Quote from BCE:
She's not saying everyone should use Al Brook's method. Not at all. And she's not putting down anyone else's method. She's saying to be successful in trading, as with most other things in life, it takes hard work. It takes a commitment and focus to do the research and spend the time to find out what trading plan can be successful for you, and then find out how best to implement it. And then doing the actual work of trying it out, and adjusting and reworking it. And then dealing with all the psychological issues that come up while trading with your real money. All of this takes a lot of work. And most traders are looking for a short cut and want to skip the work part.
I'd say Donna simply got tired of casting her pearls in front of an unreceptive vocal audience, to mix some metaphors.
She discovered the holy grail of trading, which she excitedly shared with the masses here in every possible manner she could articulate. The result of that was repeated rejection. After awhile, someone with a message to help others tires of repeating themselves while getting spat on in the process.
I've wondered how long it would take before she'd simply throw her hands up, say "what the he(ck)" and walk away. This board certainly offers her nothing of useful value to take away.
Fact is she told anyone who would listen over and over and over again the simple (but not easy) path to sucess in this profession. The rejection she got comes from basic human nature of people who aren't willing to do what it takes to win. They want trading to be fun, to be a game, a sport, a contest, a measuring stick, amusement and proving ground all rolled into one.
If they can't have it that way, they quit. Then a few turn cynical and bitter. Those few waste their time here telling anyone who will listen how trading is one big lie and nobody wins. That everyone just loses.
Some of these message-board victims actually start several aliases at a time. "What kind of pear-shaped loser would do that" you ask? The kind that haunt places like this and try to drive off people who have something that pains them to hear.
Successful trading is one helluva lot simpler AND easier than most of the masses still wandering lost in the desert here are willing to accept as true. Donna gets it. Simple as that
