Quote from Simtrader:
You merely said you were not 'very good' in chat rooms. Fair enough, to each his own. But you can imagine my surprise to see you a week later trying to set up your own chat room!
Because I believe in sharing strategies, I'd much rather devote my attention to the boards. But, for reasons of which you are well aware, message boards become an impossible medium to share ideas. As brief as this particular thread is, it has already attracted the "this is a bunch of crap" contingent.
Because of that, and because I find the endless chatter in stock rooms distracting, I suggested that a Futures room be set up. Unfortunately, the only people attracted to it were scalpers, and this results in as much chatter as the stock rooms.
Therefore, since I'm interested only in trend-trading strategies, I set up my own room in order to share ideas, not just the Bollinger Band idea, but range breakouts, retracements, and anything else that has to do with trading trends intraday. If this doesn't pan out, to hell with it. But I'm not solely responsible for setting up the room every day and I'm hardly in charge of it.
Gurus steal from each other regularly, then give the setups a little twist so that they can give them their own cute names, thus enabling them to publish yet another reiterative book of setups that all date back to Wyckoff and Schabacker, or at the very least, O'Neill, all the while never mentioning where they got the idea.
Regardless of what inandlong thinks, I've never cared about any of this. I've made a point to credit Mike for the ORB strategy, though I don't invoke his name every time the subject comes up (it's assumed that anyone who's interested is going to read more than one post). And I've made it a point to credit you for the Bollinger Band breakout idea. However, if you don't want your ideas discussed, I suggest that you contact Baron and ask him to delete the two threads in which you broach the subject. If he's willing to do so, I'll ask that this thread be deleted as well.
Whatever the outcome, the existence of the room is known to anyone who might be interested in it. And once the Gimmees are separated from those who are genuinely interested in sharing ideas, there may not be enough activity to make the room worthwhile. If not, that's that; I see no reason to keep trying. In any event, there's no reason to bring up any of this again.