Wow, I did not expect anyone to answer so fast, much less two people ... Will continue to hope to hear from a current or former student, maybe there are some out there who want to share their experiences.
PS. "Profit neutral" ... I don't like the sound of that, Mr. Toast
There are a lot of strategies like this and in the main they involve options.
The way they tend to work is that you have long runs of small winners followed by a couple of losers that wipe out your account.
Let's say you took a directional trade on a stock and put on 10c target and 10c stop. Flip a coin to enter and you'd win half the time (for simplicity) but you'd make 0 profit. You'd lose through fees & profit.
Well - the options are a bit like setting a 1cent target and a 100c stop. You'd win 99 times out of a hundred but that 1 loser would wipe out your profits.
There was a guy on here called Howard Cohodas who ran a journal doing this with options, right from the start he claimed to have found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A number of members told him he'd eventually blow up. These members were considered a$$holes and killjoys by much of T2W. In the end, the inevitable happened. He lost his money and disappeared from all the trading forums he was posting on - never to be heard from again.
He was also looking to sell his method.
The bottom line was that he had no edge. He thought he could just buy a few financial products he didn't understand and make money forever, without having any edge within himself.
This is what I mean by profit neutral. Don't get me wrong - you can have long runs of winners but your losers will wipe them out.
Holding onto a losing trade until it becomes a winner is what concerns me in his text. There is no guarantee that this will happen and so that loser could grow and grow until it wipes out your account.
When the guy mentioned in the OP did his string of live trading for 3 days. Did he close out all his positions at the end of it? Or did he have a few of these "losers that will become winners" still running?