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I am forced to admit, ole Timmy had me fooled but in my defense, I don't care who is for real and who isn't. ET is a water cooler to shoot the breeze but it's been a hell of an interesting water cooler in recent days. Thanks for stirring up the reality show Des...good stuff.

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Yep, I remember and didn't he cover a position with a different instrument?

Although the idea of Surf attacking you is pretty comical. The guy couldn't tell a long from a short if you gave him next weeks chart.

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I personally don't care if someone is for real or not but that guy turned my stomach.

Xela said she was Maltese but living and trading in London.

Yes but of course in the Turtles case, Dennis and Eckhardt put together a group to mentor in order to prove they could turn them into traders.

The Turtle performance began to degrade when the market changed personality and they didn't know how to adjust...a lesson many of us learned the hard way.

It was not directed at you Fred. I was addressing two points which come up often in here. 1 That a decent "strategy" can be simply defined lacking the cognition of the trader who built it and 2 copying a strategy (given the possibility) weakens it. If number 1 was reality, trading would be...

Trading strategies are the endpoint not a starting point and are developed only after taking the extensive effort to understand and recognize price development. THEN can a strategy be formulated and tested. The notion of "buy when this happens and sell when this" is the stuff of snake oil...

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the back or an idiot from any direction.

Buffet is 87 and still works, some of us enjoy trading and yes, sometimes nap.

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on." - Henry Rollins

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies." -Alexander Pope

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

She's got plenty of both. (Double entendre only noted later)

Glad you got a piece...not much meat on a 6 1/2 point bone.