Some great points
The hours you mention are not when Apex systems work best. ALL SYSTEMS work best when volume is higher and volatility is more consistent.
Can any system, Apex or not, work for a nighttime trader is the real question. This is Not an Apex question but a trading-during-lower-liquidity-hours question. The answer is yes. This is similar to how driving on the freeway at different times of the day will impact your route and the time it will take you to reach your destination. Travel during rush hour when the roads are packed with cars, traffic will move slower. You will have to be more creative in your path in order to arrive in a timely manner. Drive when traffic is light and you can take a much easier path, enabling you to arrive much faster. Your start and end point are the same but the time it takes as well as the necessary route will require more time and more creativity (Apex or not).
Commitment is massive. When I first started trading, I spent a year just studying before I did a single live trade. I had a full-time job working 89 hours a week and a pregnant wife who obviously desired my time. I had to choose less sleep and trade the euro sessions. I had to be more creative in my trading until I could quit my 6 figure 80 hour a week job and get on the trade faster path. It came down to what I was willing and not willing to do.
Yes, spreads can be consistently traded at night with ease. Again, more patience is required as normally, there is less volatility present. Mastering a system such as power plays, then having multiple charts and looking at fox news, CNN, etc., to see what the public is thinking about, is the best way to see where the volume (the volatility) will be.
Lack of trades… If you want more trades or systems that have more entries, (consider that Powerplays have more than four), then watch more charts. You will have plenty.
Can binaries be traded well at night? Frankly, binaries are popular but as you have heard me say in 100 videos, binaries are easy to understand and hard to trade. As market cycles change and more importantly as IV changes, it will dramatically impact how a binary price moves. Understanding this takes time. I have made six figures multiple years in a row on Nadex trading all hours day and night. I can tell you I didn’t touch binaries for the first 9 months. I only traded spreads. Binaries are a very exotic option whose simplicity is almost deceptive as one tends to think they’re easy to trade and profit since they’re easy to understand. So, in short, binaries are not easy to trade any time of day or night. Spreads offer less risk and better payout when traded correctly.
I do find the complaining about long training videos frankly amusing! I’ve spent well over 100k on training that involved eight hours a day for a week and I soaked up every minute. We charge nothing for training. This may seem a bit harsh but if you’re going to let a long video get in your way, you’re not going to have success any time day or night. What most people don’t understand is the content for the videos are about 30 minutes long. The questions are the other hour or two. Often, those are the most valuable part. All professions i.e., Lawyer, Pilot, Doctor, etc. endure many more hours and longer classes to learn their profession and they pay handsomely for it. If you paid 10k for those training videos, you would be pissed if they were only 30 minutes long.
Also, this is shortsighted. It’s assuming you know more than the instructor. What you need to know is not only the basics but advanced trading information as well as mistakes to avoid and tips to help you. This all adds up in those long videos. Soak it up. They aren’t made for OUR enjoyment. They are made for those who are willing to INVEST time into their education to pursue the PROFESSION of trading. Get some popcorn and a pad for your chair. Get up and walk around the block every 30 minutes. Lose some calories! Think about what was said and watch the rest. You watch two-hour movies with no problem. What’s the difference? Well, one has zero value and you paid to see it. It may have given you ideas, might have been funny and slightly entertaining. The other requires your mind to be engaged, has no feel-good, instant gratification and challenges you to learn.
Regarding $2 an hour… If someone is passionate about something and has an entrepreneurial mindset, they are not paying attention to hours. I myself have seen negative hours many months that I put into Apex so you can complain about a video being long! If you do manage to push through, treat it like a business. It can pay way more than $2 an hour. Remember, it takes no longer to make $2 than it does to make $209 $2000 or $20000! It’s just a matter of the size of your trades. Over time, if proper money management is followed and the system is net positive, that "hourly rate goes through the roof.” I don’t even know a successful trader who thinks in by the hour pay. That’s why we became traders-- to escape that nonsense!
I suggest you do some reflection on where your trading has gotten you since being gone. Has it been working? If so, why are you at open house? If not, then take advantage of all this free stuff vs complaining. It’s free but it’s costing us a fortune in time.
Expect webinars to remain long as we continue teaching you what you NEED to know, not just what you FEEL you want to know.
To state you can’t force yourself to watch them again is a victim mentality. You can do whatever you want and desire to do.
If you don’t want to watch them over and over, then open Word, take notes and screenshots. Make cheat sheets.
Honestly, the videos are a primer. Many think watching the videos a dozen times will make them an expert. That is dead wrong. Take notes, pictures and screenshots. Then get in the room and ask questions. Mark up your charts and get feedback. Your mind will make so many assumptions, we can’t make videos long enough to account for all of them. You don’t know what you don’t know until someone who does know sees it and tells you. If you’re not actively engaged in the room, I would put your chances of success at about 5%.
Yes, there is a better way to communicate! Watch the webinars. Get vernacular- understand the trading language. Take studious notes, open charts and get in room. Mark up your charts and submit them for feedback in the room. Rinse and repeat. Do this in order to learn from other people’s questions.
There are plenty of live trades; just hop in the Elite room. There are screenshots of trades showing balances, withdraws, Profit and Loss, etc., as well as many profit logs shown.
It’s a community! If you think something is missing, then join in and do it.
Apex has too many systems…
Well, that’s okay. You don’t have to learn them all. Market conditions change. When they do, a system may not work for a period of time. Then when those conditions return, it can be used again.
Constantly, the community is contributing to make the systems and tools better.
If a system becomes obsolete compared to others, it’s removed.
If new tools have made a dramatic improvement in that system, they will be removed until training can be made incorporating the new tools to help avoid confusion.
New tools are developed that become more effective in more market conditions. This is not a one-time-pay-20k-good-luck company. It is a community of real traders always striving to improve and help other real traders. So, if we are the same in a year or in 10 years, we are not adapting to the market. If we are not constantly learning and improving, we are not doing our job for you.
At the time, that was the best system and we did well on it. But, we found an even better system with improvement to tools and more.
Many systems were initially born as traders wanted to make the markers fit them. For example, suppose I wanted to trade binaries at night between certain hours and only spend an hour at my computer. I can admit I overextended myself and tried to come up with systems that worked for anyone at any time of the day for any instrument.
After that, traders searched to find systems that would fit a square peg into a round hole. Low and behold it worked, until market conditions changed. Then another system was born. It continued on and on. This was primarily on binaries.
One breakthrough for binary trading was my invention of continuum bars that include both time and space. If the bar moves so far one way or another or if so many minutes pass, whatever happens first, a new bar forms. This allowed bar size to be managed while keeping a time aspect. This is something that is important for a contract with an intraday expiration every 5, 20 minutes or 1, 2, or 23 hours. This bar alone requires a complete overhaul to all binary systems that preceded it.
You may notice when growing the forum and menu that a large percent of content has been removed. It’s not permanent. It is only while we add in the use of new bar types and volume tools to further improve the system accuracy. Therefore, p1234, boomerang, etc., are all still around but are in the shop being improved. What you think has faded due to lack of knowledge is really how we improve systems. As time allows, it is nothing more than us making better and more objective market reading techniques for a system that has already proven to be effective. We simply desire it to be more effective, more objective and more consistent in market conditions.
Again, reviewing the sites, you will see courses are not viewable while being improved upon.
Any good company is always seeking to improve and adapt. We are no different. It would be so much easier to have one system and be done. One day, we may arrive at that point, but until that day, I can guarantee you we will continue to have great systems. We will continue to always be adapting them, improving them or shelving them if something is better, etc.
If a company is not improving or as you put it, "evolving when the world around is evolving”, it ceases to be relevant and effective and is not doing a proper service to its clients. If you don’t agree there are plenty of old courses that once sold for 10 and 20k, which can be bought on eBay for $100. They did not evolve and are now irrelevant. If that’s what you’re searching for, www.ebay.com has it.
As a trader, I am always looking for a way to improve by maximizing profits, minimizing risk and improving win/loss ratio.
At one point I finally said, “Enough of this making people happy, making a strategy that fits their schedules and their instrument. No more square pegs”
I actually took a month hiatus from Apex and traded to trade well. I looked at charts and did what made sense…not trying to force them to meet everyone’s whims. The output of that was the IZSS system.
IZSS is more advanced but to this day is one of my favorites. However, it still used more style of market reading. Many traders succeeded, but many had challenges. To this day, it is one of my favorites using continuum bars. However, a few changes have made it much better, especially including OP and clusters on diagnostic bars. I also combined VAD and the original Apex map on the same chart, using my old school 10-minute magnet chart. I love it to this day and still use it as do others.
Sees is still very popular. Power plays are also popular. All three have stood the test of time with variable market conditions and still continued to work.
We have always had mentoring; it’s not new. Anyone who ever asks for help has received it. We have just made it more publicly known and more organized. It is now very structured. As everything is at Apex, mentoring is volunteer driven with strict rules. It does not require a ton of time. It’s a multiplication process. A group is trained. Then, each one from that group is set to train other groups, with a head mentor to assist and two trainers per newly formed group. This continues on and on.
Again the motto is Real Traders helping Real Traders. It should not be a time drain if it’s volunteer ran. It is 100% volunteer ran. I own the company and I’m not even in the groups. It is working extremely well.
But if one fears two-hour videos, one need not apply, since commitment, engagement, disciplined humility and drive are a requirement.
I’m a realist as well that has no bearing. It’s hard work becoming a professional trader. It’s not super difficult, but it is hard work.
We understand you may have challenges and that is why a 100% FREE open house was given to you. But if you have really made the dive, ask yourself:
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Are courses completed on powerplays?
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Are notes taken?
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Have I been posting charts in the room daily?
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Have I reached out to the people at Apex, including Darrell, if all the above is yes?
If you choose not to have the time to trade and invest into trading, well, that’s a choice and it won’t work. But from my (and many other’s) experience, I have found we make time for what we are passionate about pursuing. I had a family, full time job and did not have near the level of help Apex offers. I also paid a fortune for my training and I made the time often by not sleeping. And it was worth every second!
I realize the sacrifice I made as I sit here writing this at 4 AM on my new ranch so my daughter and I can ride our horses any time. I am preparing to take her to the airport tomorrow so she can spend two weeks with the best cutter in the world. This cutter has earned millions teaching and will now work with my daughter teaching her how to become the best. Cutting is the second most expensive equine event, next to horse racing. Trading has made that possible.
Start reflecting on HOW you can accomplish this instead of WHY you can’t and that, my friend, will be eye opening.
I suggest reading Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill original 1930s edition. I wish you the best and hope we can help you.
