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Whew! Rescued at last! We trank our patients at night because we can't stand being in their heads 24/7. Hardly a day goes by that I don't curse ET for contributing so conspicuously to the community mental health load. Hopeful newbies go there seeking clarity, but eventually concerned family...

If any of you uncommitted psychotic traders out there are wondering why you haven't heard from ET's primo psycho lately, it's because we here at the PTI (Psychotic Trading Institute) have him so tripped out that he can't even spell ET. It took a cocktail of antipsychotics that would shut up even...

You may clear your throat of ET phlegm, Nkhoi, but I am convinced that Jack incited, nay caused, Hypo's MPD. In therapeutic sessions, Hypo shared with me his shame that he could not understand Jack, much less replicate his results. So Hypo incessantly brought up dark personalities from deep in...

My guilt at inadvertently therapeutically killing Hypo and all his multifarious personalities (the price of progress is pain) grieves me so much that I have undertaken to be his posthumous amanuensis. In going through his voluminous notes (first I had to trash his three Jack notebooks) I found...

Are you suggesting that Jack is an Internet virus, and that it infected Hypo? But that it mutated and made him a prickophant rather than a sycophant?

For those interested in the details, I will be publishing a paper in the Annals of the American Journal of Abnormal Trading Psychology. Following is a first draft of the abstract. It is well known that intraday trading of stock index futures induces, exacerbates or exaggerates Multiple...

After all these years of reading Jack, I am still struggling with how to use the concept that the day trypically has four distinct phases. Jack reiterates that so often (actually he reiterates EVERYTHING often) that it must confer some trading benefit. He rarely elaborates, however, so I have...

Thank you for the trenchant observation. Who else but a madman would "buy when they cry and sell when they yell"? You can see in the mad rush of the crowd to buy or sell the last tick before R or S that most traders are "sane". One MUST be insane to think he can succeed at trading as a lone...

We found the audibles system to be so beneficial to even our sighted patients that our hearing-impaired patients became envious. So we added a scrolling window of printed trade call alerts such a "short a one tick test of the HOD" or "long a test of (proprietary) estimator." Truth to tell, we...

The senescent trader typically suffers from one or more debilities which inhibit full-performance trading. My esteemed associate Joe has overcome most of them with clever chart enhancements. For the blind or near-blind trader, we have a sophisticated set of progressive audibles which mark the...

The basic objective of senescent trading is to make the patient feel more alive. We achieve this by accelerating the pace of his trading. When he was young, he had the leisure to agonize over daily charts, because he would live forever. Now death is no longer optional and we have to speed the...

The senescent trader typically can no longer practice most of his youthful addictions, probably the very things that are killing him: smoking, drinking, drug use, promiscuity. Only one addiction remains available to him: trading. Besides that fact, why does he persist in trading in his waning...

As my patient base ages, more and more I find myself counselling them on how to spend what may turn out to be their last days. Most of them are patient traders, taking the long view. But now that long view is here, and Macbeth-like, they become impatient with the daily chart, thinking to...

Trading IS life. How else to be fully aware and engaged every second of every minute for 405 minutes a day? It's a slo-mo train wreck.

What have I been missing? I guess I must have been off in LaLaLand for a while. Is it possible for a personality in a multiple to be schizoid? Beats me, although I'm the guy who de-demonized schizophrenia. Imagine my surprise, me who everybody forgot for nearly a hundred years, to find myself...

I have noticed that a particular senior poster here exhibits the symptomatology: Severe memory loss (can't remember the lies you told). Difficulty doing familiar tasks (keeping your self-coined acronyms straight). Problems talking or writing (severe orthography errors). Confusion about...

The article's sidebar adds (and I will comment later): People with mild cognitive impairment often have mild memory difficulties but usually no other sign of Alzheimer's. The 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's: Severe memory loss. Difficulty doing familiar tasks. Problems talking or...

Ever alert to medical interventios which will help ET's senior citizen traders, I post this as a public service. "Imbibing may slow dementia in seniors" By Kathleen Fackelmann, USA TODAY Up to one alcoholic drink a day may slow the development of dementia, including Alzheimer's, in...

"The Q's they ask, then, are those that lead the didactic {sic}further." The elderly should not try to use big words they don't understand which are easily confused with other big words they don't understand. Although the quoted author is in fact "didactic", in this context, the proper word...

Bearbelly, I feel your pain. So even though you are not a therapy client, I will give you one of my placebo systems to ease your angst. It is my favorite, as it actually makes a little money. I fondly call it KKK: Kraepelin's Kreative Krossover. KKK is perfect for you. It is a shit-simple...