How do YOU come up with trading ideas?

fxwannaB · May 18, 2014

kreditfyhig said:
All there is now are third world dreamers

rightsized said:
Yeah, even Nitro has left for greener pastures. It's retired pretenders, and young third world type dreamers.

helmholtz said:
Interesting correlations between the rarely a losing day crew at elite. I think every single one of them hail from the Midwest -- apparently a large concentration in Arizona---- Hmmmmmmm

helmholtz said:
An overwhelming large percentage reside in the mid to southwest area of the United States. Not sure why this is--- bored retired folks living fantasys on the Internet, perhaps?

rightsized said:
Keep in mind, we are likely dealing with old bored retired pensioners here. These gents don't mean any harm--- just take their words as dreams and fantasy. There are several on this site. Mostly hailing from AZ the land of the elderly.

rightsized, helmholtz, kreditfyhig, MARKETSURFER...

a bit mental/obsessive.. another casualty of trading in the markets...

tobbe · May 18, 2014

rightsized said:
Keep in mind, we are likely dealing with old bored retired pensioners here. These gents don't mean any harm--- just take their words as dreams and fantasy. There are several on this site. Mostly hailing from AZ the land of the elderly.

As you can see from above, self contradiction is rampant , just leave the old folks alone.

I thought they all moved to Palm Beach, FL, and joined that shady PBHFA organization.

cefgw · May 18, 2014

fxwannaB said:
rightsized, helmholtz, kreditfyhig, MARKETSURFER...

a bit mental/obsessive.. another casualty of trading in the markets...

I learned much from following the surfer. I thought he moved to Palm Beach with his young wife and market winnings? Why the bad vibes what I miss?

Tonkadad · May 18, 2014

cefgw said:
I learned much from following the surfer. I thought he moved to Palm Beach with his young wife and market winnings? Why the bad vibes what I miss?

Not directing this to you specifically but there are a lot of new posters the last couple of months who seem to have been around the ET "block".

Redneck · May 18, 2014

cefgw said:
I learned much from following the surfer. I thought he moved to Palm Beach with his young wife and market winnings? Why the bad vibes what I miss?

surf is simply another who couldn't - and because he couldn't..., feels the need to project his inadequacies/ inabilities onto every one else

he is also a liar

pretty straight forward actually

RN

murray t turtle · May 21, 2014

xelite777 said:
There are no shortcuts here, traders have to watch/study those stupid charts for years and years, day and night, until something clicks.

Then, at some point in time, the persistent trader will simply run out of things that do not work.

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Good points T 777;
easier said that done.

While the original turtles learned to trade quick[weeks];
most do NOT have a teacher like Rich ''turtle''Dennis. But having said that,Rich Dennis did not even interview most of huge number that responded to his Wall Street Journal ad .

One chicago trader said '' the smarter you are the longer it takes'',LOL

I am not an original turtle; i got thet nickname ''turtle''as a child hood insult,LOL but true.

murray t turtle

kinggyppo · May 21, 2014

cefgw said:
I learned much from following the surfer. I thought he moved to Palm Beach with his young wife and market winnings? Why the bad vibes what I miss?

what did you learn from Surf, this should be good?

kut2k2 · May 21, 2014

cefgw said:
I learned much from following the surfer. I thought he moved to Palm Beach with his young wife and market winnings? Why the bad vibes what I miss?

You can be against anything in this website no matter how popular so long as you don't go overboard. Surf went overboard with his anti-TA tirades, interrupting virtually every poster who so much as mentioned using TA for trading. That and maybe some vendor violation got him banned.

kashili · May 21, 2014

I know it wont come from books on amazon or CNBC guys with suits (they all have one thing in common - to sell their services/business to retail investors);

murray t turtle · May 29, 2014

kashili said:
I know it wont come from books on amazon or CNBC guys with suits (they all have one thing in common - to sell their services/business to retail investors);

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Agree , on CNBC, kas;
disagree on retail comment + book comment. Jack Schwager's Top Trader books are unusually helpful + priced right . Many librarys stock his books.
Another Chicago trader says '' the smarter you are, the longer it takes''

Not that one believes everything in those books mentioned;
but very HI %%% is helpful .