Spelling and Trading

Don't confuse the simplicity of trading with dumbness. What I do is simple, but I didn't arrive at it by being dumb.

Thanks Cold, you give great counter-examples.
 
Quote from Coldspring:

I can definitely spell better than I can trade. My grammar and punctuation isn't too good though.

I've known some English teachers that could spell lots of words, but they were general dumb asses in almost every other way. I've also known a couple of intellectual "writers" that were too dumb to realize that their books sucked and no one would read them, let alone buy them.
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Attention to detail does not guarantee success. A lack of attention to detail usually assures failure.
 
As ET's resident Mom, I encourage all traders to practice their spelling words and grammar on a daily basis, taking special care to learn the difference between these commonly confused words:

AAPL, APL and APOL

AET and EAT

BID and BIDU

FLR, FLIR, and FSLR

M and MA
 
Quote from Big AAPL:

Your loosing it my good man. Their definately trying to trip you up with there intentional miss spellings. Try not to let it effect you all to much. The trick is, seperating the trash from the treasure.
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This is funny, but what is even funnier is that so many here will read that and not get the joke.
 
Does anyone who does or has traded for a living over a period of years think spelling has anything to do with making a living trading?

I am not talking about computer programs - I am talking actual consistent profits. Over say at least 1000 trades.

I think you might make a great columnist, see safire... but trader?

I think traders adjust far to frequently to worry about spelling on the internet.
 
Quote from Arthur Deco:

As a language purist and somewhat of an historian, I am keenly aware these days of the age-old correlation between the deterioration of spelling standards and the decline of society. When the public at large no longer thinks it necessary to spell correctly, they seem no longer to care to accomplish anything else properly, either.

ET is society writ small. Often I wonder "How can an idiot who cannot even manage something as simple as spelling imagine that he can trade?" I know this is an elitist attitude, but I can't help it. I am old and set in my ways. The curse of a classical education wherein most of what you learn is ancient.

So I am going to vent my spleen in this thread. For starters, today, we have:

"explination".

One supposes this person says "Let me expline something to you."
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err, it's called a "typo".....
 
Quote from Arthur Deco:

As a language purist and somewhat of an historian, I am keenly aware these days of the age-old correlation between the deterioration of spelling standards and the decline of society. When the public at large no longer thinks it necessary to spell correctly, they seem no longer to care to accomplish anything else properly, either.

ET is society writ small. Often I wonder "How can an idiot who cannot even manage something as simple as spelling imagine that he can trade?" I know this is an elitist attitude, but I can't help it. I am old and set in my ways. The curse of a classical education wherein most of what you learn is ancient.
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I manage to ignore most spelling errors, convincing myself it was probably just a typo (I draw the line with loose/lose and alot/a lot), but when people choose to ignore the most basic rules of grammar, I feel like they are uneducated, on the wrong side of the bell curve, or playing on their parents computer in the basement.

Why would anyone use the ellipsis every four or five words? Why do they type 16 question marks and 12 exclamation marks after every sentence? What do the have against paragraphs and punctuation?

Please forgive me if I misspelled anything. It was probably just a typo.
 
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