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You ought to be extremely careful about finding a mentor online. In my view 99.9% of people in that space are scammers who don’t trade.A very short list of people who I think are legit off the top of my head. I could probably come up with a few more given time.Mole - [email protected] is an accomplished quant, particularly in the volatility space.Gabriel Grammatidis - Teaches an intraday FX system which is very goodKen Long - Teaches several systems from 3min charts to monthly rebalancing systems. Has a PhD in system design, smart guy, and is a savant.Linda Raschke - From the market wizards books, I spent 6 months in her chat room watching her trade. She is legit.Al Brooks - Al could have the most boring voice I’ve ever heard, pure monotone. However he really knows his stuff, and he has a very complicated system that suits complicated people. Helpful and brilliant guy.There are a bunch of guys online doing stuff that isn’t completely odious. It’s technically alright stuff, but they don’t ring true as actual traders. A short list of people I suspect are “all hat and no cattle” (as in all marketing and no trading)Rayner TeoNiall FullerAkil StokesAnd of course anyone promising instant riches, or with photos of themselves jumping out of lambos or private jets (looking at you Tim Sykes) is by definition a shitweasel.How can you tell? Some clues are thatPro traders are focused on process, while amateurs are focused on resultsPro traders talk about their losing trades, bloggers and “educators” never do. You learn more from a losing trade than a winner.Your trading record is a number not a story. When you ask to see records and they demur, know they don’t actually keep records.Non-systematic trading (what some people call “price action” trading) is the most difficult type of trading there is. It can be done, I’ve done it, but its the most difficult of all trading methods. When a “guru” advocates beginners doing the most difficult style of trading it tells me they don’t know how to build trading systems.My advice - read books. Books are cheap. If you are willing to put in the work you don’t need much mentoring, and if you aren’t no amount of mentoring will help.If you want to learn more about the psychology driving markets and building trading systems I have a mailing list where I talk about it in depth. I’m sure you can figure out how to click my bio.

Brief background to the India's media wars: Hindu, Times of India (ToI), Indian Express and Hindustan Times (HT) are the 4 major newspapers of India. While Hindu and Express were generally known for their better class, ToI and Hindustan always had the reputation for crass following.Indian express eventually weakened leaving the other 3 to fight the battle for India's metro centers. HT started dominating Delhi, Hindu always dominated Chennai and ToI is the monopoly in Mumbai.Among these 3, Hindu and ToI reportedly made a deal that Hindu will not come to Mumbai, while ToI will not come to Chennai. However, as ToI later reneged the promised and started entering Chennai markets in a big way, media wars broke out.The Hindu:The Hindu was founded by Subramania Iyer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Subramania_Iyer a great-great grandfather of my cousin. I have a few family members in the extended family who have worked/working there. It used to be the hallmark of quality in language & journalism. To this day, in my family we subscribe only to this. But, I don't like it anymore.1. Since the 1990s, Communists have completely taken over the newspaper. N.Ram and Siddharth Varadarajan are hardcore lefties and taken a newspaper that stood for neutrality into a tool for political invectives.2. Although the reporting is still ok, majority of the Op-eds are terrible and written by guys with a real agenda. Diverse viewpoints are never presented. Economic & social debates are turned into Mr. Varadarajan's caustic diatribes against capitalism & Hinduism.Now, the newspaper is anything but "The Hindu". Let us not even get started about ToI. I used to subscribe to it for 2 years and in that period I learned more about Mumbai's crime than India's national issues.Coming back to the Newspaper wars, I think Hindu really hit the nail in pointing to ToI's gossip culture and shoddy journalism. We should really be concerned by the tabloid/celebrity nature of our news that is turning us into dimwits & ignoramus.But, ToI's response was rather lame. They originally pointed to the "boring" aspect of the newspaper but that doesn't really get the point across. Nobody thinks that a newspaper should be as exciting as an action novel or a movie. What ToI missed is in pointing to the degrading neutrality of The Hindu, but that would be dangerous too.In summary, in paper wars, ToI 0, Hindu 1. But, that is more a reflection of the sorry state of India's journalism than Hindu's victory.

I'm not going to say that a degree wouldn't help... But I will say that there is no degree that is essential to your success as an email marketer.Forget the classroom. Instead, learn from the failures and successes of others. Then get out there and have some failures and successes of your own.I'm going to talk about three of the most important things you need to succeed in email marketing, but before I do that...Full disclosure, I work as a freelance writer for Close.io, and I'm going to be talking about some of their articles. Additional disclosure: As much as I'd love to take credit, I didn't write these particular articles.Without further ado, three of the most important elements of a successful email campaign:1. The right audienceIf you fail to find the right audience for your marketing campaign, you are guaranteed failure. Instead of flooding the 'net with 5,000 emails, find 100 businesses or individuals that you know will be a good fit and email them.Learn more about the dangers of marketing to the wrong customers here.2. A good subject lineLook, body copy is important... It is. But the most important part of any email campaign is your subject line. Five times as many people read the headline as the body copy! Here are five tips to help you write awesome subject lines:Use their name, JohnAsk a question, don't you agree?Avoid cliches like the plagueMispell wordsDon't Use Title CapitalizationLearn more about how to write a killer subject line here.3. Follow upIf there were a singular key to success in email marketing, it would be this:Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up.A campaign is not a single-email event. You can't just send one email and hope for the best, because I promise you'll get the worst. In my experience, a successful email campaign generally consists of four emails, spread out over the course of a week.Learn more about how and how often to follow up here.Those are far from the only secrets to email marketing success... We talk about a whole lot more on the Close.io blog. But those are some of the best.But reading alone isn't enough... Immerse yourself in the market.Learn as you go. Make mistakes. Build a terrible campaign. Learn a lesson, get back out there, and own it. Then build an awesome campaign.Happy marketing!