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lol, don't shoot the messenger! If you didn't want replies then you shouldn't have asked the question

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

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August can get a little nuts too! I don't think you need to work harder to compensate though, second half of December and first half of January, and August, is only ~8 weeks holiday a year, I'd say just relax and enjoy the time off

Trading for a living do you write off certain months ?

Same to you friend. This discussion just went from the sublime to the ridiculous anyway with some of the inane comments in the last couple of posts, but I think it actually stopped being constructive a couple of pages ago to be honest! Good trading ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Well yes, the purchaser is buying a book about how to become a consistently profitable trader, if it's any good it will have a resale value. If the book turns out to be misdescribed then the purchaser can return it to the retailer for a refund. Of ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

If it proves to be instrumental in the mentee's success then yes, but what we're discussing here (commercial training programs) where the vast majority will inevitably lose money then no, obviously it's less than worthless if it doesn't produce ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Well ok, if the sellers of these training courses are telling people they have a less than 2% chance of making any money and that most people will in fact lose money then fine. But they're obviously not going to say that or they wouldn't sell as ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Mentorship by definition is a one-to-one relationship and I agree with you, it can be extremely useful to have a mentor especially in this business. But trading isn't a one-size-fits-all, it's a very personal endeavour, that's why training people on ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

It's business, and not all business is ethically sound. Taking money off trader hopefuls who probably have less than a 2% chance of making it in this business but will probably end up losing money, and training them en masse, isn't what I would call ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Very well put, good post.

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Ok, this is what I kind of expected would happen and as I said previously I'm really not going to get into a debate about any particular vendor on this site, it usually turns into an inconclusive argument. I think we've expressed our respective ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Well as a business he obviously has to pay his overhead and turn a profit, and as a consumer you obviously can't expect to get something for nothing. I'm not debating whether what he offers is good value or not, I'm just pointing out the differences ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Hardly, read the comparison again and you'll see the dissimilarities..... I think anyone who teaches people on a mass scale is simply making a commercial venture out of it, they want to get as many subscribers as possible regardless of their ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

I agree. I think anyone who teaches people on a mass scale is simply making a commercial venture out of it, they want to get as many subscribers as possible regardless of their suitability, aptitude, or potential for success. They are probably well ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

I think the operative word was 'knows', the point being that everything is based on probability not certainty, therefore I don't think you can say entries might just as well be random if we don't know what will happen.

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Quite probably, they like to paint a rosy picture regardless of what's happening in reality Sharpe, like any other number crunching statistic, can be manipulated to make it look pretty much any way the presenter wants it to look. However, if used ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

The same accountant who tells clients who have a potentially non-viable business to "....pull yourself together, stop feeling sorry for yourself and get back to work..."? Hmmm.... Sharpe ratio is used to calculate and assess risk adjusted ...

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Right, well that certainly explains a lot

Forex Mentors - The Best Investment You Can Make?

Got it, thanks! I might just use different profiles for different points settings, that way it will change the points value across all pairs.

extern int Points = 25;