Ok so you aren't a "poor soul" for gambling away your savings. That makes you just a plain old fool. 2ndly he put that stuff out there, I wasn't kicking him, just pointing out that he traded on emotional desperation which is digging your own grave. It's a learning opportunity. You're right, that's the internet for you... if you post something on a forum then people will probably reply and critique. If you can't handle criticism then you need to get off the internets. I'm a *complete* and utter noob and could see the desperation and inevitable failure in his posts. The way external sources were blamed, when you can only ever blame yourself. Never are any claims made that ICTs methods will make you rich, in fact to me he made it sound like you could earn a living through hard work, nothing more.
Now can I ask why you are bitter towards ICT? Made some bad trades when you should have studied more?
edit: In fact ICT says to never risk more than 1-2% when you are new, and reduce that by half if you lose a 2nd time... if he lost all his savings that quickly, he was clearly not following ICT's risk management guidelines because you can lose 6+ times in a row and not lose more than 10% or so of your capital, and yet still wants to blame ICT somehow? So you want to talk down to ICT even though Piphanger wasn't even following his most basic rules? Does not compute.