Originally posted by Lavish
If you've been hanging onto ego's every word you ought to know he is the biggest tease and author of nonsense... mixed in with his training methods of course. ENJOY.
Yeah, this guy has more groupies than Jimi Hendrix did. But most of them are him. That is what started this whole "Lavish is Don" nonsense. Yesterday someone noticed that Faster answered as super_ego....he forgot who he was logged on as.
Regardless of any of this, I admire some of what super_ego has to say, especially his humor. But I think that it is futile both to try and teach and to try and learn to trade in this manner. Particularly with this kind of technical approach. I hate to get serious here....I know this is not the place for serious observations, however I have been trading for longer than a lot of the people on this site have been alive. And experience has taught me that this is not only a bad way to try to learn (super_ego ultimately agrees....look what he has said about "gurus"), but it can actually be harmful. I have seen so many traders come and go thinking that they had "learned" from a book, or a person, or a classroom environment how to read charts and make money from the patterns they could recognize.
Well, it just isn't a mechanical science. Trading is more an art. It is about processing information in ways that cannot even be verbalized. There is too much input. Someone talked here about catching a fly ball being an analogy to trading... that you had to know where to expect the ball to come down, to anticipate, as you need to anticipate where a stock will go. But does anyone believe that any outfielder can possibly explain what they are thinking when they chase down a fly ball? No, it is instinct. It is what is developed over time. Trading is like that. There is too much to process to put into black and white. That is why in my posts in the "successful trading" thread, I tried like hell to avoid specifics. It is the general stuff I tried to help with. The attitude and discipline and mind-set.
I know many truly successful traders than never look at charts ever! The very best I trader I knew never looked at charts. I admit I do, but just intraday charts...so I can get a graphic idea of where the stock has been during the day. Is it weak? Strong? On a dip? A run-up? That helps me somewhat, because I trade a lot of stocks. But if I only traded a handful, I would likely not bother with charts. I would be watching the stocks, and I would know how they were behaving.
A long time ago, someone showed me stochastics...I was impressed and tried to trade off them. Cost me quite a bit. At the time I was working for EF Hutton (shows it was a long time ago).I asked someone in the technical analysis dept. in NY to explain how stocastics were calculated. No one there knew. They faxed me some pages from a book, but the wrong pages...it said something like "continued on page xx", and there was no page xx.
I challenge super_ego to explain how stochastics are calculated. What makes that line different from the RSI line, or the MACD line? Which is more dependable? Why?