For sure, however If your "friends" encourage you to invest in an investment with high returns that have continuously paid out profits to their investors I would certainly thank them.
Even if the investment shows multiple warning signs of being a Ponzi? Just because a crime is reliable for a few months or years doesn't make it any less illegal or unethical.
Any company or investment whether legitimate or not can be harmed by constant, unsubstantiated and unproven claims whether that be gold, property, stocks or a relatively small forex trading company.
Donatelo, if of course concerned about his investments and rightfully so, with so many armchair experts with hidden intensions out there to put doubt in peoples minds.
Thankfully, the majority people who invest in this company have already done their research and the vast majority are extremely happy!
Buy the way, I just received my November profit yesterday!
Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your ill-gotten gains while they last. Too bad you, Donatelo, and a few other
True Believers in free money and/or people who just don't care that it's a crime as long as it pays probably won't be around to answer questions after this Ponzi collapses. In all previous threads on Ponzis, 100% of the cheerleaders disappeared when the scheme collapsed and ignored all invitations to return and update their opinions.
An investment company which could consistently make the claimed returns would easily be able to survive with few or no customers by this point. They'd only need to invest their previous profits and wouldn't have to share any of the new profits.
Again with the conspiracy theories about my intentions. I challenged Donatelo to find me pushing a company here at the FPA anywhere in my 14,000+ posts and he couldn't. If you really think this, go ahead, dig into my post history, and see that you can't find anything like that either. I believe my articles as well as my advice makes it very plain that I don't promote ANY broker, product, or investment. Even if a company has zero warning signs and is well-regulated, I always urge caution and careful due diligence before considering a test with the smallest amount of money possible. Further, I advise people to always be ready to yank most or all of their money out at the first hint of any trouble.
So far, I haven't seen anything resembling real research to back up Exential beyond "my friends made a bunch of money and now I'm getting paid too so I don't care about all the red flags". Instead, here are more major unanswered questions raised by someone who did some real research...
I have a few questions about the company since it's been operating over 5 years.
1. Who is the senior management behind the company. I hear talk of a S.L. but I can't find anywhere who actually owns or operates the company
2. The resulted are apparently independently audited. Who is the independent auditor and where can I see these audits
3. They have a trading room in dubai that isn't located at their head office. Why can't we visit the trading room floor.
4. As somebody said earlier, there appears to be no logic or strategy to the trades. Some are long with big loss e.g. 4k usd on one trade per each 20k usd account others tiny yet the profit is almost always exactly 2500 usd pm per account. Does forex really work like this or should the results be more volatile?
I believe the correct answers are:
1. People who are planning to steal millions from their clients will neglect to list their directors on their investment websites.
2. It's easy to claim something is audited without any real audit.
True believers will take the claim as proof, even though there's not a shred of evidence to back it up. People who know it's a Ponzi, but jumped in anyway and are desperate for it to keep going will also claim that a claimed audit equals real proof.
3. Visiting a trading room would require there to be an actual trading room to visit.
4. Any successful longterm strategy should have some recognizable logical structure. Even a very consistent trading method will never produce steady returns of a fixed amount or percent month to month for an extended period. I did see one that came close once - and then the account blew out over a period of less than 1 week. My best guess is that either the broker is in on faking the results, or that they are using one or more methods to manipulate the results displayed.
If Exential was a real company making real investments, they'd send an official representative to answer this sort of thing immediately. They'd also have jumped into this thread a long time back to explain many of the questions I and others have raised.
Instead, Exential's silence speaks volumes.