Quote from mind:
IMHO magna went too far too quickly, could not turn back and baruch is not the guy willing to play games. baron has to back magna in public, but might have told him a word or two in private. in five or six months magna will be doing something else. you do not change things like this not immediately. too public. you know. i mean you cannot fire someone who claimed the rules to be inforced - even if you wanted to....
baruch
very elegant and consequent without being offensive. compliments to the way you closed that trade.
While I appreciate your "humble opinion" as you say, and would have let your post stand without comment if you were somewhat close to the mark, I find I must say a few words since you are not even in the ballpark on a few of your statements. As to whether I went "too far, too quickly" as you claim, if you read my first post in Baruch's thread (reprinted on pg. 2 of this thread) it was a standard, mild warning stating ET's policy to a few members and
it wasn't even directed at Baruch. As to whether Baron told me "a word or two in private" as you wrongly postulate, we had a couple of discussions of this before Baron went public and in those, among other things, he stressed that he was behind me 100%. Then he made his public post reiterating the same along with answering some questions and clearly stating his position. And since then we haven't had a single discussion on the matter. As to your prognostication that I'll be doing something "else in five or six months" I hope you don't apply the same faulty predictive methods to your trading. I have had a superb working relationship with Baron for a number of
years, am direct moderator of a couple of forums, and do additional tasks around ET at Baron's behest and approval. So if you want to remain solvent don't bet too much money that I will be quietly eased out the door in a few months due to something as inconsequential as the Baruch thread, lol.
As to Baruch being "very elegant and consequent without being offensive" I strongly disagree. He was anything but elegant, didn't attempt
any private communication with me to elucidate or clarify things, but immediately went public with the pronouncment that
"This is MY thread, and here we discuss anything we like to discuss." Elegant? Non-offensive? Sorry, I don't think so. As to how he "closed that trade" he did it in a huff, showing a total lack of grace, stomping off into the sunset. And as a few people have pointed out, the
only thing stopping him from posting or starting a new thread (or even reopening the old one) is himself.
