I have a set of scales on my desk to remind me how equally divided opinions are and keep my bias neutral. This applies to bulls and bears and also to believers non-believers. No matter what you post for proof, half the people will not believe it.
i have pictures of naked chicks on my desk...to remind me of how nice boobies look....this applies to fake ones as well as natural ones...
Over a lot of years in emailing or posting there have been a spectrum of ways to show what is going on and also to provide what people request as proof. Sometimes it gets quite elaborate. People wanting proof have imposed upon third parties even to view whatever. In localities where people get to know each other or even visit on occasion, it is entirely different. There the time is available to work during market hours, etc.. The before and after effect is something else. Seeing a person who has converted a method to language, trade the software, and then after a session (4 1/2 hours of real time critique), seeing a 20% increase in performance from the tweaking. I have had older people make up to ten tapes of me and their kids trading under the circumstances that the kids were going from rocket traders to expert level sharing of market activities. When a such a team s playing it is possible to run some interesting annotations that really hone in on the future bounds of the price path. Having it on tape to debrief and review is very self supporting. Several other really persuasive things come under providing reports in advance of stock moves (email fax whatever). Doing beta programs for upcoming commercial software,etc. OT I work in the profession of consulting on precious metals recovery in both complex and straight ores. In, particular the patent owner of one of the better processes, will not let the potential usuer look in the black box. It is very easy to settle the "proof" of the black box. We simply get samples of fully processed ores and run them through the black box and give them the additional recovery. In ET it is not possible to give the person requiring proof or something anything he needs to see the difference in his performance and yours. People who seek proofs are not dealing in learning at all. They are dealing in being right and making you wrong by their mythical criteria. They get to be right and not learn to do what you do and you get to do what you do and not have to help them anymore. I have started an IBD MeetUp group in Tucson. Our objective is to share and enrich each other. I know this is very unusual since their are no people trying to be right. several of us take on assignments to produce handouts (and electronic copies too) for dealing with "requested" topics. If someone wants to learn about a topic, they ask; then another person who knows agrees to present. There is a caveat, I guess. most of us know the others address and the life style. I pay for the meetup and the first round of drinks and do all the leg work for getting meetings done...lol. The most noticable thing is that most people can "read" others and most people are very interested in doing better. This is a hange from the "being right" that is the imprimatur of ET. Its not going to change.
No, I think most posters here at ET are guys. Not too many boobs posting here from what I can tell...
I always wondered if there is limit to how much BS one can put in a single post. After reading some posts in this thread, I believe now that such a limit does not exist. BTW, I have already made 100 ES pts today. I accomplished that by splitting the ticks and slaloming between fractions of these ticks. Yes, it took me some time to learn it. Some 10 minutes, I guess. Splitting ticks is nor that difficult, but you must have Merlin and Smurfs on your team. Actually, Smurfs only look over my shoulder here, but Merlin was really instrumental. He says that splitting ticks is only the beginner level. Once you apply frog tails (do frogs really have tails, or did he mean 'fractals'!?) you can go over 1000 ES pt a day. Gee, don't know what to think about it, but Smurfs claim that they know one guy who does just that... Well, you want the log? Sorry guys, I could give you a few good excuses why I will not post it here, but since posting these excuses would take me longer than posting the log, I decided against it too. You either believe me or you are morons. Obviously, you are morons, so why bother with you anyway, and why post the damn log either. You see, I proved that posting the log here made no sense from the very beginning...