Spelling and Trading

Quote from jem:

this is exactly my point. Why not take my post, get upset, come up with a non - sequitor and feel good about it.

Spelling has nothing to do with getting what you want out the markets.

It takes a certain type of person to adjust find an edge and then keep finding an edge. I made a good living for 5-7 years. Then I could no longer make the returns needed. Looking back - I would say I was just not willing to be a reversion to the mean trader. I was a bit set in my ways. I had another career to fall back on. I lost my nerve and my balls because I had little kids.

I know writing computer programs can be useful and the type of person who complains about spelling could be very good at writing programs.

But to write programs that work real time and trade them.

Not the type of person who would complain about spelling. Imo.

Trading well is special. Doing it for a long time is really really cool. (and takes a very interesting person.) I just can't imagine to many people who trade for a living caring about spelling on elitetrader.
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jem,

I have to agree with you completely. I find chronic misspellings a bit annoying, but that's a written communitcations shortcoming and not a trading shortcoming.

I'd like to think that I'm a decent enough speller, and a decent trader. That said, I don't see any relationship between the two, whatsoever. In fact, I would suggest that while trading is more geared towards those with mathematical aptitudes, spelling is more suited to those with language skills (and I for one, found the math easier than the language stuff in school!).

Anyway, is terrible grammer or poor spelling fun to read? Probably not. However, is excellent spelling and grammer in any way a prerequisite for trading success? Absolutely not, IMO.

-Eric

P.S. Yikes! That's three posts already this month. Back to the shadows...
 
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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I think a better indicator of decreasing knowledge is a country that is apathetic about going into trillions and trillions of debt.

In other words Obama supporters are a good indicator.
 
Yes, Eric, you should be ashamed of yourself, an august personage like you posting! I am honored that I tempted you out. Especially for such a trifle.
 
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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I could not agree more. As for age, I am 29 and my beloved mother taught me to speak and spell correctly, in English, not some jumbled form of it which most others speak in this country.
 
Thanks, Bathrobe. I assume you trade in your lucky one. I always say "You aren't trading furiously enough if your frayed old K-Mart slippers don't stink!"
 
why do many posters spell their as there?

why don't many posters use the check speller when posting?

this lack of discipline is endemic. it is probably one of the reasons the US is in its current shape.
 
It gets better. The Wall Street Journal today has a book review on the decline of handwriting. Eighty-five percent of SAT essay takers in 2006 wrote in block letters rather than in script!
 
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