Have you never watched him trade? He's out of his trades long before anyone can talk about them in some chatroom and then get in and back out again.
If you have little trading experience then maybe it's not a bad deal. I've been trading for 30 years and have no interest in his course work. But a discussion about his success and trading style is interesting.
His trades are free to see on youtube with a 6 second delay on the video. What is it you are claiming, exactly?? No one is watching some third party chatroom for Ross' real-time trades.
I don't think it's hard to imagine an third party group thinking "Oh Ross is in it as well" lets throw out an alert for XYZ in the room back then when he was consistently making 200%-500%+ a day on his small account. I don't know about now as I haven't followed him for 2 years since transitioning to options.
I suppose the discussion should mention his success as a marketer. How do you attract that many people on social media. When I look at YouTube, he seems to be in the top tier of day trading promoters. Not sure what YouTube pays for eyeballs but with almost a million subscribers I imagine he does OK. There's a girl up here in the frozen north (Humbled Trader) who charges $100 a month to join her chat room and reportedly has over 200 subscribers. I could live on that. Again the talent seems to be more marketing than trading. Maybe instead of trading we should be looking at how to sell ourselves on YouTube.
You are right that the information is out there, but as an analogy consider a homeschooler. Do they just google the math they need? No, they usually buy a curriculum and the mother/father are the teachers. Occasionally, curriculum (for example https://www.oakmeadow.com/) can come with a full course. How is this different from trading? The difference is that there are multiple paths to trading, each with uncertainty. School subjects are less uncertain, modulo teachers feelings about the intelligence of certain students. There are a few traders who sell courses/mentoring I respect and believe they are legit: 1. Vinny E Mini (great short term trader) 2. Tyllionaire (Forex trader, no courses but I think he mentors) 3. Ross Cameron (he live trades a lot of the time) 4. Minervini (probably the best in terms of ROI) If you _really_ want to get serious, there is nothing wrong with finding someone who sells you a course. Providing you can do your due diligence
I agree with Minervini being on that list. The others I haven't heard of except for Ross I wonder what you would learn in his Master Trader program that you wouldn't learn in his books? You can borrow the books from the library or buy them all for less than 100 bucks. I own a couple of them.
His books are OK but he's a bombastic guy and entertaining so I think you'd probably learn more that way.
I basically learn from my mistakes. I'm a slow learner, I have to experience shit before it sinks in. Books etc just kind of point me in the right direction.