Would you pay $50 per month for Premium Elite Trader without trolls and spammers?

Would I pay for a dedicated real-trader-only forum?

  • Yes, I would gladly pay $50 per month for a dedicated, protected, real-trader-only forum

    Votes: 22 18.3%

  • No, my trading career isn't worth $50 per month to actually learn from Pros exchanging real ideas

    Votes: 98 81.7%
  • Total voters
    120
  • Poll closed .
Quote from Reaver:

Mandelbrot, to make this a little more accessible to your intended recipient:

A few other forums I know of tried to go that route, and it did nothing but gay everything up.


There are essentially two practical ways of going about this:

1. There is one forum that started fairly recently that fits the first way. That is, allow no snake-oil and no vendors. This obviously won't work, because as I understand it, Baron does not trade (no offense, please correct me if I'm wrong) and this is a commercial site with the obvious goal of generating revenue. No vendors/snake-oil= no revenue. Coincidentally, when you take vendors out of the equation, literally 75-80+% of flaming and spamming will immediately vanish.

2. Create a forum that only a few people are allowed to know about. There is another forum that's been around for a little while that only a few people are allowed to know about, it's essentially invite-only, and if you do find out about it and start trouble, you'll get banned immediately. This option works well because it forms a small, tight-knit community and can really help traders progress through interaction. If, on the rare occasion someone happens to makes a reco for software, broker etc then you know they really mean it and don't have an agenda. (also, no vendors/ads, obviously)

Oviously, neither one of these options will apply here, and ET has a few good posts, but no way in hell would it be worth paying to be here. The amount that paying for membership would be worth would not be high enough to have trolls, spammers and shills be screened out....and the amount you'd have to charge to keep them out would be way above the actual value of ET. Not to mention a lot of the vendors here are Baron's friends, so not only would you be paying for access, but you'd most likely still be subjected to advertising and therefore spammers and shillboys.

My advice, stop worrying about fixing this place. It is what it is. You should seek out other forums that follow either items #1 or #2 as their philosophy. Find those forums, use them for trading, and use this for entertainment.
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Thank you for a cogent, considerate, excellent reply. :)
 
Quote from MandelbrotSet:

You don't know half as much as you think you do.

Cabletrader could post 20-50 times a day here duringthe US trading session and still make more bank than you.

You get three guesses as to why that is oh "pure trader", LOL.

Good luck, silly rabbit. :p

With the shitty attitude you've displayed here, nobody is going to give you the ready answer to the question you don't have the sense to ask, but Reaver has already given you the answer to. :cool:
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Jeez, look in the mirror, why don't you. You are the one with the shitty attitude.

I just asked a question in a poll. Why do you two have to go and make it all personal.

You have made my point without even having a clue that you are doing it.
 
Quote from slapshot:

Thank you for a cogent, considerate, excellent reply. :)
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Slapshot, you might not be a troll like Cabletrader says you are, but you are an idiot (so it's understandable that he would mistake you for one).

a) you didn't see that Reaver just posted the exact same thing that he said before. The second post was a joke, son.


b) you didn't see that you listed $50 a month for your prototypical, Pure Trading Website, but then added the amount up to $300 a year.

c) you didn't add the percentages correctly for your poll. Which have been at a steady >80% against charging a fee, despite your langague which is designed to skew it.

I don't know what you really want to accomplish with your thread, but if it's ultimately to get decent trading information (which you obviously need), you'd better change your tune, and I mean fast. :eek:
 
Quote from slapshot:

Jeez, look in the mirror, why don't you. You are the one with the shitty attitude.

I just asked a question in a poll. Why do you two have to go and make it all personal.

You have made my point without even having a clue that you are doing it.
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I say, I say, I say that boy is as sharp as a bowling ball!

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(image and line credited to PAPA ROACH) ... it was just soooo appropriate, I had to repost it! :p
 
Quote from MandelbrotSet:

Slapshot, you might not be a troll like Cabletrader says you are, but you are an idiot (so it's understandable that he would mistake you for one).

a) you didn't see that Reaver just posted the exact same thing that you said before. The second post was a joke, son.


b) you didn't see that you listed $50 a month for your prototypical, Pure Trading Website, but then added the amount up to $300 a year.

c) you didn't add the percentages correctly for your poll. Which have been at a steady >80% against charging a fee, despite your langague which is designed to skew it.

I don't know what you really want to accomplish with your thread, but if it's ultimately to get decent trading information (which you obviously need), you'd better change your tune, and I mean fast. :eek:
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Quote from slapshot:

I thought about it. but why re-invent the wheel? I am not a web-site person, I am a trader. Would be much easier for Elite to do it.
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Now here is a classic example of a trader (slapshot) who wants a a given market (Elite Trader) to adapt to his wants and needs (charge a fee to stop trolls and spammers ... as if) instead of adapting himself to how it works (just watch the patterns and it becomes obvious), or finding another market to trade in (too many to count).

I hope no one else trades like this, if you do, you're going to get a similar result.
 
Mandelbrotset,
you and "subliminal man" (userid=104911) have a lot in common (humor) - and you write everything (posts) with comments (snippets, words) in parentheses ...

Hehe.

Baron has already made the arguments against a paysite - however, there has got to be some paysite out there where you can actually pay to post and read - it seems like there is a small niche market for it ...
 
Quote from MandelbrotSet:

I say, I say, I say that boy is as sharp as a bowling ball!
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LOLOL :D

I think I've worked it out! He's spent the past 5 years reading every post in every thread in the misguided belief that in doing so he will be magically transformed into a trader. 6 months later, and after blowing out several accounts, he's now looking for someone to blame for his unmitigated failure and who better to blame than trolls and spammers!

By the way slapstick, the numbers are now 82.8% against, better massage those figures a bit more!

'Slapshot', wasn't that the name of the 70's 'mash 'em 'n' bash 'em' hockey film? I'm not sure the same approach will work in the markets :p
 
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