One has to distinguish between opinions/feelings/fluff/etc, and facts. Some posts contain bigotory including the original poster.
Below are few comments/concerns based solely on what I read in this thread.
1. The view on customer service is wrong, even if some customers would justify a special treatment (I agree with OptionCoach on this point).
2. The trading strategy is also of concern, if what Atticus wrote is an accurate representation of the facts. I have the impression that his description is correct. The risk/reward is high, and I think such approach is more appropriate to experts who know how to manage risk, and less for beginners.
3. My most important concern is related to the philosophy behind the service. It contains a major flaw. The service is within the framework of teaching/education. A true educator should have as a mission to educate a trader not just to make money, but to be the best in his field.
Why not even strive to produce the best trader that ever lived?
A teacher/coach who states that working for goldman for a nut, or a fraction of a nut, is an accomplishment is not fit for a true education.
If I were the OP, I would strive to contribue to educate the best traders that ever lived. Why one can prove that this can be done, when it is done? Certainly not by producing a trader who would work for a goldman. One should work to produce traders who will do this:
Burry the goldman in his resting place, own his jewlery, and become the king of traders that ever lived.
OP: aim higher my friend. Plus you will know that Goldman truly respect you when they will offer you the nut, or many of it, just for staying home not trading, and not educating. Why? Because they would know that you can take more than those nuts from them, and probably even their whole trading business by taking the other side.
I believe that the goldman is the best trader is just a myth,and is not the truth.
