Shame! Fie upon you, Jack Hershey! How small minded of you in your defininition of a "local problem!" I have a client who is also a critic of yours. He proudly says to me "I am a steward of the earth!" When I point out to him that he cannot be a steward of the entire earth, he clarifies "Well, of my little third acre." When I ask, and how do you shepherd your third acre, he swells his breast and says "I make a home for myself, a current wife, her disagreeable cat, a score of doves, a family of ungrateful squirrels, several bushes full of sparrows, a chimney full of swifts, several rat snakes, a few hummers, countless lizards, my share of the neighborhood's roving raccoons and 'possums, the mangy pack of coyotes that rip up my garbage, one lone teenaged cougar, a brace of rabbits, tens of thousands of fire ants, ravens who get their vitamin C out of my compost bins, and songbirds who refuse to sing until I feed them. Oh, and the occasional rat, which I promptly kill." THAT is a LOCAL problem! Such a man, bad or not, deserves your largess because he is a steward of the earth! I think that in Tucson nothing thrives but cacti, so I can perhaps forgive your oversight. The LOCAL man buys birdseed and rabbit food and puts out water for the animals. And feeds the current wife and her disagreeable cat! That costs money Jack!
I'll take that as a yes that you are "remote pedantic and socially inept." It is little wonder that you do not like me. How aggravating it must be to be criticized by your mirrored self. And I am crushed that you did not see my loving gift to you. I only have twenty aliases, Jack! Get on the ball! Monitor them all! Get out those three-ring binders and start printing! I can tell when I am on to something because when I post a major discovery in jocular fashion (or is that jockular, I forget), I receive ZERO response from ET! ZERO!
A 20 pound bag of wild bird seed is 8 bucks here. I buy 100 pounds a trip plus one 15 dollar block. A bag lasts 3 days. A lot of vets live on the desert and even more live here as homeless. Our parks work really well here. Its about 108 now so people do stay in the shade. I make sure out irrigation for our citrous grove leaks.
I like you. We decided not to work together. It would have been cool for you to edit a five book suite for Prentice Hall.
Take care, my friend. Sometimes the wild animals bite. And the wild humans. I pay 14 for a 40# bag at Lowes. It takes a lot to make me cry, but last winter in the middle of the day we saw a young wildcat munching on birdseed, it was so hungry. So now I snare and stake out baby rabbits for them. And to whichever of the four or more of you who responded to me, I thank you. "Citrous" as priceless!
Jack, I am too fond of you ever to attempt to work with you. The instant you saw my trading screen you would fall blank-eyed to the floor frothing at the mouth and hemmorhaging from the nose. You led me such a merry chase all those years ago that I fell into a deep extended coma and woke up with a new vision of market action. It incorporates much of what you tried to teach me, but off at insane tangents. Volume? I have a volume that you would say is not volume. DOM? I have a DOM that isn't a DOM. Rockets? Mine are like an owl leaping off of a slender branch. Leading indicators? I have the ring in the hog's nose. Breakouts? Which fail and which continue? You are too virtuous to divine the difference. Evil has it's virtues. BTW, I did write a book which is still in print nearly forty years later, so I appreciate your accomplishment with your architecture book. To write a book which may outlive you is quite a legacy. Disregard all I said if the elemental conjoined mind reading this is not the real Jack. Sycophants are syckening.
What is difficult will eventually becomes a muscle memory after time with enough practice. There are 2 things to work on. 1. The analysis 2. The execution. (THIS IS THE HARD PART) But once you perfect #2 your trading will become silky smooth. If the execution is poor it either isn't an edge or your trading doesn't fit your personality.
I had trouble for a while because of that last part. My solution was to cultivate a separate "trading personality". This personality pulls me aside and says to me in a kind and loving voice, "When I take control of your hand to place this order, just look away for a few seconds and it won't hurt a bit."