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In the spirit of cooperation, WRB-- yes, I have agreed with many things you have said-- truth is truth regardless of who speaks it. However, this goes not mean that you don't harbor some deep resentment as is evidenced here. But that's ok, all you need to do is stop reading the surf alert report Regards, surf
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I've never said I don't have any resentment towards you about your past history in other threads and your current posting habits.

Yet, I will say that it plays no part in why I'm repeating what others have already said to you in this thread.

You made a promise to leave and have chosen to not honor your agreement to do such. Its as simple as that. Its not personal nor a vendetta...you broke your promise and arrogantly defending breaking such a promise.

Simply, no matter what I've said about you...its just a repeat of what others have already said about you in this thread and other threads. Thus, if everybody stop reading your surf reports...you'll just go back to your old habit of trolling their threads, posting your debates with a few personal attacks thrown in prior to running back to your own thread. That's what has been occurring for many years.

My recommendation is that you take your own advice. Instead of following folks around here at ET and attacking them in other threads outside of your own...put them on ignore and stay here in your own thread. Leave folks alone.

Can we agree on that ? Yes or No

Then again, even if you do agree, we know your history of not honoring agreements. :(

Anyways, I have now stated my opinion based on the facts. I will now leave this thread (no need to put you on ignore) and never to return to this particular thread. As you will see, I do have integrity and will keep my promise. Simply, you get the last say.
 
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I was wrong on the top call, Nodoji. I admit this-- I'm wrong a lot---but my calls are based on the best of my information. The hype is theater--- any reasonable person would get this. I don't believe your claimed methods help retail or contain any edge. But if you and others are truthfully consistently profiting from them. Why does it matter what I believe or say?? By the way "real professionals" lose money often also-- sometimes huge money--- the only folks who don't are in your camp, hence my suspicions .
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surf, theater is fine ...but i do not think the over the top way you did it should be in a trader journal..even if ET is not the most serious place the nonsense and mistakes in regards to trading timelines, entries, size, etc have zero place in a journal.



....i think you just overdid it and rubbed a lot of guys the wrong way. trading is a very serious business.



in any case most here know i am quite serious about trading and i feel some trader journal integrity (that was not the case in this journal) should be held even on ET.

lastly to you guys who said surf promised to leave ET if he stopped out..he did no such thing. surf said he would "stop making trading calls". that is not a statement to leave ET. i'm sure some of you guys already realize this..yet the theater is too hard to resist.
 
However meeting real professionals at Knight, various funds and prop shops -- I realized that very few if any real Pros use TA as a pure trading method
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Of course, with the capital and resources behind them they are going to employ a vast range of tools. That does not equate to "TA does not work"

Its about the time frame size and the complexity of the operation and its no real basis for your constant assault on TA, which is likely the only reason you get so much negativity around here.
 
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Trader fighter. Particularly since I use to be a hard core technical analyst. MTA member everything. No one is hated more by cult members than ex cult members. However meeting real professionals at Knight, various funds and prop shops -- I realized that very few if any real Pros use TA as a pure trading method what they call here price action. Sure TA is good to describe or make a point, but try using it alone as a real time objective decision making tool and it fails. surf
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Let me tell you a bit about myself.

I was trained by two master traders, and not simultaneously, totally different techniques, but I did approach them at the same time. The important common denominator was TA, one humble, the other one had an ego the size of a Australia, yet both very impressive traders.

One of them taught me for free, the other one charged me an important sum of money that ended up being insignificant at the end of the course.

Both of them went strictly by Technical Analysis.

However, 95% of what they taught was new to me, and I had already read many ta books in the past that had done absolutely nothing for my trading, plus research of my own.

With that said, without self control, positive attitude and risk management all the TA they taught me, would had been useless.
 
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I was wrong on the top call, Nodoji. I admit this-- I'm wrong a lot---but my calls are based on the best of my information. The hype is theater--- any reasonable person would get this. I don't believe your claimed methods help retail or contain any edge. But if you and others are truthfully consistently profiting from them. Why does it matter what I believe or say?? By the way "real professionals" lose money often also-- sometimes huge money--- the only folks who don't are in your camp, hence my suspicions .
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The reason why those folks in "my camp" don't lose huge money (we do lose money often, but the gains outweigh the losses), is because those folks in "my camp" put on trades (and make calls) based on the best of our information. Our best information is based on the technical analysis of price action and we find an edge (positive expectancy) based on a combination of win rate and risk:reward ratio. This is an edge that doesn't deteriorate over time because it's based on something that can never change in a highly liquid auction market: price swings up and down.

Your hype and theatricals are fine, but don't belong in a Journal forum.

The sad part is that when I was a newbie I believed the sort of stuff you spout. I thought stops caused losses, that standard technical analysis my informal mentor kept preaching to me was how the weak hands traded. I thought I knew things all those experienced traders with their trend-following, risk-managing rules were too "average" to understand. I politely nodded at the good advice given me, but I knew better.

I easily could've lost every cent of my capital had I continued down the path I was on. I was fortunate to have connected with a few great people here on ET and finally out of despair decided to open up and listen to what they were saying, to investigate what they were doing.

The kind of stuff you spew about those of us who've been through the war and come out of it humbled and much wiser, is the kind of stuff that inexperienced traders, frustrated traders, and emotionally damaged traders are vulnerable to believing.

There are amazing teachers on this site, experienced traders and educators willing to hold someone's hand and teach them to develop a consistently profitable trading plan of their own, something they can trust and trade.

When you infiltrate one thread after another with your anti-TA demagoguery, it turns this entire site into a circus instead of a well-moderated site geared to profitable trading ideas and a professional trader's mindset.
 
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lastly to you guys who said surf promised to leave ET if he stopped out..he did no such thing. surf said he would "stop making trading calls". that is not a statement to leave ET. i'm sure some of you guys already realize this..yet the theater is too hard to resist.
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That's simply wrong. He responded to Jack Larkin that he would no longer POST:

Yes, jack--- that's the deal. No more posting or calls from me--- unless I am asked a specific question or something similar. surf

He left no real out there... he's still here with his bullshit and nobody has asked him jack-shit.
 
I agree, I did "over hype" the last call. I'm sorry for doing this--- I became over confident due to calling the super bull at the end of 2012 and calling the steep drop on the QE fears. I thank everyone posting here, even my detractors because I learn from everyone-- including you, nodoji. :D
 
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That's simply wrong. He responded to Jack Larkin that he would no longer POST:

Yes, jack--- that's the deal. No more posting or calls from me--- unless I am asked a specific question or something similar. surf

He left no real out there... he's still here with his bullshit and nobody has asked him jack-shit.
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OK, i stand corrected.

i too am a bit like mav in that i will gloss over posts or not read all...i guess i'm still too darned focused on actual trading!!

that changes my opinion on the alias we know as surf a bit...but you know there are a lot of opinions..time to play outside!
 
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I agree, I did "over hype" the last call. I'm sorry for doing this--- I became over confident due to calling the super bull at the end of 2012 and calling the steep drop on the QE fears. I thank everyone posting here, even my detractors because I learn from everyone-- including you, nodoji. :D
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surfie, don't ever apologize, what do you have to apologize for? it's your journal. I don't understand the targeted attacks that are allowed to go on in journal threads.

You apparently have license to:
The place for keeping a daily journal of wins, losses, and anything else related to YOUR quest of becoming a better trader.

The rest of the crew should take a page from Magna's last post & just r.e.l.a.x.

Marketsurfie & combine journals area the only good reads anyway (and combine journals tend to have a shelf-life of 3 days).
 
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