I was going through the market wizards interviewed in Jack Schwager book and noticed that Mark Cook is providing mentoring ! reference : https://www.markdcook.com/mentoring/ It seems also that Linda Raschke was also providing mentoring but she stopped : http://lindaraschke.net/register/ Mark Minervini also sell his stuff. sounds crazy to me that a market wizard is providing such thing !!! any comments ?!
Mentoring is great but the student needs to do the work (and most don't put in the hours) . Plus as mentioned many times in those books, building a trading plan that fits the traders personality and temperament is key. I would say choosing a mentor that has a similar style (or is open to helping you build your own style is key). Otherwise, the mentorship fails.
In current markets there exits many fraud. They tell you that they are successful to sell their stuff but they arent. Internet is full of those stories. I started to question those wizards if they are real or not.
There is the possibility that they have lost their edge and need the money to pay the bills. But assuming these wizards are still highly profitable and so the mentoring money isn't the main motivator, then its probably an indication they have a lot of free time available and that they enjoy mentoring to pass some of that time. Now you could say they should mentor for free and perhaps they should but if people are prepared to pay then why not take it and provide a more professional as opposed to a free casual service.
By the time you do anything for 40 years, you actually think you want to work at teaching someone how to do what you do? ROFLMAO How do you lose your edge from trading 40 years? Maybe memory, I have a touch of losing new memories, minute later can't remember what it was I was trying to remember, but charting like glued on back of my hand. You got to be real hard up to want to deal with losing people after 40 years. It wouldn't take long to find out what was a fleeting moment of thinking about doing it and get someone who asks "what if" questions all day long, cause you know they won't remember the answer end of the day. After 40 years, your either hate trading cause you realize what you thought you knew 39 years ago was so false now, or you don't have free time cause you keep getting ideas how to play the game better and love what you do. If I had a gun to my head of mentoring for money or eat a bullet, pull the trigger. People lose for various reasons, and like losing traders fall in that 99% area of they are mind screwed, has very little to do with a strategy, they lose so well, their brain only happy and brain will aid in you selecting losing trades, and if they get ahead by three ticks their heart starts racing and yelling "Should I take it"? So the mentor better be talented in Psychology cause he has to overcome all the losing trades student taken. And in the end, unless student sitting next to the mentor for a year watching screens, doubt it will happen cause losing traders seldom put in 80 hours a week till they get it. IMHO Problem if you do find someone who wants to train, they should know what works, and most likely going to go against what you been doing. So to say you want to be taught to fit your personality not going to happen much cause you don't have a clear idea how to be profitable, People like taking those feel good trades or breakouts with momentum, but most others got in before whatever was formed.
I feel that those wizards are limited to certain period of time when they got interviewed. Many things got changed. high frequency trading and many things came to the game. Trading programs became more complex. computers has more technology. I don't think old people can cope with all this ! Making money became more harder. I see the situation as they look like old football players. they were great when they were interviewed and now those players became old and life had changed ! this is my humble opinion but it is very strange that those people are giving education now !
Ed Seykota mentors/consults for 10 grand per hour. Vic Sperandeo did masterclasses in NYC for 10k. Lunch with Warren Buffet costs a million or 2. I don't see a problem with it. I hope to mentor as well one day.
Let's say they were prepared to do it for free. They would be swamped by wanna be traders. Using the price mechanism benefits everyone.
Similar in the markets. Lots of stories about "prior year's hero becoming this year's goat". You can look brilliant when what you're doing is in synch with the market. Not a permanent condition*. If you are to be "tops", you have to be adapting to changing market. Not many of those guys around. *Example... the Paulsen guy... the one who made headlines shorting sub-prime mortgates 10 years ago. Seem's he's lost about 70% of his AUM over the last couple of years. Many more examples.
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