I can't think of a speaker that we have had speak to our group who did not trade their own money in the market. Obviously if a speaker sells products or has other sources of income like many club members do, they would not solely being making a living fromt the market alone, but that does not negate the fact they may be making a good return from their trading, regardless if is their sole source of income or not.
If I see anyone posting a question in the forum that I don't know the answer to, I raise my hand during the live presentation, if the presenter is doing a live presentation in front of a group where they can't see what is being posted on the computer. If they are not speaking in person in front of a live group and are just doing a webcast then they can see the questions themselves, as they are in front of the computer screen themselves and can answer the questions themselves.
I have not seen any posts in the last several months where the speaker was being asked if they trade their own money, if I had, I would have no reason not to ask the speaker the question, so this would not be a question I would ignore. I have seen people ask that of speakers in the past and they replied to the questions, but it has been a long time since I have seen that posted in a meeting. You would think that would be question more people would ask. As for Carolyn she does trade her own money in the markets. Since she sells product as well that is not her sole source of income, but neither does it have to be to validate the effectiveness of what she is doing to make money from the markets. I have had requests to just bring in speakers who just trade and don't have any products to sell, but trying to find people who are willing to take the time to put together a PowerPoint presentation with good info is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. When I have ever asked people to do this who are not selling any products, I have had only had a few people willing to do that in all the years we have been having meetings, but I am always on the lookout for them.
I run a special interest group at our club in Tampa where I share what I am doing in my own trading to make money in the markets each month and I don't have any products I am selling them and we have Dr. Bailey who also trades his own money, who does not sell any products in the group who shares what he is dong each month, but not too many people are willing to take the time to do this sort of thing, and to be able to come up with a speaker each month, we have to go to people who do have products they sell or we would not have enough speakers to fill the openings we have each month.
If there is anyone who is not selling a product who is interested in putting together a PowerPoint presentation to share their strategies that they are using that they are making money with let me know so we can talk about the possibility of sharing this info with other traders through a webcast.
