Good questions:
I do not think I'm a generous soul. Or a scam artist. About your question about more intro, what would you like to know?
Answers:
1) If someone is willing to trade they also will have to put in a consideral amount of time, blood, sweat and tears in to it. I did it and I believe anyone who wants to make it should go through it also. Maybe I can shorten the pain with some pointers and a clear direction for that person. It is not my concern that my system would be compromised. I believe systems are very personal and that no one trader is alike. I believe that a good trader must go trough all the effort to make their own personal system. It helps to know what will work and what not.
2) My wife is tired talking about trading on the dinner table. I do not work for free. But I also do not work for money, if you know what I mean. Money is something you have, use and deploy, it is not always every persons motivator to do something.
3) I make money trading. That is all you need to know. My performance history is not even clear for me and everybody goes trough tough times. I had my challenges, you will have yours. What I make is not a guarantee what you will make. I do long term and intra day. Stocks, options and futures. I could do swing, but don't. I stoped working for somebody else in february 2000. I have had also other business. I have had a failed business where I put more then 10 grand a month in to it to keep a float for two years. Kept trading for the most part of the 30 years. Had luxery cars, nice houses. It's all verifiable if you really want to dig in to it. I do keep stats about trading to a point, but that is more to see if what I'm doing is still working. Last couple of years I even do it in my head. (Not the records of each trade, but knowing I still have an edge)
4) Great minds think a like. I hope to find some people that have same intrest.
5) Does not work like that. I could give you my methodology, people will still not make it work. It's is more then reading and trying to figure out why you enter a trade and exit a trade. You need the same thought patterns why it works and then you need a believe that it will work. You can not transfer that with simply explaining a system or methodogoly. The best way is to figure it out step by step by yourself. I only can point what you need to figure out.
Okay, here is my followup response:
1) This biggest part about traders having to spend so much time in the research/trial and error phase before they come up with a working system, if they ever do, is the time lost chasing after false leads, and having to retrace ones steps and proceed in a new direction. This part is essentially the "hamster wheel" of R&D/Trial and error until one gets a good footing, which can easily take years to get past.
The purpose of mentoring is to enable the student to skip all the time spent going down fruitless paths and concentrate their focus on understanding the mechanics and nuances of the right path.
As such, having a good mentor should result in far less time in coming up to speed and as a result far less pain.
I don't understand what you mean by your statement that each system is personal. A mentor should be able to tell their student exactly what they do, and from there the student can either seek to replicate ortailor it to their own risk preferences. A good working system can be passed on to another person doing the same type of trading- it doesn't have to be different.
3) Just to be clear, you make enough money for you and your family to live on solely by trading? You mentioned you also had other businesses, but I wanted to be sure you meant you make a living from trading rather than just making "some money" which way not be enough to provide for the needs of the household.
I'm also unclear on why you don't know what your performance is. Making a living via trading gives you your daily P/L counts. Your yearly tax forms has you submitting your P/L for the year which should spell out how you're doing pretty clearly. How do you not know your stats?
5) I agree that just presenting your methodology doesn't mean people would understand it well enough to execute it properly, but it shouldn't be an issue in showing the general summary of your method without having to dig into the weeds.
It's the same concept as showing a broad general presentation of your style (50Kft view) , a closer look view (100ft view), and the mentoring would come in dealing with the all the trees in the forest detailed view.
If you're not mentoring on a specific methodology/plan, the it sounds more like a "coaching" position rather than mentoring.
