Best of luck Ruidoso.  To each their own.  At the end of the day, if you are going to become a trader, you need to hold yourself accountable and not look for "reasons" else you will encounter the same outcomes over and over.  This is not BPT or Matt's fault.  Matt runs a business and can charge whatever he wants.  If you don't find value, you can look elsewhere.  You get a daily newsletter, a board with commentary, systems, etc.  Good luck finding that elsewhere.

There's a link to the ES levels from twitter on the sticky, here it is again, you can follow along there while Steve is gone.

https://x.com/smashelito 

ruidoso = best for sending that message in or setting up a time and talk to us, posts like that here get buried and we are busy trading during the day. I hate writing something like this in the middle of the trading day where it guts buried. I'll email this to you in case you don't see it

that said, we are not raising general membership prices - BPT membership has bee $300 for 6 months since 2011! 13 years! So despite all the inflation everywhere else, McDonalds, grocery store and food, houses, healthcare, anything at Home Depot or Lowes (much of the raw material has doubled), we are not raising prices.  Since 2011 I have a lot more expenses here including James and Steve and Sara, and YET, I'd say we have LESS subscribers now than we did in 2011!  If we had a lot more subscribers that would be one thing, but we don't, we have less.  So we make less than we did 13 years ago.

The KISS systems - You've been here 6 months, I've been very transparent that we were going to charge something for that service, where have you been? Why didn't setup an appointment and talk to us months ago? The KISS systems added a lot of expenses that I've been eating for the last 18 months.  

Also - there will be a free portion of the KISS systems, so you still get that, and you get all the mean reversion systems trades, the newsletters, the trade ideas etc

I really appreciate you subscribing and trying us out!  But I'd probably venture to guess that the reason why it bothers you that we are going to charge a fee to use the KISS systems is that maybe you haven't been able to formulate a trading plan about what are you choosing to use here, and have not been making money.  BPT has a LOT of info, something for everyone. This is not a day traders website but there is ideas here for day traders. Tons of info for swing traders, for retired not trading folks who are just trying to position trade a few times a year and may use the KISS systems to help manage their 401K index positions. There's something for systems trades here with all the systems trades. There's something for index traders who are trading the market indexes. There's something for gold bugs who trade and hold gold, silver, mining stocks. There's actionable trade ideas for those who wish to do those. There's something for everyone and most should not try to use everything, but instead use the inflation that fits your trading style, personality, and trading plan. 

When I mentioned that maybe you have struggled so far to use the information or you have not been taking systems trades etc - my guess  is that you have not yet figured out a plan to use the information here to make money. And that's fine, it takes time, depends on emotion and discipline, how much time you put in etc, it's different for everyone.

but I bring this up because some of the folks I have talked to over the last 6 months have told me about the 1000's of dollars they've made on the mean reversion system trades, on the KISS systems, some of these guys have made a couple hundred thousand this year. Folks who are making money with the tools would generally not care about some small fee to use something here. If you made $10,000 on one of the KISS system trades or one of the mean reversion systems, would you really care about $30 or $40 a month? I would guess not.  

again if you have been struggling, you should have reached out to us -  I talk to tons of subscribers on the phone, many of which I've become close friends with and who I talk to quite regularly about anything, not just trading, but life, and politics, family etc.  If you reach out, we can setup a personal zoom - you can show me what you've been doing, and ask tons and tons of questions, I can try and help you format a plan and give help (I'm not a financial advisor) so I can't technically advise you but I can look at your plan and give some suggestions or talk about things I would do, hopefully help put you on a good path.    

again I'm only guessing here and may be wrong, i'm just going on common sense, if you've been kicking ass and taking names over the last 6 months making nice profits, I would dare to venture that you would not care about some small charge.  That's just my guess 

Trading is easy in concept but is hard in reality because we are humans. Emotion gets in the way, not having a disciplined plan and strategy in place. Not using stops, there's a lot of variables to overcome - which is why most people fail at it.  The systems are nice because they give you a plan or at least they have discipline with stops, targets, taking profits. That said - trading systems can be hard for people as well, why? Because they let emotions get in the way, they don't trust the system trades and they either don't do them or they get scared and sell for a loss even though the system hasn't sold etc. Even when trading systems you have to set a plan such as how much capital you are using for the systems trades (if you go balls to the walls too much, then you risk getting nervous on just noise and may exit trades because you are nervous). Or you might be picking and choosing system trades and you have hardly done any of them - as I've said before, I can always think of a reason NOT to do a system trade because I'm nervous or think prices go lower - and you know what, sometimes I'm right, but most of the time it would have been better to just do all the trades because before you know it, a year goes by and you didn't take any mean reversion system trades or KISS system trade, I know because that happened to me!   Again even with systems, you still have to formulate a trading plan - if you don't and are just going about it willy nilly, you risk falling into this trap and spinning your wheels 

6 months is no time at all. I have been with BPT since the 90s (I think) You happen to come at a time when they are moving KISS to a separate service. Bad timing. But nothing I can fault them for. There is more on this site, that these guys do every night,  more than any I have ever seen any place else in 30 years of my trading. (How Matt keeps up with all his systems just boggles my mind.) You should give them a full year and then decide. But first, decide what YOU are looking for from a service, that is the most important thing. Just my 2c.

I get some of what you are saying “killer “ but if you’ve been here 6 months then you know this isn’t the norm. Steve and Matt rarely take time off. Plus if you have been here for 6 months you know the plan was always to charge for the KISS systems after the kinks were worked out. You do what you want with your renewal but I doubt you find the quality information you find here for less than $600 per year elsewhere. But best of luck to you. 

yes you come off harsh - these guys are doing a terrific job  - they are Offering us that information without any obligation

so respect a hard working  man ‘s  Vacation !