Brandon, fromn the little I know of you, you ran an honest service and deserved to make $$. Pureshit is so full of crap, you don't need to look beyond the bogus track record on their site to see this. So there's a big difference between you and them. And i'm really sorry to hear about your health. I had a close friend who lived 9 years past the date dr's told him he wouldn't make it. It didn't make it any easier when he pased, but he did live alot longer w cancer than the experts predicted. Good luck battling it.
You know with brutal honesty like we just heard from Brandonf and of course I think Bogan7 is going through his health issues - not to mention thorn must be up a bit in age to to have a close friend pass. . .it just brings things into perspective. I mean I felt like flaming thorn since I detect some jealousy that a trader can actually open a room and milk 10-20k a month with subscribers - but who really cares about it all - - when your health and well being is what actually is most important. God bless and good night to all, pS
I've never been into their room or on the site, so I dont have any real clue as to what they offer. My guess though by how often I see them on Google addwords, here etc and by the number of people being reported as in the room is that 70 members is a fairly reasonable number. I'm not sure what method we can use to "prove" how many paying members puretick has short of accessing their merchant info or getting unique IP logs out of their room. If we can find a way to do that, I'd still be willing to make the bet with you. And understand the bet has nothing to do with my opinion of puretick, I really have none at all.
pearls of wisdom from spectra: ====================== Since I am getting married this Sept 20th I guess you can make sure I don't have a trading room any more. Just call the State of PA and tell them that I am going to commit a felony by having two wives. They will arrest me. Go ahead you little cunt. Would you like the phone number? Wanna take a chance on falsely reporting an incident? You are one stupid fucking internet twat who just believes a stupid jackass like yourself. Even the asshole who posted the Drs name had a different fucking name than mine---Steinhouse. Husband's name is Roy, you scrote. Don't you even read? Everyone is laughing at you. I guess it does not matter. But go ahead, keep posting. I want to get my room membership up past, what did you say, 10? Yep, imbecile. I need 11 because the aircraft I am taking delivery on in a couple of weeks is going to cost $300.00 for the hangar fee. Of course if it is a paper airplane the hangar cost is a little less. See ya turd brain. And if I had a wife who was still alive, and you called her a drug dealer, I would have to make sure I proved to you that she was not. Actually it was my brother who became a big time drug dealer while I became a cop. Kind of interesting study in psychology. He harmed my good family name. He stole most of my mother's money. He was a dirt bag. And I hate drug dealers. And no do not start posting on the web site. Even though I did not like him, I was not the one who put three bullets into the back of his stinking head and dumped him in the East River.
<i>"It was over a period of about 5 years, we made several million running our web service and a significant minority of them (I'd say 1/3) came from elitetrader. Unfortunatly I have no way of proving it at this point, but I have no reason to lie about it."</i> That was in another era, brandon. At the time I worked for a newsletter service that made solid six-figures monthly off $39.95 subscriptions alone. Live seminars at $4,000 person filled large rooms. The stock bubble was raging, and everyone threw $$ with reckless abandon at the relatively few info providers back then. Today we have info providers popping up like mushrooms on youtube and everywhere else. The crowd of incoming new traders is ebbing compared to late 90s. More noise, fewer people to wade thru all that noise. You worked thru a period in time that will not be repeated again, and you could not duplicate 1/10th of those results in the same timeframe today. Aspiring traders are more sophisticated and jaded now. Marketers had better know trading, and must be able to demonstrate success if any semblence of client retention is expected. Smoke and mirrors won't last long. I have no opinion of anyone who attempts to teach anything out there except to say it's more work than what appears. If someone doesn't genuinely like working with people AND be able to teach something of value and/or post legitimate trade signals demonstrated, darwinism will prevail fom there. Bottom line? Profitable trading is a must. Sideline services to that have no forward life unless profitable trading is the core. Time takes care of the rest.
With everyone saying how hard it is to get a service up and going, that no one can make money at it anymore etc, I'm half tempted to start one up again. God knows that with medical bills etc I could use the extra 20K or so a month I also did actually enjoy it, which is why I guess i'm still posting here long after I figured I wouldnt be. I do realize its a much harder business now, Toni still has her site where she offers CD's, some mentoring, seminars etc. Alot of what she has now is based off old relationships, but still does well and she is the worst business person I have ever met bar none.