Quote from bone:
Nope, not a bluff. And I have paid for an ET sponsorship for two years, and I have 59 clients who are current ET members.
It certainly is a better business for those who are struggling to make a profit in trading to instead find 59 people to pay them for their "advice", because that's all gain and no risk.
But if I am so good in spread trading or whatever you do, I wouldn't sell my "advice" for $6000 or whatever a small sum of money compared to what I can just trade my own "advice" and make a bigger fortune, why would I waste my time and energy, distract myself from trading my own "Holy Grail" strategies that would make me so much more money, to work tirelessly everyday in ET looking to find a new client or two who would pay me $6000 for six months (or 12 months, I don'r remember your price list)?
But may be I am too dumb, not as smart as you are, I just couldn't figure out why on earth a smart, successful trader, big-name nuclear scientist, would develop Holy Grail spread trading strategies that would make yourself so much money, would want to become a vendor of 59 "clients" from an internet forum consists of mostly non-professional trader-want-to-be's?
May be you can enlighten me?
edit: After I hit the submit button, I realized how dumb I really was: 59 times $6000 is a nice little sum of $354,000! and that's just 59 clients from ET alone!
May be I should stop trading and become a vendor too! hmmm...