ET Hall of Fame Threads

This thread takes over from the thread, HALL OF FAME of ET Educational Threads, http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202944

What follows is in my opinion is a list of 100 of the better threads that ET has to offer, threads intended to be amongst the top 0.1%, the 'crème de la crème', if you like. For a fuller discussion as to how these threads were arrived at you can click on the above thread for some details, but in a nutshell it includes my own selections (reflecting personal bias), suggestions made by others on the above thread or via PM, threads mentioned in other threads as being especially useful, outside referrals on blogs to specific ET threads and other ad hoc methods. It was not an entirely scientific process but is a best attempt on my behalf to create to useful starting point for discussion. I attempted to exclude threads of a commercial nature (though in some cases this is up for debate), and also excluded threads on the basis of suspected self promotion unless other evidence came to light.

It is NOT a perfect or all-inclusive list and I apologize in advance for excluding many excellent and thought provoking threads. To be clear, there is no right or wrong, simply opinions, and any award procedure is by definition inherently flawed. However the draft list is made in good faith and will hopefully be useful to others. Rival HALL OF FAME threads are encouraged to compete with this one...

In addition to concisely listing the initial 100 (draft) HoF suggestions, the purpose of this thread is to evolve into something more useful. For now this list provides reading material during quiet market periods. Discussion and critique of HoF suggestions is encouraged. No doubt the original list can be improved upon, shortened/amended/extended but it should be a home for discussion of the best that ET has to offer. I am open to suggestions here as to how to proceed.

Anyway, without further ado, and IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, here are the original 100 suggestions for the ET HALL OF FAME:-
 
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Trading (17)

2 True legendary trading stories
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7989

12 Lessons Learned
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7386

20 What are your Trading Breakthroughs?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25425

22 What was the last thing you had to master before becoming profitable?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165170

27 I've got a secret
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4067

29 Intraday/Swing Plays
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4334

37 Day-Trading 2.0 for small traders
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=113456

38 Why do people use Volume, Range and Tic charts
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80582

44 Real or fake?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50740

47 I'm the most consistent trader in the world
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13332

50 I've tried everything and nothing works
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2267

71 Biggest day ever
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55445

79 Scalping and Analysing your trades
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45621

80 Trading for a living....full time....only income
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6758

84 Kudos to MMs
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=142338

92 Article By Pabst
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=125197

99 Ideas for struggling traders
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130196

TRADING FOR A LIVING

Journals (18)

1 Grinding it out, day after day
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187730

5 My Story
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1670

6 Mr Subliminal's Remote Trading Journal
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5329

7 System Development with acrary
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33654

8 Activate/Deactivate System?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36083

9 AHG - Profitable Strategy for Struggling Traders
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99283

10 Emini divergence journal
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20761

23 The Price Action Journal
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=132170

31 40yo's new career or bust & 40yotrader
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10237
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21579

35 Neke's Journals
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=87977
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=114087
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150396
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=187779

36 ES Journal
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=64965

46 NoDoji's Day Trading Log
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132626

49 S/R Emini Journal
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69230

75 Price and Volume
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29005

76 Price and Volume: Strategy
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33766

78 Clowns ES Daytrading Journal
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117694

85 Pabst's Blue Ribbon Trades
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90873

88 Emini Fading System
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111306

Career Trader (4)

21 Characteristics of a Successful Trader
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147883

24 mentoring-- a waste of time ??
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31977

72 What is the worst one day loss you ever had?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74408

73 I've lost 400k the last 2 months i'm quitting
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71919

Psychology (6)

3 Overtrading
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7659

14 Using nature and natural eco and bio systems to style your trading
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54540

28 Successful Trading
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6666

54 Discipline - ideas to improve it
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20442

91 The Mathematics of Persistance
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59530

93 Anekdoten: An ET Mentor
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=103700

Trade Management (4)

16 Money Management
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59325

57 3:1
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27379

61 Exits-- targets vs. trailing stops
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9699

98 Averaging down/up = success?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153994
 
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

Order Execution (1)

18 Reading the Specialist
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3282

Automated Trading (7)

25 Sharing Resources: Let's Not Reinvent the Wheel
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148249

52 Developing a Trading Framework from Scratch
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81670

65 Mathematically Predicting the Future?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107755

67 Chop vs. Trend
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48845

68 Launched High Frequency Automated Trading Blackbox
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101024

69 Frosty's trading bot goes live part 2
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97030

70 Chabah on Automated Trading
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77887

Technical Analysis (13)

11 Simple Profitable Method
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76297

32 great new pattern & Great New Pattern
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=881
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1400

33 The Idiot's Guide to Premium and Fair Value
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16391

34 Gap Plays
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50184

39 Why do I see "Trends" in Randomly Generated Data?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=118599

53 Indicator for spotting trends vs. ranges
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43095

59 Price Bars
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21739

62 Enough already! It's not random
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=120781

63 A Kinetic Energy Idea
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=121115

89 Using Pivots
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50736

90 Dragon Pattern
http://www.elitetrader.com/vB/showthread.php?threadid=154290

96 Trading Hammers
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52880

97 Pekelo's 2nd gap rule
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75045

Strategy Trading (17)

4 Market Depth Patterns
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42947

15 More Winners or Larger Avg. Winner?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13252

17 Tape Reading
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56373

19 Pyramiding into a trend
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42500

26 Unholy Grail to Success
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=144884

48 Acrary's Strategy Formation & Acrary's Mixed Strategy Management
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84891
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84890

55 Testing variables
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14794

56 Backtesting Software
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33025

58 Lessons Learned From Profitable System Development
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22068

60 Evaluation of Backtested System Results
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16622

64 ACD--Is it the Method to The Madness?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93267

66 Trading Winning Positions - The optimal approach
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64166

81 SP trend following System
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9828

82 The Importance of Simplicity
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10532

86 Learning to read Price Action with P&F Charting
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=122236

87 Exit methods for trend-traders
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47358

95 Why Can't I Trade with the Trend
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46408


TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Trading Software(1)

77 Deciding on a Backtesting and Trading Platform
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108534

Hardware(1)

94 Pictures of your trading stations
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43661

Educational Resources (7)

13 Gems: Methods and Systems
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9722

30 Methods and Systems Only
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9579

40 Notable ET Celebs
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79849

41 Gems: Rs7
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6956

42 Gems: Super_Ego
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6881

43 Gems: Vulture
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6996

74 Your favourite Elite Trader & favourite Post
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8177

FUTURES TRADING

Index Futures (4)

45 Trailing stop/Initial stop on futures
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14179

51 Anyone use my method?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=60313

83 Keeping It Simple & Keeping It Simple II
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11410
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15110

100 Approach to trading the ES contract
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=163702
 
For now, my work is done. Thank you to everyone who provided assistance in putting together the list either on the original thread or via PM. I encourage others to pick up the baton and develop the thread into a more useful resource.

I will now take a back seat and watch with curiosity as to whether this thread falls into the black hole of forgotten ET threads, or takes on a new life of its own...

benwm
:)

Edit: I also suggest that where HOF threads have been closed but ETs wish to revisit such discussions you create a new thread with the prefix 'RE HOF' i.e.
RE HOF 2 True legendary trading stories
or
RE HOF 16 Money Management...

etc.
 
You should contact Baron (EliteTrader.com) owner to request (beg) him not to delete any of the inactive threads in your list because he deletes the inactive threads that have been inactive for several years (I think the inactivity deletion alert is 5 years).

Also, when he first started doing that inactivity thread deletion, he said if a thread is of value and has been deleted for inactivity...he'll bring the thread back. In fact, he did such of a few threads that got deleted and members requested he bring them back. That tells me he deletes and then stores the threads on a different server that's not accessible.

However, recently, he changed his tone and said he will not or could not bring back an inactive thread of several years even if someone request such after a recent request to bring back a particular education thread was denied. :mad:

Anyways, just heads up because a few of your listed threads are inactive.

Mark
 
Quote from wrbtrader:

You should contact Baron (EliteTrader.com) owner to request (beg) him not to delete any of the inactive threads in your list because he deletes the inactive threads that have been inactive for several years (I think the inactivity deletion alert is 5 years).

Also, when he first started doing that inactivity thread deletion, he said if a thread is of value and has been deleted for inactivity...he'll bring the thread back. In fact, he did such of a few threads that got deleted and members requested he bring them back. That tells me he deletes and then stores the threads on a different server that's not accessible.

However, recently, he changed his tone and said he will not or could not bring back an inactive thread of several years even if someone request such after a recent request to bring back a particular education thread was denied. :mad:

Anyways, just heads up because a few of your listed threads are inactive.

Mark
Then maybe we should post to these threads to keep them alive. :)
 
Thanks wrbtrader for the heads up. This is a good point. I have emailed Baron and if others do the same it will help too. Perhaps moderators reading this thread could also speak to Baron on our behalf if they feel this thread benefits Elite Trader as a whole.

BCE - Some threads are closed so we cannot still post to these, though as per my suggestion if we create new threads prefixed by RE HOF we can still continue the debates. No problem provided the original closed threads are not deleted, in which case the new threads would also likely suffer a quick death.

Edit: Re-reading the earlier posts I think I am confusing inactive threads with closed threads...closed is ok if the author requested this, deleted not so good
 
Quote from BCE:

Then maybe we should post to these threads to keep them alive. :)

This is the best solution without having to get ET management involved.

Mark
 
This is a good idea. I'm marking this thread as "Important" so it will automatically stay at the top of the thread list.
 
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