Sort of laughed at half of in that article, LOL. Of course "most" mentors are paid by employer and are mentally right, but then CAUSE THEY NOT TRADING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS and have no employer-sometimes mentally unstable when trading. I am a fricking insane A-hole when I trade, screaming at the screen or screaming quietly when at Starbucks, the cat has gotten use to it and she covers her ear with her paw. Anger management classes worked or maybe the concussion when I threw that monitor and bounced back and hit me in head few years ago. Needed to get rid of the CRTs anyway, made room too hot in summer, yea, anger management said to buy laptops and I have, and good thing I have backups, I have thrown them like a fricking Frisbee, cat just sleeps threw it, amazing... I detest to lose when I day trade-I figure I been doing this so long-I should profit on every trade, then on otherhand when long term trading, I am very good at losing often, hedging saves my bacon. Most of those I had as mentors were alphas as they knew or thought they were good traders and were expensive. They taught concepts and signals, lite on money management and risk, none on overcoming the demons that lay wait. Being a mentor is more of dealing with mental issues than structure of the markets. Good mentors most likely willing to spend up to two years with someone as that is about time it takes to get decent, and a good mentor will not advise you to trade till you are nearly as good or very least be profitable almost each day. Nothing is free, you will pay in one way or another. But the last thing you want to do cause you anger at yourself is insult those who try to help you. Usually what you learned in your first year was the right way to trade and you left that cause you thought trading has to be harder than that, but it is not, trading is easy, keeping the money is not, you are your own worst enemy, it not you against them, it is you against you.
I think not wrong if any beginner which still blind in business then they learn from mentor to getting guidelines which will making easier their learning, but if not meet mentor hence internet already help much among people to learn something now many article can learned likeas forum also help to learn
I would not ever had made it if I didn't realize I needed a mentor. Now the difference is that my mentor needed my programming abilities and so I was paid "reluctantly" to be mentored to. Often I was told I should have been paying him and he was so correct. My mentor not only paid me (mostly via soft dollar arrangements) but he also gave me access to 1 million dollars a year to experiment with. His desire was that I get experience and he would say no matter how bad you do you can't hurt me so go at it. This is what you call a real mentor.