"I actually never got around to using the Van Tharp stuff. I've read his book which I found useful at the time, but the tapes sat on my shelf for a few years and I never listened to them. I guess I'm at the point where I feel like I've found my stride and edge and I'm liquidating a lot of my books/tapes/courses/whatever, etc because I feel like I don't need them anymore. Truth be told, I'm cleaning out my office, so either someone else gets them or they go in the trash.
In the last 48 hours I've sold a number of books that others here consistently espouse as being great: Trading in the Zone, Disciplined Trader, Master Swing Trader, etc. etc. I didn't make copies.
The books that I'm holding on to are ones that I find myself consistently re-reading or using as reference: Option Volatility and Pricing, Trading Risk, Money Management for Futures Traders, Options as a Strategic Investment, etc.
Believe it or not I found the Connors/Landry stuff helpful in my early years of trading. More to get a feel for the markets (which of course there is no substitute to watching them day after day). Not because I applied what they taught rigidly, but because it prompted other ideas and understandings. Obviously TradingMarkets, like all the other gurus is self-serving. So, to answer your question, yes they aren't useful to me anymore -- but that doesn't mean they weren't useful at one point or won't be useful to someone else.
I don't know about you, but I never took a course in college more than once -- I don't think it should come as any suprise that someone doesn't need to step through a trading course more than once either to get the point."
This is an excellent well-thought-out response to an idiotic question or two that challenged the person's integrity. I have a few hundred trading books myself, along with many tradingmarkets.com courses, etc., that I am going to unload in the near future -- ALL ORIGINALS -and it has nothing at all to do with them being worthless. Almost every book and course has a point or two that can be useful in ultimately developing one's niche in the marketplace. I will sell mine for the same reason as the writer -- I'm cleaning house, have integrated all the material from the books and courses that gave me an edge into my trading, and that's it. ET readers too frequently challenge the motive of honest people who simply no longer need certain trading stuff. Give it a break!
