No I am not. The OP said that copy trading is a good way to start and make $$. I agreed provided they choose the person they are copying carefully which is why I posted a link to an article on my website that explains 7 steps one should take to make sure they don't get ripped off. Good advice for any beginning copy trader. Something you probably could have used when you tried it. Maybe then you would have found out the person or the system was no good. I'm just trying to help others avoid what happened to you.

On my blog, I also post many free trading strategies, how to guides for beginners and more. Sorry you missed all the good content. Even this free app for timing the markets!

As for the link, when you make a post here, the consensus is you should format it (like I did the ones above) and make it look good. To do that Steemit provides something called Markdown. You can use it to make texts bold, provide links and tables. I'm not cloaking anything. You can hover over the link and see where it goes to. Cloaking links will have some gibberish when hovered so you don't know where you are going until you click. When you read any financial website, you don't see the raw link, they "hyperlink" it. People who post the raw link are doing it the wrong way.

As for advertising on my blog. All companies do that. Motley Fool has a blog but they also promote a stock picking service. Investors.com is another with great articles and advertising and promote their service Leaderboard. Marketwatch, same thing. Forbes. As website publishers, we provide free content and get paid by advertisers so we can keep bringing the public free articles.

If a person does not copy trade a successful investor when they first start, they are left with only 2 choices:

• spend a year or two studying and researching before investing.
• jump in and more than likely lose all their money on the school of hard knocks.

We all have only a limited amount of time on earth. Why should a new investor have to wait a couple years until they are good enough to start their own trading? The second option is even worse.