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I'm very fascinated by this I hope you guys don't mind me being blunt. Why would any successful trader waste his time teaching trading when in 10 minutes time he could profit a months wages on the direction of Gold?

That's pretty much what I said to the guy selling the advanced course - if it's so good, why teach? He had no come back. But having thought about it, there have been many excellent ( and extremely wealthy) traders that have written books and many that have taken time out to mentor.

I'm very fascinated by this I hope you guys don't mind me being blunt. Why would any successful trader waste his time teaching trading when in 10 minutes time he could profit a months wages on the direction of Gold?

There may be some truth to that but on the other hand if you publish a book as a successful trader you are probably guaranteed a good return on that invest for probably the rest of your life. It is a somewhat predictable investment you can control. The markets on the other hand are unpredictable to even the best of traders and require a lot of chart analysis and work to make money. The guy from JustOneLap gave that as a reason for becoming a less active trader because he got tired of spending his whole day just looking at screens. So spend a year or two writing a book and your set.

And then there are just good people out there. People who can just be in trading for themselves but instead choose to share their knowledge and experience.

@jonb

You might want to take a look at a book called 'How to Make Money on The Stock Market.' Does have a bit of a 'get rich quick' ring to it's title but it is not like that at all. It is just a book that does a good job of explaining all the different chart patterns and how to analyze them.

and I strongly disagree

The only investment book anyway worth reading is "The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham" first published in 1949



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor

Wow. Someone is sour today. Good thing it's the weekend. Cheer up buddy boy.

Anyway the book you are recommending is good if you want to be a value investor. Not a trader. So it's not really what jonb is looking for.

Try remote viewing. It can be done by anyone.
Here is a study.
The study concluded that remote viewing "appears to be a reasonably accurate way to predict the future of binary outcomes... RV has dramatic implications for how we view time and our ability to perceive the future".

This is not, however, the first time someone has made money through remote viewing research. The paper discusses some previous history, including a study conducted by pioneering remote viewing researcher Hal Puthoff in 1982, in which a series of 30 RV trials attempted to predict the outcome of the silver futures market. Financially, the trials netted a profit of approximately $250,000 for their investor, "of which Puthoff’s share was ten percent, or more than $25,000, which he used to help fund a new Waldorf School". And in that same year, researchers Russell Targ and Keith Harary also used remote viewing to predict silver futures in an attempt to raise funds for their research, with their first experiment yielding $120,000.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to practice some remote viewing for a while...