Don't waste your time / money with schools. You don't learn to kiss from books. Buy an inflatable doll, at worst. Which means to Sim trade.
I've watched his videos on youtube before (Joseph James) and to tell you the truth I think some of his recommendations aren't actually too far off the mark when it comes to trading outrights. Never really struck me as a ripoff artist or anything and let's be real, many traders will chuck 5k$+ out the window before even remotely getting a clue.
http://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/school-of-trade-and-sideways-markets/ https://futures.io/vendors-product-reviews/4964-school-trade-legitimate-www-schooloftrade-com.html
Keep in mind futures.io is not an unbiased and unmoderated source of honest reports on trading educators, futures.io works closely with and promotes some potentially dishonest trading educators. Intellectual appropriation of open-source trading concepts and lack of transparency in regards to real-time and non-sim daytrading execution are industry standards in this sociopathic free-for-all.
Wow I take back anything positive I said earlier - if this stuff actually has veracity then this guy sounds like a real slickster kook of the highest order.
Yep. The website owner of futures.io moved offshore and registered his business and website in Panama. Saw a screenshot of that on tradingloonies website. Seriously.
BigMikeTrading/FuturesIO though far from perfect, seems reasonably OK to me. But Big Mike did ban DBPheonix, and then lock the topic, for what I though was a pretty weak reason: https://futures.io/index-futures-trading/34908-trading-sla-amt-intraday-37.html