Most traders providing educational services make more money selling those services than they do trading.
The only way to legitimize a mentor is to backtest their strategy for consistency. This trumps track records, account balance, portrayed lifestyle, its the only way. No matter how persuasive their articulation, you know to focus on the strategy and nothing else. You need the exact process so you can backtest it. A true mentor knows this and is actually seeking students that are willing to do the work.
I’m starting to think that fake mentors and lazy students are meant to be.
John