Somehow I found myself cruising the "Journals" subforum here and a couple of them seemed really interesting, then, all of a sudden, nothing. Not even somebody saying "Hey, where are you?" So, I wanted to ask,is this usually when a trader with a posted journal has one of those days where you lose a little, then lose a little more, then go completely insane and max out your margin and just refuse to take a loss? I've noticed that some of the better ones must have spent an inordinate amount of time posting charts, etc. Do they just get tired of it? Why wouldn't they say "Hey, I am spending more time posting than trading, gotta end the journal"?
I do see some that I admire greatly, they keep coming back, even after getting pounded, over and over. They certainly have "stick-to-it-ness" Unfortunately they're not learning from their mistakes. Realistically, if you study your action, see exactly where you went wrong, and repeat it over and over, you ain't learned nothing yet.
I also see that some members seem to exist only to put down others who are trying. Why? Strikes me as indicative of a wretched small, mean mind. But, maybe some of the journal writers are just discouraged by demeaning criticism?
Ha ha ha...
I talked about this in one particular trade journal and the guy resurface several months later to tell me to STFU and that he was away because he was just "busy" or something like that.
All I did was say where are you, can you update us and you still trading ?
Yet, I did ask those questions a few times over several months including sending a private message.
Regardless, the typical life of most public trade journals is about 3 months.
Most traders eventually view their trade journals as time consuming and mentally consuming...reason why journals have a short life span.
Trade journals end for so many reasons, I didn't notice any particular common reason like the trader blew up, took a job that doesn't allow them time to trade or whatever. Also, the trade journal section here at ET is somewhat sacred and well protected. Anyone getting crap in their trade journal...they can easily have the offender access removed from their trade journal and have the comments deleted by management / moderator.
Thus, I strongly doubt someone ends a trade journal here at ET because they were offended by someone. In fact, many trade journals or education threads will show early cracks when the thread starter early in their threads start talking about they're not sure now long they will maintain their thread and/or talk about that they believe there's a "lack of interest" in their thread.
These are threads by someone that plans to soon end the thread and/or leave without any notification. I recently had an experience with an education thread title
Understanding Price Action in which the thread starter did exactly that. She stated
early in her thread there was a
lack of interest in what she had to say and that she should let her thread
die...
Later, I then asked questions and repost questions by others that were not answered...she acts offended and leaves and then blames me on her departure even though she had already announced she may let her thread die due to the lack of interest
prior to me asking questions.
Regardless, the most simple explanation is that they get involved with other things unrelated or related to their trading and stopping the trade journal makes room for that other thing even for those that stay at the forum...continuing posting but not maintaining their trade journal.
By the way, this is a public forum. Its no different than any other social media site. Thus, the crap you see occurring here is no different than the crap you see occurring at other social media sites even those social media sites not related to trading...
Its the nature of the internet.
wrbtrader
