Hello!
This is my frist writing here. I kept following this thread nearly since its beginning. I am from germany and german is my native language, so please excuse, if sentences are misspelled or sound strange when first read.
I mostly share the points made by
@Takashiii. I also thought long, whether I should subscribe here and add my few experiences that I had with the P(F)TM series. Until now I was able to hold myself back in commenting here. But after reading
@Takashiii's comment, I thought I jump in.
(I still have the Forex part left to do, though)
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The negatives:
1. The material could be improved, seems kinda put together low budget / amateur like.
6. Some excel spreadsheets looks quite amateur like or put together too fast, I think they could had made it look way better.
After going through the video series and started working with the presentations (pause the videos and make some own notes), you figure out that the slides are of poor quality.
They can be simple by design. But what sets me up was the overall bad quality in grammar, correct writing of sentences, sentences missing the fullstop (point) at the end, missing coma, different capitalization of words (some sentences do have capitalzations others not), shortcuts by using "&" rather than "and" whtin sentences, wrong values taken over from the excel sheets and so on.
With the PTM series, this was quite an issue but the numbers of overall errors could be forgiven.
With the PFTM series, this issue reaches another level.
The presentations really looked slammed together in a hurry. The same grammer, correct writing of sentences, sentences missing the fullstop etc. errors can be applied here.
The amount of errors within the slides makes it not easy to understand what's going on. Specially if you are no native speaker of the english language or are not used to speak english every day.
There are also a lot of consistency issues within the slides: like titles have different numbering.
For example (Video05):
Slide 03 says "Foundation 5",
Slide 04 says "Foundation 4" and
Slide 05 says "Foundation 5" again.
Some Videos are even missing the title all together.
Quite often you hear a change of the voice within the videos, signaling that some sort of iterruption or pause happened meanwhile.
The video continues and during his talk you might notice that he is going one slide back and then forward again. But you also notice that the slides have changed.
For example (Video03):
Slide 40 and 42 is such an situation.
During pause the slides of the presentation got changed and you sit behind your computer arguing with yourself what has been going on.
Same with Video 13 Slide 02 and 03.
With other words, the video series must have been a parallel process. The slides have been work in progress during the time he took, making the videos. Causing changes of slides when going forward and backwards during these pauses.
Also an issue are calculations that has been done by his assistant financial analizer. In one video he went through an excel sheet cutting & pasting values together and during this quick manual process he skipped a few lines thus resulting in different end values.
I really wished someone would have gone through the final slides before making the videos. Some sort of lecturing would have gained much. Fixing rough grammar issues, punctuation, word capitalization, checking up the values written in sentences with the values within the tables (on the same slide).
... and yes ... you should know what a micro lot is. Of course a micro lot is not having the same value as a nano lot (Please look on the slides showing the values of the lot sizes).
Anyways! Does this make the entire video series not worth it? Clearly not! The video series are fine. The amount of information you've been getting out of it is immense. Though the lecturing would have been important and I hope that, for future video series, that this is being done. Have someone going through the slides before making videos with it.