Allen,
Before you claim a strategy does not work, please make sure you are able to trade the strategy the correct way. Besides Richard's strategy, learning to trade ANY strategy requires three disciplinary steps:
1) ALWAYS paper trade the strategy first to understand when the strategy works and when it does not.
2) When trading a strategy with real money, trade small lots. With respect to stocks, start off by trading nothing more than 100 shares. As you build consistency in your profits and gain more confidence, you can increase your lots slowly.
3) Stay away from stocks that are very volatile. The rule of thumb is that stocks over $100 fall into this category, but this does not necessarily have to be the case. For example, stay away from stocks such as GS, AAPL, RIMM, BIDU, etc...
Just by reading your above comments, I can already tell you have violated at least two of the three rules above. You did not paper trade the strategy until you became comfortable with it and you did not stay away from volatile stocks since you traded FSLR.
You also mentioned that you've read through the entire thread, but RIchard has mentioned that you must abide by the above three principles when starting out trading this strategy. Yet, you skipped through these steps and expected to make an immediate profit?
It takes many months to learn how to trade one strategy the right way. It takes many more months to learn how to manage the psychological pressure associated with trading. The fact that you tried this strategy one day or over several days and lost "a lot of money" does not imply the strategy does not work, but rather, you must try to figure out what it is you are doing wrong. First of all, if you are serious about learning this strategy, then start with the above three steps outlined. Keep your expectations realistic - don't expect to make an immediate profits after a couple of days/weeks.
Also, don't forget that Richard also uses Level 2 / Time and Sales to judge entries and exits. This means that although you may have followed the steps of this strategy correctly, it does not imply that it is the ABSOLUTE way of doing things. You most likely do not have the knowledge of reading level 2 as Richard does, which effectively does give him an edge.
I have not paid Richard for his course, but I have attempted his strategy with real money and it worked for me. Of course, if it didn't work tomorrow, then I would not claim that it never works. There are too many variables to consider (I do not read Level 2, but Richard does; I do not have the 10 years trading experience that Richard does; etc...).
So please, just because the strategy does not work for you does not mean it is does not work at all. There's a good chance you traded the strategy incorrectly.
Amit
You are correct that anyone can display a screencap of a good chart and state that they traded it successfully.
It appears that Richard is baiting people to become future customers.
When people sell courses for a lot of money because they claim it contains proven "methods" that should send up a red flag.
I think it is wrong but thats just me.