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All human perversions from cannibalism to pederasty confer some survival benefit under some set of extreme circumstances, or they wouldn't remain in our racial repertoire. Your time just hasn't come. And may not in this life. Have patience.

Well, Nkhoi, a point of this thread, as with many of my threads, is to get "traders" talking. It usually becomes evident quickly if they are merely theorists who do not trade at all. Conversely, subtle remarks can indicate otherwise. Ambiguities, which is what we have so far, merely skirt the...

The real test comes when Seedy starts getting specific as to theory and method. So far he has given us mostly rhetorical questions without the question marks. No one who is not a Jack fan could possibly recite the catechism without becoming ill. And it is still possible that Seedy is sincere...

I would not be so sure. On the one hand, Jack historically likes to go away and lick his wounds, and come back incorporating some of the criticism into his method, long enough later that many people have forgotten what he used to say. On the other, if I am picking up the drift, CD23 is talking...

To the best of my recollection, CD23, you did not post an illustration of your quadripartite approach. Perhaps one is in order to further discussion? As an aside on the Tillson, a motivation for its creation was to handle gaps better. Any fool less clever would simply restart his preferred...

Excellent, Kiddo! If Nkhoi is right, and it is a bot, it's a clever bot. The use of the word "glance" for example. And the phrase "not many people". Pure Jack. But the quality of the orthography varies from too smooth to not rough enough. And the essential pontifical ranting nature somehow is...

Pointy, I think you haven't been a stoont of Jack as long as I have. There were long stretches in his career where he was barely coherent, much less consistent. But I will admit that CD23's post in general are a little too smooth. That said, there are idioms in CD23's posts which do not appear...

Cokie, the late misfortunate Hypostomus has has his screen name changed to Hyposthumous, so he can post from the grave. It was always a close call who would come back first, him or Jack, proving which was the greatest attention whore, as if there was really any doubt bost on the average post length.

Excellent observations, Nkhoi. But you chided me that CD23 is an im-poster.

A great new game is afoot on ET. Is CD23 a new pseudonym for Jack Hershey, or is CD23 a fabulous mimic? At stake is my oft-made assertion that aliases cannot help but revel themselves through their preferred vocabulary, their idiosyncratic syntax, and their individually distinctive cadence. For...

Timbo, you raise a vaid point. If you would care to dialogue with me on why this thread disappoints us both, I will start a new thread here titled "Why You Will Never Learn Anything Useful on ET". Are you with me?

Illegitimatus, were I, as a former and current millionaire, to select a Christian Bale video clip, it would be from American Psycho. Certainly a more appropriate choice for this venue. What would you learn were you a millionaire? Having been one, and being one again, I can say that in the...

My dear Illiteratus (and obviously proud of it), what your maudlin thread tells us is that you do not have a million dollars. When you do, you will understand.

Maxie, the trick is to start a Hershey thread. Then Jack's post in response runs on for two days by itself. Glad you got your head together.

For many years now I have been observing the phenomenon of postings about the trading method known as SCT. From the perspective of years, one conclusion leaps out. It is intolerant of honest scepticism by aspiring accolytes. A prime example is Nwbprop, if you remember him. The latest stellar...

Are there days you weary of ET? Fear for the financial prospects of its members? But secretly gloat that as your trading partners they are dumber than you? For me, that is every day. But today more so than most. Let us take the disparagement by the SCT crowd of what Jack calls "the...

It falls to me to conclude this pseudo-neo-Platonic-quasi-Humean dialogue. It is our preferred mode of communication with the outside world because it is how we communicate in our own head. What you just read took longer to type than to think, because everybody talked over each other, not unlike...

Therefore we must conclude that it never permits you to countertrend trade in its time frame. I hadn't thought of that as a benefit.

I forgot to mention that RST does not ask you to draw any lines on the chart. Do you think price pays any attention to the imagined significance of any annotations you might make?

We now have a provisional name for this phenomenally (if wholly adventitiously) successful system: RST (Ridiculously Simple Trading). The ridiculous part I am sure you get. But the simple? You will note the near complete absence of anything that looks like technical analysis, which we already...