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For years I have been meaning to “do a piece” on financial trainer Darren Winters because he is a proven liar and a charlatan. Next week I plan to run a multi-part series on the man and its gloves off time. Can anyone assist? Winters claims to have “trained” more than 250,000 folks in the UK so I assume some of them will be reading this and I’d like to hear from you.
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Matthew M
I know a few people who have attended his courses and paid a ridiculous amount for information which can be freely available on the net. He’s one of a bunch Tom, Greg Secker, Vince Stanzione et al, there are loads of these creatures out there! Chris Manning from the US is another, same goes for Anthony Robbins Wealth Mastery Program, you have plenty of choice. For me my mistake was to attend Stanzione’s one day charade, lesson learnt. Today I’m happy to learn from the likes of Rick Rule, Eric Sprott, Doug Casey, Marin Kartusa etc and my family who are mostly in Private Banking rather than the previously mentioned barstards.
ChrisG
Seems he has been pulling these stunts since 2003 :
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2003/oct/04/jobsandmoney
DGL
I paid about £ 100 for a two day course – my objective was to understand some of the language and jargon of charting. Objective achieved at what I considered a reasonable cost. Some were signing up for ‘apprenticeships’ for multi – thousands of ££s….. I think most of them will regret the ‘investment’
J P Spaghetti
Ah – I thought he might have been one of Greg Secker’s protégés (nice use of accents, eh?) or something of that ilk. I tell ya what – that Greg Secker won’t leave me alone! I always seem to be getting e-mails and / or texts from him – in fact only today I received a text inviting me with some urgency to a live Forex session (at least I think it was a live Forex session – I only have a small inbox and have since deleted it) on the 21 April (at least I think it was 21 April) in The Smoke (at least I think it was down London way). It’s most generous of him and he may mean well, but I just can’t spare the time to get down there. Shame really.
I’ve often thought of asking SP if any of its team had experience of this sort of thing but figured it would be too off-topic. Is it a zero-sum game? Don’t the claims made in respect of it seem completely juicilicious? Etc. That said, I guess Forex trading itself is at least pretty much corruption-free.
J P Spaghetti
Re. my last post, in fairness I did attend a free two hour or so introductory taster a good few months ago and perhaps agreed to being contacted in this way. I imagine it’s a similar sort of thing in principle to that offered by DW. The chap who gave it (not DW or GS but part of the GS team) seemed pleasant enough and I didn’t really felt any pressure to sign up to anything. He did go on, though, to promote a trading course of several days or so duration, if memory serves costing several thousand pounds. I wasn’t bold enough to ask it but the obvious question has to be – if so many have had so much success following it – why risk deterring people with such a large up front payment when they could surely require ‘graduates’ to pay them a certain fraction of what they make (or even operate a system of licensing if that would be workable / suitable)? If the claims they make are remotely valid, the course fee would be covered in next to no time at even a small %age with quite a bit more to spare.