Quote from gucci:
I found the post of icarus quite revealing and helpful. Aside from the sobering realization that I'm neither operational nor intellectual type.
On a more serious note I understand that the biggest problem I have to overcome, is to accept, that I do not really need to be certain all of the time to turn the corner.
The part about people "dropping off the thread" is a generalization, and not an accurate one.

Not including Mr. Black with "intellectual types" - some people would be offended.

The "incompetent people" part was probably inspired by my long, 5 paragraph "thinking out loud" response to phineas j. w. I have been called worse than that, so that's not a problem.
On a more serious note, what
I found extremely revealing and helpful are the older chat room transcripts, beginning with the end of '06 through mid '07.
This is where one can find the
right way to wash, the flaws, etc. and how people were learning to trade from Spydertrader in real time. Pure gold. I recommend highly. Some of my biggest AHA!'s came from reading those. Pulling up the corresponding Spydertrader charts for those days and going through the transcripts - that's when I started finally turning the corner.
P.S. Jan 31 and Feb 1 of this year - transcripts were cleaned up and posted by Tums on the same or next day. Pull up ES and YM when you're reading those. Multiple epiphanies are guaranteed.