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I did a 1 month trial of the Moxie room. TG Watkins' "Moxie Indicator" is a complete ripoff. It just plots the MacD Histogram of a higher timeframe and plots it as a line graph instead of a histogram. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU FOR SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR FREE. The only thing that the Moxie indicator does is that it charts the MacD Histogram (as a line graph) of a higher timeframe on the same graph. The fact that it is a line graph for a higher time frame is what gives it that stairstep look. For example, the Daily chart plots the MacD Histogram for the Weekly timeframe, 1 hr chart plots MacD Histogram for the Daily timeframe, etc. You can find FREE code online that will do this for you. If you have access to the Moxie indicator, you can experiment for yourself and see what I am talking about. For example, view the MacD Histogram of the DAILY chart as a line graph, then compare it to the Moxie Indicator for the HOURLY chart. Make note of the peaks at troughs OF THE SAME DATES. You will see they are exactly the same. Same with the WEEKLY MacD Histogram compared with the DAILY Moxie indicator or the HOURLY MacD Histogram compared with the 15 MINUTE Moxie (High) indicator. (If you are not familiar with the MacD indicator, there are many YT videos that will explain it.) BTW, TG Watkins uses the default MacD settings of 12,26,9. No successful trader that I know of uses the default values. Also, during my trial, he did a lot of SPX 0 DTE and he lost a lot of money. He relied heavily on GexBot - which, imo, is not all that reliable because it changes a lot intra-day. He admitted that he was just new to 0 DTE (and options, in general) and was experimenting. That's fine, but to give out trades to people when you are just experimenting is irresponsible. He was basically gambling, not trading, when it came to SPX 0 DTE and options. He never put the odds in his favor. Also, he did not mention anything about the Greeks. I doubt he understands the Greeks. He never mentions why he chooses the deltas he chooses. Trading options without understanding the Greeks is a losing proposition. John Carter always said that since trading is a zero sum game, it is about taking money out of someone's account and putting it into yours. Well, TG Watkins has definitely learned that from John Carter. He has mastered the art of taking money out of your account and putting it into his account.  Update 06/19/2025 In an effort to discredit this review, Simpler Trading is now asking me to provide my PERSONAL information. Sorry. I don't give out that info freely - especially to sites like Simpler Trading. But they are right. You don't know who I am. I wouldn't trust some random netizen either. So, go ahead and do the 1 month trial and see for yourself. Prove me wrong. BUT I MUST WARN YOU. They are excellent salespeople at Simpler Trading. Please do your homework before engaging with them. If there is one thing they do very well at Simpler Trading, it is trying to sell you a new indicator that they "invented" every couple of months. Their sales pitches are disguised as webinars and are very polished and designed to make you believe that their latest indicator is the magic bullet that will propel you to becoming a successful trader. But, are their indicators backed with money back guarantees? Of course not. They already have your money. Why would they give it back? So, before doing the trial, if you are not already familiar with momentum indicators, Please familiarize yourself with some of the free indicators that are already included in most trading platforms, for example: MacD, RSI, Fast/Slow Stochastic, ADX, etc. There are a ton of free indicators. Familiarize yourself with any combination of these indicators (I suggest using more than one). I won't direct you to a specific sites to learn about these because Simpler Trading will accuse me of purposely trying to steer customers to a specific business, but google it or do a search on YT and you will find many free tutorials on any of these indicators and on how to use moving averages. I also recommend working with them and doing paper trades until you are comfortable with them and how they work. Then do the 1 month trial. You can decide for yourself whether you want to spend a couple of thousand dollars on the Moxie indicator (aka MacD Histogram plotted as a line graph), or use the indicators that are already included with the trading platforms that do the same thing. But again I must warn you. Please do your homework before engaging with them or they may likely extract money from your account and put it into theirs.

What garbage. Purchased the Squeeze Pro system. Their educational material on the website is terrible. They don't make it clear and easy to understand how the indicators work. They tout how great the system is, but fail to break it down in a simple, easy to understand method. Half of the time they're pushing their other products. The traders that they have on their videos suck at presenting material. Don't waste your money.

I subscribed to Simpler Trading for a very specific service. Upon getting access to the service optimizing it wasn’t clear. I reached out through support and email and found out the specific reason I joined would need additional subscriptions to optimize. Since I was not made aware of this at the time I subscribed I asked for a refund. I subscribed on a Wednesday and requested a refund the following Tuesday. So 5 business days. Three of those days were spent waiting on a response to my email to learn how to optimize what I subscribed for. I was told it was beyond the allowed days for a refund. I explained I was waiting 3 days for an email response, they didn’t care. Don’t make the same mistake I did thinking you’ll get everything you need to trade successfully.

Absolutely stay away from this company. I joined up back in 2019 and spent 3 years with this company's courses and indicators, only to come to a conclusion that I don't know how to read chart, and I was relying on indicators. I sincerely believe that these guys make money from selling stuff with incessant effort for marketing, regurgitation of same courses, mastery programs with minor update every now and then and indicators. I signed up for numerous courses and mastery programs in the past. It's a big circle jerkle like most trading communities are. Most people who sign up for courses and mastery who comment on chat don't seem to have much experience, but they are arrogant enough to criticize your questions with regard to the qualification of the trading moderators. They have formed a crowd of their own and don't be a part of them. If you decide to check it out, just be warned that they're good at marketing and giving you false hope. Just learn price action and spend time with it. They advertise as if their indicators are going to make you money. Wrong and wrong.

Save your money and time. These guys are not professional traders at all. They are puffer fishes. There are so many "Indicators" and "Systems" for you to buy! And they keep releasing new ones each year. No backtesting, no number crunching. No mention of thinking in probabilities. They can't even answer the critical questions that you should be asking before risking a single dime: What is the win/loss ratio for this system? What is the win rate? Was it backtested and for how long? What measures have been taken to ensure the optimal parameters are not curve fitted? I have been in their live trading rooms before and they just ignore you if you ask such questions. John Carter makes money teaching you how to trade, not from trading. I hope this saves a lot of people the headache of dealing with this crowd. Don't be an idiot. Know your numbers and if someone can't provide these, you are in the wrong place. Trading is hard. VERY HARD. Put in the work and don't look for an indicator that will change your life - especially from these clowns.

I signed up for the $7 special that appeared to give me access to everything for a month but almost everything I try to access asks for another $7 trial and then big $$$. I dislike these sites that get you into a trial and only want you into more trials. Don't waste your time with these people.

I purchased An indicator pack - Trend and HiLo Oscillator Pro Indicator by Sam Shames in 8/23. Simpler Trading states that all their indicators provided upgrades for free for life with this package. On 9/4/23 they upgraded the oscillator and that was it. I noticed on youtube that Sam was showing both indicators with an _X after them. I requested the upgraded indicators but nothing. Now they have released the True Momentum System which is based on the two indicator I purchased. No upgrade or offer for an upgrade. Contacted them several time an nothing. Stay clear of their indicator packs! I feel I was scammed!

I’m going to try to leave an honest review of both the Strike Zone Mastery room (SZM) and the “$10K to $1 Million” class (10K). I signed up for the 10K back in May ‘23 which included a year’s subscription to the SZM. The premise was that Joe Rokop had started with a $10k account and grown it to over $400k in a couple of years in SZM, while trading live and recording all trades. The new $10k class was billed as an account reset, to allow new members to get in and follow along with more manageable trade size, with the goal being to grow a $10k account to $1 Million. 10K Class: -There were two options at time of sign up - a cheaper option with 4 live trading sessions, and a more expensive option with 8 live trading sessions. The problem is that during the extra 4 live sessions for the higher tiered customers, trade alerts were not sent to the lower tiered customers, which caused much confusion, and led to a scenario where there were two different account balances by the end of the 8 sessions, which varied by several thousand dollars (both balances were in the red). Joe then had to manage two separate small accounts with two different approaches as one of the accounts was close to bust. -It became apparent that this class was not a true account reset, as billed, because Joe was continuing to trade the SZM account and it was revealed that once the $10k accounts got big enough, it would be determined that they could just take the SZM trades, and 10K alerts would end. -The trade spreadsheet for the 10K accounts has not been updated since August, despite weekly requests to do so. Every week, the requests are either ignored, or met with, “It hasn’t been updated? I’ll look into that…” It’s hard to know where the account balances currently stand due to lack of updates, but probably about close to where they started ($10,000). One of the 10K accounts was down to about $2k at one point, and was instructed to take SZM trades, but with Micros instead of Mini’s. The problem is that commissions were not taken into account with the balances, so I think a lot of people probably went bust. -There have only been about 3 or 4 trade alerts so far this month for the 10K accounts (which is very few considering the goal was to build up these accounts by day trading). It very much feels like they are just trying to do the bare minimum to be able to say that they haven’t abandoned the 10K class members who signed up for a full year. -Lastly, the results have been bad. Big drawdown, and no growth in account after 8 months. SZM: -Assuming the trade spreadsheet is to be trusted (more on that below), Joe obviously had success in the past with his trading when he was just focussed on one account. Now, he has to think about two different 10K account balances, the SZM account, the optional trades that he also alerts out, and the long term trades that he sometimes alerts out (and are only sometimes included on the trade spreadsheet). It’s hard to day trade in the zone when you see a good entry, but have to stop and think which of 4 accounts is this applicable for. You can hear it in the verbal alerts/live trading… it’s frequently, “Let’s buy 1 NQ, ehh let’s make it optional. Actually, let’s all do it. But only SZM, not the 10K class.” I think if Joe is looking for reasons why his results are suffering, he might want to think about narrowing his focus. -The trade spreadsheet for the SZM is also not regularly updated, sometimes a month or more goes by without being updated. Funnily enough, it seems that these long stretches without update correspond with periods of drawdown. It seems as if they don’t want to update the spreadsheet until they have a string of winners. In addition, the spreadsheet itself seems a bit dishonest. You can clearly see long term trades in the past have been included on the spreadsheet, but in December, Joe alerted a lot of long term trades which mostly were closed at a significant loss (at least $60k of losses), and for a few days I saw at least some of those trades on the spreadsheet, but now they have decided to not include any of the December long term trades on the spreadsheet. If included, they would have wiped out almost the entire gains from 2023. -Joe has stated that you need an account size of $25k to take the trades he alerts out, but he clearly does not trade with that risk parameter in mind, as several draw downs would have wiped out accounts of that size. Results: -Since I joined last May, the $10k account is breakeven at best (but who knows as they do not update), and the SZM account is also about breakeven in that time span, or down significantly if you include the long term trades. So far, not worth the time or price of admission.