Trader Interviews

Skype has screen sharing...

How are you going to determine that the trader to be interviewed genuinely makes consistent money from the market?

yes, appreciate that paul - i guess the trader would have to make the video and you could facilitate that? I just think a picture is often worth a thousand words and one of the attractions of other sites is the range of videos they have which are lacking on T2W.

'Course, you could always be the first interviewee

cheers

jon

Yes it is a good point and one that Tim and myself have already partially discussed although we have not reached any conclusions yet.


Paul

I have not had a situation where I thought I would be interviewing myself. I think it would only be of comic value if I did, I mean can you imagine it:

Interviewer Paul: Well Paul how did you get started in trading ?
Interviewee Paul: Now that's a great question Paul and I am glad you asked it etc......


Paul

okay Paul - I'll interview you!

Re. the earlier point about determining the trader's level of profitability - any suggestions on this front are welcome. Otherwise, it will be down to our joint experience which, hopefully, will be sufficient to screen out the fantasists, posers and scammers etc.
Tim.

The individual's broker statement for the last one year should be sufficient proof. If one is too squeamish to produce that then the tax return should do, as long as you can establish that the majority of the tax being paid is capital gains (i.e. trading or investing) and not income tax (i.e. selling stuff with may be a small portion accounted for by dividends).

I am not saying that getting this stuff out of someone is easy (and personally I'd run a mile from anyone who ask for such documents, but then I am not being interviewed), but you asked about the process.

PS. I am not sure what tax regime prop traders fall within.

where's the upside?