This has been a really interesting read so far - let's summarise where we're up to - I might miss some bits, but bear with me:
1. Someone asked a good question: Who's Andrew Mitchem
2. Responses from: 'Andrew's a fat knacker' to 'Can't be any good' and 'if you put your car up here'... some where actually funny, others not so much (leaning towards abusive).
3. Those who know Andrew and who have profited from Andrew joined in to defend Andrew, because they know he's a good and genuine guy - maybe not a great idea to put affiliate links here, but the intent was to defend rather than profit from
4. Those people were ridiculed and/or shooed away
5. Andrew joined in, he's worked hard helping people profit from Forex, and wanted to stand front and centre to answered sensible questions
6. Andrew then started to post a sample of his daily trades (that he shared with his clients) to attempt to add value to the question 'who is Andrew'
7. People where thankful and appreciative that for the first time in a very long time, a Trader and Teacher of Forex put his nuts on the line
8. More comments came that weren't so constructive/professional/whatever you want to term them
9. Andrew moved away from this forum because the non-constructive conversations - he really did want to add value which is why he brought his nuts
10. other conversations happened, I skipped a few pages (sorry)
11. Lightning McQueen & Porkpie worked through some of his methods and explained them (which look like you guys know what you're talking about - good stuff)
12. Shewolf latched on to a typo in a spreadsheet and labelled Andrew as a fraud (Andrew is a full time trader Shewolf - assume you've looked at his site?: theforextradingcoach.com)
13. Alphadude jumped in - to be able to teach something does mean you have to get pretty good at it, otherwise you'll get found out really quickly - The raft of 5 star Forex Peace Army ratings would cover that one (it's taken Andrew a number of years to put together the steps that work after losing money himself (like most others do when they go on the forex journey), for others to now profit with))
14. And I've probably missed some bits, but I was curious enough to email sharky and ask him his perspective on the quality he wants for Trade2Win as a forum to help people with forex trading.
Now let's think about this for a second:
What's your purpose of being in Trade2Win?
to help people profit with trading for their long term benefit?
Excluding the HOW we do it for the moment: If we can educate more people to use Forex to build wealth, would we all be happy?
Whilst I agree with Lightning and Porkie, everything you've shared is on the internet - you guys know its there - you guys have spent X years learning Forex? (you replace the X, sorry I've not checked your profiles or websites on trading)
We'll all likely agree too that if you pick any topic, you'll find almost every answer on the internet today.
But the valuable information is how to piece everything together, to make it all work together, to be profitable.
That's what Andrew's done for his video course and his clients.
How many people do you know who are paying thousands to other Forex teachers and then slamming them on forex peace army (or similar)? Those same people have the same internet answers in front of them too, but they either don't know it's there, or haven't figured out what works for them.
Andrew's system is a step by step how to, to use a number of Forex methods for continual profitable trading, in a packaged format.
Those who invest in Andrew's course, and who follow his steps, profit. A number of those who've learnt from Andrew are today full time forex traders who've given up their 'day jobs' and have a new life, all from Andrew teaching them.
I know most of you will have visited his website, and perhaps even downloaded his Lot Size Calculator that he's spent thousands to develop and now gives away for free - when you sign up for that, you'll get emails with additional testimonials (on top of the video ones on his site) and stories and his experience - his journey if you will - of how he's lost money learning it, and now those who choose to, can follow his steps and profit.
Geeze, this is getting to be a long message isn't it?
Everyone's learning style is different too - some people will want to hunt around the internet, learn each of the steps, spend hours/weeks/months getting better (whilst losing money as they go). If someone wants to do that, that's their choice too.
I know a lot of people want to buy packaged products (I've brought a lot in the past to help fast-track my own learning - not in Forex, but in other topics), and let me ask you - how many packaged products are out there that do NOT deliver a profit?
How much money or time have you spent learning Forex?
I'm curious to know this (you don't have to answer here, just to yourself): If you'd have paid $2K at the start of your journey, and profited quicker, how much more would you have today in your Forex account (with or without compounding, that's your call)?
If the answer was 'yes I would have more', then would you recommend someone new to forex follows this? Or someone who's spent thousands over months or years and are still losing, pay this to start profiting?
Something else different too:
Did you know too that between 26/12/11 and 1/1/12 Andrew offered his product with a money back guarantee? If people do not make minimum 20% with their trades using his system, he'll give them a full refund (after 12 months).
There's some more nuts being laid on the table.
He did that because he is confident of his past trading experience. He has 2 years audited results, and from those (which if you put them against the top trading company's in the US, his results rank approx #5). I don't have the spreadsheet to hand, but can get it from Andrew to give you exacts there. I'm not making this up by the way before I'm called a fraud, I've seen this one myself.
Remember for all of us, It's all about aiming for longterm wealth with Forex - whether for ourselves, or to help others - Andrew helps individuals get there in a quick way, with steps and tools.
That's the longest message I've written in a long time about someone else, and you guys know a lot more about forex than I do, but I know I spent the past 7 years with my money in a share group, and lost 9% in 7 years. My money is now in Forex thanks to Andrew.
Though I didn't jump in straight away, I watched Andrew for 3 months from inside his office - the way he worked, the way others were profiting, to know that I could trust him with my money.
If you want to know who I am, my website is here:
Jamie McKean - I couldn't think of a whitty code name sorry, hence username: jamiemckean - I live 10 minutes from Andrew in New Zealand.
I class Andrew as a friend. He's a very genuine guy, and hugely passionate about helping people profit with Forex.
If you have any questions for Andrew, please email him at:
[email protected] or visit his website, and ring his phone number, which is on the top left of his website header.
Constructive conversations very welcome, knackers not so much.
Cheers,
Jamie