A good example
Found a good example of what I was ranting about. In the interest of full disclosure this was in my email because I use this company's software for certain tasks (but they are not my marketing tasks). I am not above marketing at all.
Here is a site where you will get a real good idea about what is used and how you are targeted. Really there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of it. The quality of the offerings which will end up on the websites which employ these tools is soley dependant on the interest at the heart of what motivates the promoter and author. Like anything else - some good some not.
The danger can be for the newbie in forex because the prevailing wisdom (and I have been guilty of this myself) is to just go and say to the noob, "Go on over and learn yourself up at babypips". I have seen blundering calls like anyone will make in giving forecasts from time to time on babypips' front page. They are no more prepared to know the forecast than anyone in the current condition of technical analysis.
I also have talked to noobs after sending them off to edumacate themselves and they came out no better, it was clear. They usually suffer from a common condition - they don't know what they don't know. So they aren't prepared to know what is good for them or bad. The babaypips site may give good reference information as will FPA but it exists as a marketing funnel, let's face it. And the marketing to forex folk is on a slant that turns downward a bit more every day. Not in marketing saavy, but in content - on the whole that is, and in my not so humble opinion (grain of salt there too).
Don't be so hasty to always send someone off to the Forex U. when what they may really need desperately is the Forex in YOU. That expertise recognizes what the noob needs by the question asked and can filter the answer through the experience.
Here is the ammo dump with which I have no financial tie or affilliation for profit:
http : // www. niche-gold-club dot-com
Cheers,
Cyclon