Quote from icarus618:
Perhaps I misunderstood what's going on here. I admit I skipped a chunk of posts in this thread. I saw that the combine was being offered to ET at large and wasn't aware that the offer was directed at a particular segment of ET.
No, this is not being offered to ET. They actually charge for this. They offered a free combine to cool trader dude because he was one of the louder vocal critics and he agreed to give a fair evaluation. So they gave him a freebie to do the report. Now Michael did say something about doing an ET group combine but my impression was that, one, you had to pay for it. And two, it was basically anyone who wants to do the combine from ET, he will put them into a specific group so he can track the p&l specifically from ET. For example, Velocity Futures does this. They show all the p&l of all their profitable customers. And they allow group reporting where you can invite guys into your group to see your positions and your p&l.
TST is not really targeting ET. What brought them over here was a few guys decided to slander them in public and they were not allowed to defend their company until they became a sponsor. Once they did, the threads discussing them became very very active. The only way to calm everyone down was to offer a free combine from one of the critics. They did that at the critics request.
So that is how we got here. To be honest with you, I doubt even 1% of ET could pass the combine anyway. So I wouldn't say they are targeting this group. Not by a long shot.
