Well to be honest, you don't need to trade well to participate in ET, you just need to not act like your balls are golden and you know shit when don't know shit.
And how do you propose that gets accomplished? There’s so much crap that is posted with their internet balls and all.
I think most of the posters that are full of shit make it pretty clear with the crap they post. Lot of fluff talk and always getting hard ons over tiny profitable trades and disappear when they lose money, constantly looking for affirmation with their insecurities...as dest would say it is textbook. Surf was the main case you would see in all textbooks. Most of the best traders I have met here, which has been verified by talking in detail about positions and trades and getting to know them off site, do not post run on diarrhea posts with esoteric diaper filler. They are abrupt and to the point because trading is that way. Poets and fiction writers are not good traders they just write well and need their balls fluffed to feel better about themselves. people might think they are assholes but that is usually newbies who want the world to bend over for them without a reach around and think they are entitled to it. Screw them. Again, most of these posers have Neon signs hanging from their balls that say "You have sperm with more trading knowledge than me"
listen, I'm trying to be as unbiased as possible, I don't know about that smith stuff but time to time i was researching ross hook bars on various forums and on babypips there was an username who spoke about 1 2 3 formations and ross hooks and well the writing style did (imo) resemble xela. Regardless that info helped me there, and some other posts of xela about 1 2 3 formations and other stuff. Just my 2 cents , in no way im trying to defend xela or anyone here , but if I recall correctly those posts in babypips showed the same preferences of trading style as xela (and xela mentioned here that she used to trade 1 2 3 patterns in fx), aside from that user on babypips recommended the same authors as xela would. So there is some legitimacy in xelas well "internet identity".
Damnation has two posts... ostensibly been here forever and never posted. Works at Goldman. Just a coincidence. You lost us at babypips. So language that resembled Xela's writing helped you? Cool story, Bro. You're 110% legit. I'd like to punch a hole in the chests of sockpuppets. The Lukas V, Xela, damnation triangular arbitrage of likes. Two are banned. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/trading-the-1-2-3.322444/#post-4681192
I think if you bypassed Xe-liar and just went straight to Ross info you would learn a lot more without his shit filter. But since you have 2 posts you probably have the same sign on your balls I alluded to above.
dude i live in the balkans and well i don't post as much in forums, just a lurker. Well not necessarily the writing style just the bob volman book recommendations she/he mentioned. I would of stumbled across those books anyway in the future.