Quote from FuturesTrader71:
Grob,
I am not sure why but none of your attachments open once downloaded. What are you zipping them with?
I do not know how it works.
I did the following:
Copied the thread and printed it.
Cut out the pieces on butcher paper to begin a roll (long piece of butcher paper) of posts that will, in time show a progression of thinking by other people.
Establish themes Letters (there were 9 to start)
Regroup ideas in themes to get A and B. reverse the designations.
Draw flow lines and number the pieces.
Then I opened a word file and just copied and pasted in word the above results beginning with the thread original post.
I posted the word file. It ended in .doc which is accepted by ET.
I did not know that no one could use it. I opened it for me to look at, so I made another bad assumption that others could use it as well.
There is an error in it where I put B-3 instead o the correct A-3. I figured that most people would fix it because the context did convey that I made a mistake.
OT:
A substantive note: As in most threads, it is really difficult to get a focus on the opportunity facing the originator and the contributors who either have the same opportunity or have made a few steps further along the way. Some conditions, situations and circumstances brought up directly and/or indirectly are actually not opportunities but instead are really traps.
Recently, in a thread that was closed I went through 155 chronological posts of a person who was interested in something that the thread was built around Before I could post a similar sort of thing to this, that characterised his path to his current trap, the moderator found that the thread had gotten out of hand. Too bad for the moderator and his cronies. The two year chronology pointed out several poignant turns and twists that originated from a particular mind set that caused the person to pursue getting to the trap he finally cannot get out of. He took many opportunities and then the trend changed as he went farther afield from the path that leads to success. As usual at some point he became parked and unable to pose "whatever" as considerations for meandering back to the chosen ground for forwarding himself to excellence.
I continue to track a bunch of ET types for long periods of time. I occasionally PM one or another should the climate be possible for them to consider something. Usually I am wrong about the possibility, however.
The patience (or lack of) is a MAJOR symptom of stuff leading to permenant trading failure. I could see immediately that the thread has great potential (except for the moderator and his cronies issues) to spin out a "tree" to the left and right of potential pathways to success. I decided to not let the original nine independant comments each go their way.
The "rules" theme and the "proper fractal" theme emerge, for me, as the only clues to the causal factors for the "patience" symptom so far.
the patience symptom has about 6 to 8 other names as well. i expect them to appear and those who know how to, may put in those things that take a person to those places.
Imagine what it would be like here if ET had an orientation to several things such as:
1. Periodic summarizations by skilled persons in the field (unlike having a computer science major run a psychology forum).
2. A system of relating topics ( like the 6 to 8 relating to the symptom, patience) within a forum (like psychology in this case).
3. Having a technique and policy for just dumping OT stuff out of threads ( the precursors to getting out of hand type stuff).
Oviously, I am laying some ground work here, as usual, regarding QA of this important thread. I know that none of these things can actually be done because they fall under "limitations of people based upon their time constraints" which is not the reason anyway.
