About Steven
Saville
I graduated
from the University of Western Australia in 1984 with a degree in electronic
engineering. From 1984 until 1998 I worked
in the commercial
construction industry as an engineer, a project manager and an operations
manager.
I began investing in the stock market 2 months prior to the 1987 stock market
crash and thus quickly learnt about the downside potential of stocks. Only
slightly daunted by the rather inauspicious timing of my entry into the world
of financial market investments, my interest in the stock market grew steadily
over the years.
In 1993 after studying the history of money, the nature of our present-day
fiat monetary system and the role of banks in the creation of money, I developed
an interest in gold. Another very important lesson soon followed: gold may
be the ideal form of money for those who believe in free markets and a wonderful
hedge against the inherent instability of the government-imposed paper currencies,
but it is not always a good investment.
By mid-1998 the time and money involved in my stock and gold market research/investments
had grown to the point where I was forced to make a decision: scale back
on my financial markets involvement or give up my day job. The decision was
actually quite an easy one to make and so, at the beginning of 1999, I began
investing/trading on a full-time basis.
My major concern in deciding to pursue a career in which I devoted all of
my time to my own investments was that I would miss the personal interaction
that had been part and parcel of my business and project management career.
The Speculative Investor web site was launched in August 1999 as a means
for me to interact with the world by making my analysis/ideas available on
the Internet and inviting feedback from others with similar interests. Along
those lines I have also been writing articles for the Gold-Eagle web site
since 1997.