I predict that Woodie will use the excuse of all the criticisms of his room and practices to start charging a fee for attendance in his room. In this way he can wash his hands of the charge of being just another guru profiting from the ignorance of desperate newbie traders and blame all this 'hurtful' criticism as having forced his hand into this 'necessary' action. He will then have another source of lucrative income to add to the tradealong fees and any contributions from charting and internet companies.
Then we could call Woodie and any other free Chat rooms that begin to charge fees, the charlatans that they are....instead of hiding behind the cloak of "good" The quest for fame, will destroy him, as it has many others... Real Traders should be independant thinkers, and Woodies Chatroom is counter-productive to independant thought and the rest of the world of trading. Any momentum indicator will do, there is absolutly no magic behind the CCI lagging indicator. LOL...Go to Chicago, and get in a trading room, and tell them you got your training at "The Good Woodie Room" oh lol too funny...I'm in tears...but not the same tears Tampa's wife is experiencing... I see a new movie here..."The old man and the feminist trading woman, hit the big city" or how about..."I got a Good Woodie for Woman's Rights"
You are quite right Electric - the behaviour of Woodie's cult members and their treatment of Tampa and his wife is disgraceful and should be condemned by Woodie. I know Woodie reads all comments about his room including this one. In this paranoid search of the net to unmask all 'offenders', he has been known to join rooms using aliases. The existence of that paltalk room called 'We Don't Need No Stinkin CCI' must have driven him crazy - particularly as most of it's members were former Woodies room members Such behaviour is another symptom of cult behaviour - blind unquestioning defense of the 'cause'. Any chance of an apology?
Look it, I'm getting really tired of all this cult talk! Enough is enough already! now I have to go because zoltan called this morning (aka woodie) and told me to prepare the fluids because the mothership is in desperate need of a lube job and we can't risk the journey to pluton 5 (aka Arizona) with a dry turbo 7. You earthlings are so weak, all this time you thought that the ZLR, Shamu, Ghost and Platue Trades where just trading set ups. When in fact we have been secretly sending coded messages back to pluton 5 for the destruction of your stock and futures markets .... HAHA! Now that the cat is out of the bag you may well as know the truth. Woodies cci room will take ALL the profits from the markets in 2005 and leave the rest of you with NOTHING. Then, we plan on giving 20% of all these profits to Make a Wish foundation so that the EVERY sick child in the world will rise up and be cured, thereby overrunning the government because of it's stupidity and misuse of our health care system.... If ONLY this where true!
I have read this entire thread. My condolences goes out to your Wife, Tampa. To Tampa's Wife: Honey don't let this stuff bother you. It seems rather personal, but don't let these haters get under your skin, your better than that. Breaking away from a cult and the deprogramming involved, will pose quite a challenge to you, so you need your strength, to help Tampa. We are all behind you here at ET..Go girl... As far as Woodies room, I was actually thinking of joining it, but these hard girls known as Buffy, Angela, Gio ...etc...are simply disgusting. Hey ladies, why don't you be the men that you want to be, and at least call your trades honestly in the room! I want no part of you..... Wifey
It would appear that I owe a public apology to the members of Woodieâs CCI Club whom I accused of flooding me with obscenity laden messages. A closer reading of same shows that they came from patrons at a recent yard sale we held. I regret this misunderstanding. To those of you who expressed concern that the untimely missiles had brought the wife to tears, you may find comfort in the knowledge that she is answering each and every one of the filth laden messages in kind.
Iâve reached a stage, a point, a crossroads â whatever you want to call it â in my âcareerâ, and I donât know if I should be happy or sad about it. For most of the time Iâve been at this, I firmly believed that I was just a book, or a seminar, a software program, or maybe even a chat room away â away from making it. Of course deep down inside I knew better, but a person can hope, canât he? I believed that some kind soul would tell me how itâs done â divulge all the secrets. Along the way I ran in to a snake oil salesman or two, a few people whoâs ideas were so convoluted I never understood what they were saying, and probably more than a handful who had good intentions and something worthwhile to pass on. I remember ordering books, and all but standing out by the curb waiting for the FedEx truck to come by â or signing up for a seminar, and counting the days until it began. But I canât remember âdiscoveringâ the secret â the surefire, canât miss secret. A reasonable man would have concluded that it was all a waste of time, effort and money â and maybe it was. I guess there really isnât any secret to it â aside from hard work and common sense. In some ways thatâs disillusioning â in others itâs like being set free. That old grump who threw me out of his room was always saying âfind something that speaks to you.â Heâs right of course. It sounds a bit simplistic, but itâs undeniably true. So Iâve reached that stage, that point, that crossroads that should have been obvious a long time ago â the realization that at some point you have to stop looking for help, and just rely on yourself to finish putting the puzzle together. Itâs at once liberating and at the same time frightening â but itâs the way it isâ¦
Quote from hypostomus: ...occurred when I realized that beyond a certain point I would have to teach myself.