Hi @EmeraldEyes, first at all I respect your opinions. I am not standing on your side neither on Babypips’ 
I’ll talk only base on experiences rather than opinion or assumption. I make responses to your statements just to give balance, to let others BP’s members have more perspective to digest every information in here. I have no hard feeling with you 
You are correct here. But, it is happened everywhere. If we know the proper thing, that will be our responsibility to guide our other fellows traders. Why? I have been in Trading for more then 20 years. I had became mentor, broker’s operator, consultant and now, I’m an active fund manager. My position as a fund manager is by accident, helping a friend of a close friend.
Others who are losing money, mostly because of greed and laziness. I believe this statement will hurt many others. I sincerely apologize to all of you. 
Just have a thought, who do ask you to put money that big for trading? who do ask you to use a trading strategy without first validate it? Who do ask you to trust a mentor unconditionally?
Most people who have the same opinion / thoughts like you, have the same bad experiences. I’m included, no exceptions. 
Yes, that is correct. One of BP’s incomes is from advertising. Nothing wrong with that. Every one of us love money. Making money is one of our “duty” in this world. Nothing to be shame about it. Similar to breathing and eating. This is a very common activity.
BabyPips provides contents for us to learn. This services will generate costs. What ever the content is, the idea is having a community for traders. Just like forex factory, trading view and others. For beginner, BP is considered having a good route map for education. I can guarantee, if a trader can follow instructions here, set aside the greed and laziness, they will be profitable but not great. At least, this is a fundamental a trader must have.
Finally, don’t challenge others. 
Every one of us are showing our trading statistics here. Some has intention to grab investors, some just for fun. I share my statistics for having fun only. It’s not good to share our stats and make others jealous. They will find a way to attack us back, accusing the result is fake. It will be a never ending story.
You and I are sharing our trade explorer in Forex Factory. I was accused many time, they were fake. Did they blind, not seeing the Account Type as Live?
As a beginner, they get knowledge from everywhere. BabyPips is one of them. I was one of them, I learned something from BigPippin with his Cowabunga around 2007.
The strategy itself is moderate, but it taught me how to build a quantitative trading methodology.
Have a good day @EmeraldEyes … let dig more pips today