Savage, Without content, you've got nothing to read so why not share something informative and enlightening which us before you slag of others who are trying add something constructive here. Figure it out dude. Runningbear
I like Aphie's posts. They're a refreshing change from the usual "you're an asshole" "no I'm not" shit that many of these threads degenerate into after a while. A lot of great posts, especially the moving averages thread. Keep up the good work, Aphie. And if you don;t like reading his posts then there's a little wheel in the middle of your mouse that scrolls downwards, you know.
First, let me start with saying this -- I could care less what you think. There is an "ignore" feature on this board -- I'm sure many have used it on me already. That's life. Some people naturally dislike others. However, it isn't my job to come here to be liked. Second, I start serious discussions. I try to contribute to this community. I lurked this board before I started posting, and it was mainly filled with a bunch of rambling arguements, egotistical thrashing and verbal assaults. Nobody was really talking about trading, so I started my presense here on the controversial side by stating I would turn 5k into 1 million. That really got people itching to hammer at me -- which was quite a riot at the time. However, since then, I've done nothing but try to discuss trading, call people at their bullshit and keep things focused on one thing -- trading and having a good time. If you can't do both, why come here to read and post? It shouldn't be all academic, but a few posts should talk about trading every once in the while. No, I am not going to get my "assed kicked." I am going to tread water and keep from drowning the first several weeks. Over the next few months, I will learn and adapt to the market -- like I have done with every other challenge in my life. One year from now, I guarantee you will be begging me to give you tips on how I trade. Is that egotistical of me to say? No, I am just confident in my abilities -- both mental, analytical and adaptive. To me, the market paints a new picture every day. As a trader, I look at it more and more as an art and less of a science. It is my job to take the painting as it progresses and determine the style of the current day's painting. Is it a Rembrant, Picasso -- perhaps a Monet? I must then adapt to the market and "be with the market" and place myself in a position to move with the market with absense of fear, hesitation and concern of failure. I will make bad trades. I will have losing days. I may lose my entire 5k the first time around -- but make no mistakes about this, Savage, I am not going anywhere. I am determined to be patient with myself and the market and take whatever babysteps are necessary to adapt to the environment of trading. I will learn to recognize myself as a person better through doing so. -------------------- You have every right to read whatever posts you find noteworthy, but let me tell you this -- you are in no position to judge who will fail as a trader and who will succeed. Your only right is to ignore me if you so choose -- believe me, I will not lose any sleep over it. I will continue to exist here, evolve, grow and learn more. Perhaps in months or years down the road, I will become a market wizard. Perhaps I will not -- but the most important thing for me is to say that I gave it my heart and soul and I was passionate about doing it -- and for those reasons, I could never truly fail -- only lose money.
What's the deal? He is probably a lot smarter them many of you in the fact that he didn't just dive in and start trading and think "I will just learn as i go." Just because many of you lost money doing that, don't be mad at him. He is doing the best he can so that when he does start trading he will have an edge. I wish I would have done this!! He posts a lot, because he wants to learn and share what he learns, and theres nothing wrong with that!! When he feels he is fully prepared, he will start trading real money and we will see if his hard work will pay off. I will bet that it will! in the mean time, Aphie as far as I'm concerned post as many times a day as you want. And for the guys who don't like it, you probably need to work on you trading strategy instead of spending time bitching about something as pitiful as this! Kyle
Aphie - Stop taking the bait. Specifically the stuff pertaining to your success or lack thereof when you start trading. That sort of argument will mess with your mind - even if you think it doesn't.
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take the painting as it progresses and determine the style of the current day's painting?????????? I must say I find it amazing the trading wisdom I see in the above quote came from a 25 year old with basically no trading experience. In my opinion, aphie has been asking some very mature, insightful, interesting questions recently. Certainly a refreshing change from the arguments about God, Jesus & 97% proof of the second coming that have taken place in the TRADING FORUM lately. Questions like color shading for volume in candlesticks? His questions concerning a perfect moving average etc. and the discussion they have generated I have found interesting and thought provoking. These are the same type of probing, searching questions Larry Williams was asking in 1982 when I was first introduced to him (No I'm not implying he was asking me anything. Hell, at that time I barely knew up from down, but I have a friend who has sold some of his ideas to Larry.) Personally I don't think Larry is the sharpest tack in the box. In fact he says he is just an old DOS guy that used Genesis and others to convert his stuff to windows. But I do believe Larry is a master at sorting the wheat from the chaff, determining what is important and what is not, and being able to ask the right questions. I see a bit of this raw talent in some of aphie's questions and approach. Gordon G. I haven't forgotten I owe you a PM when I get some time.