If you spend time on ET and read the posts you'll come to the conclusion there are real traders on here. As to sorting out trader from pretender and marketer that's on you, learn to read between the lines.
Who cares if people post trades? I think its fun. And no, the golden days of stochastics and T/A and fundamental analysis have not gone by the wayside. Just because someone posts an intraday trade without 10 charts and analysis doesn't mean that behind the scenes they haven't done that. Volatility merely provides an opportunity timing wise (ie intuition) to pounce on a certain stock that one has already done homework on. When you hear a song on the radio you don't think about the 100's of hours of takes, retakes, and editing that go into it do ya? No. You enjoy the song. So quit bitching and enjoy the music.
What is the point of having search box if people like you don't use it. Am thinking you a vendor trying to steal signals because if you a new trader you would not know what the "Golden years of trading" was using. Nice try.
Duh! The chicks in Uni were real, not the chicks in chatrooms. Pretty funny sometimes posing as chicks in various chatrooms!
Perhaps some people are posting so there can be a 'permanent record' of their trading activity so that they could use it for prospective employers? Perhaps prop-shops look here?
There are so many fake handles that the site administrators created that they are able to bully anything a 'real person' says right out of the building (see almost every response above). Much like how mainstream media operates. A better analogy is the 'real person' on this site is surrounded by a table full of 'teammates' working together like the golden days of online poker.