Emmett is not pulling punches at all:
True ... but let's not forget that he's also both an idiot and a convicted felon, himself.
And of course for the most part he conveniently overlooks the
many hundreds of people successfully funded by TST, because that suits his purpose.
The two people I know, myself, who got started through TST are both real success stories.
Both were
exactly in TST's target market, in that they had trading skills but not enough capital realisitcally to trade futures on their own accounts. Both sailed through the Combine and FTP at their first attempts (and that was when it was harder to pass than it is now).
One is now successfully trading OPM and the other making a good living trading her own account, after some months' decent withdrawals from TST.
I strongly suspect that because of the absence of any meaningful entry-barriers to TST, hundreds of people
without adequate trading skills also take Combines, screw up and fail, some of them repeatedly. Their continual fees are doubtless contributing to TST's wage-bill, office overheads, and so on, and I suppose the whole thing couldn't really exist viably without them.
What sometimes amuses me is when you see people pointing out that the fees of all the unsuccessful applicants are keeping TST going, because they tend to point it out as if it were some great "shock" or "criticism", perhaps not quite realising that that's both
obvious and
necessary for the thing to exist at all!
Doubtless they have more failures than successes, just like everyone and everything else related to trading.
It is what it is.
