Originally posted by GeeTO69
the point is pretty obvious. *you* are content is what knowledge and skills you possess. *you* express no interest in anything new or unusual. that's fine with me. if you are happy, i'm happy for you. however, others live for new concepts, approaches, insights, unusual ideas etc. even though we have trading successes to date, we want more. we enjoy more. it's what we like to do. we like to take a Paul Tudor Jones or a Vic Sperandeo or a Marty Schwartz or even a Teresa Lo and get a feel for how they look at the trading world, how they do things, what their thoughts are when and why they place trades. call me crazy, but i like that. and often i get additional insight if not formulaic trading strategies. it's called a life long learning process, and it's fun and profitable. sure, you can "practice medicine" profitably never taking a postgrad seminar, but who wants to do that?