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Lesson 04 of 07 · 5 min

The money that is not real

At the top of the record there is a balance, and next to it a net result. Read this lesson slowly, because this is where people fool themselves.

The account is pretend

It starts at $10,000. It is not anyone's money. No real money has ever been in it. Nobody withdrew anything from it.

On every call it risks $100. That is one dollar out of every hundred in the account. Never more.

The page says this itself: a hypothetical model account, shown as if you took every call at that fixed stake.

So when the balance is above $10,000, it means this. If a person had followed every single call exactly, with that exact amount, risking exactly $100 each time, never missing one and never adding an extra, this is where they would be.

Nobody does that. Not one human being follows every call perfectly for months.

So why keep a pretend account

Because a pretend account cannot be fudged.

Real results depend on how much someone had, when they woke up, whether they panicked. A pretend account with fixed rules strips all of that out.

What is left is the only question that matters. Were the calls any good?

It also means the number is not a promise. It is a scoreboard for the tool, not a preview of your life.

Try this now

Find the balance. Say it out loud like this.

That is what a pretend account did, following every call, risking one hundred dollars a time.

Hypothetical model account. Paper-traded, no real money. Past performance does not predict future results.

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