DislikedDespite i agree with tdion in one way regarding his opinion, i would be more glad to agree with him, if a great part of his posts contained more information about pratical trading.
I'm not saying nothing about your skills, believe me man... I'm just saying that if you are good, its very hard to know based on what you write about live trades. I mean, you don't write nothing.
Anyway....
The way i agree with your main post, is indeed the unnecessary need of lowering our heads to every single person that claims to be a successful trader here in the forum if we want to suceed.
In fact its incredible that with everyone of us knowing how hard is to find ppl to trust in this business, i wonder WHY this genius insist every single day that we should listen to ABCDEFGHIJKL....... in a forum and throw our brains away because they are gods. I think this is too much for me to understand...
What i mean, is that, if there are really ppl that want to show to newbs that they should stop and listen carefully, this teachers MUST stop refering to themselves as if they had unreachable inteligence. This is what happens in these days, period.
Threads and posts like, "you will never suceed", "you won't last much", and above all... posts like "you guys are not like US" are completly worthless considering their teaching value, so open your eyes to the reality and if you guys really want to teach for the pleasure of teaching, stop bragging with uncountable posts like "i live of this... i live of this....."
Make one guy be sucessful... and then let him make compliments about you... Thats the right way...
In other hand, i disagree that we shouldn't pay attention to anyone.
My personal path was reading lots of info on websites about concepts, then seeing more than 100 videos of live trades, then demo trade, then live trade and then i found FF.
I have no problem to say that i had a mentor at the beggining and i still pay attention to this guy. I recently found out that he is registered here in the forum but he only wrote 5 posts in 1 year. (Of course.. he doesn't have time to waste here lol. 1 more point for this guy)
I chose this guy because he followed tech analysis "by the book" (as we all learn in the beggining in sites like investopedia). He never tried to call multi year reversals. 1 indicator and not even used most of the times. He didn't tried to catch falling knifes... he didn't tried to catch rockets and make them go down, he didn't used wierd fibos in wierd TFs, with wierd MAs. He even said sometimes... "there's nothing this week" i will stay out for the next days...
I mean... perfect candle sentiment reading. Trend reading, calm, patience..... The extreme opposite of FF, and i'm considering lots of ppl in the TRoom.
And of course.. he posted many trades before happening...
This is a good teacher... Good RAW analisys and results. Based on ACTUAL TIMES.
Ppl who claim that we should ready 1 thousand old books, are wrong. And its so obvious why. Because if one guy throwed a dice and if it came out odd numbers he would sell dollar with all of his money 10 years ago. He would be rich by now and no one would know that he chose a sell because of a dice.
Of course this is an exagerated example but the point is that... the trends are so strong that many ppl got rich with a 50-50 probability.. UP or Down a few years ago.
What have i learned on FF? ZERO!!
No one trades as we learn. Every guy has "his own way" that he miraculously invented after 30 or 40 years being a taxi driver...
In fact i reversed my learning curve with this forum in my 1 month here. What saved me, was me going on holidays, and i stopped reading this forum. Then when i got back, my brain resumed inteligent actitivy.
Before many of you start to take this as offensive, please allow me to ask something, and give me a clear awnser to this questions.
First. Please tell me why doesn't anyone of the experienced traders intervene when another experienced trader enters into a battle mode with a lot of ppl, and end up being tottaly wrong, after the use of the key words that i mentioned earlier "you will never suceed blah blah..."
Why don't we never see one guy saying, "i'm sorry "X" but i think you are wrong". How can it be possible to one guy to spent 1 entire month saying "this is going to reverse", adding and adding on losing positions and then after being 1000 pips wrong, this guy just abandoned the thread but keeps receiving aplause by senior members?
How can it be possible to one guy that claims to trade for more than 1 decade to say something like "long term trends don't matter... because lets face it... everyone here at FF trades short term." This same guy tried to call the end of the GU trend because of the big drop in august...
How come this guy claims to live of this... and never learned in more than 10 years that trends reverse with failures... not because it dropped to fast to be a correction.
My second main question is...! How can it be possible to pick.. lets say... 10 J16 Price Action traders and half of them believe in a triple digit percentage growth in 1 year, and the other half even trading short term, deeply believe that its impossible to make more than 10 percent?
I know that its an old subject but... how? How can it be that ppl that trade with the same time frames and strategy can have so different goals.
And to finish and above all, how can be possible that the same guy that says.... "hey... you don't know nothing about this... because you believe that we can grow more than hedge funds", but this same guy says to another suposed experienced trader.... "hey you are great" Even knowing that this guy aims for 300% year for example...
This is too much contradiction to stay in stale water...
This is what have to change...! If one guy calls newb to another for aiming to much... but claps a guy that have a goal 30 times above his own. Something is not right. One of them must suck and how can anyone trust with this conditions..
Open your eyes...Ignored
.........Imagine that this didn't exist....anywhere?
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