That "famous dude" was Socrates. However, he was referring to the examination of one's own life rather than someone else's. Perhaps you missed that point.
I disagree, and so does the editorial board, not only at my site, but at yahoo, as well. clearly editor, publisher or talent scout for financial writers is not in the cards for you. although, you are an excellent writer yourself.--perhaps provocateur or curmudgeon would be a better use of your talent. surf
Okay, Madonna, but I don't think many people will score hits with your material. I read a couple of your articles, and they are bland generica. It's just the same old saw over and over again, written either by you or any of a number of interchangeable vendors. I'll tell you why I didn't accept marketsurfer's offer. The only thing I would be comfortable sharing is the stuff that is already out there, all over the place. What value I may have to offer, however, is proprietary. And that's the kind of thing that I'm not prepared to share. I think that offering training or educational services can be a good thing, but only to the extent that you provide genuine value for the price that you exact. After reading a couple of your articles and seeing one of your videos, to which you sent me a link a while back, I can tell you quite confidently that you offer no value. That may not prevent you from making good money, but it will not likely serve your clients well. I'm guessing you're okay with that. Perhaps you know far more than what you have written in your column and said in your video. However, what you have written in your column and said in your video is generic pap.
What's all this crap I'm reading on this thread??? I'm not a great writer. Yo Pabst.....Get over yourself!
Actually advanced stuff is very hard to use for selling. If you can put together some basic stuff and communicate it in a way that will make sense to a person you will make a fortune. How basic: :This is technical analysis, this is a bar chart, this is a candlestick chart, this is support, this is resistence. If your able to come up with something long winded and explain those things you can package it into a $200 course and sell hundreds of them every single week. Then you take the people who buy your course and you can sell a certain percentage of them into $1000 seminars, and a certain percentage of them into $10,000 "personal coaching" packages. Of course in the meantime you can also be charging $100 or so for a newsletter and a private message board service on your site. You get into the more advanced stuff when they pay you, not when they read you for free. There is no sense in giving away a cow if you sell milk. There is no money at all in catering to the advanced to intermediate trader as your first level of client on the retail level, at least in my humble opinion. The above was not exactly my business model, but it is the business model of a lot of people making mid seven and in some cases low eight figures selling things to traders.
only simpletons and posers believe that the complicated and novel is superior to those who can make the complicated simple. surf
So when Vic sold prem into hole and went bust was he trying to teach the lesson to make the complicated very simple? or was he just trying to show the simpltons and posers that the simple could be complicated.