Chatroom gurus claiming to have $100k days -- total BS?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by KCalhoun, Sep 25, 2020.

Do you believe chatroom gurus claims of $100,000 real money profits in 1 day?

  1. No, of course not -- report them to the SEC

    21 vote(s)
    72.4%
  2. Yes, I think they're being totally honest

    8 vote(s)
    27.6%
  1. qlai

    qlai

    What does it matter? So you are saying he is consistently making money with one account with minimal drawdowns for years, but blowing up other undisclosed accounts?
     
    #51     Sep 25, 2020
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  2. Tradex

    Tradex

    Just open multiple accounts and only "audit" the winning one.

    How hard is that? :cool:
     
    #52     Sep 25, 2020
  3. Nope not saying that at all. For all I know the posted statements are all of the accounts he has. At least he DOES post the statements and no one else does that - that I am aware of

     
    #53     Sep 25, 2020
  4. qlai

    qlai

    Again, how did he get so lucky to pick Lightspeed account and be able to show amazing performance with every day being posted on YouTube for three years? Common, guys, there’s healthy skepticism and then there’s denial.
     
    #54     Sep 25, 2020
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  5. deaddog

    deaddog

    But it is a live trading room... You call your trades live.
    Do you run two separate rooms one for long and one for short?
     
    #55     Sep 25, 2020
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  6. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    2 key tips

    How to expose fake chatroom gurus claiming to trade real money accounts tip #1:

    • Simply ask them to trade odd size all morning, eg 977 shares or 61 shares etc for each of their next 5 trades.
    • Carefully watch time & sales when they claim to trade in order to verify whether or not they are trading live.

    How to expose fake chatroom gurus claiming to trade real money accounts tip #2:

    • They invariably use brokers whose trading platforms do NOT show demo/sim vs real money account status (or they cover it)
    • Proof: you will likely never see one of them trade $100,000 profit day on the excellent IB TWS platform because the demo/du account sim TWS has a telltale red bar at the top saying demo account
    • Or a broker like fidelity which I trade on, that has no demo/sim mode

    Think like a LEO/police officer..... if it looks hinky, there's clues. If you showed YouTube videos of a guy claiming to have net profitable $100,000 winning days to a policeman what would his honest reaction be?

    Or any smart professional adult. They would candidly say "you don't actually believe that, do you??" Sheepishly, you nod your head.
     
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    #56     Sep 25, 2020
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  7. Tradex

    Tradex

    Give enough monkeys a typewriter and one of them will eventually write Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare).

     
    #57     Sep 25, 2020
  8. Tradex

    Tradex

    Most traders never ask these questions, they don't want to offend their "guru"!
     
    #58     Sep 25, 2020
  9. snowman80

    snowman80

    afaik Ross never stated that he's 100% kosher. on the contrary, his website states: 'results may be based on simulated or hypothetical performance'
     
    #59     Sep 25, 2020
  10. Overnight

    Overnight

    Every trading website says this. They have to by regulation, unless they are licensed to be a FA or whatever. Which means that pretty much nobody out there is licensed in this way.

    "...results may be based on simulated or hypothetical performance"

    When was the last time you ever saw one of these sites with the line..."Results are based on real money trades with live data from the exchange. We do not trade with simulated accounts or simulated data."?

    If you know of one out there, please provide a link.

     
    #60     Sep 25, 2020
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