This is Derek Bade's Freedom Trader Journey

Most people assume the share market is a game rigged in favour of the big end of town. That the information, the tools and the edge belong to institutions and professionals — not to a semi-retired farmer from regional South Australia.

Derek Bade would tell you that assumption is wrong.

Derek spent his working life farming and running a business. When he retired, he set himself one clear goal: be the master of his own destiny. That meant not leaving his financial future in someone else's hands — and not being left with nothing if those people walked away.

What struck Derek most about Terry's approach was the predictive element. "A lot of other stuff you see doesn't have a predictive element — the graph shows you the market's dropping, but that's because it's already dropping. With Terry's system, you get a head start." The indicators, the rules, the fundamentals — they tell you what's likely to happen before it happens. And that information, Derek discovered, is available to anyone willing to learn how to read it.

"You can have similar information and similar fundamentals in front of you as the big guys have."

Derek now starts his mornings pulling out his laptop, checking his trades, and heading off to do whatever the day holds. "I can picture myself in the middle of nowhere doing the trades in the morning — and then heading off. That's kind of my lifestyle now."