What could be the best possible way to have a trading mentor? could it be to select a mentor and then let them know that you have chosen them as your mentor or follow them anonymously without their knowledge that their mentoring someone, and you are following in their steps?
Whats your thought?
Following a mentor anonymously without their knowledge will make it difficult for you to develop because you will always be in their shadow due to your high hopes for what they do. The best option is to tell them, you will get full guidance from him if he is willing.
You should not follow a mentor randomly because it will make things difficult for yourself due to the gap in knowledge about trading. You also need to be independent by learning the basics of trading, there are many members here who are knowledgeable about trading, in my opinion, making one of the leading forum members as a mentor would be better than choosing a mentor outside the forum.
Not all mentor teach all of their knowledge to those who want to learn with them. We still need to search for the other information that we need besides of learn from them. Our needs in trading will be different than what the mentor have so that is why we must search for the other resources and learn more.
You can learn the basic of trading for the first but you should learn from other sources to improve your skill. If you get more information that is useful for you, that will give you a chance to have a better skill.
You can telling that person that you use his lesson and follow that person. Trading will be personal decision and that will not related to the mentor because we make our decision to trade. The mentor is just teach the things related to trading while we need to learn many more about trading.