Trading Schools.Org Is A Blog About Trading Products
Trading Schools.Org was founded in 2013 as review website that provides unbiased and honest reviews about all sorts of trading products. We write about trading educators, newsletter providers, trading software, live trading rooms, brokers, etc. We dig up the dirt and relentlessly hunt for the truth. We have nothing to sell. The entire site runs on income from Google Adsense advertising. We wont write fake reviews about fraudulent products hoping to make a quick affiliate commission. We will also give you the inside scoop on the best and brightest trading products available.
About Our Reviews
We are not here to hurt anyone. If we write a bad review, this is because we genuinely feel that the product is poor. And we will gladly rewrite any negative review if the vendor makes changes or argues a differing opinion. In fact, we wrote a blistering review about a certain live trading room (even called the owner an outright fraud). The owner cleaned up and we rewrote the review and now highly recommend his product and service. Nobody is perfect, and everyone deserves the opportunity to do better, and be rewarded with proper acknowledgment.
The trading software and education ecosystem is constantly changing. What was an excellent product last year, and we had written a positive review might now be a poor product. We will fearlessly tear apart and report any poor performing trading products. What might of been an excellent trading platform in 2010 might now be a substandard trading platform. We will write about it. What might of been an honest broker for 25 straight years, but then begins to show problems, we will be the first to expose the problem. We will also be the first to show you excellent new product developments that are true game changers. Things like the low cost Jigsaw Trading Platform, which is an improvement over the industry standard $1200 a month Trading Technologies X Trader. And futures brokers like Zumo that offer the lowest commission in the industry, for the retail futures broker.
No Fake Reviews
One of the major problems with trading product websites are fake testimonials and fake reviews that are posted on 3rd party sites like Investimonials. In fact, to prove our point, we created an imaginary live trading room and listed it on Investimonials, we then flooded our fake product with reviews written from a block of unique IP addresses, the IP addresses were used to create the illusion of unique reviews. None of that nonsense here. Our reviews are expertly written by people that understand trading, and that actually are traders. Our reviews are not an exercise in group opinion. They are singularly written by someone that understands trading.
Getting The Smoke Out Of The Kitchen
We record a lot. In fact, since the summer of 2013, we have recorded over 6000 hours of live trading rooms and webinars given by trading room operators, indicator salespeople, trading system marketers and anyone offering a trading product. We have a bank of 15 laptop computers running Camtasia screen recordings nearly 24 hours a day. We record everything. We prove everything that we write about with stone cold video and irrefutable facts. We have signed up for literally hundreds of mailing lists, we catch collect and record every single marketing email from every single trading promoter on that we can find. We know the methods used, the sneaky underhanded disappearing promotional pages used to trick consumers. We know the real companies that constantly put out useful information that provides real value. We know who has set up Facebook accounts and purchased 1000’s of Likes from fake Facebook profiles. We have seen and heard it all. We record everything.
We have some good news, and some bad news.
The bad news is that 95% of the trading products on the internet are plain old snake oil meant to hustle you out of your hard earned money. If you think that there are regulators from the FTC, CFTC, NFA, or SEC that care about you and are there to help, then you are sorely mistaken. The regulators do not have the resources. Dont believe us? Try and call any of these agencies and find a person to register a complaint. Good luck. Thats the bad news.
The good news is that there are some genuine trading products on the market that so good that we quite simply cannot believe that anyone would sell the goose that is laying the golden eggs. Some trading vendors should not be selling an indicator package or a trading system, they would be working at the Fed or managing billions of dollars. Yes, we have found some vendors that are that good and more importantly, very honest.
You don’t have to be a loser at trading.
Unfortunately, we all start out trading as losers. Nobody starts out winning. We all start as losers, and we typically get worse. Then we start looking for help. We become desperate and want to believe. And then most become trapped in a never ending cycle of marketing nonsense from an entire industry that specializes in selling us fantasies about trading glory. The problem is that the cycle repeats until the aspiring trader is fleeced out of all of his available trading money. He purchases a flawed system, or indicator package, or educational package, or trading room, or trading mentor, or whatever the newest zany crazy thing promoters dream up. In the end, the aspiring trader is left with nothing but a busted trading account and an education in alchemy.
But this does not have to be your journey. Yes, you can make money at trading. And once you learn how, you will be amazed at how fast and how easy you can earn a fantastic income. We have seen traders that had blown through $200k trading accounts and $100k in wasted trading products, the experience led to depression and divorce. We have seen those same traders come back and start anew with $5k and parlay it into over $3,000,000 over a 5 year period. Yes, you can do it. But you need to stop buying all the BS on the internet and get your self educated by people that actually trade for a living, not people that just talk about trading for a living.
Thanks for reading.
Want to take the daytrading journey…Don’t. If you do read the 2 posts below.
Tradegod mad 2,500% return in 9 months form January 2006 to September 2006 starting with $10,000 and 2 contracts. He left Decemeber 2006. Never to be heard of again. Best daytrader. NO scalping. 1 trade and sometimes 2 trades a day. 2.5 pt stop. stopped out 45 minute break and then maybe another trade. Some days he made zero…but on those trend days….he made a killing.
There are no rooms that are any good. Nobody has a brokerage statement….If you could make $1,000 a day you don’t need a chat room, nor sell any education.
In day trading you can make $1,000 a day. I do it on RTY with 3 contracts. More than $1,000. But I’m inconsistent and impatient and it costs me. I’m profitable, very profitable, but I lose too. Right now I’m at 40% winning and 60 percent losing. The hardest part of daytrading is to take your stop out. If you don’t you blow your account averaging down or up. ES, is good and bad for me. I try to trade both RTY and ES after the initial move from 9:30 est to 10:00-10:30 est.
My day trading focus is going to be on RTY. Just need to master one index. Hard to master two. I only use price, no volume or vwap, or POC, Volume Profile, Market structure etc. This is all used to screw you. Fibs does help, but which Fib will they reverse 1.236, 1.27 or 1.618??
Now the story below: Next two posts.
Whoa!! I started day trading in 2005 till 2010-11. I went to all the chat rooms on Paltalk, Yahoo groups, 500 guru, on and on, cci, woodie, kwikpop…the list was over a hundred easy. One of the worst was Ace trades, along with Greg….what’s his name. So I blew 5 accounts and lost a lot. Kingfish ( he dead long time ago) did have some nice strategy for 10 pt trades on ES. The key here was a 1 pt stop. Today May 3 2019 ON ES you get stopped out. So I’m back again do day trading and all I’m looking for is a consistent person who knows the high range and low range. Pivot trading may be good, but you cannot use it as a stop out when the price is 7 pts away from the stop and the target is 5 pts away. These calls are never made when the price is close to the pivot..because the person doesn’t know which way it will go. I trade the RTY as my major and ES sometimes. I run 1 or 2 on RTY and 1 on ES. Day trading is income replacement…..not freedoom like postion trading. Finally, I did take calls from a daytrader in 2006 and he made in 9 months starting with $10,000 and 2 contracts. He would give 1 call a day short or long with a 2.5 pt stop and a target and he would let it run. When his account was at $200,000 he was trading 40 and 50 contracts….He was the best, $64.00 a week, no scalping. Don’t know how he did it and he would not teach.Had him only for 1 month..the guy was amazing. Once he got stopped out, he would wait 45 minutes before he took another trade…and sometimes he did not. His website was Tradergod. He left December 2006 after getting married to trade for a small pension fund…or so I was told. He was the best I’v ever seen and the ONLY great trader.
Wish I could find another daytader like this. Impossible….One more thing, nobody is going to give you a brokerage statement because if they could be making $1,000 a day, you don’t need anyone.
Money managers are they same. They lose OPM. If they knew to make money, they would have done it with their own money…..and be on the beach……
Moral is “NObody knows what you think they do,”
Gentlemen, Especially you al, I happen to know a guy named Vinnie. he is the one and only trade room out there that is all that and a bag of nacho’s.
https://vinnyemini.com/
E.G.I. AlgoBox™ Professional Trade Room, Algorithms, & Mentorship | Emini Trading Education, Futures, Forex, Stocks, Crypto. Specializing in Automated Trading. In ALL your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths… and seek first his kingdom and living rightly, and then all these things will be given to you as well.
No BS Approach… Vinny’s decade of experience trading all types of markets and strategies have led me to the understanding of how Algos moves markets at their core and HOW to time them appropriately to know when a small fund or trader has a better chance to make their move to win while everyone around them is losing.
He says “Take the free trial periods and see if I’m not right.
Together, We are better – Join our Community of Traders & Coders.
See ya soon! – Vinny E-Mini.”
Nice self-promotion, Vinny. Haha…
And a final note. Tradergod had no flashy website. His trade call was usually after 15-30 mins of the open, but 15 mins before the price would get there. He did not videos, no fancy page…a trading fellow I met on a Paltalk room in fall of 2006,- I was in 2 or 3 some times the same time in – told me about this fellow he found in the Yahoo groups ( this back in 2006). Vikram was my trading buddy and he said this tradergod fellow was a fly in the wall in the Yahoo groups. But Vik found him. He had him from June 2006 till September ( Tradergod went to get married) and came back early December and then left prior Christmas). Vik made good money from him…but Vikram had 3 or 4 callers at the same time…and this imho was not good. He used the ” spread your risk around approach” which does not make any money at the EOD.
So, if you do begin you quest to day trade..remember “Nobody knows What YOU think they DO.” The adage, why teach if you could make some real money is very true.
A tip I’ll give you in this- Be it ES, RTY, YM, NQ. They know where they going the next day. Why you think they have the 15 minute close, then open, then close. See which game plan from the playbook they going to use. Their are only 7 plays ( Chakras ) they have.
“As above so below, as below so above.”
Best
Couldn’t help myself. SBGC.
Yes , I’m a football fan and practioner………and this is how I play at 6 ft 3
Socrates, Best, Garrincha, Cruyff.
Want to be the best in day trading or life……
SBGC
Father luck.
Trade for Greatness.
My review
Garbage. Was there in Feb 2019 for a one week trial. I think the one week was $90 something. When I was there ( she trades CL, GC and NG all of a 1 min chart) she lost $600-800 a day and was positive one day. She fudged the loss for the week saying it was only $660 or something like that. Sometimes she was up in her calls but would not sell. She is on SIM. Her claim to greatness was her CL calls, but CL was in a downtrend on the daily and that helped her.
She trades the one minute chart like she is trading a 10-15 minute chart.
Anyone trading SIM is garbage. Because when you have real money on the line…its way different. Don’t waste your time here. Last week or Last month ( I think it was last month) she only made $50.00 ( for the whole month). It should still be there on the website unless she took it off.
I don’t quite get this.
You write “Yes, you can make money at trading. And once you learn how, you will be amazed at how fast and how easy you can earn a fantastic income.”
Why wouldn’t you rather give your time to making that fantastic income than keep on spending time and resources on writing this blog which makes money only from Google Adsense advertising? Google Adsense doesn’t pay much nowadays.
P.S.
You gotta do some work on proofreading. Not many errors but still …
Hi Walter,
Thanks for the useful comment and question.
Yes, you can actually make good money at trading. I use a systematic approach and trade stocks 1-3 weeks in length. This is probably the easiest way to make consistent money.
And why keep up this blog? I write the blog because it’s cathartic and I feel good about what I am doing. The income is minimal.
And about the proofreading…I totally agree. Many of my older pages are from years ago — full of errors and poorly written. I should definitely clean up and edit stuff from 2015, etc. Hopefully, my more recent articles are easier to read and more enjoyable.
Emmett
Have come across your blog while searching for the information about Petra Hess. Since I’ve recently opened a dispute with Master Card, requesting a refund for my subscription to PetraPicks.com, I want to thank you for the INVALUABLE story about Petra Hess, which you’ve posted quite recently on your blog. Your post has perfect timing in terms of what I need at this time. My claim against PetraPicks.com is based on FALSE / MISLEADING advertising and it seems to be absolutely solid.
Have just finished writing up my case presentation for Master Card dispute department. It is written as if I were presenting the case to a judge. Quite long and supported by a variety of screenshots taken from PetraPicks.com site and her marketing webinar.
Would be willing to make this material available to you after the dispute has been brought to its conclusion. Please let me know if you are interested to receive it.
P.S.
In order to keep whatever I present on the Internet as free from the typos as it is possible for me at this time I use a great editing tool named GRAMMARLY. Its basic service is free and I find it sufficient for my proofreading purposes.
Hope to hear from you again.
walter
Also a quick intro my name is Benjamin andi am retired from the US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES I am 100% disabled from a TBI (traumatic brain injury) and have severe PTSD. The only reason i detail my injuries is that they have left a prisoner in my own home when I had one. Long story short I am a homeless veteran. But I have a secret while everyone thought i was out of it staring at walls never leaving me home i spent that time refining my passion FOREX. I am an algorithmic trader with an AAA personality. I write all my own code. I eat drink sleep laugh cry and shit code. I speak seven languages. and my best online buddies are Croatian Bulgarian Thai and Russian. anyway Hello. and besides Vinnie, i have a professional prop trader buddy he is honest and real his name is Brian he goes by VP over at https://nononsenseforex.com/. so have a GREAT DAY & TRADE ON.
https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.eugene.gee message me at FB if you like and i I will donate one of my trading algo-bots to bless your game.
None of this is true. None, whatsoever. Your name is Vinny, and you are pushing your “trading bots”, spamming this site. Period. “Thou shall not lie nor deveive.” Not good, not good to lie like that for such a religious man, Vinny.
Dear Emmett,
I think you provide a unique and very valuable servers to the trading community. You are the one and only stop between all the hucksters and individual traders in the world. I would like to make a suggestions on how you might make this a long standing, self sustaining business that could grow and clean up the trading education industry. Use as a model the same practices as a certified accounting audits that are required every year from every publicly traded company. These audits must be done at least once a year and cost deep into 6 figures. You could issue an audit badge to each company showing that they have met some basic standard.
The one issue when having the audited company paying for the audit is that it makes it hard to critique the company you are auditing publicly and that is paying for the audit. The accounting industry has crafted the tightly worded audit letter. You could instead have various degrees of audit certification. For example, the audit could rang from “the company is registered with local government, they have a phone that is answered, e-mail and a real web and mail address” to “There recommendations can be verified by a third party brokerage and the notices are verified with no significant slippage or unreported or delete trades”.nnEach ;certificate type would get a slightly different audit bade, that the company cou. display *for that year).
In addition, since this training supposedly generates money, you could have a trading account seeded with either their money or your money for a given period of time (a month) where any profits would offset the audit costs.
Your service would have to start slow and build confidence in the trading world, and if it did, I could see your audit badges taking on the value of audit badges in other industries and maybe become required to keep the SEC at bay.
The annual audits could confirm:
Trading education entity does exist, for x years, and responses to inquiries,
The company does have third party trading accounts that confirm to advertised results.
The company has an independent verification during the audit period of all notifications and the given results.
The company tracks properly all cancels and refunded accounts for accuracy.
The return generated by the education match the results advertised and claimed.
Anyway, best of luck with this endeavor, and I hope you can successfully grow it into a world respected auditing arm of this industry.
Emmet. That request I just left you has a free month trading. If you review it or tell all of your people on here about it it’s free to try for a month and see how good this guy is at his art.
Hi Emmet,
I appreciate your honest reviews of Trading Rooms. You did a review of: Night Scalper/Traders Den 24. I cannot seem to find those websites, as I like emini globex trading. It this man, Bill C. still in business, do you know? Thanks…Bob Baker
Bill Costarides from what I understand has retired & sold the business to another entity.
Is there a site (yours?) that focuses on which sites actually are honest and can make you money. Its’s great to know of the scam artists out there but what I think is more valuable is to find sites that are real, honest and can make people money.
Love the work you are doing and wanted to bring to your attention possible plagiarism of your work. Your review of tradeempowered linked below:
https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/trade-empowered/
has been copied word for word on this site:
https://www.valforex.com/2017/08/trade-empowered-review-scam-in-the-name-of-a-trading-school.html
I’m so confused. If trading is profitable, and some of these “experts” know how to trade correctly, why do they fake trade or not trade at all? Is it more profitable to just sell subs? If they took all the time to learn to trade why whould they not do it? sorry i really am confused. thanks
“The good news is that there are some genuine trading products on the market that so good that we quite simply cannot believe that anyone would sell the goose that is laying the golden eggs. Some trading vendors should not be selling an indicator package or a trading system, they would be working at the Fed or managing billions of dollars. Yes, we have found some vendors that are that good and more importantly, very honest.”
Please tell us who the good ones are – the incessant “instant wealth” line is a turn off
The services that I consider “worthy” are:
– Mark Minervini (Minervini Private Access)
– Dan Zanger (chartpattern.com)
– HCPG (highchartpatterns.com)
– Deron Wagner (Morpheus Trading Group)
That’s pretty much it. However, your site doesn’t review any of these. Why?