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Your welcome. I edited it late where I'd forgot to post the link to the more recent GTR review and report of the CFTC investigation and subpoena of GTR's supposed brokerage accounts which showed there was never any live trading. Their investigation tracked back the GTR 2014-2016 years of which Amico was head room host in 2015 so by that logic, he never traded on live accounts running trading rooms for GTR either.
Because he does trade live these days (since at least a few years) clearly showing the DOM with his live trading account whenever and wherever he enters any markets. (He trades like 20 instruments.)
That being said, not a fan of him either not because of his history, but most importantly, whenever he enters the trades:
'C'mon NQ go lower.'
'Ok guys, trade it as you see it fit because this trade may or may not work'.
'Ah! The buyers disappeared after that initial push on the order flow!'
All these negative comments and uncertainty does not make him a good trader as an average person will consider all this to be just a speculation based on order flow. Not actual and factual trading.
Of course, the profit and loss are visible on his DOM. But what's the point if it's just guesses?
It's easy to mockup ninatrader to look like a live account, changing colors, even some tricks behind the scenes so that it's actually a sim account even pretending to be live. Regardless, there had been more recent comments on tradingschools about veritas where members last year are saying he (Amico) only shows the dom for a few occasional demo times as the usual "carrot stick", and gets testy when others ask him to put up the dom again, so who or what to believe? why still give benefit of the doubt again and again when it's been so failed before and GTR made over a million in course sales and chat room fees(by Amico as chief sales manager also) during that 2015 period. Anyway, newcomers can do what they want, eventually everyone learns how much of a typical scam they are like many others out there, and one will never learn to be consistent following these snakeoils and felons still owing restitution to prior victims.
"From 2014 to 2016, Simon Jousef sold 300 consumers a total of $1,300,000 in live trading room subscriptions and magical magnet trading indicators." , "That Simon Jousef claimed to be trading “live.” Yet, the CFTC discovered that he never even had a trading account." -> https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/the-trader-institute-global-trade-room-dr-dean-handley/
It's easy to change colors on the DOM, but is it easy to show the trading account in the same DOM as well? Because he used to show the DOM WITH the account (not blurred or SIM).
Not defending him or anything, but just curious. Thanks.
Sure, it's been done before with background configuration of NT, where one can change what appears in the text in the dom representing an account even if it was a sim feed. I recall seeing an example years ago using nt7 dom . I don't have nt8, but I would assume if NT can be modded or added on to with 3rd party products such as bookmap or jigsaw, a coder with knowledge of nt's internals and addon dev capabilities could mock up a dom showing a "live" looking account name for a fake sim feed for a vendor.
Alternatively, a scam vendor can also have a dummy live account to use occasionally for the carrot stick show, and accept some limited losses that are glossed over or never truly lined up with supposed posted website or email spam ad results when only provable by confirmed broker confirmation. (or subpoena of broker account results by the CFTC or some other legal authority). Because the fees, sales, and subs of fooled newcomers far outweigh in profit "live" performance if any. (usually none by most all of these "hypothetical" disclaimer trading rooms). They have a myriad of tricks and their hired coders can and continue to develop new ones.
And Amico had already helped Simon Jousef amass over a million in sales selling expensive ($7k to $10k+) sub or "education" material in the 2014-15 period investigated by the CFTC which also subpoenaed brokers related to the case, proving GTR had no live trading at all during Amico's invovlement. It was all foolery traderoom. (https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/the-trader-institute-global-trade-room-dr-dean-handley/)
EDIT: Just looked at the veritas site. Now it basically says SIM trades "demonstrated" on the dom. -> And supposed "carbon-based", "silicon-based" sim trading for "track records" obfuscation and distraction. So it confirms recent comments and complaints on tradingschools last year by veritas room members that the dom or anything live is hardly shown. Now it looks like the dom is coming back but mainly in sim. So it's the second type of vendor trickery strategy , which is use of a small dummy-account of occasional sacrificial live trades for the carrot-stick purpose , while the rest of the time is sim and the ongoing email spam ads are full of trading "winners" alerts and supposed profitable bot performance.