins: Lessons from Launching a High-Impact Trading Mastermind

From Idea to Reality: How We Built a Game-Changing Precious Metals Mastermind in Mexico, in Under 4 Months

Back in October 2024, I was reflecting on my success in Gold & Silver mining stocks. I was pretty sure I had cracked the code to predicting market cycles, yet something was missing. My trading was successful, but I lacked a network of like-minded people to share the journey with. Then, one dinner conversation changed everything.

It was actually Friday 18th October and I was at dinner with a friend who used to run a trading desk for a major bank in the City of London. I was telling him how I thought I had more or less ‘sussed’ investing in Gold & Silver mining stocks given how accurate I had managed to be in a recent cycle. He was very impressed with my results and my mindset. However, I told him I knew I wasn’t an expert.

He stopped me and asked how many charts l looked at each day, I said 50 to 250 (I think). At which point he told me that I may not be an official expert but I was an expert. Because achieving consistent results and having that much exposure to charts meant I had learnt a lot, and more than enough to consider me an expert to a degree. I was very grateful for the compliment but didn’t take it too seriously.

Then, after that dinner, I realised something: I had spent more time mastering this than anything else in my life.

That thought wouldn’t leave me alone. The next morning, as I stared out at another grey UK sky, the idea hit me: Why not create an event where I could teach what I knew, bring together great people, and—let’s be honest—get myself and my friends to Costa Rica?

So wasting no time, on Sunday 20th October I wrote to my small mastermind group:

Don't get too excited, but I'm thinking about running a 6-day event in Costa Rica, talking about training on the mining stocks and my way of trading them, and all my list of stocks. We can do it for a maximum of 30 people, although just 10 people would actually be enough for it to work.

Basically, the idea is to find more close friends, to help them make money and have some people to share the ride with. People like C. D. Plus it gets me to Costa Rica again in April.

I would be selling the event on the basis of ‘I am not an expert, just a talented amateur, but I know enough to be making multiple millions out of this so I never have to work again. If you want to learn what I've learnt in the last 4.5 years, get my list of companies, know exactly what I am investing in, when I’m investing in it, what returns are likely, find out all the sources I use, you can be part of a small group of like-minded goal focused individuals, and have ongoing group support for 12 months’.

No lefties, no woke bs. Just people who want countless shortcuts to making a s**t ton of money in the current wealth cycle.

It's all just a brainstorm right now, but I'm pretty sure it is worth 10 times what people will be charged. Plus they get to go to an amazing location.

What do you think?

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I was sort of ‘hoping’ my colleagues Nicola and Paul would say they didn’t like the idea so that I didn’t have to do the work needed to pull it together, but instead, the first response back was, “That sounds amazing. It “feels” like a lot to cover in that time period. Are you going to specify whether people have to have any experience at all?”

We then chatted and I fully explained the concept and what people would take away. They both loved it, so did Paul’s wife Philly and they all joined me on the project that morning.

However, the excitement of the idea was quickly met with reality: finding the right location, convincing people to take a leap of faith and trust that lightning could strike the same person a fourth time, and—when the perfect Costa Rica hotel was unavailable—scrambling for a new country entirely. Mexico became the new destination, but not without its own logistical nightmares.

But I’m pleased to say, just 3 months, 23 days later we closed the event with what can be best described as a very excited and goal-focused group of people.

It wasn’t the fastest I’ve gone from business idea to delivery, but given it was in another country and an entirely new training course for me to create. It was pretty cool, even if I say so myself.

Going to give…

The goal of the event was to give people a non-conventional view of the worldwide economy which probably less than a million people worldwide know about. Then educate them fully on the opportunity in the bullion markets for the forthcoming long-term bull market cycle. And to do it so that it created Conviction, Confidence and Consciousness in everyone in such a way that their success in achieving those goals felt ‘obviously inevitable.’

This ‘obviously inevitable’ feeling was crucial to their success ongoing, and it was going to be a test of my ability to teach it in a way that created that mindset shift to a level where it felt real and without effort to them. So taking people from complete novice to a feeling of obviously inevitable success was something special for me personally.

As my long-term readers may remember, I don’t like the pathetic success rates offered by most training events. I like seeing almost everyone succeed. So I alter my teaching to make this almost inevitable for me too.

This is the advantage of being able to teach mindset in a way which removes the barriers to success, and makes it an almost entirely pleasant experience for the novice.

Then when I taught the trading strategy, I gave them another mindset gift of the feeling of, ‘I almost can’t get it wrong’. Plus a checklist for trade entry, and an ‘I almost can’t get it wrong’ mindset check-list for exiting positions at the right time. Most traders will tell you that they made the money by getting into the correct trade, then they rode it all the way back down without taking profits.

Well, I think I’ve solved that problem for everyone here. I’ll know that for sure when we finish the current cycle in a few months time.

When Paul was checking my work before I delivered the course he said the slide with the buying checklist was worth the price of admission alone. So yet another wonderful compliment.

As for what exactly we do, our aim is to catch at least 60-70% of the swing-trade move in each cycle, that’s all. Then have an ability to sit on your hands after taking profits if there are no opportunities.

It looks to me that there are going to be at least 3 cycles this year, with a potential 4th mini-cycle too. But don’t hold your breath on that one.

Now, most people who have never traded likely won’t have any idea how much of a big deal all of what I just wrote above is. But I am sure the traders who read it realise what a big deal it is to achieve all that.

Well, one of the traders who attended the event mainly for mindset purposes wants to bring five of his trader friends to the next event as he thought the fundamental training I gave in the market was worth the cost of the event alone. So another real compliment to me which I definitely wasn’t expecting.

In fact I thought I was going to get complaints from people about covering that topic too much in depth, but it did what I thought it would and it created conviction in the thesis.

Plus that trader loved my actual strategy too. I told him on the day before the event while we were visiting the ruins at Tulum that he would be annoyed later in the week as what I was doing was really simple and obvious. I’m pleased to say he wasn’t annoyed, he was inspired that it was so easy. Which again was another wonderful compliment.

Another trader told me, he couldn’t get over that it was the best trading event he’d ever been to and this was my ‘straight out of the gate offering.’ We have since become life-long friends.

Thanks to everyone involved we took this from concept to delivery to a very happy group of people in less than 4 months. Which is something everyone involved with this event should be proud of.

And the great news is, we have a lot of testimonials already from the honest feedback we asked for when I wasn’t in the room. I will share them with you later in another post (or posts) as there are quite a few. But more than a few people have already told us that this is the best money they have ever spent.

However, I am expecting and am planning for a lot more testimonials to come in over the next 2 to 6 months, as this is when I expect everyone to have made their cost of attending, travelling, and staying at the hotel back, and be into profit. Ideally, they will be into profit in the first of this year's three to four swing trades. Which means all of the other trades will be pure profit for them.

Below is the image of the ninth slide in my presentation. I very much doubt when I shared it on the first morning of the event that anyone really took it seriously. But now, just over a week after the event ended, and with a couple of people having made almost 20% of their costs back, I think it’s fair to say everyone knows I was being serious.

My guess at the moment is that within 45 days the first person will have made their entire costs for attending the event back. Then over the next 2 to 6 months everyone will have. So I look forward to sharing that first response and others with you as soon as I hear about them.

Basically, I want to see how many days it takes for people to make 100% of their costs back and be into profit. So the next few months should be fun to watch, I can’t wait for that feedback to come in.

I think the true test of a ‘make money’ event is demonstrating the ability of the attendees to make all of their costs back within a reasonable period. Every ‘make money’ educator will vehemently agree with that, but a miniscule amount deliver on it.

Those who read my first book, Money For Nothing & Your Property For Free may remember the extraordinary levels we achieved in getting people to make money, With this event, I intend a 100% success rate!

It wasn’t all plain sailing…

However, the event was not all plain sailing, as we had a lot of hurdles to clear to turn it into a reality.

Firstly, I saw that leaving it to April would mean missing out on probably the best gold move of 2025. So I had to move the event forward to cover that. Which caused all sorts of logistical problems.

The big one being the hotel I loved in Costa Rica couldn’t accommodate everyone. This meant we had to choose another country, as I wasn’t going back to Costa Rica and not staying at the hotel I loved. Yes, it really was that magical.

After some fairly quick discussions, we decided on Mexico. Then we had the problem of finding a suitable hotel. Philly (Paul’s wife) bore the vast majority of the pain here but, even with the language barrier causing a few issues, we did eventually find a very good hotel for the event.

Meanwhile, I had to write a guide to investing to demonstrate that I might know what I was talking about, and that this wasn’t just some quest to get a holiday.

So I wrote that 50,000 word guide in just a couple of days, which as usual poured out of me. Fortunately, I managed to do a good enough job to convince more than enough people to trust me with a sizeable investment of their time and money. Thank you to all who did, it will always be appreciated.

People began to pay their deposits and all, bar a couple of people, were cleared to come by Nicola and Paul. Basically, we wanted to make sure those attending had enough money to comfortably make all of their costs back within a reasonably short period of time And we only wanted people who we intuitively knew we would enjoy spending time with. I think I can speak for everyone at the event when I say we sure got that bit right.

What surprised me was there were two to three people who were traders who came to the event. I never considered it being of value to traders. But whilst creating the training course I discovered how few people were actually successful in trading. I won’t tell you how few there are. If you’re interested you can look it up. But I discovered that the training I was giving was going to ensure people were in the tiny percentage of traders who actually make money.

I won’t say I wasn’t concerned as to the value I’d be able to deliver when I first heard there were traders coming to the event because I hadn’t considered traders coming along., I thought I was running the event for novices. But all of my concerns fell away as soon as these traders saw how I had created a unique method for myself to swing trade, which happened to be pretty spectacular, even though I do say so myself,

As for the beginners in the group, when I got to the actual trading part… Well, I managed to accidentally bamboozle them a bit to start with. Then after a few incidents where Paul and Nicola deliberately slowed me down I got things to a pace where it was easy(ish) for people to understand. And so, by days five and six, everyone who had done what they were advised to do ahead of the event began happily placing trades.

There was one wonderful lady who shall remain nameless. At the start of the Mastermind I asked people if they wanted me to help them with any particular issue while we were together. Her problem was she had a trading account and had the funds in it for about 3 years and yet she had never managed to get past the mental hurdles to pushing the button and placing a trade.

So on day five, something incredible happened. I said to her in front of the class, ‘today you are placing a trade.’ She responded with, ‘I already have.’ That was music to my ears. That was the moment I knew for certain - we weren’t just demonstrating trading strategies; we were unlocking people’s confidence in themselves.

This topped an outrageous claim I had made a couple of days before, where I said, ‘I am pretty sure that most of you will come to see this as the best money you’ve ever spent.’ At the time I wasn’t yet onto the ‘clever stuff’ and was teaching the ground work. But by day four two people had already said they thought it was probably the best money they’d ever spent.

Frankly, there were so many wonderful moments like that, which meant I got to feel very grateful for actually deciding to do this. Plus I got to teach my children how to trade, and teach them all about macroeconomics, and mindset too. As a parent, can you imagine how good that felt?

As a parent I find it truly wonderful that not only do I get to teach both my children (who are now in their twenties) this sort of thing, I’m also able to go into business with them both. l. So I have even more to be grateful for. Plus I enjoyed all the wonderful compliments I got from the attendees on how David and Sarah interacted with people. That made me feel pretty good too.

Since I almost fully retired from doing anything in 2020 I didn’t think I needed this sort of thing in my life anymore, but I am pleased to say I was wrong about that. I personally got a heck of a lot more from being part of this group than I imagined I would.

So again, thank you to everyone who attended. The next 12 months together should be one heck of a year. Who knows, maybe longer.

As to the future…

I thought I was simply sharing my knowledge, but I walked away with something greater: the realisation that teaching and community amplify success far beyond what any one person can achieve alone. And now, I’m doing it again—this time, even bigger.

Clearly, we have found ourselves with something of great value and our timing couldn’t have been better, as on four out of the seven days of the Mastermind gold hit a new all-time-high.

During the course, at least one of the attendees got a little freaked out as to the opportunity I presented. She felt sure that she had missed it and by the time I taught her the trading it would have been too late for her. Almost needless to say, she doesn’t think that anymore.

She now understands we are in a long term bull market for these precious metals, and the world is only just beginning to wake up to the potential for life-changing profit that waits for anyone who knows some of what I know. So she happily began buying stocks once she was fully aware of how early she was going into the market.

What I was most shocked by at the event were the number of attendees who want to come to another one. Paul and Nicola even had to explain it to me as I had zero intention of selling anyone on a future event and I was a little dense as to why people would want to come to the same event again.

But, sure enough, at least half the attendees want to come again and bring with them friends and family members. I thought I’d given them everything they needed and they’d be set for life. However, they enjoyed it so much that many of them want to come back.

So clearly, that pushed me into doing another event. Plus the market is ripe for profiting from the second up swing in mining stock prices this year, which should occur late June.

Now this causes me a bit of a problem as I already have a lot of trips planned this year.I can’t go to Costa Rica until November at the earliest, and we won’t even be making a decision on that before July.

But we can squeeze in another Mastermind in June if we do it in the UK.

So for those who have figured out that they missed out by not joining the Mastermind in Mexico, we are going to be running another event in late June (which will finish by early July) to allow our friends from the US to get back home for July 4th.

It will be held in the UK, probably within an hour or so of Heathrow airport. We haven’t chosen the hotel yet, but are working on it now, so we should have that sorted out in a few weeks time.

Success isn’t just about knowing what to do—it’s about knowing/feeling you can do it. And that’s exactly what we created in Mexico.

So if you like the idea of taking charge of your financial life forever, no matter what those in charge have planned for us, learning to create life-changing profits coming from investing in gold and silver mining stocks and capturing the majority of an almost certain 10-year bull market in the sector, then look out for an update from me soon :-)

In other news…

There are also a few articles that I wanted to write over the last few months but my priority was to make sure I delivered more than I promised to all the Mastermind attendees.

Now I’ve achieved that, there will be more articles from me soon, including a new concept I’ve been pondering on for the last few years which I tested out at the event and so now feel I can write about it. I think you will like a lot 🙂

Lastly, I should mention that ‘Precious Metals Mastermind’ was a working title and that I have rebranded to ‘Bullion Voyage’. This is because it more represented what we are doing over the whole plan, rather than just the mastermind. Mission creep did indeed creep in and the initial idea has grown a little…

Best wishes,

Andy