Zadeh only requires screenshots. He was duped years ago by someone resetting a TOS paper trading account. I'd bet that Minervini is using TDA/TOS. Zadeh does not monitor the accounts directly.
According to the web site There's no prize for winning, only bragging rights. It's up to the contestant to supply the brokerage statements to Zadeh. I guess there's lots of room to photoshop or adjust the statements, but you'd certainly make a name for yourself if you got caught cheating.
Would such a contest be of any interest to someone like yourself who is contemplating getting into the money management business? $350 would seem like inexpensive advertising. Put your hard earned money with me, here's proof I know what I'm doing. Minervini seems to be riding the hype. Getting interviewed on CNBC can't hurt your exposure.
Nope. Put it simply, investors who are qualified to pay performance fees aren't looking for fund managers using these types of competitions. Investors are more interested in managers who have a repeatable process, strong risk management, and transparency. Minervini, and other traders like him, are simply retail.
I can't say for sure that this is how Minervini trades but it is very similar to how I look at charts. FWIW I'm not looking at COIN and probably won't until it makes a new all time high. Is Coinbase a Buy? | COIN Stock Analysis and Trade Review | NFT Catalyst? - YouTube
I have one of his books. He searches for stocks with earnings acceleration. Too bad none of todays highfliers have actual earnings.
For pre earnings companies rev growth and ebit growth can be good proxies. What makes accelerating earnings a good driver of stock returns is that it requires investors to revalue the stock at much higher prices. Revenue and ebit lead earnings, and only when a company is in its earnings phase (nature company) does it become more important.