Get Rid Of All FOREX Threads Now

ET is hanging by the thread to stay alive. ANY post remotely relevant to trading is valuable and is, in fact, critical to ET survival.
 
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You are asking ET to give up about $53,160 in yearly income. Scroll to bottom of Forum Sponsorship for rates, and this would be based on losing FXCM and Alpari as sponsors.

http://www.elitetrader.com/ad/mediakit.cfm


The Forex site could be spun off of elite-- call it eliteforextrader or something like this---- that way the casinos could still sponsor yet elite trader would be saved from the riff raff attracted to the site from the Forex threads.

For heavens sake, men, FXCM has reported that the average FOREX account is $200.00 . Unfortunately, detailed observation has revealed that this demographic in the trading community is where to trouble comes from-- of course not everyone, there are some great FOREX posters and elite users but unfortunately the trouble causers attracted by FOREX far outweigh the benefits from the few good guys in the market.

I am certain that any revenue loss would be quickly recovered as the quality of the site without FOREX would quickly attract strong advertisers to make up for the loss.

I am surprised that it isnt obvious to more long time posters what is attracting the trouble to elite.
 
Quote from shortie:

ET is hanging by the thread to stay alive. ANY post remotely relevant to trading is valuable and is, in fact, critical to ET survival.


I don't know the accuracy of this statement--- but assuming its truthful-- losing the FOREX forums would be the first step in restoring elite to its former glory. Eliminating these trouble causing, politco attracting threads would likely attract better quality posts that in turn would bring bigger dollar advertisers to elite.
 
Quote from ElectricSavant:

marketsurfer,

I could not disagree more...sheesh they unban you and you are already wielding your opinions around with unfounded observations. You have been banned over a longer time period than you have been unbanned I believe...Your multiple aliases attacking this site do not count as the time you have been a poster here.

Forex is growing fast. It is global and it is not going to go away. A trading website such as EliteTrader cannot afford to ignore such a huge global market.

Just because you do not trade Forex does not mean that others do not.

Here in the USA the regulators seem to want to ban Forex with their controlling ways...It's all about tax collecting and as soon as marketsurfer and the USA realize that this is an entire world of trading with Forex they will have to open their minds and unchain their residents...or take a back seat and become a third-world country as Obama is deciding to do at every turn. The destruction of Capitalism has no room in trading...

marketsurfer, I have always admired you and appreciate your posts...but THIS thread really takes the cake. Do traders always end up to be so close minded and over generalize everything?...if so..I do not want to be a trader.

ES




The Forex forum shone like a star when Ivan was here.

:) :D :D


Then he left. The Forex forum collapsed and died. Over the last several months there are nothing but corpses and ghosts wandering around in there. One ghost had the nerve to tell me he was around when the Deutsche Mark traded at 1.50.


Fast forward to now and there is a new Sheriff in town and his name is Saint ElectricSavant.

The observation that has escaped this new Sheriff is, "Dying ain't much of a livin"
 
"Get Rid Of All FOREX Threads Now"

And while you're at it Baron, get rid of all the Surf Report threads as well. There's no point in cleaning half your house and leaving the other half filthy.
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I've never spent any time in the forex forums so I have no idea what they are like. Maybe try not clicking on any forex links and see if that changes your perspective.

Quote from marketsurfer:

I don't know the accuracy of this statement--- but assuming its truthful-- losing the FOREX forums would be the first step in restoring elite to its former glory. Eliminating these trouble causing, politco attracting threads would likely attract better quality posts that in turn would bring bigger dollar advertisers to elite.
 
Quote from marketsurfer:

As a long time elite trader reader and poster, I have noticed that FOREX type subjects seem to attract the oddballs, trolls, radical politicos and other undesirables to this site. My suggestion is to get rid of all FOREX threads and topics once and for all.

I believe the quality of elite will go up remarkably after the folks drawn here for the FOREX topics move to another site.

Most of these FOREX folks are simply not worth the trouble they cause. Please consider this sincere suggestion. FOREX results in much more trouble than its worth.

thank you

Are you serious? There are more trouble makers posting in your journals than in all the FX threads put together.
 
Quote from Fireplace:
The worst are all the negative nellies who post on every thread that trading is impossible and pissing on everyone who tries (and also on those of us who share our stories of struggle and then success).
Those guys should go before anyone else IMO.
'emg' and 'olifxpro' are two who went around posting on every forex thread that trading is a losing game for 95%, that daytrading is impossible and books written are crap. I guess for sponsorship and entertainment value the moderators decided to let them start new threads on the same mindless topic. If they can't trade, and know that trading don't work, why are they here on ET?

Other more illustrious trolls everybody already listed in the Feedback section but never got banned. I don't think it is just the Forex forum that has attracted the undesirables. I think it is the culture of ET, where trolls are allowed to accumulate thousands of posts without getting banned.
 
surf's a jackass, plain and simlple.

Here's a guy who claims to be a successful hedgefund player yet trolls an Internet message board occasionally trying to sell his crap to the newbies. He gets caught. He's banned. Then he spends the next year and a half trying to come back to the site where he is not wanted under various sock puppets.

Why don't we ban him once and for all and watch the board improve IMO.
 
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