HarmonicForex Forex Trading Academy Singapore

Okay, so I started trading forex after someone convinced me to join IML. I spent I think 3 months in the company, and honestly it's the most pathetic excuse for a trading company I have ever seen. The way I would describe it is, a glorified signals service with excellent marketing.
They are very good at sucking people in, they will do these presentations all around the world in different places, they suck people in with promises of you can become a millionaire, they act as it's the easiest thing in the world, they don't mention that thousands of traders go broke or how hard it is to be a trader, they glaze over that part. They create this family atmosphere of we are one big family that will help every individual get to financial freedom, they make it almost cult like, the way they do it. They will push this agenda of "we offer the cheapest rates" by comparing themselves to shoddy trading courses that charge thousands, when they charge £1440 over a year. But, the main part I realised is that they put forward this idea of becoming a Chairman- making thousands from the company by selling education lures people in. They are honestly amazing at marketing.
But what they do is suck you in with signals, they will say "learn and earn", but everywhere you look, it's just signals all the damn time. Their video education isn't even proper forex education, it's simply them going through weekly outlooks of the markets and again allowing you to get a signal. I learned honestly more about a structured trading plan off one PDF than the videos on IML TV. Some times their signals are pathetic ( if you are in a shit group) , the leader of my group puts out signals for GBP pairs and a couple others, the risk reward ratio on these trades are below the ratio of 1:1 but they advertise it as we have a 90 plus percent success rate... fucking bullshit, the stop losses are going to be hit off these . This is plat number leader and he's telling me that stop losses aren't needed, because the "market will come back".... hundreds of members on the signal service took massive drawdown in July because of the GBP pairs dropping hard.
Then comes the BOMBARDMENT of business presentations, all the fucking time, I stopped and thought " the focus SHOULD be on trading" instead it's just these fucking business presentations every 2 days, people are asking for 'the script" for people they want to join the company. The only reason why people stick by IML is because they don't choose to explore anything else, they are indoctrinated into this mindset of "you want to get rich, you can become chairman", people stick with IML because of the signals, I have to admit the signals coming from the higher ups are often pretty good, but that's what they want, they want you to stay reliant on their signals otherwise they make no money. They don't provide the thinking behind their signals or what they did or any charts.
And when questioned about the validity of their company, whether it is a scam or not. They will immediately revert into a defensive shell of "they are jelly of our success" and all of the lawsuits are bollocks, considering the financial authority in my country have labelled them as a potential scam, I can't remember exactly the details but it was on those lines. They will go to universities and target them, I had two lads come up to me at university and literally read off the same bloody lines they used on me before about "oh you are a student, well u need to pay your student loan off, come and join".
Can you still learn off iML? Yes I think you can, but there are tons of trading courses out there that offer better and more refined knowledge to trading at better prices. IML is extremely good at marketing and that's why they suck people in so effectively. Don't join IML, it's not worth it.
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i would like to add some even more damning evidence, they are constantly pushing their "add ons" of even more signal services of Gold Cup, Steady, all of these additional tools which are again signal providers, the only piece of software that I think is good is the Harmonic Scanner. Everything else is again the software picking up signals and you get to choose whether u want to take the trade or not

(EDIT: This issue has been resolved, skip to the bottom of the post. IML seems to be a scam after all. I've left my OP intact for historical reference.)
(OP begin:)
Greetings. I'll get right to it so I don't waste your time.
I'm a new member of the company known as iMarketsLive - specifically the UK branch. For those who aren't familiar, iMarketsLive is a company which deals with forex trading education, provides tools to assist members in predicting market conditions (and thus make more profitable trades) such as the Harmonic Scanner, and you must pay a membership fee in order to make use of the tools and education they provide. In return for recruiting people, and successfully assisting them with their trading ambitions, you get ever-increasing commissions with a ceiling of GBP500,000 a month. I'm pretty pleased with my experience so far, since everyone in my upline have been very patient and constructive people - they even run self development programs. After reading some of the posts here, however, it seems like some people have had a nightmarish time of it, dealing with leaders who are more akin to hardcore salesmen looking for cheap advertising labor, and little else. The man who seems to be at the pinnacle of my particular upline is a man named Vincent, who manages us pretty well and is the primary one that runs said self development programs unrelated to trading or even the MLM side of things. I'll leave it up to you to decide.
I've decided to be brave and post here, since I'd like to have a clear view of this business in my mind before I decide to recruit people into my own downline. I'll have no problems exiting it if the arguments put forward are convincing enough. I'm an ex-JW, so if I have no issues leaving a cult, then I won't have any issues leaving a scam.
I have a theory as to why our experiences may be different, however: I think it depends on the people in your upline, and what country you're in, since according to their downline managing software, you are ultimately in charge of who's in your downline, and how you treat them is up to you. This would explain the entirely different cultures we've seen within the same company - though, I suppose many large companies can be like this.
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TLDR: I'm happy with my forex results and community environment I'm in, and I know anyone I recruit personally will be treated well by myself and my upline, but that doesn't mean I have a clear picture of the company as a whole. Post opinions, advice, warnings, experiences, suggestions or any questions about my own experiences, before I make my mind up. If you want more information on myself personally, ask away and I'll post it here.
(OP end.)
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EDIT: Please read the rules before commenting or voting. I'm following them, so should you.
EDIT 2: I've moved Sneekpreview's links in the comments here since they're very much relevant to anyone researching IML in the future. They've actually been sued. https://www.cftc.gov/sites/default/files/2018-09/enfinternationalorder091418.pdf https://www.reddit.com/Forex/comments/9tvr3j/is_imarketslive_a_scam/ https://www.reddit.com/Forex/comments/84shxs/six_days_with_imarketslive_and_what_i_think_of/https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b19fcfsc2n7jw6/Is-This-Company-a-Forex-Trading-Pyramid-Scheme
https://outline.com/qEjEdk
https://ethanvanderbuilt.com/2016/06/01/imarketslive-warning/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_WOqiNmMNU
https://www.fsma.be/en/warnings/fsma-warns-public-against-activities-international-markets-live-ltd-imarketslive

To summarize my experience with the "product." It is 99.9% stalling and wasting your time with shit like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za3tUUoj2iQ and hyping their own products. Dudes acting like "whaaaaaaaa" and showing phone screens with profits. Facebook is flooded with these people showing off how their boy "[insert name here]" is selling money and yada yada. Most of the content they post and host is just recruitment hype videos to bring more people in. Seriously... Like all day every day it felt like. Most the videos feature some hipsters and text screenshots of them being like: "OMG I gots some mad pips brah, 100 million pipz lulz #winning [intense sarcasm]."
Do yourself a favor and unfriend anyone who tries to sell you this shit. Because they are not your friend, and they view you as a $35 a month paycheck if you sign up. Most the common stuff you see in groups is people touting the wins, but don't fool yourself... Everyone is keeping their losses quiet because no one wants to make a fool out of themselves. I mean who makes videos of them watching someone else in video chat? Someone who doesn't know what the hell their doing or how to work technology... Which they happen to have some miracle program that will "change" your life. Oh, and the haters, HA you should just ignore them because they all don't like grape koolaide.
TL:DR Oh, look ma some YOLO saying swag fags are saying they can teach me to make mad bread. But it is just a job selling a job selling jobs to other people who in turn will be selling said jobs to others who will do the same.
4/24/16 EDIT This is the kind of shit that constantly keeps popping up in my feeds and spamming my cell phone in texts.
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edit 2 Removed links from post, I apologize I didn't notice the rule for this subreddit and fixed it before an admin got onto me. =) Edit/update 3* 5-21-16 Been a while now, still end up getting spam texts and other crap in my inbox on social media and email.