WHERE CAN A NOVICE TRADER GO TO LEARN HOW TO TRADE?
I started this website with the premise that I would work diligently to help new traders learn the art of trading. I did this for a reason. I found out the hard way that there are a lot of vultures in this business whose primary goal is taking your money, any way they can get it. Many of those who profess to be able to teach trading, simply cannot. Many others who charge large sums for expertise, might know how to trade, but have a major interest in collecting as much money from novice traders as possible, and worrying little about how much those traders really learn. Trust me. I know. I have been there. So what is a new trader to do? It is almost impossible to learn from books and experience alone, you need help. So where can you get it?
Read through this site. There are few recomendations here for mentors or services, and I have been involved with many. I have no intention of steering new traders in the wrong direction. But in my years of efforts, I have come across a few diamonds in the rough and those I need to bring to your attention. I did meet one guy who can trade, who knows the markets, who told me from the very beginning how incredibly difficult it would be to learn to trade successfully......but that it could be done! His name is Mark Cook.
Mark Cook is a good guy. It just so happens he is also a great trader.
Early in my efforts I came across the book STOCK MARKET WIZARDS: Interviews with America's top Traders by Jack Schwager. (You can find the book on Amazon here). The book is filled with stories of several great traders, with several different approaches to trading.
I read them all and dreamed of one day being a great trader myself. One story in particular though, caught my attention. It was about a guy
from a farming family who, after suffering a few mishaps, taught himself to trade. His results were
nothing short of incredible. Jack Schwager, no neophyte to the markets, had come to interview Mark after he had won a national investing championship.
But Mr. Schwager had done his homework, asking for Mark's Brokerage records to substantiate any claims. Mark Agreed and an independent auditor had
found that Mark was profitable on 87% of his trading days! I found that difficult to believe.
(Jack Schwager had a few comments on Mark after doing his review:
"his performance is spectacular"
In five years his returns ranged from 30% to 1400%"
"I really liked the guy...He is a thoroughly decent person")
After reading that story, I wanted to attend one of Mark's seminars and, unable to make it, I was quite surprised when Mark set aside time on another week for me to come one and one with him. Mark told me early in that week of his daily rituals, his strategy and techniques, his goals in managing his money, and many of his setups and methods for managing his trades. I watched him trade. I watched him make money, again and again.
I remember smiling to myself one morning when Mark took the phone (which he didn't usually do when trading) and gave market commentary to Marty Schwartz, another great trader who wrote the book PIT BULL. Clearly, I thought, here was a guy who not only knew how to trade, but was respected by other great traders as well. (You can get the book PIT BULL on Amazon here. Buy It ...This is one of my favorite trading books, full of antidotes that will have you laughing).
All this came back to me Friday, when I recieved an email from Mark announcing that he was again scheduling a trading seminar this March. I thought about my time with Mark, and all I had learned from him, and I wrote asking if I could post his notice on my site. He agreed.
There are a lot of people in the business professing to be able to teach you to trade. How many of those have had an independent auditor find their brokerage accounts profitable on 87% of trading days? I would venture to say almost none.
I know Mark. He is a farm boy who just happens to be a great trader, and he can help you get started in the right direction. I have endorsed only two people on this site; Terry Lieberman with WindoTrader, and now Mark Cook. I have nothing to gain from this endorsement.
Trading seminars are expensive and they are not for everyone. Do not spend money that you cannot afford on trying to learn to trade. But if you can afford it, and you planned to attend a seminar, please give consideration to Mark Cook. His methods are real and involve hard work, dedication, and likely, in the end, profitability.
INVITATION TO THE 4 DAY TRADING SEMINAR
MARCH 19, 20, 21, AND 22 OF 2012
It is my extreme pleasure to invite you to our March trading seminar. We limit the availability to 10 people and we are sending this invitation in hopes that you will become one of those who take advantage of being one of those first 10 to respond positively. We offer the seminar at my trading facility. It is a four day seminar that will be held March 19, 20, 21 and 22.
We will cover a business trading plan construction and will provide completed examples of myself and other students in your seminar manual. We will help you with a daily ritual regimen that will acquaint you with the necessary facts to give you an advantage for your day trading. I will cover my Cook Cumulative Tick indicator which will give you an edge for long term positioning. We will also cover marketing, strategies, options and bond futures that constitute swing trading. You will also have the opportunity to participate in my real time trading. The last 2 days of the seminar is live trading. I extend an invitation that you can mimic my trades and hopefully they will defray some of the costs of the seminar if not all. I will personally chat with each and every one of the people before they come to the seminar as a preparatory of what to expect. I will also answer any and all questions that you may have so this can be a learning experience like none you have ever participated in previously.
Please respond as soon as possible as we anticipate the 10 spots to be filled almost immediately. You may contact the office at 330-484-0331 or email at cooktrading@yahoo.com. I will then set up a personal phone time that I can chat with you regarding this seminar. I am thanking you in advance for the opportunity to share my 30 years of trading experience with you.
Mark D Cook
MARCH 19, 20, 21, AND 22 OF 2012
It is my extreme pleasure to invite you to our March trading seminar. We limit the availability to 10 people and we are sending this invitation in hopes that you will become one of those who take advantage of being one of those first 10 to respond positively. We offer the seminar at my trading facility. It is a four day seminar that will be held March 19, 20, 21 and 22.
We will cover a business trading plan construction and will provide completed examples of myself and other students in your seminar manual. We will help you with a daily ritual regimen that will acquaint you with the necessary facts to give you an advantage for your day trading. I will cover my Cook Cumulative Tick indicator which will give you an edge for long term positioning. We will also cover marketing, strategies, options and bond futures that constitute swing trading. You will also have the opportunity to participate in my real time trading. The last 2 days of the seminar is live trading. I extend an invitation that you can mimic my trades and hopefully they will defray some of the costs of the seminar if not all. I will personally chat with each and every one of the people before they come to the seminar as a preparatory of what to expect. I will also answer any and all questions that you may have so this can be a learning experience like none you have ever participated in previously.
Please respond as soon as possible as we anticipate the 10 spots to be filled almost immediately. You may contact the office at 330-484-0331 or email at cooktrading@yahoo.com. I will then set up a personal phone time that I can chat with you regarding this seminar. I am thanking you in advance for the opportunity to share my 30 years of trading experience with you.