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Continuing with my assessment of the B-Team, I am disturbed by a general tone of self-righteousness, reminiscent of the prohibitionists. They seem to want to save the A-Team from "demon guru" whether they wish to be saved or not. They appear to believe that the trading method smacks of a...

Thanks to all for the civility exhibited so far. I have taken some time to examine both camps, reaching the following conclusions. 1) The guru's detractors seem to be few in number, once one discounts the multiple aliases and banned posters who have reappeared like cockroaches 2) The...

As to my impartiality, it might surprise you to know that I avidly and carefully read every one of said guru's posts, and every thread pertaining to him, especially Spydertrader's futures thread. I have applied his ideas in the past, and continue to do so, with necessary adaptations to my own...

Let me kick off discussion by pointing out the obvious: the B-Team is manifestly immature, obsessed and rabid. The A-Team, while somewhat sophomoric, displays more restraint and moderation. On the whole I find them rather more appealing as a group. My hypothesis is that we are dealing with...

Dr. Deco pronounces himself quite weary of the whole alleged debate, and has in any case clearly come down on one side. He therefore asked me, as a disinterested party, to accede to your request. Kindly see the new thread "Guru Abreaction" in Psych. I strongly caution both "Teams" to comport...

ET is a veritable vegetable soup of psychoses. That is certainly no original observation. But lately we have been seeing increasingly venomous attacks directed at a certain prominent figure here, who seems to be a lightning rod for disturbed individuals. Now I know that the temptation of the...

So right, Art. Belief IS everything...Credo in Unum Jackum... And ET is if anything hypoanalytical.

I like this game! Theoretical: 1797 Empirical: 750.

Speaking of madness, dear friend, I thought I was dreaming when I read that twenty ETer's made the pilgrimmage to the Holy City of Tucson last weekend, a Hershey Hajj, as it were. But I was not dreaming, the post is still there this morning. I am reminded of one of the few true things that...

Indeed, PTR, they do collectively have a passive quality to them. They like to be told what to do. Let's don't go there.

I am minded, Art, of another delusion I had previously unminded. That is the delusion, extraordinarily popular among the crowd of novice traders, that intuitive trading is superior to rule-based trading. Mayhap that is because they are so young that they still resent rules, or perhap because...

May I offer a touch of linguistic rigor to the definition of the primary delusion by appellating it The Altruistic Delusion? To clarify that ET is not a helping brotherhood, that brokers do not exist solely to facilitate trading, that data providers do not sincerely want to help you with their...

My dear Dr. Deco, may one be permitted a gloss? Surely that feeling of entitlement to unearned milk and money proceeds from the extraordinary popular delusion that what is obvious on the static chart at the end of the day will be equally obvious in the unfolding of the chart in real time? That...

This is perhaps too subtle for bureaucrats to algorithmize, but the percentage of new ET members with self-deprecatory handles would seem to me to be a good indicator. Handle fragments such as 666, Belly, Bright, Dog and Nonsense come to mind, as well as the injudicious and soon to be deeply...

Thank you for bringing this important archival material to the attention of ET, and to a new generation of psychological and scientific thinkers.

I find it quite cruel that ET makes constant fun of my favorite patient's MPD. So I though I would share with you the secret of his trading success: MPD! Here is how we prep for the open. Me: "OK, boy! I practically invented modern analytical and pharmacological psychiatry! Just pop these and...

It does not appear that we will get any real strategy ideas from this discussion. But there have been good ideas related to how one stays open to strategy trading ideas. Al Cibiades, who brings to trading recognized skills as an orator and soldier, talked about the importance of epistemology to...

I just gave Artie his afternoon dose of laudanum (giving therapy, like giving head, is very stressful). Are you suggesting that remembering is forgetful? Or that by forgetting our false selves we remember our REAL selves? Or that you are jealous that your pathetically ET-incongruous serious...

An intriguing notion. I come to ET lately only to read my favorite long running thread in Strategy Trading, wherein we recently saw the slow and painful unravelling of a persona. A (presumably young) person opined most assuredly in his inaugural postings about trading in general and his own...

Zere iss a cure vor ze phantazy of ze tveezer topp. It iss to test it. Ziss vill teach you to moof on to anozer phantazy. I meinself do not like ze tradink phantazies. I prefer ze zexual.