Hey Electric, thanks for this message, it is a classic example of how disturbed and misled you really are in your apparent 'alternative reality'. As for the "disgusted so many here", I'm sure you mean the 2-3 friendly PM's a day which I'm currently receiving. I'm sure you get lots, too.
YOU have tried to humble me? Wow how exactly would you have done that?
As for the "disgusting post" I made on you; Actually, this post was the only ET post to date that was copied and circulated in Bryce's 55-man strong trading group as a "classic ET post". Quite a few people thought it was totally hilarious, I even got congratulations from one guy. ElectricSavant is actually a "star" now. I'm not making this up. Tell him, Bryce!
So we already have two major discrepancies:
1. You think so many ET'ers are "disgusted" by me, but my inbox shows the contrary.
2. You think my post to you was "disgusting", but many other people thought it was "hilarious".
Maybe you should consider some form of belief modification?
Back to "humility"... I love this topic, this was discussed in one of Niederhoffer's books. Most people get this one totally wrong.
Jose Raul Capablanca, world chess champion 1921-1927 and probably greatest natural chess player of all time, once said: "As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority became evident."
(English chess grandmaster) Davies commented: "Was this hubris? Probably more a statement of fact. I am much more wary of apparent humility than apparent hubris. Those who feign humility can be both arrogant and deceitful."
Davies definitely has a point. Humility is a way overvalued commodity, and I personally don't trust overly humble people at all. Never have. Maybe that's because I'm a Leo, and I just naturally like being loud, authoritarian and dominating, and consider similar kind of people as more direct and sincere.
Furthermore, I consider "humility" as a false asset in trading the markets. I used to believe tha humility as such is prerequisite, however eventually realized that that was a common trading fallacy, like most of those wannabe-rules out there. My "humility" in the markets brought me nothing but a low number of trades, and lots of stop-outs. One day I realized that everybody tries to be humble / is shit-scared, and instead I should change my game and become aggressive.
Once I became aggressive, everything changed for me. No false humility, no modest bullshit. Get in, get out, gun the f*ck out of that freaking ask and sit in like crazy when it breaks. No humility, no "one bird in the hand is better than two in the bush" philosophies.
You know, you are such a fool Electric, you really believe all the small piker BS. I know some traders that take the elite seats, and none of them are "humble" as you describe. In fact, all of them are highly aggressive go-getters, people that know who they are, and shoot straight with you about what they think. They go for the jugular and they don't take prisoners. By the way, that includes George Soros, the best trader in the world. Would you consider Soros humble?
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