Before you pay

How do you judge whether a trading course is worth taking?

Do not look at how much he made. Look at whether he will tell you how much he lost.

Most people searching this have already sat through a free session.

It was decent. The charts made sense. They are interested, but not ready to pay.

What you are looking for is not evidence. It is a standard.

So they search to see whether anyone has called it a scam. What comes back is retail traders warning each other — one says be careful, another says he got burned too, a third says he does not know.

None of that helps. Because somebody else having been scammed does not make this one a scammer, and somebody else's good experience does not make it right for you.

What you need is not someone else's verdict. It is a standard you can hold in your own hand.

The three questions below work on anyone. Including on us.

Three questions, and you will mostly know

One: will he talk about his own losses?

Not "I made mistakes early on". Numbers. How much, when, and why.

Teddy has lost seven figures. He says so in public, not because it sounds good, but because someone who has never lost cannot teach you how to survive first.

If he will not tell you what he lost, why would you believe he will tell you what you might lose?

Two: does he own it when he is wrong?

This one is the easiest to check, because you do not have to wait.

Find the last call he made in public. Then find out whether he came back and said how it went.

Right is right, wrong is wrong. Our weekly live opens with exactly that — what I said last week, what actually happened, and where I got it wrong.

Someone who owns the misses has a record that adds up. Someone who only ever posts the wins is showing you a highlight reel, not a record.

Three: is he giving you a system, or a signal?

A signal

Buy this now.

A system

Why this could be considered now, and why it would not be in an hour.

The difference shows up three months later. Take signals and you are still asking him. Learn a system and you can read the chart yourself.

We look at three things: candle, direction, momentum. All three agree, we enter; they do not, we wait. What you learn is that judgment, not one day's answer.

Three signals worth stopping for

Proper education does not have these.

One. Guaranteed returns.

Any version of "sure profit", "capital protected", "you will make it back" — however gently it is put. Nobody can guarantee a market. Whoever says it either does not understand, or knows what you want to hear.

Two. An offer to trade it for you.

"Give me the money and I will do it for you." That is not teaching, it is something else, and in Malaysia it touches licensing. Education is education. The money should stay in your own account the whole time.

Three. He only asks what you can pay, never what you can afford to lose.

A responsible way of teaching raises the losses before you pay: how much loss is normal, how long before results are readable, and whether your life would be affected in the meantime. None of that is pleasant to say, so plenty of people skip it.

Someone who never asks what you can afford to lose is assuming you can afford to lose all of it. That assumption is yours alone to make.

How we answer our own three questions

Turned back on us, the answers are these:

01

Losses

Seven figures, said in public, written on the About Teddy page.

02

Owning it

The weekly live opens with the review — right is right, wrong is wrong.

03

System or signal

Three things: candle, direction, momentum. What is taught is the judgment.

Whether to spend money, and how much, comes later. Doing this properly takes at least three months. We are not going to make that sound nicer than it is.

Common questions

Is a free session just there to sell you something?

Most free sessions have a product behind them, and that by itself is not the problem. The question is whether those two hours gave you something you could take away. If your understanding of the market has not changed by the end, it was not worth your time, sold to or not.

Can the price tell you anything about quality?

No. Cheap can be empty and expensive can be empty. Price tells you about positioning, not quality. Ask the three questions first, then look at the price.

Are student testimonials a reliable signal?

A testimonial only tells you someone took the course. It cannot tell you where that person started, how long it took, or what it cost them. When you read one, notice whether it describes a process or just a number — the ones about process are worth more.

How do I know whether it suits me?

Start with time. How many hours can you actually find in a week? If you cannot find them, no course will move, however good it is. That is the same question as which index to trade — Which index suits you when you have a full-time job?

In the end you are not choosing a course. You are deciding whether you will learn from someone who will say, to your face, that he got it wrong.

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We do not guarantee returns. We do not manage your funds.This is market education, not personal investment advice. Doing this properly takes at least three months of steady work. Markets carry risk of loss, so decide your risk limit before you enter.