This is the one thing that absolutely makes ET a shitty place to be sometimes. I have had to leave on many occasions because so called trading gurus want to ridicule new guys that are struggling but offer nothing but hindsight analysis. They make impressive claims and then hide behind a litany of excuses when asked to show some evidence of actual trading or that they were magically doing everything better.
Now I realize that each member has to do his own due diligence and since nothing is being sold here there is no expectation or requirement of proof, but this means that the bullshit factor here is an order of magnitude higher than it should be. Imagine if your email service had no way to filter Spam. You would refuse to check your email.
Going through the threads here and reading all about the incredible profits some are making, or the obscure technique they are using, and pumping, but having no way to verify this, and even worse, being told that each trader needs to do their own homework, actually turns users away. Imagine if drug companies offered drugs but told customers to do their own research on safety or side effects! LOL.... As I say, nothing is being sold and all the anonymous members here have a right to share as much or as little as they want, but I can't help but wonder how much better ET could be if this "spam" was eliminated or at least tagged. A blue checkmark for verified members that can in some way prove trading ability would be incredible.
Some members do show the odd trade stats from their platform, and some members show charts with trades. Sometimes we also get a PnL for the day, of even a PnL broken down by each trade. Most don't come close to what either
@destriero or
@Dustin have shown, but it would be nice if there was some mechanism to differentiate between actuals traders with real accounts who put on real trades and the other 90% here who just make comments as if they were actually trading.
