Quote from thisisnotsurfer:
Jack,
Nothing careless about my remarks. You still have not produced the name of this person or this "group". I am not sure why you just can't be clear.
thanks,
TINS
Thank you for indulging me. I simply felt that perhaps since you had invited this person to spent time with you and your friends, you would remember him and the impression he may have made with you.
Most people know who I described because they are ware of his knowldegeable and thoroough contributions in ET vis a vis passing forward the PEP and its applications, PVT, SCT, and SSR. He posted a stock trading record for quite a while and he answered questions in a sllyabus format on SCT for two years. (the first year was the syllabus introduction)
I don't have an interest in proving anythig to anyone. The trading apporach has reached a self sustaining critical mass and the IPATS is in good hands for the future.
It is wonderful that a worldwide group meets regularly to share their interests, It is probably true that my health is taking a lot of my time these days and I am very unreliable for going places and doing things. I feel very comfortable to just be a local resource geographically or electronically.
As I stated a whle back I had to learn to not care about people and their inabilities. For some reason most of my life the individual value that a person represents seemmed to demand that I support any possibility of that person's growth. This was an irrational orientation. People beat themselves up so badly that there is no chance that external efforts can support thier wellbeing.
Money turns out to really affect how people reconstruct the past. I was unaware of your orientation to others and what their value may be to you. I don't value much of what you represent and say. You lack understanding of so many things. There is little chance you will work to gain understrandings.
Foir those who wish to learn to trader or even those who have a passion for trading, a key element in the matter is your relationship to the markets.
The markets are livings things and they have character and peronsality. The closest type of relationship, I believe is possible is the partnership.
History shows us some of the magnificent and elegant partnerships that prevailed. Eahc had it emphasis and understandings. These well defined partnerships deserve attention since they are so instructive.
As usual, there are many tangibles and intangibles. I like how business partnerships have their recitations and performance obligations. There is also a growth dynamic in partnerships whereby more and more is added through mutuality.
I was lucky enough to grow up in an atmosphere of reason and trust and integrity. Caring and being responsible was always formost in the picture. Fortunately I got alll that a person could imagine coming my way as time passed. No struggles or tests, just the unfolding of good times.
Being mature allowed challenges to come into my life. I accepted them and profited by becominga problem solver.
What I liked most about the markets was the resourse thay have always been. I don't see that changing. The offer is always there and it is so well defined.
Markes only come into view gradually and it is up to the observer to do his job to be the best he can to make the observations. Most people you meet are ignorant simply because the market is not in their environment and they have no connection to the markets.
If markets enter the picture, the person begins to construct the present with markets included. Science explains this mental effort congently as of 2010.
Science also explpains how memory reconstructs the past and makes it available or , in many ways, denies the memory of contructing the preaent that occurred in the past.
This is where a person is as he first observes markets and begins to reconstruct his relationship to the markets.
My 50 plus years turned out well because I chose to partner with the markets. My training and expertise in various fields allows me to contruct and reconstruct how anyone can go through the transition of becoming a partner with the markets. Most people do not partner with the markets.
I had not considered people and their relations with the market until all the evidence became available and was floddinginto my space. The literature is more or less a vaccuum surrounding the financial industry. Will Gordon come to life again in a new digital rendition?
I looked 14 and 1/2 in my early trading years so I did stuff by phone and mail. Later, I could have guys on the floor sing happy birthday to my guests on the balcony. I went through the transition of being collegial with the powers that were.
What is it like to go the course of having a true and complete partnership with the markets?
I suppose my naivete had an origin and it propelled me past where everyone I read is stuck. My main thrust in highschoolwas being a Boy Scout and I taught Sunday school to a class of my peers. Flat head V8's were what power was all about. I used my fingernnail to gap plugs and got 7K per set of tires. I always pumped up my surfboard to keep the insides dry. My skiis had laniers and micromatic toe plates so they broke into pieces on bad falls. I never jumped longer than a 35 meter jump would take. Every year in college I broke somethings.
So trading ws done with completely scientific naivete and the Boy Scout Oath and Law as underpinnings. I never even imagined people were like the people in ET. I did change brokers when they made their third mistake.
What I got from this, I found out, was the trusting partnership I began with. I depict it in two of my documents as three links in a chain.
Me on the left the market on the right and the relationship in between.
The middle link is a circle that functions as illustrated
This helps to explain why I couldn't catch on to the Dave Goodboy remarks about our approach and the apparent way he reconstructs the past vis a vis people he has met.
