I would not recommend a beginner to even try as the failure rate in this business and the amount of learning/time required is far greater than most starting out can ever imagine. I read over 100 books on trading during my early years and would guess that less than 10 of those books held any real value. Never took a course and never will. For obvious reasons. My real learning started when I started to do my own meticulous studies of the actual market I chose to trade. To this day I still actively log/study/archive the market day-by-day. Instead of finding a strategy I would rather suggest to study/learn how the market actually moves on a day-by-day basis and then rather seek to find a strategy to exploit that. Not the other way around, i.e., starting with a strategy which you then try to fit to the market. Obviously, IMHO. It's very easy for a beginner to think one is learning (a lot) when one actually isn't. At the end of the day trading is about money making and if someone isn't making money from what one has learned, well, was anything truly learned? If you took courses that put you in a position where you're consistently earning money in the markets you should do your fellow man or woman the service of recommending those courses and save them some time and frustration in the learning process.
The way I see it, I do not NEED to do anything. The more people that employ specific strategy, the less edge there is as you probably know. Why do you think plenty of people avoid all questions about their trading strategy? Also, advertising for specific trading courses on a public forum is not in my domain. And here we go again - knowledge is not for free. No offense, though. I believe you anyway trade futures? I don`t.
Which is exactly why you won't find anything of real value in an online course for sale. Bits and pieces that's useful? Maybe. But no way anyone is going to sell you a complete profitable system online. Obvious, really.
No kidding. I'm asking to define what scalping means to him, since this term gets thrown around a lot. Some people scalp for ticks, others points. What exactly does he mean by "don't scalp?". Not sure where the hostility is coming from, but if you're going to be toxic please leave.
Thanks for the input. I actually tried Tom today during EU and he was having some sort of philosophical discussion on life. It was so weird I wasn't really sure what to make of it. The session lasted 54 minutes and then he abruptly left. Is this normal? I question his profitability. Very strange man. I also read his book, but it was the same idea rehashed 100 times and I wasn't too fond of it. He also seems to be traveling a lot and giving lectures on psychology. I don't think most people need some sort of psychoanalysis, but a profitable edge. Not sure why this is so big in the community at the moment. Another sales tactic?
Why wouldn't you name them? Everyone is always so secretive in this industry. I'm willing to bet people could post their trading strategy, verbatim, and people would still mess it up and not be able to use it.
Firstly, because I do not even know what you trade. Secondly, I wrote below - I have absolutely no incentive to share my strategy with anyone on an annonymous forum. My point was that not all paid courses are automatically scam - that is all.