I think also, regardless of trading, people should have a small amount of consideration of how the home publishing industry works when it comes to this kind of thing. These people make their money through sales of the products and not through trading. Always bare that in mind. Now I’m speaking generally here and I don’t people to think that I’m referring just to DIT.
Statistically, when it comes to trading, a large percentage of system writers, teachers and self proclaiming gurus cannot actually trade for themselves. In most cases they’ve tried and failed badly. Instead what they see (from a business perspective) is that the trading world offers them a ‘hungry audience’ if they can write and promote the right kinds of products. Thus springs up a new business direction which is obviously connected with trading but isn’t trading.
Be aware that many of these products are written under a pen name or ‘non de plume’ if you will. Fairly acceptable you might argue. After all who wants personal callers at your home or telephone calls in the middle of the night? The only problem with this is when authors use several aliases. Suddenly the would be purchaser cannot make such a reasoned decision when it comes to deciding if he wants to buy the latest hyped up system. I’m not saying that ‘Martin Carter’ is either one or the other but the way the system is presented along with the weekly updates seems very familiar to me. I remember that ‘Surefire Evening Trader’ worked along fairly similar lines in terms of updates etc. Ultimately, if I recall correctly, that system seemed to lose money. Just like DIT the author would constantly refer to “past profits” when there was a losing week. It didn’t seem to matter that there weren’t any profits for people who’d bought the product at general release.
People have mentioned the test results which are stated in the sales letters. Personally I only start recording results once I am in receipt of the item. Call me a mega sceptic but I see the massive conflict of interest between which the system promoter has to manage. One the one hand they want to record actual results but on the other hand there is the overriding need to sell their product in order to make ends meet. There’s a clear conflict there.
Steve.