Golden Bull said:I think the core issue is more about not publicly made promises that not been delivered consistently. I can list like 5 from the top of my head. And thats not the way a person with integrity should behave. (and i'm not talking about missed release days either)
I don't disagree.... if claims and promises were made about disclosure, then disclosure should happen. But at the same time I've found that when the subject matter is 'money', people do messed up things...
I'd almost rather not know someone's performance vs be fed lies or misrepresentations and incomplete truths. There's also the ego factor, as it seems the greater the ego the more likely they'll misrepresent.
To be clear, that's not commenting on ICT or saying his ego will make him misrepresent things.. What I'm trying to say is, if he displays his performance and it's lackluster at best, or shows some dumb drawdowns, I'd hold way more respect for him than if we only got snapshots of a series of good trades in a row that implies all trades were just as good. I have no ego when it comes to trading, and I expect everyone to be human or have human moments. It doesn't matter to me if a trader I respect messes up and does something stupid, no, what matters is how they fair in the long run and how they correct for their mistakes. Showing humility and showing one's own mistakes would improve my opinion of anyone.
Anyway, there's still a lot of value that can be extracted from sources who don't post their own numbers. And to be quite frank, I don't know many pros who boast about performance.. there's a huge correlation, I find, between people who need others to view them as trading gods, and bullshit.
Thankfully, the types of people who only care about someone's P/L before they'll bother learning from them (the ones who feel they're owed something for breathing that is,) get caught up with the bullshitters and end up taking care of themselves (usually washing out when they can't make trading work for them, or they too must become bullshitters to fit in with their 'chums'.)
A side thought: There's a lot of traders who will perform worse if they think someone's watching.. public MyFXBook accounts for example can have a net negative psychological effect on individuals. We sorta witnessed this with ICT's MyFXBook from about two years ago.. the pressure is just different and an adjustment period is needed. Perhaps he made promises before realizing this about himself, and now has to work on parts of his own trading before he can safely go public again. There's no shame in self development. No one, no matter how many years they've been trading, has mastered every aspect of the game. To expect absolute perfection from someone is silly, and I don't trust people who only come off as if they are the pinnacle of trading skill in every way.