And as I said "someone actually asks an intelligent question" so they instead ask indirect questions to elicit the information. But there's the good old fashioned saying, you don't ask you don't get, and the reason people don't ask.
Because they don't want to look stupid in case the answer is smarter than their knowledge, if they elicit the information then 'they' can never be wrong, being smart to hide stupidity. Actually it's survival instinct, never showing their hand but never winning the jackpot, they will almost always fold or take the marginal gains before showdown.
@birzos :
Actually, I have no need to ask questions usually, or since I do research myself, I ask myself. Only my own answers will directly be relevant to my current stepping stone in trading, something which will be noise to others. Backtesting still takes a few hours though. Often discussions are helpful to spark new ideas and perspectives. However, these new directions are very indirect, chaotic and undeterministic. So this is more of passing time and curiosity, which I hoped would be obvious by now, but you're right to be sceptical (as witness of some thread-starters). However I do agree with you, it's much easier to answer bounded questions than unbounded question, or fill colors in a draft sketch than initiate painting on an empty canvas. It's probably related to how our brain works with associations. I am interested in, however, what people do not want to share and why. There maybe many different reasons, in market micro structure or even macro economics!
At least I had an idea it could be another angle to explore.
@FreakofNature :
It's interesting that new information always propagate from lower timeframes to higher timeframes (fact), which are all lagging relatively. So playing on higher timeframes, is playing on old (but more significant) information, which is an explanation for the differences in signals used between the two TFs in the video.
Btw, I think the video in itself is a pretty remarkable share by the guy who obviously is onto something.
Last edited: