I'm glad you agree with this because I do as well. And as you say, at least the TA crowd is showing a bit more than the anti-TA crowd.The truth is that its the TA crowd and the anti TA crowd don't provide whatever it is that you seek. Simply, everybody is doing it.
I don't think this is fair at all. How am I hammering away? Listen, Mr. Brown first started with a statement that he doesn't use time and can say with precision where the market is going. This is what started the questioning process. After some clarification, we find out that he would actually have some trades don't work, so there goes the idea that he knows exactly what the market will do next. If he is trading 1500 contracts, then he of course better damn well have a high win rate, but its still never the less a statistical thing. Furthermore, we find out that he is targeting perhaps only 3 points.Anyways, I think that's why many call you a troll because you keep hammering at people again and again with these half truths along with twisting facts.
Now I don't know about you, but if someone says that they know exactly where the market is going next, I expect a little more than a few points and never a mention of contingency plans of what to do next in case the first expected outcome doesn't happen. If he is in fact trading 1500 contracts then he clearly knows what he is doing, but this doesn't mean that his initial description is accurate. I brought up the idea of calling tops and bottom in real time, that would be impressive, like the guy Eddie had on Skype, but putting on a trade where it looks very likely that you can get 3 points isn't in my opinion having a precise understanding of where the market is going.
Furthermore, the one chart that he did post clearly had time on the x axis where he showed daily bars. I have no idea what he means by taking time out of the equation, but I don't think that what he initially suggested is in fact in the same light as what I've come to learn after asking more questions.
The idea of automation or whether he is discretionary or not has in my opinion nothing to do with this conversation. Automation is still programmed by the trader, and it seems to me that discretion is built into an automated system anyway. The system will clearly not take every trade and has rules about when and how to enter and exit, which to me means discretion.
The fact of the matter is that he hasn't explained how he knows exactly where the market is going next and why time doesn't matter. Granted, as you have pointed out, nobody is saying everything, and he doesn't even have to, but if he started a thread about this, I would figure he would eventually get there. Now he just makes it seem like I'm trolling, and that he can't talk anymore because Baron supposedly silenced him because of posting a link to his own website.
I don't think my questions were trolling, and when my questions are met with resistance and being called a troll, what am I to make of the information being presented?
