That's easy. Just read their past posts. The problem is ... there are many fakes who sound like genuines. If one is good enough to recognize an elitetrader, he is probably an elitetrader himself and does not require further help anyway.
I'm sure you are right. I'm also pretty sure there are kind people out there who are willing to help out the "losers" here. It is unfortunate many of them get discouraged by some of the unfriendly characters here.
Eh, just get tired of the constant bs and lies. The unfriendly wouldn't be able to influence a profitable trader.
The newbies will not be able to distinguish bullshit and genuine good advice. The profitable trader will simply leave this forum thanks to the unfriendly and the losers will be the elite losers.
I've yet to encounter a forum with more professionals and diversity of traders. There are lots of forums with lots more charts, indicators, general trading ideas and holy grails of the week, and that is helpful too, at the start of retail-level at least. But when you've tried it all, you need some guidance, not a holding hand necessarily, but just a general direction from someone who's walked the walk themselves. Sometimes, all you need is a old grumpy rant, you can read as much or as little into anything. Some directions resonate with yourself at a period, while at another period, you just don't get anything of it, especially at the start. You see the same in real life, in work situations and in organizations. Experienced people tend to be dismissive, less helpful and even unfriendly, often because they don't have to and are accustomed to their ways. Such environments, while uncomfortable to newcomers, can actually be strong indication of experts and specialists. What works in real life also works online. Just ignore any negativity and give focus where there's some value. Some things they will never get, some things you will never get. Very, very few manage to be friends with everybody. Also most of activity here is idle chat, while doing homework or other analysis. Something to pass the time while waiting for backtests or while contemplating what ie. "anticipation" may actually mean for trading, knowing such contemplation will not be directly profitable, but again lead to new and better enquiry. As with most forums, there are lots of trolls and people looking for freebies. There's a need to provide value, and that will often have unexpected value in and of itself. "Those who can't, teach", while often said in disrespectful ways, has genuine positive meanings and true value as well.
There's some degree of truth in all of that, of course, but I'm not convinced that it's any more true of this forum than it is of several others. I must admit that my attitude to the forum, its contents and its members has gradually been changing, to some extent, over recent months. For the first six months or so after I joined and started posting a little, I thought much the same as some others who have posted above. More recently, I've come to realise (as they've gradually contacted me by private message/thread) that there are actually several long-term, successful intraday traders here (some of them institutional and/or ex-institutional traders) who are never seen because they don't post. Some have almost never posted; others used to a long time ago, stopped (I think for quite a variety of different reasons) and are still "here invisibly" and interacting with people, as I find myself now doing, to some extent. In short, there's a little more going on here than meets the eye (and I mean that in a good way). In my experience of several different trading forums, over the years, as my own trading career's gradually progressed, I've done a lot of thinking, specifically about "trading forums and their moderation policies", but the only firm conclusion I've really drawn is that there's inevitably something of an inherent conflict - given the business model of "running a forum" and its monetization - between the interests of its management and those of some of its members ... and that this issue is partially resolved in different ways by different forums. I'm not trying to imply that there's anything particularly "bad" (or "good") about that: that's simply "the way it is".
Perhaps she is, but in the 11 years i worked as a software engineer i never met a hot one. Maybe things have changed these days.
The only lucky, scoring trader is Bubba One weekend, the husband is in the bathroom shaving when the kid he hired to mow his lawn, a local kid named Bubba, comes in to pee. The husband slyly looks over and is shocked at how immensely endowed Bubba is. He can't help himself, and asks Bubba what his secret is. "Well," says Bubba, "every night before I climb into bed with a girl, I whack my penis on the bedpost three times. It works, and it sure impresses the girls!" The husband was excited at this easy suggestion and decided to try it that very night. So before climbing into bed with his wife, he took out his penis and whacked it three times on the bedpost. His wife, half-asleep, said, "Bubba? Is that you?"
Post a very recent full-size pic if you're not an internet fatty I'm an Aerospace engineer and also from CA If you've been dating only p*ssies in CA and are thoroughly disgusted with the lack of masculine men, get a load of Joe aka Ntwadumela below - come to Papa