I have been on this site since 2005, had a 2 year option trading journal years back which I eventually stopped because I learned the following:
Oh and I am not comfortable posting my resume as Dest is but my background has been attacked numerous times. I don't put my private shit out here while others try to. I am more than willing to do the private skype chat with Baron and show my bottom line numbers in my tax returns to show my net worth is comfortably 7 figures. People reference a book or class, I made more money last month than any of these has given me in their lifecycle, they are/were hobbies so go ahead and attack them.
Lessons :
1. It takes way more effort to keep up a journal than to simply trade and it only serves as a distraction.
2. Even after months of live trades with prices verifiable and profits posted, people still call B.S. so what is the point.
3. For every person that likes the strategy you are using and participates there are 4 more non-traders who think it is shit and dump all over the journal.
4. The profits/losses are real in my account whether I post them or not, so what is the point in the long run if the above three points dominate?
5. People who spend a lot of effort writing thoughts in a logorrhea fashion usually have little time to trade since it is impossible to day trade options/futures/stocks and write long winded posts. Most traders are direct, abrubt and to the point.
Also I have seen plenty of posters come and go so I start to recognize what the first stages of the B.S. are and when it eventually runs out, the disappear unsurprisingly.
Even my own post this long bothers me...