These are good ideas. The issue on elite is that all vendors understand that this is a fertile market full of folks with cash to burn. (Heck, i made close to $5000 selling an old video tape). Therefore, it attracts vendors of all levels. Many of these cant afford to pay the rightfully high advertising rates so they become stealth vendors. Some being smart enough to build a great reputation before slipping up and letting everyone know they sell a $5 ebook or whatever. Believe it or not, my estimate is this is 15% or more of the active et user base. These people get very angry when they are exposed since their cash cow has been threatened. One stealth vendor even tried to sue me for exposing him. We shut that fella down immediately. This is the sad but true case. The most angry and vicious posters are likely failed stealth vendors. surf
I don't see why it is a given. I'm very suspicious of the fractal idea with regard to intraday time frames and bigger time frames.
Sorry to hear that MoneyTrust. You're one of the few worth reading around here. Hope you change your mind.
After a month or so away, I realize that I handled this situation the wrong way. I meant every word I said about there being some extreme annoyances on this site, however, my objective here is to communicate with other traders and not to worry about destructive individuals...numerous as they may be. In hindsight, I now see that leaving here isn't the solution, especially when I take into consideration that I got a lot from this site. And to Baron, you're wrong in that I view ET as a classroom as some sort. I have my trading method and it's proven highly accurate, therefore I don't need anyone here to teach me anything as far as technique and analysis. What I meant by learning is that pragmatic experience and this place seems to have become overwhelmingly negative over the past year or so. For the naysayers and shit talkers, I'm actually gonna start a journal in the beginning of 2016 or maybe sooner to prove my point.
YOu ever scroll back through the journal forum? You and 100,000 others started a thread where you were going to make millions only to stop posting and hope that no one ever mentions the thread again. Look, don't sweat it and go trade your ass off until you make a fortune or until you are sleeping in the alley behind a liqour store (I got the cubby hole behind the fence with the cardboard bed, so don't even think about sleeping there or I'll cut your ass). It ain't negative here, it's just realistic.
You got 135 likes and I only got 11? Where the fook is the justice? If Lenin was here he would give me half of your likes.
Actually, I made a thread after my journal thread explaining what went wrong. I had no problem making correct calls, my problem was that I didn't see the trades all the way through as I planned. http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/letting-your-winners-run.288958/