I've been a member of ET almost from the beginning and a few years ago Baron gave me permission to change my user name. Anyways, prior and until a few years ago, ET management and its moderators heavily moderated this forum that included deleting and heavily editing threads like this one. It was easy back then for moderating because moderators were active members and quickly responded to complaints by other members along with the moderators actively participating in just about every conversation here at ET. In fact, there was no chit chat threads, no political & religion threads, very little bashing that had resorted to personal attacks and so on. Some members used words for ET like dictatorship, run by a Nazi, violation of free speech but there were excellent trading discussions where folks actually shared openly their methods, consistently did live calls, consistently showed broker statements... That changed because to attract sponsors, Baron (ET owner) needed members to come back more often, click on threads, increase the bandwidth. Simply, Baron created a chit chat section that now includes soft pornography, created the political & religion thread, seldom delete & edit bashing threads unless its against/hurting financially one of his sponsors, a lot slower in removing spam to allow more bashing. Simply, the noise to trading discussion ratio has increased dramatically in comparison to yester-years to create a place where traders have more freedom of speech and put more dollars in Baron's pockets via the sponsors. My guess, eventually that well will run dry and ET will return to its prior years of glory where magazines like Barron (newspaper), Futures Magazine, Stocks & Commodities magazine called it one of the best forums for traders. It's been awhile since those financial newspapers and magazines have given ET such high praise. If you have doubts, there's a thread here at ET that Baron or one of the moderators pinned as a "sticky thread" that members listed all the great trading discussion threads and all the great ET members...most of those threads are now inactive and most of those members have long gone due to how ET has changed. P.S. At least ET had the guts to get rid of the guy that started a thread that including child pornography but it took a uproar by a few long standing members to get management to notice what was being posted underneath their roof.
There are all types of people in this world. Perhaps Barron could start a thread for the ultra sensitive but to what ? There is a warning on the politics forum for the over sensitive to steer clear ! Quite sufficient really. Don't be such a wimp !! No no it is much better to let rip and to hell with the consequences. Although at child porn and criminals I agree, draw the line. By all means bring back flogging imo.
Amused by what? Your dubious veteran status is the best you can come up with in this discussion? That's not a very cogent argument in any discussion and basically shows your insecurity. You have been here for ca 4 years and you have only 13 posts as of this point. Not really something to write home about. I have already straightened out one bigmiker like you in another thread where he was trying to defend a vendor that had made his home at the BMT forum. Guess what? Only a few days later that vendor was exposed as yet another questionable operator just like Fat Tails, a knock-off peddler and smear artist. I predict that one fine day your Bozo in Chief will get sued big time for Fat Tails' shenanigans. Or Fat Tails will be exposed there big time, but I doubt the Big Bozo will let this happen. You are amused? You are not even laughable!
I used to hang out here in 2002-2004, then moved to other things (business) as many people do. Back then it was a very liberal forum. At least, that's how I recall it. I cannot comment on other times, as I was hardly ever present here between 2005 and 2013, but ET has a pretty good liberal tradition that I personally appreciate a lot.
I would very much like this, please straighten me out, sugar. Yes I am am BM. I am also Fat tails. We are one and the same, didn't you know that ?
I have an "elite" membership on BMT. It's really been overall helpful. At best, it doesn't hurt. I don't get the beef about Fat Tails aka Harry Steinhaus. I don't see his vendor site advertised anywhere on the site. I don't even know what his site is. It just sounds like some folks here on ET have some personal beef with Fat Tails. Sorry if I missed it, but I hadn't seen some real proof of Fat Tails' "awful" crimes. Does he even make money from trading or his vendor site? If he doesn't and it's just a hobby, why is this so concerning? All I see on BMT is him sharing NT indicators in the basic free area as well as some in the elite area. He's done recent updates to them. He just seems like a coder , trading hobbyist, and well read in trading literature. Other than that I'm not sure what harm has he done much less involved with American indicator vendors.
Is Turnsignal on the list? They should be. They are a bunch of assholes. I decided to take a trial and was in the middle of a trade when all of a sudden about 18 error messages popped up and 8 browsers popped up. Took me 4 minutes to get out of my trade. I emailed the pricks and they said they found out I took a trial years ago. So, in the middle of my trade they turn off their crappy indicators and pop up all this crap in my face. BUT, for only $99 they will let me continue my FREE? trial and I can cancel in 2 weeks if I want to. They are too cheap to give a 2nd trial. I told them to screw off. If you want their indicators or something close enough with Ninja use: 2 moving averages. (one faster than the other) (5-ema, 30-wma) Donchian channel (middle one if you only want that one) (21) and or: Swing indicator. (3) T3 paintbar (Better than what ever they are using). (20) Either MacdColor or RSqueeze for an oscillator. (Macd 12,26,9) All of these are free if you can still find them. All they have done is tweaked these indicators and it is worse then these indicators that you can get for free.
No doubt, Big Mike Trading is a front for vendors and has no value to those who ARE, not want to be, professional traders. Mike is clearly a vendor--and a smart one at that--by getting good hearted indicator developers (some who clearly pirate, but that's another discussion) to post their work for free in the Elite section, which is now a whopping $100, so Mike can in effect collect revenue from those free indicators. All this happy horseshit under the guise of traders helping traders, giving back, or some other trite lingo used manipulate others to do your doing. I have known a few real traders who joined the forum. They were pros and knew the lay of the trading land. Each and every one of them got banned for no good reason. They were guilty of not agreeing with the neophyte crap Big Mike was spoon feeding the forum and they respectively disagreed. Mike only wants yes men in there--those who drink the BMT Kool-Aid. One of them asked Mike if he should give himself the "Vendor" designation under his moniker because Mike was selling subscriptions to a system on Collective2. Mike was highly promoting oil systems in a forum thread. Two days later the guy was locked out. And, of course, the system blew up and Mike killed it and the thread. Bottom line: Big Mike is a slimeball who lost his money trading a few years ago causing his wife to divorce him and leave him with that mutt he uses as an avatar. Having no money nor a pot to piss in, he came with the idea of the forum to charge members $50 for other people's indicators and a Saint Theresa come on of "I'm here to help you become a winning trader and this forum is different than all the others." His largest source of revenue know if from Vendors who give webinars and have these bullshit threads entitled "Ask me Anything" who give kickbacks to Mike for each BMT member who buys their products. I have access to most of the so called "Elite" indicators none of which are not protected by any copyright laws and in the public domain. They are free for the asking.