No one is suggesting that you stop helping the users at Elite. What I am suggesting is that you stop freely promoting your website. On almost every single one of your posts (including the one I responded to, although the links have been removed) you include links to your website. You are a business, you are doing this for money, if you would like to advertise it would be proper if you paid. As I said, I emailed your firm looking for one answer, not answers, a business code. At the time I didn't expect anything although I was certainly hoping that you might provide the code. I reported here how you responded. No. I don't have any problem with you helping the users at Elite. It's your continual use of this traders' website to freely promote your business that bothers me. I understand. My question, however, was not during tax season crunch time. That's a direct slight on Ted Tesser, obviously your intention although you didn't name him. I verified it, and the answer he gave me was correct. As all moderators here I am a volunteer, so if you mean "paid work" the answer is no.
Why, you ask, perhaps because, regrettably, PT Barnum's true-isms really are true. Perhaps, traders are so used to the broken shops that they are seeking to leave, that they can't recognize the "Real Thing" whence they run across it. These guys, for all their faults are shoulders above the sh.....tttt that I ran across at Onsite / ABWatley and have heard about from other shops. We just had a trader come through here in the last few months, and he simply couldn't change from his Worldco paradigm for nothing. Nothing against Worldco, but, sometimes taking off the cuffs and providing a trader freedom to trust his own instincts and the opportunity to actually fail, is just too much freedom. There's another true-ism, where by abused kids have a hard time seperating from their abusive parent, when given a choice. Hence, the essential managerial objective of being abusive to new traders, which creates an impression, and subtlely causes that trader to seek the approval of their office. Mind games, yeah! Trading games, yeah! Profitable games, NO, as long as you generate commissions, then you're the favorite son! Wake Up! That's what Bright does, and some just don't want to....
which firms are abusive to new traders ? who would sit there and take abuse when they aren't getting a salary ?
Before putting your $25k, visit the office dailly for a month, watch how other traders do, say about the equipment, envrionment, fees, etc. You will realize what others say about Bright is true. http://www.elitetrader.com/br/?action=view&R_FirmID=14 After putting $25k, your money stay there 1 year..... Nobody happy about it except Bright owners.
I think they are more the catheter type. I hear Bright is one upping them by providing a piss boy with a bucket which is included in your desk fee.