May 2012 – Rockwell Trading Germany dissolved
The German branch of Rockwell Trading no longer exists. Run by Markus Heitkoetter’s brother Tobias Heitkoetter (or Tobias Heitkötter), the latter decided to establish his own scam under the name Whitelink Trading in Switzerland. Nothing new there, still the same old tick charts and strategies with the use of MACD, Bollinger Bands, etc. But why change the name? Why change the “successname” of Rockwell Trading into Whitelink Trading? Is this the first step to completely let the Rockwell Trading name disappear and swop it for Whitelink trading? For those who don’t speak German, in short the website says (click image):
- From April 2012 Tobias Heitkötter is in charge of Whitelink Trading.
- Those who followed their education through Rockwell Trading Deutschland can contact Tobias Heitkötter or Whitelink Trading.
- Markus Heitkötter was and still is responsible for the courses, books, webinars, DVD’s (and other vendor stuff) of Rockwell Trading in the USA.
This makes Tobias Heitkötter the fourth Rockwell Trading employee to leave Markus Heitkoetters payroll! From the original 9 only 5 employees are left today. Could it be that revenues are dropping since their scam is exposed?
March 2012 – Rockwell Trading and Trade the Markets join forces
Months ago I already mentioned that Infinity Futures gives swindlers like Markus Heitkoetter and John Carter (tradethemarkets) a platform to recrute new victims. You can see this under the tab “attachments”. And surprise surprise Markus Heitkoetter and John Carter joined forces! As Markus said in his email (click 
thumbnail) they combined their trading approaches and what do you know… Something amazing came out! The world isn’t fair. Some never find an approach that makes money, some have to go through hell to find an approach that makes money and others just combine two losing strategies and out comes a winner! And of course they already put it on DVD for you to buy! Regular price of this DVD $397 but… Yes you got it! It’s on sale now for only $197! They also decided to trade from the same office. I wonder, is me exposing the Rockwell Trading scam starting to hurt other vendors as well? Them sharing an office means they can at least share the rent I guess.
February 2012 – German Desk at Infinity Futures dissolved
Check the Infinity Futures website and see that the “German Desk” icon on their homepage is removed. November 2011 Markus Heitkoetter started working at Infinity Futures (see update November 2011 on this page) and not even 3 months later it appears his contract is terminated.
January 2012 – Rockwell Trading insider tells truth
I made a promise, now it’s time to deliver. Those who receive an email update from me about once a month already knew this was coming. Click the image with this article 
to see the email conversation between me and a Rockwell Trading “insider”, namely an employer of Infinity Futures. Let’s call this person A. My initial problem was solved but I decided to ask A.: does it actually work what Rockwell Trading teaches? A. answered:”shadowtrading doesn’t work. Otherwise I would be one”.
For those who don’t know; what is shadowtrading? Shadowtrading is taking the exact same trades as the educator does. Educator being Rockwell Trading in this case. So this insider A. who is an Infinity Futures employee isn’t trading with Rockwell Trading because he knows their strategies aren’t profitable. Then why is Markus Heitkoetter selling his strategies as “powerful day trading strategies”. Does Markus has his own dictionary in which “powerful” means “losing”? In fact, if he isn’t able to make profits with his own strategies, how the f*ck can he teach others!? You think a math teacher that isn’t able to make the calculations he wants others to solve will have a long lasting career?
This email is from July 2010, why report this now and not a year ago? Two main reasons.
1. A. was kind enough to warn me and I didn’t want A. to become a victim of that. I learned in the course of 2011 that A’s situation changed drastically so I can report it now.
2. Untill December 2011 I still had money in my account at Infinity Futures. Seemed like a plan to get my money out first, before nailing them to the pillory.
November 2011 – Markus Heitkoetter working for Infinity Futures
You can check the infinity site, but they might have changed it so you can also check the image with this article. It shows you that Markus is now working at Infinity Futures, managing the one person German desk. In fact he is doing more or less the same thing as Mandy does at Rockwell Trading! Working at Infinity Futures client support! Running a company, flying to trade 
fairs, managing a trading room, hosting webinars, dealing with staff issues, writing his blogs, working at client support at Infinity Futures AND being a successful daytrader! Where does he find the time to do all this? Does he has his charts and DOM-trader on his cellphone!? Or did he take on the job because he needs the extra money to pay his mortgage? If that is the case why doesn’t he sit behind his computer at home and starts to use his powerful day trading strategies? I realy don’t get it! What happened to (quote from his own website): “I had no time for friends, family, or the things that are really important in life. I realized I was stuck in the corporate rat race”. I don’t get it.
September 2011 – More misleading info
To trick those who look for an honest review on the internet Rockwell Trading built another website. rockwelltradingSCAM.org How funny is this? Is Markus Heitkoetter getting desperate?
June 2011 – Another staff member bites the dust
Another face is removed from the Rockwell Trading website.
Steffany Nguyen – Client Support
She was Markus Heitkoetter’s most recent addition to the team of scammers. Together with Mandy Ditmire-Willits she was responsible for client support. Guess the last few months the number of customers dropped considerably and her services were no longer required. We wish you well Steffany!
May 2011 – No more NCL promotion
The NCL (National Consumer League) is an organization that is active in the field of 
consumer protection. Since April 2011 their name is taken off from the rwt website. Since mentioning that organization makes rwt look more trustworthy I can’t imagine Rockwell Trading volunteered to take it off from the site. Check the image with this article for a screendump of what the website looked like when the name of the NCL was still on. Check January 2011 on this list of updates for more info about the NCL.
April 2011 – Successor Greaven Graham leaves after one month
March first 2011 Ryan Stewman (pushtoexcellence.com) took over the marketing activities. Mid March I send Ryan an email warning him for reputational damage when getting into business with Markus Heitkoetter. Surprise! Since April first 2011 Ryan’s email is replaced by an “affiliates” email address (affiliate program). Maybe Ryan’s task of improving the Rockwell Trading marketing strategy was done within one month? The whole affiliate program makes no sense. Why start up a website linked to Rockwell Trading while at the same time I can make thousands of dollars per contract per month using their “powerful day trading strategies”!? Is it that these strategies aren’t that powerful and I need to scrap dollars elsewhere?
March 2011 – Staff turns back on Rockwell Trading
We can speculate why they left or maybe they were fired, but fact is that these two guys no longer work for Rockwell Trading:
Greaven Graham – Marketing Manager
Dave Immel – Manager Personal Coaching Program
This is since March 1st 2011. Check the video of me disclosing the scam. I introduce the whole staff in there. Then check the rwt website under the heading “about us”. P.s. Steffany Nguyen was already working there at the time of the disclosure. I received emails from her (admin. stuff) since 10- 2010. Guess her face wasn’t in the “about us” section at that time because she just joined Rockwell Trading.
March 2011 – Affiliate members play along
Before I got banned from the trading support room I had a feeling that there were people in there playing the game along with Markus Heitkoetter. Calling out they made some good profits while other students and I were suffering losses. I discovered at least one of them was selling the Rockwell Trading crap in Australia through his facebook account. I wont mention his name, but have a look at the site: http://www.wix.com/your_future/your-future-pty-ltd When I confronted this guy with it he told me he was going to remove the site. Well the site is still up!
February 2011 – Trading support room is shut down
The NOT live trading support room is shut down! In return you get a “trading room” in which the strategies or trades haven’t changed but interaction between traders now is impossible.
- No more chat
- Not being able to see what other traders (if any) are present
- Not being able to see what questions are asked
- No communication possible between traders
- Questions need to be approved by the moderator first to be dealt with in the group
- Etc.
One of the subscribers (unfortunately payed upfront for a couple of months) emailed me and told me Markus Heitkoetter said that the reason there was no chat or any interaction possible between traders in this new design was because of the software. Yeah right!
January 2011 – Involvement of NCL?
Rockwell Trading advertises here and there that they are a “member of the National Consumer League. Supporting them in their “fight against internet fraud”. Well I’ve contacted the NCL on:
- 22 November 2010
- 2 December 2010
- 9 December 2010 and
Wrote them the following:
During the past 12 months I’ve been a client of a company that advertises with “we are currently a member of the National Consumer League”.
I have every reason to think that the practises of this company are a scam. My questions to you are:
- What does it take to become a member of the NCL? Is that a $35,- donation?
- Where can I find a list of companies that is in fact “member” of the NCL?
- Are members of the NCL allowed to advertise the fact that they are a member?
The NCL website gives you the opportunity to send a copy to your own email address 
which I did. Besides that I used the first email as a forward for the second and third email. So that the NCS was able to see that I had contacted them before. Up till today July 2011 I did not get ONE reaction, don’t expect one anymore either. And the NCL is fighting internet fraud? Click the image with this article for the actual emails.
December 2010 – Misleading potential victims
Rockwell Trading used to show a recording from their not “live trading support room” on the website homepage. To mislead potential customers that they are trading live in their support room they now show a recording of their once a month webinar. They trade live during this webinar. However, they trade their seahawk strategy which has a high winning percentage of about 75%. This same strategy has a win/loss ratio of $25/$100. To make $25 you risk $100. Limit your profits and let your losses run? Do the math on that taking 100 trades and you have 75 winners and 25 losers. Don’t forget brokerage! Because of the high winning percentage they can show small profits quite often. Good to get in new victims. When they suffer a $100 loss they just say:”it’s all part of the game”. A $100 loss during a monthly webinar is a small investment considering the fact that one new customer already spends $600 for their home study course. (April 2011 all vdo’s removed from homepage)
December 2010 – Rockwell Trading on Facebook
I used social media to warn people. Rockwell Trading has a Facebook account. Up till December 2010 that account was publicly accessible. Now it’s “members” (family, charlatans and personal friends) only.
December 2010 – Watch out for false reviews
There are a lot of sales orientated sites like: emini-trade.com, investing.blogandinfo.com, trade.newsmonster.org and traderslog.com. Negative but honest reviews on these sites aren’t allowed. It’s bad for the sales numbers.
November 2010 – No more “week in review”
Rockwell Trading changed the design of their “week in review”. Instead of analyzing all their trades, leaving the losses out, they now only show you their “favourite” or “most interesting” trades. The new design makes a comparison like I did during those 6 weeks impossible.
November 2010 – Live recording of scam being disclosed
I posted the results of 6 weeks of shadow trading in the Live Trading Support Room (LTSR) on November 1st 2010. The total result of those six weeks was MINUS $857.50 per contract (excl. brokerage of about $450,-). During that same period Rockwell Trading communicated profits of over $2500 per contract. I was banned from the room, no discussion.
October 2010 – Forum is taken down
Markus Heitkoetter closed down the forum on the Rockwell Trading website. Now we as traders can’t exchange ideas and opinions about a.o. Rockwell Trading itself and their strategies.
