Welcome to the Traders Life Cycle, a methodology designed to help you better maneuver your trading journey.    Using it, we hope you will find it easier to determine where you are and what might be most suited to your needs.  

The Traders’ Life Cycle has a simple goal:

Reduce the losses incurred, (both money  and time) by those seeking to trade in the financial markets.   The goal is accomplished with two simple rules:

1.  ONLY validated providers are included within our TLC.  That means, if there is reference to a product or service in here, we have verified it is a trusted provider.  If you experience issues, we want to know.   Equally, however, we will 'profile' the products and services, as time progresses.  If you are unsure that a product 'fits' you, contact us before purchase so we can work to determine its 'fit' for YOUR profile.    If you choose products whose profiles do not match your needs, the Traders' Life Cycle will not be of much help in reducing your outlays or improving your success.   

Some of the products provide rebates to Colleagues in Trading, the non-profit creator of the Traders' Life Cycle.   They are noted.   If you object to that process, you may use 'google' to find a 'direct' link to the offerings, thereby bypassing that donation.  We hope you will use our links.    We will be donating all  of those monies to global giving, late in 2007, with a global kickoff.  MORE to come on that! 

2.  Products are profiled and placed in 'logical' sequence within the life cycle.   That helps you make logical, sequential choices, rather than selecting products for which you are not, yet, ready.      Many losses in our industry result from people buying and attempting to use products for which they are untrained.   

Traders Life Cycle does NOT perform its own 'training' or provide services, per se'.  It attempts to obtain, validate and profile legitimate providers and help strengthen them by matching them with aspiring traders in need of their services.   If you have or know of a provider and would like us to validate them, please contact us.   We'll do the rest.  

• There are many sources for you to 'checkout' many of the products and offers available to you.  Remember, just a web-presence or 'words' are not enough to validate a product or service is 'legitimate'.  More importantly, legitimate or not, not all products or services are appropriate for you and your life.   

Colleagues in Trading continues to define its role, with providers, in creating standard profiles for various offerings.   This will increase your ability to readily determine whether or not a provider or service seems right for you.  

In the interim, we suggest you refer to the following 'services' who offer 'rankings' ; links forthcoming.  

Barron's

Robbins World Cup