Lance hits the nail on the head. The reason the retail trading space is flooded with gurus and fake illusions is because trading is hard and also because the entire industry infrastructure is fundamentally designed to extract from you. Everyone takes their slice through a perfectly engineered extractive chain: ❌ B-Booking Brokers: They take the other side of your trades. Your loss is their direct revenue, meaning they actively need you to blow up. ❌ CPA Affiliate Deals: "Gurus" and influencers aren't paid on your success; they are paid a bounty to feed you into the grinder. ❌ Ponzi Prop Firms: Closed-loop models where successful payouts are entirely funded by the 95% of traders who inevitably fail their rule-heavy "challenges". ❌ Predatory Education: Selling you the "Holy Grail" because their actual, unedited P&L could never survive an institutional audit. The incentives are completely broken. They sell you a frictionless dream because your impatience is their core business model. Real professional trading is brutally complex. It is a game of rigorous risk management, enduring inevitable drawdowns, and compounding a marginal statistical edge over time. Professionals don't win every day, they just manage their downside better than amateurs. Why do you think every Darwinex track record is entirely public? Because sunlight is the ultimate filter. In a true meritocracy, there is no hiding behind cherry-picked screenshots. We publicly expose the drawdowns, audit the risk stability, and publish the verified data because an audited, risk-adjusted track record is the ONLY indisputable proof of skill.