Brandon, your point is well taken. But it begs the question: Where are the customers' yachts? I do not dispute the vendor marketing model. Evidently it works, and it works very well in the hands of some vendors. That they may not necessarily be providing much in the way of value while raking in some serious money may be a dream come true for some people, but not necessarily for others. However, an honest assessment of the content in Pabst's article does not yield flattering results. I never suggested he won't make money with his enterprise. Rather, as a trader exchanging views with other traders on these boards, I think we can all agree that Pabst added nothing to the existing body of knowledge already in the public domain. It's just another in the long line of "me too" articles. That was my principal point. Perhaps Pabst will add some genuine value down the road to his "gold level" subscribers or whatever, but presently I am merely calling generic content for what it is among ourselves. Fair enough?
Are you wearing your doofus hat again? Reducing the complex into simple terms is the height of elegance. However, this has nothing to do with the discussion at hand. We are addressing content and the complete lack of it in any original form.
i want to see some Pabst's secrets revealed! on the order of: "How I Made 3 Million in the Stock Market!"
I have made it clear both in this thread and others that I have no intention of sharing original (proprietry) content. What I am doing is simply identifying generic content for what it is. Tell me, KTS, if you have been trading for a while and have already read some trading literature, what have you learned from Pabst's article that you did not already know?
So you see a glut of insights like this? Do an ET search on the ISEE and you'll see that i'm probably the only person here who has mentioned it. Yet it's a VERY useful tool-used by discretionary fund traders and something that enabled me to do extremely trading ES on the break. http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/options/how_to/articles/-77152.cfm
I try to limit my comments on what I know. I have never traded options and have no intention of doing so any time soon. Therefore, I am not qualified to comment on your options-related material.
HALF the articles I wrote are on options DOOFUS. So in other words you're so friggin' duplicitous that you pollute my thread with inane comments that my articles are banal and unintellectual when by your own admission you don't even UNDERSTAND some of the subject matter? I was too generous in not thinking that your motive here was a grudge based on our political differences. Now I know that to be the case. Actually EVERY flamer on this thread opposes my political views. Too funny that a libertarian anti-Obamaite is the odd man out on a trading forum.
I do not normally visit any other trading sites. The only articles of yours that I have read were the ones for which someone, invariably surf, provided a link. As a matter of course, if any material has to do with options, yours or anyone else's, I simply skip it. In this thread, I refer to the stuff I have not skipped and, specifically, to your latest noble effort. I never said that your articles were "unintellectual." (Although who am I to argue with your assessment?) However, "banal" (your word) is right on the money. Maybe your options-related articles are in stark contrast to the banality of your other articles. I couldn't say. However, if I had to bet a dollar, I'd guess you haven't broken any new ground there either. Perhaps a few options traders would like to weigh in and comment on whether they learned something they didn't already know. As an aside, Pabst, I find it fascinating that you would revert to your usual thuggery even in a thread that might have some marketing value for you. Perhaps it has something to do with the self-sabotage concept that you touched on in your article? Regardless, you are one complex carbohydrate.