Do you think that you are smarter than PTJ? Have you been more profitable that PTJ? Are you also a billionaire?
Is that clear to you Bob? The strategy of selling services or charging commissions has a pretty good risk-reward, it's good action if you can get it
Again, I agree the vast majority of people apparently like yourself cannot develop a profitable system based on TA.
Hey, So you think that TA doesn't work. What does work? Are you free this evening for a little one-on-one mentoring? Do you have a service or system to sell?
Right we can't forget about the 98% failure rate, got it! well-a, lemme tell'ya, you show'd me! Geez that's like the 5th time you've told me that, bit of a broken record. How 'bouts you give us an answer to the question: Why does this subject evoke such an emotional reaction from you? Is this masking severe distress? Is it possible that secretly, subconsciously perhaps, you have deeeeep doubts?
Why do you and others continue to state that TA doesn't work? Do you have a profitable system? If yes; is the success rate 98% for the people who try to develop a system like yours? Can pretty much anyone do it?
He tried something else but it was not a major succes either: Trading the Ukrain Situation in Macro Markets He wrote: I am now short S&P futures, not feeling entirely confident but I am biasing the downside as having good odds. Time horizon is this week, will be closed before Friday jobs number for sure. No particular profit target, will manage according to market action and news flow next few days. Will put in a buy order at 1815 for next 24 hrs to capture a fast gain if it it is offered in a very short time frame, and drop it lower if warranted at a later time... He went short at the low of the week, his buy order was not touched and the market went rocket the other way. The blue arrow was friday when he would get out before jobs numbers. Maybe try to learn TA?
Hopefully you realize these types of threads are started by the same group of people. Best to put them on ignore instead of debating with them when you have you've found a way to use TA profitably with or with other stuff you're using. Especially considering most traders lose and TA as the reason for failure at trading profitably is at the bottom of the totem pole. I've now added another name to my ignore list...NoVoodooHere due to the association with others on my ignore list that either uses TA themselves or have supported other traders that are profitable and uses TA. Simply, they are hypocrites via what they do in their own trading or support TA outside of Elitetrader.com and/or support others as profitable traders while not acknowledging the person(s) are using TA versus the way they consistently bash TA at this forum. Its a psychotic behavior...merits having them on ignore. You also have the option of contacting Baron about this person but only if he/she starts other threads like this or hijacks other threads with a TA debate that has nothing to do with the thread title. P.S. Some of them have been bashing TA at this forum since they've joined this forum while continuing to support TA elsewhere. One of them posted broker statements of a profitable trader here at ET last year...a trader that uses TA with other stuff along with teaching it. He has defended this trader countless of times here at this forum and continue to do such. Simply, this psychotic behavior of bashing TA here and support it elsewhere is not just from the past...its current and will continue to be as such.