The newbies are everywhere and the seasoned traders dont like to be disturbed, it is what it is. Careful with pay rooms, they are no different, the blind leading the blind.
It seems to me that the worst thing to have, would be to have a bunch of folks doing nothing. If you have a lot of inexperienced folks making lots of mistakes, then that actually provides information, especially if they talk or gripe about it. As Seinfeld once said ... “If everything you do is wrong….then the opposite would be right.” Hmm, I don't get a lot of "likes" either . Perhaps too many posts in the Politics forum ?
ET is a melting pot of different characters, here visiting for a vast number of reasons. We are all going to die one day, we came with nothing, we go with nothing, but it would be good to think the majority felt they would like to leave earth having contributed something which was helpful to others. Even the act of scolding someone can be construed as positive if it has the effect of getting an annoying git to pull their head in a tad from mindlessly polluting ET with garbage.
I find newer traders won't do the work, or they won't post their charts like they discovered an ATM after a few years, LOL...so if you want help-post charts and more experienced traders will take a look and help with how to correct or improve. But to come here and ask for books or fastest indicators is waste of time as they didn't use "search" in upper right. I have learned more from this forum than most of the books I have read in my life of trading, but it takes time to read posts. At least 7-8 hours a week I spend going into older posts and reading them.
Yep, the current (newish) poster who is poluting ET with hundreds of questions and posts, imo, is just bloody lazy. Google can be used, even for searching on ET, throw the question on Goog with 'Elitetrader' in the equation and "voila". No need to ask basic TA queries on this board as it will have been discussed a hundred times previously.
It's not that it's not heard; it's more of it won't be understood. Look at how hard those traders tried to educate and/or warn others about the upcoming financial crisis before it happened in that movie "The Big Short" and look how they were treated. I mainly come here for the socialization aspect. I agree trading is a very lonely sport; it's great to go to a place I can "meet" like-minded people who are doing the same thing as I do and exchange ideas and learning new things. And there is ALWAYS something that you can learn from people no matter their "experience" level. And I don't mind helping people, sharing my experience with people and hopefully they won't make the same mistakes as I made and achieve success faster. We all started as newbies.
We are ALL going to die one day??!!!! ALL??!!! I thought I am immortal!!! You think you would know if ppl talked about your contribution on earth, erected statues in your honour after you have passed on?? Are we going to have an after-life? Because if we do, does it matter what we do now? Cuz we would always have a chance to do better in our after-life...
Much of trading can be taught. Much can't. It's like driving a car. Sure you can learn the rules of the road from a book. But after that.....How can a newbie be taught when not to trade? What a "clean/reliable" trend looks like? Trading is half science, half art. Easy to do when the markets are moving heavy. Hard to do when they're chopping. Good luck in the chop (it can last awhile....). And those big trends? Sometimes you won't be around to catch them....