Scams in penny stocks show just the opposite. "Knowledge " is shared after the scammer bought a lot of stocks. When the stock starts to soar he sells. And almost always this scam works. Post spectacular news on internet and all people start to react as they want to make quick money. I trade solely the ES and my fills have to go quick (less then 1 minute). If a share my system, a lot of people will try to use the same minute to do exactly the same what I want to do. There will be in no time a big move and fills will go slow and be expensive. ES has a big volume but not all the time, so it can be a problem. Suppose 100 people want to use my shared system and they all want to buy 100 contracts, there will be a demand in 1 minute for 10,000 contracts. Don't tell me that this will never be a problem. My system does not only trade when volume is high, it trades when the price is right, no matter volume. But even if there would always be enough volume, why take that risk? I get nothing in return for that risk.
schweiz doesn't blink,I don't know if we should call him schweiz as he was PitchBlack, i am nobody and Mtrader before his current alias Nitro called his BS https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/making-one-point-a-day.53363/page-9#post-809747
That was an astute book marketing decision, rather than a strategy confidentiality issue. Anyway, so many successful traders of that calibre actually have disclosed their strategies, both before and since. But I might be flattered you imply I'm in that peer group..........
I never trade penny stocks. I never trade intra-day. The return on the risk of disclosing your strategy is a bunch of traders telling you where its going to go wrong and another bunch traders telling you how it could be made to work better. Both of which can be helpful.
He must have wanted to make Market Wizards different to every other trading book then on the shelves. Which he succeeded in doing.
I don't do that. (except by accident I suppose, if an entry order triggers and I get caught by a massive reversal which hits my stop the same day)
So if one of the interviewees wanted to disclose a working strategy in detail it would have cheapened the value of Schwager's Market Wizards "brand?"