Quote from marketsurfer:
as a reader, whatever value you place on what you read.
if you don't enjoy the surf report, don't read it.
however, as is known, you are an avid reader of the report.
regards,
surfer
Quote from volente_00:
Thats a valid request if you are willing to do the same. The fact remains that surfer is not trying to solicit business, solicit money, solicit students, solicit period with this journal unlike some other people on ET so why are his numbers relevant to you ? If he revealed them, would you believe him? , or would you question them just like you do Larry's ?
Kindly allow me to respond.
First, to volente:
As I had previously noted, I do not offer a journal. I suppose that if I did do so, that I would then do it properly, and not in a half-assed manner. Please refer to my comments to marketsurfer that follow, for clarification. As for the notion of selling something, I agree that he is not selling anything specific at this time. However I think there is little doubt that marketsurfer is trying to create a brand image around himself, which may or may not have some tangible value for him in the future. And there is nothing wrong with that. He is entirely entitled to do so. However, I believe I am entitled to make observations regarding the validity and completeness of his offerings. After all, he is the one who opened the door. I am merely walking through it. This is, after all, an
open forum, is it not?
To marketsurfer:
You offer a journal. As I understand it, and please correct me if I am wrong, a journal is supposed to be all about truth and honesty. It is about completeness. It is about specifics. Understandably, if your journal is a public one, you would be disinclined to share your specific and proprietary trading strategies. However, for a journal to have any value to anyone, yourself included, I would think that it should readily enable you to know where you stand in your trading in relation to your starting point. In this way you keep yourself honest with...yourself. And others. A journal is about checks and balances. Therefore if, as you wrote, you do not feel a need to share any specifics such as these in your journals, then what possible value, other than dubious entertainment, do they offer? For the thinking reader, it does not enhance your brand image. Of what use is an incomplete and half-baked journal, and to whom?
I think that traders are natural skeptics. If they were not, then their trading careers would be rather short lived. Therefore, any legitimate trader wishing to attach any legitimacy to your journal will invariably ask you the questions that you seem reluctant to answer. What raises additional questions is an observation by riskarb in a post to another thread a few months ago:
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riskarb
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 4895
09-10-06 04:38 PM
Calls are meaningless. You have no insight into the mechanics of the signal nor the management of the stated-trade. FWIW, he (marketsurfer) stated on chat that he had just shorted "size" in GOOG. Unfortunately the stock had been halted and no trades took place at his reported price. Later he stated he received a fill from E***** Institutional that his "fund" shorted 200 shares. Again, at a price never reaching the tape on any ECN. 200...
C'mon, doesn't this thread title tell it all?
So let's drop the pretense... the guy is borderline retarded, pathologically FOS and an attention whore. This is the last post in which I will ever mention the guy or his handle. That should please everyone involved.
Edit:
Would love to see the WSJ column surfer. Maybe E*Trade filled you outside the Earthly markets out of soft-dollar compensation for your editorials. Oh Lord, it never ends with this cat.
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Riskarb, who no longer contributes to ET, was an intelligent and outspoken member whose trading acumen was never in question. I recalled the above rather disparaging and insightful post written a while back in another thread. I did a search and only found ProfLogic's reference to it in one of his posts. Riskarb's actual post seems to have been deleted. I remember reading it at the time he had posted it, so I know it existed. Interesting how, despite all the insults you seem to withstand, riskarb's poignant post somehow did not manage to survive. What, specifically, was it about that post that caused you to complain and have it deleted?