Forex Training Clients Tell Their Stories

I have been trading for two and a half years, subsequent to my retirement as a Naval Officer. In my efforts to become a successful trader I have trained with just about every kind of Forex training that you can find on the web - everything from home study CD courses, to internet courses, to books by trading experts, to seminars, to expensive one on one mentoring. I also consulted with a mind over matter trainer and a professional hypnotherapist, since I sincerely believe [author] Mark Douglas has it about right - that trading is 80% mental and 20% technical. I trained with everyone I could find from coast to coast - Sacramento to Richmond to Vancouver. Then I found Trade with the Trader, Rick Smith, in Tucson.

This course was excellent, unusally so, for several reasons:

- Custom simulator training package provided to enable student to ramp up knowledge evel safely, effectively, and rapidly.

- Personalized MindPower training provided by a mind training consultant to ensure any negative mental habits are corrected before going live.

- Personalized plan of action discussed to ensure I know exactly where I'm going and how to get there, including key events which must be met to progress to the next level (as opposed to arbitrary dates).

Rick's ability to de-mystify the complex to a simple rational level is unparalleled. His willingness to go the extra mile to ensure a student's success is uncommon in this business, and that is what truly separates him from "the rest" of those who purport to be coaches. With the addition of Patricia's sincere efforts to help each student with their mental skills, Rick has put together a training package that is truly second to none.

I could go on ages, as Rick and Patricia are that rare, especially in today's business world. They both have earned my deepest respect and admiration.

When Rick said to me,"You don't need to hit home runs to be a profitable trader, you just need consistent gains with reasonable money management and no big draw downs", I did the math. If I could just average 20 pips a day with a proven trading system, 2 lots per trade, averaging 20 pips a day at $10/pip ... that's 100 pips per week. Or $2,000 a week. It would take 4 weeks to make back the cost of the training, (or 8 weeks if I was twice as slow as I expected!).

That was the moment I got it as clear as a bell, I signed up for Trade with The Trader and I have never looked back. Thanks to the unshakable trading skills and solid risk management I learned with Rick, complete financial freedom is only a matter of time.

I am now a trader. From the day I left Rick's 3-Day One on One Training I've been a safe, skilled, confident trader and it has only gotten better and better. Thanks Rick!

For almost a year before your one on one training I was floundering from one "easy" forex training course to another, gaining more losses and and more frustration than profits. I wish I had come to you first, I would have avoided all the losses I had by listening to promises and not really knowing what I was doing. I also would have avoided all that mistrust of forex, trainers and myself I picked up along the way! Instead I could have been a profitable, confident trader that I am today, right from the beginning.

You never promised easy. You promised risk-managed, consistent, profitable trading. And you understood my worries about adding to more bad training and throwing good money after bad, and you answered my question about a guarantee by telling me, "You can try before you buy". I wonder why on earth I resisted spending proper money for proper training for so long.

I love Forex but I had the wrong expectations about what it took to become a successful trader. I was hooked on the fun of Forex Trading online right from the beginning, but I was in too much of a hurry.

I expected to trade my mini account following the trade signals of an advisory service, maybe read a book or two, or take the free online classes from my brokerage firm and generally just pick it up as I went along.

I profited just enough to realize I needed some serious professional training, because inside I knew it could work but my trading style felt more like a gambling style. But wow, which training to pick? Luckily I found Forex Advisor.

I called Rick, out of the blue, and I remember how surprised I was that he was the only one who picked up the phone himself, how accessible, knowledgeable and easy he was to talk to. I confessed to him I was looking for the magic trading algorithm. I said I thought that there just had to be some formula for entering a trade -- like if the price hits bottom of a Bollinger band, and the stochastic is oversold, crossed over and heading up, MACD is showing positive divergence, PCI is at the 50% level, that kind of thing.

We laughed heartily together when he added that I'd missed two: trading only with the trend and only when Uranus was in the house of Euphrates. Rick's humor is an extra treat. Then he explained that while every indicator is perfectly valid there is no magic formula that works under every market condition. There are basics which are always appropriate but trading by the indicators is like trying to drive looking in the rear view mirror, so knowing when, why and how to use each strategy makes all the difference between profit and loss. Today I know the when, why and how ... and finally my confidence AND my profits show it!

I wanted to learn to be a really top level Forex Trader but I was at the point that I didn't think I'd believe any of the self promoting training claims I'd find on the web, anymore. What it took was a personal reference from a close friend. I didn't believe it until I heard my friend say the words I was waiting for, "What it cost me for this training I made back double in trading profits pretty quick".

Let me read you some notes I jotted in my Forex Training journal, during Trade with the Trader - it'll tell you why I like the training. It was in the basics.

"Rick's talking to me at my skill level and not just going through a curriculum in a certain amount of time. He makes sure I know what I am doing before moving on". "Thorough, professional, effective. In 3 days I know I'll know it. Drill and practice gives me confidence I can grasp it". "I'll still have access to Rick afterwards to be sure I can remember everything. I'll be able to call him up at the beginning of the week and chat about what's coming up for the week in the market".

It started with basically excellent training and by the end of the training with Rick I was asking myself, when I really become good at this, can I trade other people's money? Now the question became, " Do I trade like a Pro by Trading with a Pro? OR be a Pro Trader by training with a Pro Trader? To be or not to be, that is the question". And it is a question I would never have been asking myself if it were not for Rick. To say this training was life changing, is understating the fact.