since we know that all trading courses are bullshit, what would you actually look for in one?
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At the end of the day, assuming you find a mentor to teach you his trading course, it still depends on the student being willing to put in the time and effort. As someone who is mentoring someone, my friend who is a doctor, nothing is more frustrating and time wasting than, the student not putting time and effort in learning the very basics like determining trend direction, observing proper risk management and position sizing, having a trading journal to review and evaluate your trades, learning the trade setups. Everything on a silver platter yet, the student has a lackadaisical attitude to trading. She will only do what she wants to, learn what she wants to learn and goes off tangent, wasting time on any shiny object she comes into contact with. Ed Seykota was right. We all get what we want from the market. Some people, you just cannot save from themselves.
It is all free. A huge waste of time and effort. Time you cannot replace once, wasted is gone.
What kind of review would she give you?
I try to grab something useful from any educational source I utilize to improve my trade. My system isn't any 1 specific thing I've copied from some book or system, but a culmination of many pieces I've come across tweaked to my personality.
no you are wrong.........it is easy to find a guru.....
look in a mirror.........
look in a mirror.........
Probably 98% of courses are useless and 2% are gems.
After 10 hard years of wasting lots and lots and lots of money buying shitty courses which have almost zero value, I think it is ENTIRELY your luck that you connect with the right guru.
Somewhat like the odds of meeting the right woman to marry, but these odds are better.
very insightful
it took me 13 years to find a strategy that fits my needs and an instrument that it works with.
i do not like waiting so swing is out......so scalping fitted my personality... but scalping is arguably the most difficult thing to do......though all novices start trading thinking making a 'little' money should be easy
agree but where will you find a real trader who has time energy ........
like you said you cannot pay a good trader enough so what ever you pay will never be enough.....so it is likely that whatever you offer a real trader will not be enough and he will refuse to mentor you!
only bad traders put price on their ability.........
put in the hard work, invest your time money [losses], understand what your goal is ......millions or covering daily expenses......
be prepared for at least 10 years to train yourself..........