Very interesting thread.
I watch this guy day in day out, I pack my own parachute and never, ever follow any of his trades, more the I watch him I would be inclined to do the opposite.
You never hear about his losses or very seldom. He constantly trades against the trend. You look at his calls and he jumps in at £10 a point ( I think that's his standard bet) and then jumps in some more then some more then finally a fourth, averaging up or down. The FTSE on the whole is very forgiving, he gets it wrong but gets it right, which is so annoying. That's if he is actually taking the trades that he says he is taking.
You then look at the chart for that day and see where he's took his shorts or longs against trend and the calls he is making are absolutely insane.
I joined his service about a year ago for a month, it was £20 but he was calling himself Nick- ( is he from Leeds?) I thought the trading room was good for other tips and banter but on the whole too distracting and I didn't like the vaunted verbosity of the tipster and the fact that the winners were glorified and the losers were just about non existent. ( As I said, he got it wrong so many times but had deep enough pockets to ride it and still end up on the winning side) or so he claims.
A reminder of what may be happening that day is also worth of note - NFP etc. Funny, I did watch him that last NFP and he rode it
he also claimed that it was on an NFP day that he suffered his biggest loss.
You do find that he's chomping at the bit to trade, even posting on his twitter account at weekends that he wished the market was open- he also trades at night, often waking up and placing an up or down bet on the FTSE or Dax.
I am not sure how anyone would learn anything from trading his way and possibly any newbies would lose their money as their pockets would not be deep enough to ride the trades until the market came back. Averaging up or down has to be the worst way of educating a newbie how to trade the market.
He also makes statements without clarifying or quantifying them. eg:" You have to have an understanding of how the market moves, pretty simple trade that one."
All in all, he keeps me entertained during the day and if anything you should take the opposite position to 95% of his calls and you will be ££££'s in.