I do have a few ideas:
1. Malc has not posted recently. Many people were ultimately looking for market calls and that is what he provided.
2. Pres does not make market calls.
3. HiddeGap does not predict markets, he responds to them. So he does not make market calls.
4. Gavin wrote a book that over simplifies VSA into a few sequences.
This is a big one. Many people do not want to do the work and learn the concepts. VSA is not hard but it can be somewhat complex. Every one likes to say "keep it simple", but dumbing down things does not always make them better. If you want to be a doctor, you can not say "I want to heal people so I don't need to know those Latin names of all the body parts". In a way, learning the names is part of the "weeding out process".
There is another strategy that I find very interesting. This strategy has its own language and concepts. One of the major reasons I never perused it, was because it seemed hard. Well, I now think that if learning the method language was an impediment to me getting involved in the method, then I had no business getting involved in the method. I should not be saying "make the language and concepts easier for me, because I do not want to or can't put in the work".
5. Too many factions and cliques.
VSA is a method and not a system. That means that there are rules that should be followed every time even though there is discretion. That also means that VSA is not a cookie cutter everybody must go long on the same bar type of approach. Mal's way is not the only way. HiddenGap's way is not the only way. Some want to catch falling knives and some want to trade with the Smart Money by trading trends. Both are valid and have room under the umbrella of VSA.
6. Good traders with good ideas to share choosing to start new threads instead of strengthening this one.
7. Haters. They take away from the learning and can cause people to not want to visit a thread.
8. EGO. To be honest, I started posting in this thread because I understood the value it would bring to my own understanding of VSA. It was an additional bonus that others got something from my posts. Recently, I have deleted a few posts after not immediately recieving three posts saying how great my post was.
To be a good trader one needs to be humble. You can let the market teach you humility (an expensive lesson) or you can come to the markets already humble.
9. Tradeguider.
Without VSA, you're playing checkers while the Smart Money plays chess.
