Disliked{quote} One of the special ones just showed up............its good to see you post again..................i was not in here when all of you guys were here........but learnt alot......and still learning from tonnes of quality material you guys....left...here................i wish........malcolm,you.....intel....pres 78.......and alot of you guys......could breath fresh air into this thread.once again..........................Ignored
I too miss the days when this thread was alive and kicking full force. I too came in a bit late to the party however I was fortunate enough to be around for some time while Malc, Dr G, Intel and HG to name few were still quite active on a daily basis. I learned loads from them and over time was able to make VSA my own and eventually developped VZA using what I learned on this thread inconjuction with my other studies and books I have read along the way. I like to think I have given back as much as I have taken from these forums, some may disagree but I feel that many you have listed on your post + many others have done the same. Started out quietly with a few posts and questions as they learned and got their feet under them and then grew into posters whom others looked to for education and guidance.
The other big thing I have taken away from here is that I have made some friends along the way. These friendships for the most part started in this thread and then carried on for a while over at Steve Gill's private VSA forum which also was very busy for awhile but as with most forums it has died off and is basically sitting quiet. I still share emails every now and again off the forums with some of the guys I had the honor to trade with and share with and grow with.
As traders it is a tough balance to trade and post as our focus really needs to be on the trading first and the posting second. That is why most traders stop in at the end of the day sharing their trades and thoughts from the day or week that had just past. People tend to bash on these forums about posting after the fact because the reality it is easier to post trades or analysis in hindsight and not so easy on the right edge. Those who bash people for doing this are looking for trade calls and not education. They are looking for a free ride and are not interested in growing as traders. I have been sucked in by a few idiots in my time here and to prove a point I have posted live on the right edge trade calls and entries on this forum just to try and shut up the naysayers. Despite the fact that this thread is in interactive trading I have always looked at is as being an educational spot where people could share right edge trades if they chose but more importantly the after the fact trades, questions and analysis.
This all comes at a price however. These forums offer those in a lonely business a place to chat and share with like minded traders can take away focus if one is not careful and can also feel very one sided when you are posting and no one else is. There have been several times that people (including myself) have tried to bring life back but it's almost always been unsuccessful. A few lurkers and new posters come out of the woodwork but it still usually ends up being one person carrying the load which is not fair. Unless you have at least 10 or more traders sharing on a daily basis and new traders asking questions and sharing their own charts and growth it is of no point to be here posting.
I have been very busy with work and have been in and out of trading over the last year + but I still continue to study and grow my trading plan and when I do trade I still do so successfully. I still stop in here everyday to see if anyone has posted and if I saw some life I might come back and try and help re-build this thread to it's former glory. Until that day however I do not feel like being the guy who is posting to himself on here as I have been in the past and as SimpleDev has also been for the most part during his recent posting spurs.
Will this thread ever grow again who really knows... what I can say is that there is enough great information on this thread and available for free online for anyone to get started with VSA.
I no longer trade pure VSA (not that I ever really did) but I still use volume and the VSA bars in my trading. I am a bid believer though that to truly trade VSA successfully on forex you need to trade it through a bank or at least with a good ECN broker that offers a huge pool of liquidity providers so that your tick volume represents something more than a few joe blows traders at your bucketshop broker opening trades in the wrong direction. That is the thing with forex and tick volume is that it represents activity but without the orderbook we do not know what the activity really is. There are many times we see an UHV downbar that closes off the low so we say that is hidden buying as we are taught in VSA but while there had to be buying for the bar to close off the low who was doing the buying? SM buying or the herd buying and SM absorbing. That is where patience is key so we can see the results of the effort / activity... Anyway I am getting off my original point and I could go on from days on this and other topics so I shall cut myself off at this point.
Today's zone = Tomorrow's opportunity!