I admire your belief in TUFXP Terry-Shep and your friend's ability to work it.
But the fact remains that the majority of people struggle with this "system" and it comes at a very high price, accompanied by misleading advertising.
Personally, I have developed a far better system which is founded on indicator-based alerts, using my 2 favourite indicators in tandem.
The alerts provide exceedingly reliable trade-entry signals and I have also developed a solid method for trade exits.
I use a free trading platform ( QT ) which I find excellent - including the support - which is quite simply amazing considering it costs nothing to run the software.
I use the IB data feed which also costs me nothing since I have an IB account.
Trade success rate is very very high and the only cost in developing this system of trading has been my quite considerable time.
But I can tell you that it is far superior and far more reliable than TUXFP will ever be.
I day-trade NYSE and NASDAQ stocks but this system can also be applied to Forex and can be applied in any time frame of your choosing.
So, having reviewed Cotterill's offering and used it, I would say it is an enormously expensive piece of kit which has dubious reliability at best.
Come on, Yac, don't tell us you believe every word of the promos you read! You are a well clued-up forex person, don't tell us you went into TUFXP with wide-eyed innocence, believing every word of the blurb? Advertising is about exaggeration isnt it? You are no innocent, you know the score, wasn't it you, in an earlier post, who recommended people to buy these programs just to see what the method was and then send them back for refund? Did you really, seriously, ever intend to do more than that with TUFXP? Did you, with your obvious expertise, ever intend to lay out over £2000 for a method when you already have a brilliant method of your own? I doubt it.
You really should give these programs a decent shot, you know, before bursting into print with a scathing criticism. By all means do the send it back trick after scraping what information you can from it but let it live if you haven't honestly worked it.
I am delighted to hear that your own system is so successful and I don't doubt your claims for a moment, since your descriptions of great success are of course, absolutely true, not at all like TUFXP's claims; after all, although they also claim to have a highly successful method, you have told us how misleading they are. There is the fact that you are not, at the moment, offering this for sale at what I would agree with you, is a very high price for something which, although it may well succeed, actually requires a degree of input, some effort from the users. To think that you might pay over £2K for a method and then actually have to do something other than go to the bank for the money is obviously unreasonable.
The friend to whom you refer was an absolute greenhorn regarding forex, though no fool about systems in horse betting and generally handling money. He knew very little about forex when he bought this program, he was a complete novice - still is - but simply decided to play it conservatively, just read everything he got with it and did as he was guided - and I have looked over his shoulder, green with jealousy at his profits. So, with some application, the method, system, whatever you call it, does work.
I can well imagine that, having spent that much money and faced with the 30 day deadline, I would be very concerned to see a profit before it was too late and that might well inhibit how I worked it. I might well rush into trading too soon before I properly understood the method. Nonetheless, looking back over this forum, it seems to me that more people are happy with it than otherwise. There is even one poster who admitted to panicking a bit and sendingit back but is now regretting that and thinking of repurchasing it.
As it happens, like you, Yac, I too have my own method for the forex and it achieves for me enough to keep me from desiring TUFXP but I can still acknowledge it as another system which works, having watched a forex beginner using it.
It may be that some of my friend's success derives from deep enough pockets to enable him to run strategies which are too rich for some people's blood and like many under capitalised businesses, this may be the reason that some people fail with it; however, enough folk on this forum - and others - are proceeding happily with it, so I'll leave it at that. People do, after all, vote with their feet if they don't like something.