Quote from marcD:
Now THAT IS TRIVIAL (but I never knew that).
RS, when are you going to get back to posting about TRADING??????
MarcD
Been asking myself the same question lately. I know I have wasted a lot of time in "chit-chat" for the past several months.
I am just not sure what I have left to contribute to say about TRADING. I think maybe I have said too much already.
Though I got a lot of accolades for my trading posts, I also took a lot of guff. The main thing is I sort of felt it was a one way street. I would try and help in my way...which was, in fact, really just passing on what I had learned. I readily admit to not inventing anything "new" or revealing any "holy grails". Yet because people expect magic, I took a lot of heat for not giving them the magic they wanted (or expected?).
I am NOT a trading guru, and I only really know what I learned from others, and from experience. This seems not to be enough for so many. Sometimes it just isn't worth the effort. But I will reconsider, especially since I see so much written in the trading forums that I know in my heart is just WRONG.
Another point is that there seems to be a lot of personal animosity on ET lately. So for some people, it doesn't matter what you try to contribute. You will get bashed for even trying.
This from you, Marc: (directed at Max)
Whatever the ultimate truth is, it is pretty apparent that RS7 HAS contributed some good trading advice based on experience. You have not, that I have found, contributed anything but antagonism.
And I guess this is the reason people seem supportive of him and not supportive of you. You really have no purpose but to be as unpleasant as possible.
Then this response from Max401:
My opinion is it's a regurgitation of well known generalities. Does it have value? Yes, but I submit, not to the degree of glorification you or RS7 promote.
Now I don't know what way I "glorified" anything I said, and Max and I have seemed to come to a state of "detent". I actually have grown quite fond of Max, and was always respectful of his intellect. Though I often disagree vehemently with his politics and his incredible smokescreen of anonymity (I have offered to buy him drinks...even dinner, since I learned he is at least at times in very close proximity to where I live....gave him my phone number, etc.). However, I just happened to remember this comment from him when I tried a "search"....there were others who bashed me for trying to help. Is this outweighed by the outpouring of appreciation? Who knows....I did not do the trading posts for "gratitude". I did them just to try and be helpful. I don't know what I have left to give. But I will think about it, and given the time, I will certainly, if not do another entire thread, like "Successful Trading", "Keeping it Simple", and whatever else I had done and already forgotten, I will certainly add some food for thought regarding some of what I have been reading lately that I vehemently disagree with.
Peace,
Rs8.5
