Need Futures Mentor

Socrates · May 4, 2007

I do not trade your preferrred instruments, but futures trading is futures trading. I will mentor you for free with no financial strings attached if you can agree to the following:

1) the mentoring is to be 100% public for the benefit of all ET (your giving thing)

2) it will take place in the Journals forum where magnanimous Magna can keep it clean and serious

3) you will fearlessly posts charts of trades and the reasoning behind them for me and serious respondents to critique

4) the mentoring may be slow given my other commitments

5) you have to be able to tolerate the Socratic method.

Razor · May 4, 2007

Socrates that is a grand idea....I hope he accepts

Quote from Socrates:

I do not trade your preferrred instruments, but futures trading is futures trading. I will mentor you for free with no financial strings attached if you can agree to the following:

1) the mentoring is to be 100% public for the benefit of all ET (your giving thing)

2) it will take place in the Journals forum where magnanimous Magna can keep it clean and serious

3) you will fearlessly posts charts of trades and the reasoning behind them for me and serious respondents to critique

4) the mentoring may be slow given my other commitments

5) you have to be able to tolerate the Socratic method.

TradingBillions · May 4, 2007

Socrates...

I accept.. Let's get rolling

Quote from Socrates:

I do not trade your preferrred instruments, but futures trading is futures trading. I will mentor you for free with no financial strings attached if you can agree to the following:

1) the mentoring is to be 100% public for the benefit of all ET (your giving thing)

2) it will take place in the Journals forum where magnanimous Magna can keep it clean and serious

3) you will fearlessly posts charts of trades and the reasoning behind them for me and serious respondents to critique

4) the mentoring may be slow given my other commitments

5) you have to be able to tolerate the Socratic method.

atticus · May 4, 2007

Quote from Socrates:

5) you have to be able to tolerate the Socratic method.

Verbosity as well?

Socrates · May 4, 2007

I would be willing to dispense with my cherished verbosity, if in return he would give up his entitled attitude.

El OchoCinco · May 4, 2007

Quote from Socrates:

you have to be able to tolerate the Socratic method.

What is your understanding of what the Socratic method is?

Socrates · May 4, 2007

In essence, that everything is already known to what we now call the unconscious mind, and that it can be brought into conscious awareness by skillful questioning. Particularly apropos to trading IMO.

El OchoCinco · May 4, 2007

Quote from Socrates:

In essence, that everything is already known to what we now call the unconscious mind, and that it can be brought into conscious awareness by skillful questioning. Particularly apropos to trading IMO.

What if the person refuses to acknolwedge their unconcious mind, what would be the first step in getting them to tap into that information?

Socrates · May 4, 2007

Not necessary. If you read the dialogues carefully, those questioned by Socrates either became aggravated at the tedious banality of his questions, or became enlightened without realizing how. Very NLP IMO. And not entirely dissimilar from the methods of Siddhatta Gautama.

wee man · May 4, 2007

Quote from Socrates:

In essence, that everything is already known to what we now call the unconscious mind, and that it can be brought into conscious awareness by skillful questioning. Particularly apropos to trading IMO.

Socrates, are you the same 'socrates' of t2w fame?