Quote from R. Raskolnikov:
Why don't you give him an opportunity to instead of telling him he lives in a fantasy world and how this or that is a red flag or major problem for you. Just shut your trap and let the man's journal progress. Besides, you have your own journal to worry about.
Surf is part of ET's rat pack.
That's why journal's like this go quickly into the direction that we now see. He shows up in the beginning BEFORE the journal picks up steam with the trader posting statements, real-time trades, real-time signals or whatever.
He really doesn't want to see proof of any kind. Simply, his agenda is to discourage, derail, antagonize, argue before the OP gets a chance to post consistently any proof.
You'll also notice while other journals by traders using TA profitable while not mentioning their TA and not posting a journal to prove something...surf and the rest of the rat pack don't show up in those journal or at least I haven't seen them there in those types of journals. Unfortunately, the TA isn't shared nor really mentioned while the trader post consistently profitable trades...allowing surf and gang to say he hasn't seen anyone prove anything.
Oddly, surf promotes and defends his friend T. Sykes as a real trader that's profitable. Further, surf is well documented here at ET in saying Sykes provides proof of profitable trading but surf doesn't mention the fact that
Sykes uses TA (e.g. You can clearly see in many of Sykes youtube videos his use of charts, talking about technical levels, talking about chart patterns and so on).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmA8Qe6JDmE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBO9GEHi6hA (look at what T. Sykes say about his use of TA beginning at the 1:10 minute of the video)
There's dozens more videos of T. Sykes using TA but barely mentioning it. Surf has his proof he seeks underneath his own nose. He knows it and doesn't want to admit it.
P.S. Surf does
not consider chart analysis, technical price levels, chart patterns and such as TA. That's why folks need to be very specific about what they're defending when they decided to engage an argument with him because his beef is with technical indicators.
P.S.S. Profitable traders that uses TA are not using it all by itself and nothing else. The problem is that they don't talk about their other tools (e.g. discipline, money management, trading experience, trade management, proper trading environment, properly capitalization and so on).