Quote from RCG Trader:
Trading is not subjective when done with TA. These markers appear on every single chart, on every single fractal, every single day, in every single market. The only difference is how much the trader wishes to risk on this event.
Maybe Surf, you just don't have the eyes. You would not be the first, and certainly not the last.
Thank you for making the essential points of trading.
In The Predictors", Bass relates how the quants are doing their "daily" trade to check out their "quant based system". He tells of how they go to market at5 the same time every afternoon. they enter, get their pant taken offf and they exit.
wwhat was going on? Everyone knew when they came to market, everyone was sitting there, everyone took thier trades and made money as they lost money.
Bass states they figured it out finally. what they figured out was tat everyone was waiting for them watching them and screwing them.
About this time in the bbok's narrative, Bass reveals that the quant's did not know what BBid and BAsk were.
The book actually was published. People actually bought the book.
This book ranks as almost as humorous as Derman's or Covel's.
All three are tradegies, as well.
So how did all these authors and their subjectsget to fit into the surfer blindness category?
We have to look at one equation:
Perception (100%) = Sensing (10%) + inference (90%).
Surf has never seen the market according to his posting over the years. Simple example: he says trends do not exist.
now the big element: inference.
inference is a long term memory characteristic.
If you can read words on a screen you have "inference" for those words. there are several parts: spelling, sound; definitiion; usage; etc etc.... you have long term memory locatd in many places and you have the plumbing to connect the pieces.
Surf has no trading or market inference locations in his mind. He has no plumbing either.
so what happens when he is looking at something that is market oriented? He senses the screen and is effectively blind. nothing pops up form his long term memory that gives him something to add so he could have perceptioin.
Take his word incredulous when describing something I do like driving a car.
If he senses "me" there is no inference in his mind regarding the three moves of every trend, the FTT of the trend, the overlap that follows and the parallelogram that contain all trends on all fractals ETC,,,, ETC... ETC....
I have 350 file folders of illustrations for my five books. In each there is a SET of illustrations.
surf perceives NOTHIG. He has zero inference regarding trading and markets.
Why?
the reason is that he did not learn.
learning comes down to drills. Drills set up images in the mind that, while sleeping, get combined into long term memory from short term memory.
repitition of something sensed can accumulate into long term memory.
Imagine a sensingas a 3 x 5 card. On the card is a ballpoint pen dot. these two ares represent the unconscious and the concious sensing. the ratio is 10,000 to 20,000,000 in parts. 10,000 is the conscious part.
As you sleep both records, conscious and unconscious, are merged into long term memory.
I have trade fro 53 years in the same manner.
Buying a sailboat (US 122 Kings Cruiser built in Gothemberg, Sweden and bought from the treasurer of Yachting Magazine), racing for years with the Greenwich crowd of sailors was a chicken feed level of toy. Being asked to do a new formula for handicapping the NYYC members was just a courtesy.
In trading, having inference fully differentiated is EVERYTHING.
Being fully differentiated means that everything you see on a super designed set of screen panes has a matching inference component for perception within a few milliseconds every glance you make of this sophisticated screen set of panes.\
surfer is permanently fucked.
his mind is senselessly all mixed up by the bullshit he is drawn to every day of his life. He made zillions of decisions to fill his mind with what he chose.
surfer is permanently fucked.
Anyone can become fully differentiated by doing the process work of learning how markets work. That all is public information. Every drill required has been posted.
Thousands of examples have been provided.
Everyone had the cice of fucking up their minds or not fucking up their minds.
It is NOT a reversable process.
Does anyone think that sufer will ever see R2R as an oscillation of volume? Shit no!!!!! LOL......