traderWhit
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I'm not the enemy here guys, you are (at the moment from your words) enemies unto yourself.
TraderWhit
TraderWhit
In my experience, seminars can be helpful, but you are only getting the highlights of the expert's knowledge, not really the depth. I have been fortunate to actually work with an expert, and this has made a lot of difference, though, it wasn't really the best thing I ever did for my trading. After a long time trying all kinds of different markets, indicators, holding periods, etc I finally figured out what market I wanted to trade and how I wanted to trade it (no indicators). Then I found someone to help me learn it. I also read a fair amount on both the type of trading I was interested in and trading psychology.
But, as I said, that was only a part of it. The other part is that I got good historical data, and I split it into thirds. On the first third, I went through the data bar by bar figuring out what seemed to work consistently from what I learned. This was my research -- all done by hand. From that, I developed a specific trading plan. Because I learned so much from the bar by bar analysis, I was able to develop a handful of setups that worked well, I knew how to place stops, what the win:loss should be, etc. On the next third, I again did the painstaking bar by bar and tested the setups and refined them. Then, the last third (again bar by bar) was a test of myself. The basic question I asked myself was, "How well can I trade this." It took a real long time to do all this. As you might imagine, I got a lot out of this process. And, of course it didn't stop. I learn new stuff every day.
So, I think seminars, books, and mentors are all helpful, but if you don't do something significant to help yourself, I don't think the trader goes very far. It's just my opinion, but my experience says the hard work is worth it.
I don't think a Trade2Win staff menber would be posting OTA CD's for sale if he thought it the company were teaching rubbish. OTA teach you basic concepts for free, they know you need more than that to make a living out of trading. There is too much to learn...
Looooool, that's actually quite funny Pboyles. I'm not sure, but he is staff, i think his boss would be very concerned if the content could potentially harm the repretation of trade2win. Obviously that is not the case.
Pboyles, a question... Can't you try and see the bright side of the reasonalbly priced CD's being promoted by a repretable website like trade2win? You tend to focus a lot on the negative side of things......
TraderWhit
Traderwhit
You've spent 15 grand and two years full time to end up still being part of the 90%. At what point do you admit failure and cut your losses. I mean no business can go on endlessly not making money. Are you sure it's not just a case of you not wanting to admit you were wrong going down this route with OTA?
I am politely waiting for a reply to my earlier questions.
Traderman1, you have gone really quiet, I'm quite concerned, I posted that resonse above much earlier.
I see the blog has gone, what conclusion should we draw about profitability?
Traderwhit, hope you are doing well. I was at the Forex show last week but did not talk to many people at the OTA stand. The rest were the usual crowd of sales pushers, the rest of the attendees were all too willing to "participate" in what was being sold by Win and that stupid Irish tawt McGovern. Most of what they blabbed on about is exactly what OTA XLT tell us to avoid.
Also have you tried out the Pro picks? What a feckin good service.