Why Won't ET Accept Help?

Emil Kraepelin · Feb 16, 2011

Recently ET's resident therapist, Dr. Arthur Deco, offered here to mentor pro bono:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=214350

You can't get any cheaper than free.

Emboldened by the abject failure of this errant stupidity, The Amazing Rande solicited paid coun-sell-ing here:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=214607

Guess ET doesn't want to pay either.

I think that the problem is this: ET doesn't know that it HAS a problem.

So I'll make it simple for you.

With multiple choice testing.

To wit (or not):

Why do you trade?

(a) Because I want to be stinking filthy rich before the close on Friday

(b) To make the overdue payment on the recently-adjusted interest on the ARM mortgage on my luxury condo

(c) To pay back my mom on the loan she made me to start trading

(d) to impress the friends I know nothing about on ET

(e) all of the above.

HowardCohodas · Feb 16, 2011

Because it's fun and I make my living doing it. What could be better than that?

Redneck · Feb 16, 2011

Why do I trade....

Because I revel in flatulismâ¦, sadomasochismâ¦, anti socialismâ¦, isolationismâ¦, and mental masturbationismâ¦

Oh and I also loath the hell out of myself....

Either that or to make money...

I keep confusing the two in my head

RN

nutmeg · Feb 16, 2011

Quote from Redneck:

Because I revel in flatulismâ¦, sadomasochismâ¦, anti socialismâ¦, isolationismâ¦, and mental masturbationismâ¦

Nice list.

When you consider the alternatives, it's a no brainer.

....ya gotta trade.

LeeD · Feb 16, 2011

Arthur Deco's thread went quiet because the O.P. has been away from ET for almost 2 weeks. Perhaps, he is on a skiing holiday.

We don't know if anyone has actually taken up mentorship in private, will have to ask when Arthur Deco is back.

Samsara · Feb 16, 2011

I trade because Daniel Day Lewis had a passable performance in <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>, which was written by Arthur Miller himself. Not a bad adaptation for the screen, although Wynona Ryder makes me want to punch myself in the face and sell market at the low of every pullback.

However, DDL had a masterful performance as Daniel Plainview in <i>There Will Be Blood</i>. That brawl in the bowling alley at the end? Bizarre, but potent. Driven to the point of madness, with a brutal minded singleness of purpose. This has me buying dips.

Have you ever read Cormac McCarthy? I have not, but my girlfriend has several of his books, and I keep eying them every time I stay over. I recently read one about Donald Crowhurst instead. Quite sad! But plenty of hilarious trading parallels. I first saw the book mentioned on ET.

I have a feeling that if I picked up one of McCarthy's books, I'd basically use a straightforward moving average envelope for limit orders on slow or choppy periods, reducing the aggravation of ES's back-and-fill tendency.

atticus · Feb 16, 2011

Quote from LeeD:

Arthur Deco's thread went quiet because the O.P. has been away from ET for almost 2 weeks. Perhaps, he is on a skiing holiday.

We don't know if anyone has actually taken up mentorship in private, will have to ask when Arthur Deco is back.

Or you could ask Emil.

Emil Kraepelin · Feb 16, 2011

Quote from LeeD:

Arthur Deco's thread went quiet because the O.P. has been away from ET for almost 2 weeks. Perhaps, he is on a skiing holiday.

We don't know if anyone has actually taken up mentorship in private, will have to ask when Arthur Deco is back.

He was banned.

Scataphagos · Feb 16, 2011

Quote from nutmeg:

Nice list.

When you consider the alternatives, it's a no brainer. ....ya gotta trade.

In what other endeavor could you go to work in your skivvies and drink beer at 10 AM?

Samsara · Feb 16, 2011

Quote from Emil Kraepelin:

He was banned.

Aw that sucks. I wonder what the offending sentence was.

"He" has plenty of aliases with enough of a track record though. No real loss.