Yes those accounts were discontinued years ago. Nothing was ever illegal abou them. There is nothing illegal abouit me being long 1000 ABCD in my account and my wife being short the same in her account. The accounts at ALST were cross collateralized market neutral positions, and if you looked back in the previous post of this thread, you will see this was not an individual. A) The question was why a $300K loss in ALST's acct, the other account that had a $300K profit was never shown. No different then getting a 1099 from your clearing firm showing sales proceeds, without the buy side. This wasn't outlawed by and SRO, it was a decision made by the FRB, and then carried out by the SEC under federal mandate.
The account I refer to is my trading accountS. My other related accounts (UGMA, Trusts, etc) are irrelevant.
Your take is your take, trading and making money is financially and mentally rewarding, helping others do the same is all of the above an eternal joy, which is priceless.
Your last point while possibly true, is illegal they are JTWROS or JTIC. No such contract would be legal, unless it fell under the Trust Indenture Act. Again read back on the posts, the onsite coaching is NOT FOR NEW TRADERS, and is not promoted by me on ET. It's there, and the individual must meet specific criteria before I coach them onsite. Be well GATrader!
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Nothing for nothing but hedge accts wherein you have 1000 shares of ABC long in one acct and an equal # of shares in another "related" account which has the same economic interest is illegal. Was outlawed by the SRO's years ago.
2nd-Part of your due diligence in investigating whether to drop any $ on tutors is to not only look into their trading account that they present but find a way to peruse ALL their trading accounts. It is not hard to open multiple accounts and "park" the winning trades in one account which is then shown to the propective students.
My take-the $ to be made on a winning methodology or system offered by the markets dwarf whatever $ anyone can make by tutoring. so buyer beware
There are some great traders I know that share their secrets but only if they take a split off of the traders they teach. That is when the trader puts their money where there mouth is.. Like Mark Fisher who teaches a system but employs the traders and splits pnl with them. That is what new guys wishing to learn should try to get into instead of giving a wad of cash hoping to be taught by anyone whose economic interests are divergent not congruent with theirs.