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James Dicks
For more than a decade, James Dicks has been one of the nation[[Image:Jamesdicks1.jpg|thumb||right|95px|James Dicks.]]

'''James Dicks''' is the founder of 4x Made Easy and is the president and CEO of PremiereTrade, Inc.
He claims to be "the world's leading educators on the subject of empowering investors to handle their own investments.

James is living his dream by helping investors overcome the hurdles of reaching their financial goals. Millions of people have heard James’ message of diversification, money management and financial freedom and thousands have attended one of his free workshops. 

Increasing investment knowledge is James' goal and he strives to reach this goal by using a common sense approach that investors of all types can utilize on the road to financial freedom.rading the spot foreign currency market" [http://www.whoisjamesdicks.com/publicationsForex.php]. 

Fox 31 TV in Denver [http://www.fox31news.com/_ezpost/data/6465.shtml] questioned the business approach of Dicks and his colleagues : 
"So the question remains if the software works so well - and is so easy - why aren't these guys sitting back making millions instead of selling you the software??"
and suggested that their operation is the "slickest con game in America - right now."

Senior MarketWatch columnist Chuck Jaffe attended a 4x Made Easy sales seminar and labeled it "Stupid investment of the week." [http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B56B6C727%2D156A%2D487B%2D907D%2D07EC1327D2A0%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=]

The alternative newspaper, The [[Houston Press]],[http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2006-02-02/news/sidebar2.html] in ''Who is James Dicks?'' (Feb. 2, 2006) states that "You can't help but feel bad for James Dicks.... Dicks had great difficulty answering questions about his work history. He also didn't know if he held active securities licenses.... Dicks admitted to being a defendant in fraud cases, but he did not know how many."

In a related story [http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2006-02-02/feature_2.html], the Houston Press states

"Dicks (previously) sold a forex system called Trade Signal Pro. His partners were two guys who had previously been accused by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of defrauding 175 investors out of $760,000. They had purchased a previous incarnation of Trade Signal Pro, called Currency Trading Systems. 

"One pitchman, Michael Stewart of Arizona, told audiences that he made mad money with the Currency Trading Systems when, according to his settlement with the CFTC, he actually lost $10,500 in the one year he used it. His co-defendants lost a combined $54,000 using the system. Stewart did not admit or deny any wrongdoing. 

"Dicks told Sparks and Thompson about Trade Signal Pro, and they added a similar product called 4X Made Easy. Dicks, Stewart and GlobalTec were sued by disgruntled 4XME buyers in a Denver court in 2004. 

"Dicks's deposition in that case is a fascinating glimpse into the world of hucksterism." 

He is reportedly the nephew of [[Charles Givens]] [http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2006-02-02/feature_3.html] who "wrote investment books with titles such as ''Wealth Without Risk'' and roamed the country selling suckers his get-rich secrets."


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