Open letter to:
Steve Anderton aka Steve – CEO
Paul Gould aka Sharky – Founder
Trader333 - Content Editor & Business Development
Tim Wilcox aka timsk - Content Manager
Regarding:
Trading Tools / Educational Resources / Mike Baghdady – should I take the course or not.
A while ago I attended a webinar by Mike Baghdady which came under attack from one or two people related (people who had posted) to this site. As well as off topic questions relating to personal details (possible bankruptcy in the past) there were a number of abusive posts. The intent appeared clear, it was an attempt to stop the webinar and stop the company demonstrating and explaining the product and ultimately stopping the company doing business.. There were around 100 people in the webinar and many people commented along the lines of shut up and let the presenter continue.
Following the webinar I visited this site and this forum and was appalled with what I saw. Why? What appalled you? This thread was created and perpetuated by two ex-employees with a malicious intent Howard Abernethy (Digbyarbuthnot – 127 posts) and Les Johnston (Pipsplease – 205 posts).Can you prove this???
I do not see a problem in people posting background information which is in the public interest (past bankruptcy case and inaccuracies in advertising), however it is wrong for people to attempt to associate other unfounded and defamatory claims to attempt to infer wrong doing. Name any of themThere have been many cases of the same information being reposted and quoted in an attempt to justify some slanderous claims.Name anything posted about Mike Baghdady that is defamatory?
It is worth noting that posts have not been made by customers of the company. Incorrect. You'll find that there are.
There are a number of posts which claim the company was operating a con or scam, these are very serous allegations. There has been no complaint from any customer to back this up.If a customer is caught up in a fraud, how were they to know? EVERY SINGLE ONE of the customers I have spoken to have lost money and given up trading. NONE of them would have handed over a penny had they known that Mike Baghdady was a bankrupt (twice), convicted of common fraud, was NEVER the Head Trader at NYBOT (he was an analyst and NEVER traded), claimed he was the World Trading Champion (when it was a small regional competition in Germany), told falsehoods in his advertising (So much so that the broadcaster pulled the adverts) etc etc
In addition there have been a range of abusive posts resorting to name calling. Surely Mahmoud Baghdady, who also calls himself 'Mike' (NOT his real name) can handle that some messing about? Hasn't he worked on the trading floors of the world, famous for their macho culture and high-jinx? Oh no, that's right, he lied about that too. So I guess he would tell you how upset he is that he has been nicknamed Slap Boobies by members of the forum. I think you can add dog & donkey to the name-calling, but Mahmoud's a big boy and can handle himself due to his illustrious career on the world's trading floors. Oops, he didn't did he?
There have been a number of illegal and criminal actions relating to this thread (criminal damage, miss-use of company confidential material, contacting staff, customer and suppliers, attacks on webinars and of course defamatory statements) so I am surprised this site has been complicit in such actions.Please name any. What are these 'criminal' activities that have besmirched the clean character of Mahmoud Baghdady (convicted of common fraud and serial bankrupt)? Surely with his amazing financial might from his many years of successful trading he will be able to fight this in court? Oh sorry, I keep forgetting that he's a bankrupt and didn't even fund the Turtles properly nor personally like he proclaimed in many media interviews
This site has also facilitated in the organising of attacks on webinars which aimed at preventing a company doing business. Seriously? Do you think everyone here is a great collective willing people to fail? No, there are many caring folk who can see through the HUGE untruths that Mahmoud has said in his attempts to take thousands of pounds off people for his trainingAs I previously mentioned the attacks included personal abuse (ref post #2568 by Pipsplease on Jan21 7:08am).
With reference to a post on March 6, 2013 at 5:13am (#2763) it would appear that this site is not just complicit, posters have the impression that the site is supporting their actions
“It's quite clear that practically anything goes these days. It's been a while since I've seen anything removed”Take it to the court. I believe this is personal opinion which is the general point and reason of a forum. Whose opinion was this?
It would appear that Howard Abernethy (Digbyarbuthnot) is so confident in the support of this site and lack of action that would be taken he posted the electronic copy of the poster illegally posted on the company offices. Was the posting on the website or on the building brought to the attention of the police? What is illegal about posting on either? Please expand on your legal knowledge, stating any law or statue that was broken. Then inform the police that you'd like DigbyArbuthnot to be arrested
Legal, moral and ethical lines have been crossed and one would expect moderators of the site to have dealt with these cases. Personally, I have crossed no legal, moral or ethical line. Obviously I'm awaiting your response to prove any legal lines crossed. As for the moral or ethical lines, everyone has different boundaries, I think that Mahmoud's behaviour is FAR worse by taking peoples' money with false advertising claims, making up vast swathes of his professional history, assaulting staff, not paying creditors, lying about the failure and denouement of the Turtles, being bankrupt, having former staff members take you to court, getting Turtles to pay to be on the program, not funding it as you made great claim to in several interviews There are also many posts which breach your terms and conditions, again one would expect moderators to have dealt with this.Please name them. All these wild allegations without substance and back-up is getting tedious. Please can I have some facts? There are hundreds of pages and posts in here, please put some meat on the decaying bones of this open letter
The owners of the site are ultimately responsible for the content of the site and forum.
The content of this forum is not what I would expect from a professional site. I am writing this open letter to bring the content to your attention.That's your view. Trade2Win are the professionals in this matter and I'm sure that they've considered everything thoroughly
Extract from Terms and conditions.
2.1 The use of inappropriate or offensive language is not permitted on the Forums and you agree not to use such language.Language Timothy!
2.2 Inappropriate and offensive language includes, but is not limited to, any language or content that is sexually oriented, sexually suggestive or abusive, pornographic, harassing, defamatory, libellous, vulgar, obscene, insulting, threatening, profane, hateful, or that contains racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind.Name any. Please add SUBSTANCE to the point that you're not making
5.1 You agree not to use the Forum or the Private Mail System to violate any laws or to discuss illegal activities. This includes, but is not limited to, advocating or asking for information regarding software piracy, sharing or distributing viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys, "cracks," or other information designed to do harm to or allow unlawful access to any computer hardware, software, networks, or any other systems.I've not seen any codes on this forum. Have you? Is Mahmoud concerned about his trading secrets being leaked? I'm having to guess your point once again because there doesn't seem to be one