I want to help someone else someday like that, but now I have a lot more understanding why that endeavor could be exhausting, trying to help someone deal with their own toxicity and "ego".
Excellent story, thanks for sharing.
Here is the thing for me though. If I was a successful trader, highly profitable and decided to help, this is what I would think would go through my head with regards to mentoring. (clearly its difficult with a random person, because why give away the holy grail, but assume its for a family member maybe who you would genuinely want to help)
Instead of listening to all their troubles and hangups, I would just sit them down and let them watch what I'm doing. If its over the internet, I would just call out trades live via voice and what I'm seeing, all via voice which isn't a distraction like typing might be. Something like "So ES looks like its putting in a double bottom, and NQ is hitting a key level as well, so its a good area to try a long given the multiple market confluence. Got a fill on my entry at 4252. Stop is 5 points lower and initial target is 4260..... (then 2 minutes goes by).... I see 3 tries to push above 4258 and it can't, so lets close this trade for a profit, even if it didn't hit the target. Trade closed at 4257.50 for a gain of 5.5 points. Now we wait for the next trade".
In this fashion, you aren't taking on their hangups and there really is no teaching involved. You're just calling out trades and discussing what you're seeing. If they want to take the same trade, they may, full well understanding what your risk tolerance is and what your best and worst days look like, so they know the range of possibilities.
To me it just seems so easy. But every mentor/educator wants to over complicate it I think because they really don't have any confidence in what they are doing. And of course for those who don't call out trades in real time or even show a complete history of trades, its super easy to appear to teach and mentor, but I'm far too smart to fall for that bullshit now.
So in conclusion, I think mentoring is ridiculously easy, but finding a truly profitable mentor is highly unlikely. Hence why you only every see educators and hindsight chartists who hide behind the idea that teaching a man to fish is better than just giving him a few damn fish. It sounds like a profound statement and there is truth to it, but if you can't even produce a few fish, why the hell will I assume you know how to fish???
