TheStrategyLab Review of Dr. Dean Handley

I've decided to create a specific review webpage about Dr. Dean Handley and the same of others in the review industry because each reviewer has their strengths and weaknesses in comparison to each other. The main review webpage is @ http://www.thestrategylab.com/thestrategylab-reviews.htm (contains many redacted screenshots of trade performance)

Therefore, I want the main review webpage to be more about TheStrategyLab as a landing webpage for traders wanting to learn about our specific resources within our free resources and fee-base resources because the reviewers themself did a very poor job in reviewing resources of TheStrategyLab:

TheStrategyLab has Skype (kebec2002) but its only used when members need to talk to me in real-time when they're having problems accessing any of the above resources.

With that said, this is a review about Dr. Dean Handley when he interacted with TheStrategyLab free chat room and then comparing it to signal calling trade alert rooms (he prefers to phrase Live Trade Rooms) is problematic because my free chat room is not a signal calling trade alert room, its never been advertised as a trade alert room.

Simply, the fact that Dr. Dean Handley is comparing TheStrategyLab free chat room with signal calling trade alert rooms. It then gives the illusion to naive / wannabe traders that my chat room can be used as a free alternative to fee-base signal calling trade alert rooms especially when Dr. Dean Handley does not mention one critical fact.

I ban traders that I discover they're using my free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room instead of as a trade journal of their own trades after the trader stated they understood my terms of use policy and they're then given another reminder when they access the thread for the password to gain access to the free chat room.

Yet, Dr. Dean Handley did the best review of TheStrategyLab via the fact he actually mentions the words WRB Analysis along with discussing some statistical analysis of my trade performance in his positive review posted in a MarketClips review article.

Unfortunately, there were a few misinformation statements in the review. For example, he states profit targets are not stated at trade initiation when in fact the goal of the trade is always a WRB pt1 at the minimum and I only remain in the trade beyond a WRB pt1 if there's increasing volatility...all of this is explained in the daily routine statement within my daily trade performance record and often repeated in the chat room.

Also, he fails to mention my specific education resources for WRB Analysis...a critical error in his review of TheStrategyLab.

Once again, I'm not bashing Dr. Dean Handley when he interacted with TheStrategyLab but I will question a few issues involving Dr. Dean Handley that I discover on my own after his positive review of TheStrategyLab that has me questioning if Dr. Dean Handley was working with Emmett Moore Jr. back in 2012 just prior to Emmett Moore Jr. development of the Tradingschools blog.

It's interesting because Emmett Moore Jr. of Tradingschools also fails to mention the names of my education resources nor does he mention the critical fact that I ban traders when I discover they've been trying to use my chat room as a free alternative to fee-base signal calling trade alert rooms that Emmett Moore Jr. recommends / partners with for a financial compensation while bashing their competition.

Thus, then gives the impression that Dr. Dean Handley either shared his review notes with Emmett Moore Jr. of Tradingschools in 2016 or Emmett Moore Jr. used the review notes from 2012 when they were business partners instead of doing his own independent research and then he decided to spice up his review with false narratives of TheStrategyLab in an effort to make Dr. Dean Handley look incompetent.

Something else, Dr. Dean Handley was very confused about why I do not trade the same position size each trade / every trading day but he does realize that position size management is a key part of my trade performance.

In comparison, other reviewers intentionally reviewed the free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room while ignoring our other resources and ignoring our posted redacted statements...these other reviewers were most likely banned prior to their review of TheStrategyLab along with the fact they did not identify themself as a reviewer when they used the free chat room.

Hopefully, this review of Dr. Dean Handley interaction with TheStrategyLab will encourage other reviewers to at least acknowledge the education resources offered and the privacy of our members @ TheStrategyLab going forward if they want me to view them as a reviewer instead of as someone with poor research skills and hidden agenda.

Be aware that my review of Dr. Dean Handley involves his interaction with TheStrategyLab that resulted in him mentioning the free chat room via a positive review in MarketClips, Futures Truth and Stocks & Commodities magazines in which later resulted being mentioned as a Global Trade Titan. Simply, this is not a review that attacks his reviews of other vendors / reviewers nor will you see me mention any other vendor that Dr. Dean Handley has reviewed.

More facts, he does mention he does seek to authenticate and verify posted P/L records but he does not specifically mentioned viewing any posted redacted screenshots at the website / forum d0 in fact correlate with the trades posted in the free chat room...we did not have any conversations about redacted screenshots nor about the live screen share meeting. Yet, my monitoring of his IP address reveal he did view several redacted statements at the forum where he was a registered member.

Also, noted, I'm very impressed by his academic achievements considering I've studied in college a similar like academic field as he did. It was the reason why I allowed Dr. Dean Handley into my free chat room as a guest visitor whereas anyone else I would have told them to read the archive timestamp chat logs. Today, I no longer allow guest visitors and all users of the free chat room must qualify for access to the free chat room just like any other member.

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This independent webpage should put the light on reviewers like Dr. Dean Handley just as I did about Emmett Moore Jr. of Tradingschools and Warren Ouma of Valforex. The latter two reviewers have criminal backgrounds, criminal associations, poor research skills, impersonations, trolling, secret agendas involving trying to market their automated trading systems & custom indicators to their readers via writing false narratives about their trading systems along with not being able to verify their trade performance.

Therefore, on this webpage you're going to learn more about Dr. Dean Handley's positive reviews of TheStrategyLab and the strange situation about why he no longer mentions TheStrategyLab in the Global Trade Titans report.

Don't misunderstand, I'm more concerned with reviewers not doing reviews on the other resources offered @ TheStrategyLab while less interested in the Global Trade Titans report. This is one of the reasons why I show review ratings from users of WRB Analysis for TheStrategyLab resources to offset the emphasis the reviewers put on my free chat room. Yet, the Global Trade Titans report seems to be an issue (controversy) with other reviewers.

To get started, Dr. Dean Handley was upfront about his purpose when he contacted TheStrategyLab...to do a review although he did not provide any info about how he heard about my free chat room considering I do not advertise it outside of the website / social media profiles....possibly search engine ?

Yet, as you will learn below...it was concerning that his review concentrated on the free chat room including Dr. Dean Handley comparing it with "trade alert rooms". In fact, I do remember having a conversation with Dr. Dean Handley giving him permission to talk to users of WRB Analysis that posted their trades in the free chat room via price action analysis of WRB Analysis regardless if the trader was posting profitable trades or trade losses.

Actually, I was hoping he would talk about members of the free chat room posting real-time trades and posting redacted screenshots of trade fills in their broker trade execution platform or screenshots of redacted broker statements. Unfortunately, he did not nor did he specifically mention my redacted screenshots.

Strangely, I discover he did not have any conversations with members of the free chat room posting their real-time trades but I didn't think too much about that because I assumed he must be just doing statistical analysis of their trades including my own real-time trades. During his use of the free chat room, he was very respectable and professional. Also, he was not a member of the live screen sharing because he did not post verification of his understanding of WRB Analysis nor verification of his trade performance via screenshots of trade fills in his broker trade execution platform.

I would later learn that his review of TheStrategyLab was a positive review to be later mentioned in his Global Trade Titans report (Trading Futures Successfully on the Shoulders of Giants 2013 - #4 issue of Futurestruth.com). I believe that occurred in 2013 - 2014. Yet, he later removed TheStrategyLab from his Global Trade Titans report after I refused to pay to support one of his seminars...more about this later in my review of Dr. Dean Handley.

Further, he mentions TheStrategyLab positively (accolade) in Stocks & Commodities magazine (issue December 2013) just prior to us being removed from Dr. Handley's Global Trade Titans report and removal from his database for refusing to pay for that seminar he propose to us on Skype. You can read the S&C excerpt below.

The above articles represent when Dr. Dean Handley mentions TheStrategyLab positively with other Global Trade Titans between 2013 - 2014. However, recently I've discover he actually mentioned TheStrategyLab positively back in 2012 in a FuturesTruth magazine article although I do not know if it was issue #2 or issue #4 of 2012 that represent the specific article written by Dean Handley for FuturesTruth magazine in 2012.

Yet, if you're like me and do not like to download .pdf files because you practice safe cyber-security...I've created an image of the .pdf file article by Dr. Dean Handley FuturesTruth 2012 via his article First-Rate, First-String, Five-Star Trading Rooms. This article sheds light on another issue involving Dr. Dean Handley. He's the type of reviewer that contacts the vendor prior to discussing the vendor in any article. In fact, he'll announce to you when he's going to use your chat room or trade room...something the other reviewers do not do. By the way, there was no contact from Dr. Dean Handley when he first mentioned TheStrategyLab in 2012 and I didn't first hear from him until 2013 when he stated he wanted to do a review.

Therefore, I will assume that at least in 2012...he was secretly using my free chat room without my knowledge and possibly trying to use the free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room.

Regardless, most of the verification of trade performance by our members and myself occurs in the private section that I often refer to as verification of learning / understanding WRB Analysis via DOKs and verification of application of WRB Analysis via screenshots of timestamp trade fills in broker trade execution platform along with some members posting screenshots of quantitative statistical analysis of their trade performance (simulator or real money) via a professional trade journal software.

In fact, I believe reviewers intentionally only review chat rooms & trade alert rooms because they're easy to review. Just ask for a redacted broker statement and they usually give the vendor a positive review if the vendor shows redacted broker statements or redacted screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform. Yet, I've notice some vendors getting a positive review via stating their trades are simulator only or hypothetical while others stating the exact same thing are getting negative reviews. Thus, there's obviously other criteria that a reviewer must be looking at beyond honesty or transparent.

(click on image to review trades posted in real time by users of WRB Analysis)

Many new traders look for an easy way to profits while they're learning a trade method and they believe they can do that via mimic / copy / piggyback / replicate the trades of someone that they believe is a profitable trader. Simply, naive / inexperience traders have a strong desire to learn and profit at the same time.

In contrast, TheStrategyLab believes this is the wrong approach to trading if you want to be an independent trader with longevity in the business of trading. In fact, I strongly dislike signal calling trade alert rooms and have been outspoken about such since 2005 although I do not single out specific vendors in the signal calling trade alert business.

Yet, if a vendor with a signal calling trade alert room / partner with a signal calling trade alert room then comes to my free chat room to troll me or troll me at another forum because of my negative bias towards signal calling trade alert rooms in general even though I did not identify a specific vendor...I will respond via writing a review about that vendor after he / she trolls me (e.g. Emmett Moore Jr. Tradingschools).

By the way, its the reviewer responsibility not to get chat rooms and trade alert rooms mixed up because that then confuses the typical new trader. Just as importantly, its also the vendor's responsibility to properly label their room as either a chat room or trade alert room including explaining the terms of use policy for the chat room & trade room...many vendors do not.

I take it one step further to ensure there's no misunderstanding in my free chat room via kicking, removing or ban any trader trying to use my free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room. As mentioned, I'm very outspoken against those with a business model of trade alert rooms or those sending out trade alerts (what to trade, when to buy and when to sell) to their clients. Vendors with a trade alert room will usually use marketing phrases like "trade alerts", "subscription", "free trial", "follow our trades" in their description of a trade alert room and I've seen monthly fees for the trade alert rooms from $10 - $700 dollars per month.

Once again, eventually I will remove the rebuttals about these reviewers from the main review webpage because I will have an independent webpage dedicated to each of these reviewers that will allow using TheStrategyLab review webpage only to talk about resources of TheStrategyLab, verification of understanding WRB Analysis, verification of trade performance and client review ratings.

With that said, I will now begin my rebuttal...about Dr. Dean Handley even though he gave TheStrategyLab a positive review. Thus, rebuttal should help ensure that other reviewers will understand that TheStrategyLab does not offer a signal calling trade alert service and I have a policy to ban anyone that use my free chat room as a trade alert room.

Simply, TheStrategyLab must not be compared with other signal calling trade alert services. Thus, if you're going to review TheStrategyLab...review the education resources listed above.

By the way, readers of this review webpage and the other review webpages have thanked me (I get on average about 5 unique positive comments per month) for being transparent about my interaction with Dr. Dean Handley (free chat room, Skype, email), Emmett Moore Jr. (telephone call), Warren Ouma (no interaction except his spam messages at my forum) and trolls. They greatly appreciate me putting a light on the review tactics, false narratives & hidden agendas by these reviewers.

Many have stated they will no longer read the review blogs of these reviewers and will now use what I've outlined for due diligence of other vendors involving redacted screenshots of timestamp trade fills in broker trade execution platform with the understanding that only the timestamps can verify the merits of the trade method and trading performance of the trader.

Dr. Dean Handley review business mainly concentrates on four types of services:

First of all, I was a little confused about Dr. Dean Handley in my first encounter with him when I researched him and discover he was an employee of Global Trade Titans via a blog post linking to a Linkedin webpage that was a dead webpage. The webpage later became active in 2015 and implied there's 11 - 50 employees in which Dr. Dean Handley's name is used as one of the employees.

Further, I remember in 2013 - 2014 when Dr. Dean Handley was reviewing TheStrategyLab...he mentioned to me his association with Tesseract Trading LLC...it's a website @ http://www.tesseracttrading.com that talked about Global Trade Titans back in 2013 - 2014. Back then it contained reviews of signal calling trade alert rooms. You can see in the image on the left shows TheStrategyLab and Tesseract Trading mentioned in The Handley Papers @ Tesseracttrading.com to show what I saw back in 2014.

Today, Tesseract Trading no longer talks about Global Trade Titans nor does reviews. The website is now associated with a signal calling trade alert service called M3 Futures Trade Room that's using the Phalanx System. In addition, Tesseract Trading LLC is still register to Dr. Dean Handley with a new identity as a signal calling trade alert room but Dr. Dean Handley has never reviewed M3 Futures Trade Room nor does he mention the trade alert room anywhere online unless my research has not been deep enough.

In addition, Dr. Dean Handley trains traders on the Phalanx Trading System and has been marketing it since 2016 when I saw an article by Dr. Dean Handley in FuturesTruth magazine. Obviously there's an association, partnership or affiliation between Dr. Dean Handley, Tesseract Trading LLC, Global Trade Titans, Phalanx System, M3 Futures Trade Room, Bob (Robert) Amico and Veritas Futures Trading that's confusing to me.

Further, I've come across many online messages by traders questioning the connections between them...obviously other traders know more than me. It's scary because Bob (Robert) Amico has a mortgage fraud conviction in N.Y. along with other family members although I do not know how much time he served in prison.

This is very strange because Emmett Moore Jr. also worked in the mortgage business in California and is a former business review partner of Dr. Dean Handley.

I think you can now see why there's so much controversy and questions about the review industry involving these individuals with Dr. Dean Handley seemly at ground zero or epicenter of all the fraud moving away from him like a shock wave.

Yet, credit to Dr. Dean Handley for openly discussing his interaction with these convicted frauds that went to prison although he specifically stated that initially he was not aware about their criminal past until he discover such on his own such as in reference to Emmett Moore Jr. in which Dr. Dean Handley ended the partnership as soon as he discovered a new fraud (Moore Marketing Associates).

Also, I'm not attacking the Phalanx Trading System and I know nothing about the merits of it. I'm only mentioning it to connect some dots between these trade alert rooms, their trading systems, individuals that are head traders of these trade rooms and marketing / using the trading system.

There are other groups in the trading industry that Dr. Dean Handley will comment about but he mainly focuses on signal calling trade alert rooms that he prefers to call live trade rooms although there's always fresh review content of those already under investigation from a government agency, fined or has a criminal record prior to the review and then he'll post updates about someone arrested as if the review caused the arrest...fair play in my opinion.

By the way, I've noticed many critical flaws in the review business beyond the fact that many of the reviewers have ongoing litigations (e.g. lawsuits) and / or criminal backgrounds. In addition, there's the obvious flaw that the reviewers are marketing / advertising their own products (services) either at their review blog or via 3rd party thru another website / blog...it's a conflict of interest at the least.

Another obvious flaw is the double standards / hypocrisy when giving a bad review to one vendor for one thing and then giving another vendor a good review for the same thing.

The double standards / hypocrisy continues when they criticize a vendor for something that they are doing too. For example, giving someone a bad review for not showing a redacted broker statement when the reviewer is not able to show a redacted broker statement (simulator or real money) when they recommend / partner with a vendor via stating they were able to replicate the signal calls by the vendor.

Just as importantly, so few clients of those being recommended will verify their own trade performance via screenshots of timestamp trade fills in their broker trade execution platform involving the service they're using along with a screenshot proof of purchase. Reviewers use this fact as an advantage (excuse) to why they allow complaints under the façade as guest visitors or replies by those that are not able to verified the use of the service. Seriously, don't be naive and think that vendors should be the only one required to verify their trade performance because verification should also be applied to clients of the vendor and reviewers of the vendor especially when they are recommending a service.

In contrast, if the reviewer is partner with the vendor...the verification standard must be higher and ongoing on a quarterly basis along with an audit of the financials of the partnership just like any other business. All of these critical flaws have resulted in the reviewers now posting reviews of other reviewers (questioning each others review tactics and conclusions, accusations of receiving payments for positive reviews) as they fight to keep their followers on social media.

Yet, remember this, Dr. Dean Handley of Global Trade Titans, Emmett Moore Jr. of Tradingschools and Warren Ouma of Valforex are not the only reviewers but they all have a commonality...criminal backgrounds.

TheStrategyLab itself has a simple verification process...post DOKs to verify learning of WRB Analysis and post timestamp screenshots of trade fills (simulator or real money) in broker trade execution platform in private thread to verify application of WRB Analysis. Its info I use to give traders access to other resources offered by TheStrategyLab.

Dr. Dean Handley (PhD, MBA, JD) I would have given him a 3 star review rating had he specifically identified the names of the services I offered in his review...WRB Analysis Free Study Guide, Fading Volatility Breakout FVB free trade strategy, live screen share meeting (free), free support forum, Advance WRB Analysis Tutorial Chapters (fee-base) and Volatility Trading Report VTR trade strategies (fee-base).

In point of fact, he should have spent 100% of his time reviewing my services and 0% of his time trying to mimic / copy / piggyback / replicate my trades considering he knew I did not offer a signal calling trade alert service and he knew I ban traders for trying to use my free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room.

Oddly, he did state in his written positive review that TheStrategyLab free chat room was not a trade alert room while at the same time comparing my free chat room to other signal calling trade alert rooms. Yet, kudos to him for even mentioning the name of my price action analysis...called WRB Analysis.

With that said, he could have received a 4 star review rating had he discussed in his review that members of the free chat room verify their understanding of the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide, some users (including myself) of WRB Analysis post their real-time trades and many users (including myself) post redacted broker statements / screenshots of timestamp trade fills in broker trade execution platform along with the fact that I maintain a public archive chat log (registration not needed to review) of the trades & price action analysis via WRB Analysis for those not able to attend the free chat room for whatever reasons.

Heck, he could have copied and then reposted any of my redacted screenshots from any webpage / forum message post to his review of TheStrategyLab instead of talking about his own trade performance while using my free chat room. By the way, he posted no verification of his trade performance (simulator or real money) after replicating my posted trades from the free chat room most likely because readers may ask him to show his timestamps of trade fills to see if they correlate to the timestamps of the trades posted in the free chat room.

In contrast, I would have given him a 5 star review rating had he not violated my terms of use policy when he used my free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room. It's a service I do not offer and have animosity towards vendors with that particular business model. Further, it would have been nice had he mentioned a critical aspect involving my trading...I minimize the risk of ruin as a day trader via intraday market tendencies, position size management and diversification (investments).

Regardless, he still verified with me that he actually used one of our resources via being a guest visitor to the free chat room although he misled me about why he's using the free chat room.

Simply, he should have discussed in his review of TheStrategyLab that he verified my trade performance considering my admin logs reveal that he did view the archive chat logs, many clients redacted broker statements / screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform, my redacted broker statements / screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform do in fact correlate with the posted trades in the free chat room. Further, he should have verified in his review that my trade performance is in fact via WRB Analysis...not due to being lucky month after month although I do welcome (embrace) a little luck when it does show up in my trading.

Therefore, due to my experience with Dr. Dean Handley as a guest visitor...I no longer allow guest visitors to the free chat room unless they're able to verify their learning / application of the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide to ensure that all users of the free chat room are there because of their understanding of WRB Analysis.

Micro Summary: The free chat room started in 2002 and traders have been warned since the birth of the free chat room to not copy / mimic / piggyback posted real-time trades because the chat room is not a signal calling trade alert room. Those that do try to piggyback our trades...the traders are banned. My experience with Dr. Dean Handley helped alert me that I need to do a better job in vetting new users of the free chat room. Dr. Dean Handley gave TheStrategyLab a positive review.

Yet, he later removed TheStrategyLab from his Global Trade Titans report of top trade rooms when I refused to pay for a seminar (speech) that he was going to be giving...payment would have ensured to be continued mention in the report. In contrast, several clients of TheStrategyLab have their own take on the issue. They believe he removed TheStrategyLab because he realized he should have never reviewed us as a "trade room" via comparing us to signal calling trade alert services that he prefers to call live trade rooms when he already knew we were not a signal calling trade alert room that has a guru trader telling others what to trade, when to buy and when to sell.

Oddly, he maintains something called a "dropped list" (.pdf file) at the Global Titans Trade webpage. If you click on that list shown in the screenshot link below...you can review whom he has dropped although each dropped trade room have no specific reason to why it was dropped. Just as strange...TheStrategyLab is not on the dropped list. Lets see...we get a positive review...mentioned in Stocks & Commodities magazine, FuturesTruth magazine and MarketClips as a top trade room by Dr. Dean Handley.

Next, we refuse to pay to be continue mentioned in the follow-up reports and he responded by telling me that he will remove TheStrategyLab from his database although I replied sarcastically via asking him how will he remove TheStrategyLab name from his already posted positive review in several publications ?

The next publications he doesn't mention the name TheStrategyLab as if he made us disappear so that he will not need to provide an explanation to his readers about our removal.

You should also see something odd at the above screenshot for Dr. Dean Handley's dropped list statement. He states in his first paragraph that he's not a compliance officer nor an auditor. He essentially is implying its his opinions and not facts. Also, he's implying its not his responsibility to determine if there's a change in the review status of a vendor / trader. Ironically, the dropped list status itself implies that he does in fact change the status of a review as if he's behaving as a compliance officer.

In contrast, you'll see a different story below for the reviewer Emmett Moore Jr. @ Tradingschools. He often uses a different phrase at his review blog in which he states his reviews are official reviews because he sent you an official email. Simply, he's stating they are facts...not opinions and that he'll change a review if he gets it wrong. He too is implying he's a compliance officer via referring to his reviews as official reviews / emails.

In fact, these reviewers represent no government agency and you must assume its just hearsay opinions unless they copied the info from a government source or they're able to post verification info about their opinions.

My guess is that Emmett Moore Jr. has more litigations because he views himself as a compliance officer or an auditor via continuing identifying himself as an official via saying its an official review / official email when he's just a SEC felon that makes false statements in his reviews to entertain his readers. Regardless, it does make me wonder if Dr. Dean Handley has done that before in other positive reviews...you remain as a Global Trade Titan if you cough up a payment. Yet, if the vendor / trader refuse to cough up a payment...they're quietly removed (disappear) as if the positive review never happened.

Anyways, this so called "dropped list" should question the sincerity of the entire review business involving reviews by Dr. Dean Handley and Emmett Moore Jr...two individuals that strangely are former business partners. I say strangely because Emmett Moore Jr. still behaves as a troll, hacker with criminal online behavior while Dr. Dean Handley holds a Juris Doctorate JD (cyberlaw) degree although I'm not sure if he's taken the state's bar exam. Seriously, a JD (cyberlaw) is a cybersecurity lawyer...a marriage of online technology and law. These individuals plan to pursue a degree in legal studies, privacy law, intellectual law or cybersecurity.

The plot thickens about the relationship between Dr. Dean Handley and Emmett Moore Jr.

Soon afterward, Emmett Moore Jr. (a review blogger) telephone calls TheStrategyLab for a review although I'm not sure if he and Dr. Dean Handley were still business partners. Thus, I considered the telephone call very suspicious because of the timing and Emmett Moore Jr. was unable or unwilling to provide a reason for the call except to say he received complaints. Just as suspicious, he started avoiding my questions when I asked him about his relationship with Dr. Dean Handley.

Yet, it was a time period when I had just banned a few problematic trolls...the most problematic troll was one that was very angry that I would not allow him to market / advertise his automated trading systems & custom indicators to my members, he made threats on my family and said he will retaliate.

Other trolls were banned in the recent months prior to Emmett Moore Jr. telephone call. Those trolls were banned for either trying to use my free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room, lurking, impersonations, using VPNs & rented IP addresses to hide their identity, disruptive / distraction / arguing because I would not allow them access to the live screen share meeting.

Definition of lurking @ TheStrategyLab - A trader that enters the free chat room but does not post real-time trades and does not post verification of trade performance in their private thread via screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform. Lurkers get a warning...if the trader continues to lurk...they are then banned and password changed to help keep out those that change their IP address in an effort to try to bypass the ban.

Also, any trader that request to use the free chat room as a guest visitor in an effort to bypass the qualification rules for access to the free chat room...they are told to just read the archive chat logs that are automatically uploaded later at night. We begin enforcing the no lurking rule for the free chat room in 2014 and we quickly made a few enemies by those unwilling to post any verification of their trade performance via WRB Analysis.

Dr. Dean Handley can do better reviews via actually talking about the products / services by a vendor instead of getting fixated on signal calling trade alert rooms that he prefer to call live trade rooms. In addition, he needs to be more transparent via discussing his prior business partnership with Emmett Moore Jr. to quiet the growing rumor about these two individuals.

I will begin my in-depth review with Dr. Dean Handley via mentioning his academic background BS (Biology); MS (Biochemistry); PhD (Molecular Genetics); MBA (Finance); JD (Cyberlaw) is very impressive. In fact, we begin our interaction talking about college and I understood how difficult & demanding those particular degree subjects are in college.

Thus, it was the reason why I allowed him into the free chat room as a guest visitor because I assumed he would use a research scientific approach to analyze the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide or the Fading Volatility Breakout (FVB) free trade signal strategy...foundation of the science aspect of my trade methodology even though there are two other aspects involving art & psychology.

Simply, I have my own unpublished research statistics involving the science aspect and I thought he would be a an excellent third party to validate my own research without him being aware of my own research. Therefore, Dr. Dean Handley is fully aware that my trade methodology is part science, part art and part psychology along with knowing I do not believe a trader can be profitable via technical analysis alone. An interesting analogy involving pizza is why review only one ingredient when there are other ingredients involved in that pizza.

Therefore, I was hoping that he would correlate his research of my trade method with his scientific research of my posted real-time trades / broker statements / screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform or do the same with a few users of the free chat room that uses WRB Analysis. Simply, he would have needed to learn the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide and then backtest it on the same trading instrument that I was trading.

Next, he would then needed to compare the backtest results to the quantitative statistical analysis of my trade performance to be able to make any valid statistical analysis and then publish those results with some of my redacted screenshots to verify my trade performance to determine the merits of WRB Analysis.

Realistically, that's a time consuming endeavor...not something he could have done for hundreds of vendors that he reviews. A reason why reviewers take short cuts so that they do not need to learn the trade method nor backtest it unless its been coded / programmed for them.

Yet, I did tell him that I have a new policy in place in which users of the free chat room must now verify their learning / application of WRB Analysis. He responded via asking for access to my free chat room as a guest visitor with the agreement he would post the verification info just like other members...he never posted the verification info after gaining access to our free chat room and its one of the reasons why I no longer allow guest visitor nor anyone else to use our free chat room until they verify their understanding of the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide.

Regardless, many members of TheStrategyLab prefer to use a professional trade journal software for their quantitative statistical analysis to analyze their trade performance via WRB Analysis and they then post their results in their private thread.

I will disagree with him when he stated online that he considers himself to be an emergent expert and the foremost authority on futures trade rooms considering he's not able to distinguish a trade room with a guru trader telling its members what to trade, when to buy and when to sell versus a chat room that requires members to post their real-time trades and to use the chat room as a trade journal of their trades to supplement to add critical information to their broker statements.

Anyways, I ask to read his past reviews so I can determine what type of vendor / services he reviews and to give me some insight about this reviewer. He gave me some links to his past reviews (positive reviews & negative reviews) and they seem fair considering I have clients that have used those services (not satisfied). Also, the reviews I read, they gave me the impression he was more into quantitative statistical analysis of someone's trade performance via whatever trade method the vendor was using. Yet, I notice something odd...he also reviewed signal calling trade alert services. In fact, most of his reviews were about signal calling trade alert services. In addition, he used phrases like trades are easily accomplish instead of specifically referring to them as signal calling trade alert rooms.

That's a phrase (trades are easily accomplish) someone uses when they're trying to copy / mimic / piggyback trades posted in a signal calling trade alert service. In fact, it allowed me to learn about how these types of vendors market their services via phrases like that and how reviewers market / recommend the services of these types of vendors in the signal calling trade alert business. That prompt me to ask him why is he doing a review of TheStrategyLab when I do not offer a signal calling trade alert service just to ensure there's no misunderstandings about his agenda in my free chat room ?

His response - I am aware that you do not offer a trade alert service. I'm reviewing the trade method and monitor your trade performance. I will use statistical analysis to determine the merits of your trade method...I will then give you a preview of the review to allow you to make any corrections prior to posting the review. I have read / understood / agreed to not violate TheStrategyLab terms of use policy.

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I then assumed in error that is the reason why he wanted access to my free chat room to keep his own statistics of my posted real-time trades, trades posted by users of WRB Analysis and to talk to the users of WRB Analysis. In addition, I assumed he was going to examine the screenshots of trade fills in my broker trade execution platform to see if they correlated with my posted real-time trades...he actually did do that. Simply, I thought his access to the free chat room was so that he'll have direct access (real-time) to users of WRB Analysis because it was much better than reading emails or online messages outside of TheStrategyLab by those that are not verified users of WRB Analysis.

I then gave him the user names of those in the free chat room that were only users of the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide versus user names of members that were using our fee-base trade strategies called the Volatility Trading Report (VTR).

Thus, I wanted Dr. Dean Handley to know which users in the free chat room were using key concepts from the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide with their own custom trade method versus which users of WRB Analysis were using our Volatility Trading Report (VTR) trade signal strategies.

It's obvious to me that the main criteria for reviewing the merits of a trade method is to look at verified clients broker statements or screenshots of timestamp trade fills in broker trade execution platform along with testing their understanding / knowledge of the trade method to remove luck as an important variable in their trade performance. I'm not sure why reviewers are unable to use that as part of their analysis about a service.

Regardless, all users of the free chat room are required to verify their understanding of WRB Analysis Free Study Guide to gain access to the free chat room for posting of their real-time trades or WRB Analysis comment as a supplement to their broker statements. Thus, the purpose of the free chat room is to be a trade journal of the user...not a signal calling trade alert room although I prefer members to use a professional trade journal.

The question is this...how many vendors has Dr. Dean Handley reviewed that the vendor maintains a private thread section for traders that uses its trade methods to post their redacted screenshots to verify trade performance and verification of understanding the trade method as we do here @ TheStrategyLab like the above redacted screenshot by a user of WRB Analysis ?

His first week in the free chat room...I warned him about a few trolls that had been sneaking into our free chat room and harassing our members that posted their real-time trades and broker statements in their private threads. Also, I told him that I regularly ban traders when I catch them trying to use our free chat room to copy / mimic / piggyback the trades posted in real-time by any member. In addition, I told him about tactics I used to help identify these trolls involving my questioning of a suspicious new member that primarily has been debating with other members or making negative comments about trades by other members while not posting any of his own real-time trades.

I gave him a direct link to a public area that users of WRB Analysis posted their full broker statements @ http://www.thestrategylab.com/ftchat/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 including an open offer to give him more up to date broker statements from the private thread section that have been redacted along with direct links to our free discussion forum where members posted their DOKs to verify their understanding of the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide considering he was not allowed into our private thread section until he himself became a verified user of WRB Analysis.

I then alerted our members about his presence and purpose so that they will be open to his questions about WRB Analysis. In fact, I told our members to tell Dr. Dean Handley what they liked and disliked about our education resources to ensure we're being transparent. This prompt a particular new member to immediately contact me (privately) and warned me not to trust Dr. Dean Handley and that Handley's goal was to give me a bad review along with warning me that he's currently involved in several legal litigations. Continuing, this new member stated that Dr. Dean Handley only gives out a few positive reviews and he will then ask me for money to stay in good status with Dr. Dean Handley.

This new member then stated he was a former business partner of Dr. Dean Handley and that if I didn't listen to his warnings...he would ensure that I will get a negative consequence. That phrase by him about a negative consequence was unusual to read and it revealed to me this new member didn't like Dr. Dean Handley and had the intentions of punishing me for allowing Dr. Dean Handley access to my free chat room. In addition, I thought it was strange that the new member showed up about the same time (a day later) after to Dr. Dean Handley showed up in the free chat room. How would this new member known Dr. Dean Handley will be there ?

That conversation with the new member prompt me to research his identity considering he refused to give me his real name. I was then able to correlate the new member IP address (his real one and not the rented IP address he was using in the free chat room) with a prior recent troll of TheStrategyLab that had been harassing me including making threatening comments about my children if I didn't partner up with him about his grandiose automated trading systems & custom indicators he was trying to market on IRC in other chat rooms and to my own members.

Regardless, that phrase (statement about a negative consequence) revealed there's a problem within the review business and it wouldn't be the last time I would see that unusual phrase. In fact, as you continue reading this rebuttal about reviews of TheStrategyLab...you'll learn that I'm big on researching unusual phrases that someone uses towards me to help me to identify them and their true agenda. Specifically, I use their writing habits as a fingerprint about the character of the person.

I then discover the new member has snuck into my free chat room also via VPNs & impersonation of another member that had not respected the new access policy for the free chat room. Thus, I immediately banned him for his trolling, impersonation, threats and violation of the new policy that new members must have verified the understanding / application of WRB Analysis Free Study Guide prior to being allowed access to the free chat room. The new member was not verified and more importantly...he ignored my request for the verification info and he refused to give me his real name.

Fast forward, Dr. Dean Handley talked very little to users of WRB Analysis and his preview of his soon to be posting of a positive review along with stating our free chat room had made it into his Global Trade Titans report (Trading Futures Successfully on the Shoulders of Giants 2013 - #4 issue of Futurestruth.com). I believe that occurred in 2013 - 2014. Yet, he later removed TheStrategyLab from his report after I refused to pay to support one of his seminars.

Reality, it was just a disagreement between him and I but I was grateful for him originally including TheStrategyLab in the Global Trade Titans Report because the fact remains...we do not offer a signal calling trade alert service and our free chat room was still consider one of the best in comparison to vendors that do offer a signal calling trade alert service.

Fortunately, we have our own copies (.pdf and magazine because I am a subscriber to S&C) of the positive review prior to us being removed from Dr. Handley's Global Trade Titans report and removal from his database for refusing to pay for his seminar. Yet, we're not allowed to post the copies because we do not have copyright permission to do such from Stocks & Commodities (issue December 2013) and Futures Truth (issue 2 & 4) magazines although we are allowed to post these excerpts.

Review in Stocks & Commodities (excerpt) @ http://www.thestrategylab.com/images/120113-Accolade-Stocks-Commodities-Magazine.png

In addition, we were mentioned in an article with the weird title as Altruistic Andromeda All Star Series...the first mentioned in that article series. Unfortunately, we were not able to obtain a copy of that article about top trade rooms & chat rooms. There's another excerpt from a similar written review from a MarketClips article @ http://www.thestrategylab.com/tsl/forum/download/file.php?id=5774

Funny thing is that even the positive reviews in the above magazines and other magazines that I have not mentioned here...they are in fact the start of the misinformation & misleading statements about TheStrategyLab via implying a trader could mimic / copy / replicate my trades but they do not mention I will ban traders for trying to mimic / copy / replicate my trades or copy the trades of any user that's posting real-time trades in the free chat room even though they knew such as fact while they were reviewing the free chat room.

Seriously, its stated in email communication with traders, how to access instructions, stated again in the log-in instructions and I post reminders in the free chat room when I see someone in the free chat room that are not posting any real-time trades for several days of log-ins. In fact, traders that continue logging into our free chat room but not posting real-time trades...I eventually weed them out as in remove them from the chat room. Then if they return the next day and still refuse to post their trades and refuse to post screenshots in their private thread of trade fills in their broker trade execution platform...they're removed from the access list and the password is then changed.

Next, those that ignore my private messages and emails or they're using VPNs or rented IP addresses while ignoring me...they're banned. In addition, I ban any trader that I suspect is behaving like someone that's there to copy / mimic / replicate my trades. Therefore, its impossible for someone to think that they did not know the free chat room was not a signal calling trade alert room (live trade room). Unfortunately, there are a few reviewers that categorize or compare our free chat room with signal calling trade alert services (they like to refer to them as live trade rooms)...services that have a guru trader telling its members what to trade, when to buy and when to sell.

Also, these positive reviews do not mention the fact that my real-time trades posted in the free chat room do in fact correlate with the screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform and you can see the timestamp delay of the trades posted in the free chat room after its executed in my broker trade execution platform. In fact, these reviewers do not discuss the obvious timestamp difference between the broker trade execution platform in comparison to the the trades posted in the free chat room. Most likely such is not mentioned because I'm very vocal since year 2002 that a trader can not replicate trades posted in a chat room, trade room or live stream. In fact, my screenshots proves such as fact when you review the timestamps.

Now back to Dr. Dean Handley's positive review. I was under the impression that Dr. Dean Handley is reviewing the merits of WRB Analysis via my trade performance and possibly reviewing my ability to transfer that knowledge to others via the results shown in their broker statements. Simply, I initially thought I would get an average review because I did not offer two key services that interest these reviewers...I have no signal calling trade alert service and there's no mentoring service.

Fast forward again, many members and I were shocked to read in his positive review that he used our free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room and he gave no indications (verification) to me that he understood the WRB Analysis Free Study Guide along with the fact that he did not mention anything about the broker statements nor screenshots of trade fills (simulator or real money) in broker trade execution platform for his trade performance while using our free chat room. Yet, he only stated that TheStrategyLab is honest and transparent.

Yet, he did say we were transparent and honest...something I greatly appreciated but he should have explained into the honesty involving our archive chat logs of real time trades by members, members broker statements, my screenshots of trade fills in broker trade execution platform that correlate with my trades posted in the free chat room.

Just as importantly, not once did Dr. Dean Handley disclose to any member of TheStrategyLab nor to me that he was going to copy / mimic / piggyback / replicate our real time trades. Had he disclose such...he would have been notified again that TheStrategyLab does not offer a signal calling trade alert room, its not possible to replicate anyone's real-time trades and that he will be banned for trying to use our free chat room as a signal calling trade alert room.

He was a guest visitor to do statistical analysis as he originally stated to gain access to our free chat room. Actually, I was expecting to see some kind of stats comparing the results of simulator trade performance versus real-time trade performance so that I can use the info from a 3rd party to show the differences in the trade performances when real money is on the line in trading.

Yet, his positive review disappointed me because he used TheStrategyLab for services we do not offer nor believed in. This will lead others into believing they can do the same thing and then if they try...we ban them which then results in creating another trader that trolls us because we banned them. Further, I was more disappointed that he was not able to post any verification (e.g. screenshots of timestamp trade fills in his broker trade execution platform) of his trade performance to verify he was able to achieve the results he stated he received and verify his application of WRB Analysis while he used our free chat room.

Regardless, you can not determine the merits of the trade method via your ability to copy / replicate someone's posted real-time trades...its the most ridiculous thing these reviewers do. That left many members of TheStrategyLab scratching their head while knowing that Dr. Dean Handley had not asked them any specific questions about WRB Analysis when he was in our free chat room.