In 1997 Daniel  Kertcher became fascinated with the stock market.  At the time, both the US and Australian stock markets were starting to rise strongly.  This rise was the beginning of what later became known as the “Tech-Boom”.  Daniel, however, knew nothing about the stock market, so decided to find someone who could teach him. 

His search led him to two gentlemen living in New Zealand, Bruce Barnard and Max Lewis.  These two gentlemen both had over 30 years of share trading and technical analysis experience.  Both were in their 60’s and together had established the Society of Technical Analysis of New Zealand (STANZ), with Bruce Barnard as the Chairman and President of STANZ. 

Daniel felt he couldn’t have found better teachers!  So he hired the two gentlemen to teach him about the stock market.  Both men flew over to Australia and spent a week with Daniel, one on one, teaching him about trading.  Daniel was so impressed by them and their knowledge, that he asked them to form a company with him.  He knew that there were many other people who wanted this knowledge.  He just had to present Bruce and Max to them. So MetaShare International was born. 

In 1998 MetaShare International opened it’s first office in Auckland, New Zealand.  MetaShare offered courses in share trading and technical analysis and proved to be extremely popular.  Very quickly Daniel had teams teaching the courses in other NZ cities and in 1999 opened the new head office in Sydney.  By 2000, MetaShare had over 3,500 customers with offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland and regional teams in Christchurch and Wellington.