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  • #1
  • First Post: Jun 21, 2006 12:10pm Jun 21, 2006 12:10pm
Is there any way I can start a thread in which only those I invite, are allowed to view it??
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  • #2
  • Jun 21, 2006 12:17pm Jun 21, 2006 12:17pm
I did by starting my own website (forexfantasy.com). I set it up for my trading team to chat with each other. I am still getting it set up, but the forum part was easy enough to do.
Nolite dormiens pungere ursum. -- Latan Proverb.
  • #3
  • Jun 21, 2006 12:20pm Jun 21, 2006 12:20pm
The difficulty is almost like weeding out spam.

I am very very happy to share my discoveries, but at the same time, freeloaders who are even too lazy to just READ the thread, just annoy me to the point, I pretty much want to share to a restricted amount of people what I discover.. Sounds sad, and I love open sharing, but the past two weeks have been just too brutal.. Bombardment from people who refuse to do ANY homework and want you to spoonfeed them everything (and for free, I might add) just just really got my monkey..
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  • #4
  • Jun 21, 2006 12:21pm Jun 21, 2006 12:21pm
Quoting twoblink
Is there any way I can start a thread in which only those I invite, are allowed to view it??
It is possible, but not likely because it has to be manually maintained by Merlin. I know a couple of big dogs here who've managed to finagle one, but that's all.

Try setting up a Yahoo Group. You can control access yourself there.

Dial
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  • #5
  • Jun 21, 2006 12:31pm Jun 21, 2006 12:31pm
Dial, you read my mind! I went to yahoo groups as soon as I finished the last post..
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  • #6
  • Jun 21, 2006 12:39pm Jun 21, 2006 12:39pm
Dial, why do you always have to do it the easy way dude?
Nolite dormiens pungere ursum. -- Latan Proverb.
  • #7
  • Jun 21, 2006 3:09pm Jun 21, 2006 3:09pm
Quoting MrWhipple
Dial, why do you always have to do it the easy way dude?
Hi MrWhipple, glad to see you posting more frequently again. I missed you!

I do it the easy way, 'cause I'm too lazy to do it the hard way. That's why I started trading forex, 'cause I'm too lazy to work hard at a regular job.

Forex trading is so much easier!

Dial
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  • #8
  • Jun 21, 2006 5:49pm Jun 21, 2006 5:49pm
YES and we are all like Elmer Fudd. We own a Mansion and a yacht. LOL

Quoting diallist
Hi MrWhipple, glad to see you posting more frequently again. I missed you!

I do it the easy way, 'cause I'm too lazy to do it the hard way. That's why I started trading forex, 'cause I'm too lazy to work hard at a regular job.

Forex trading is so much easier!

Dial
  • #9
  • Jun 21, 2006 10:02pm Jun 21, 2006 10:02pm
As I "survey" all the "For Sale Systems" online, a few of them.. hmm..

As a cryptographer, cracking codes is a way of life (see the search for the secret sauce thread)

But I came upon a trading system yesterday online, and the lines looked VERY familiar..

So I spent the better part of the day going through all the MA-like lines, and finally discovered what he was doing.. I was thinking of "posting" his method..

But this has several repercussions... too many to perhaps handle publically on an open forum..
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  • #10
  • Jun 21, 2006 10:33pm Jun 21, 2006 10:33pm
Quoting twoblink
As I "survey" all the "For Sale Systems" online, a few of them.. hmm..

As a cryptographer, cracking codes is a way of life (see the search for the secret sauce thread)

But I came upon a trading system yesterday online, and the lines looked VERY familiar..

So I spent the better part of the day going through all the MA-like lines, and finally discovered what he was doing.. I was thinking of "posting" his method..

But this has several repercussions... too many to perhaps handle publically on an open forum..

You are not referring to the one with red and green lines, are you?

You may be right. Big daddy with big bucks from unsuspecting newbies may not like to have his own 'secret sauce' revealed... bad for business; maybe good for the average joe...
  • #11
  • Jun 21, 2006 10:51pm Jun 21, 2006 10:51pm
I can understand the desire for more advanced folks to want to have some conversations without us newbies asking a lot of questions. Really I can. But it seems like this has come up a few times recently.

I hope this place stays friendly to newbies. I am here because I sincerely want to learn and have been spending hours a day studying and asking questions here when I don't understand something. I'm very grateful to the people who have taken the time to help me. But honestly, it's starting to feel like newbies aren't really wanted here.

Squid
  • #12
  • Jun 21, 2006 11:23pm Jun 21, 2006 11:23pm
Quoting Squid
I can understand the desire for more advanced folks to want to have some conversations without us newbies asking a lot of questions. Really I can. But it seems like this has come up a few times recently.

I hope this place stays friendly to newbies. I am here because I sincerely want to learn and have been spending hours a day studying and asking questions here when I don't understand something. I'm very grateful to the people who have taken the time to help me. But honestly, it's starting to feel like newbies aren't really wanted here.

Squid
Squid,
Dial said it already. Think about it this way. Why are there any successfull traders here at all?
To learn a little more? Perhaps.
To make more Money? Not sure how unless they are in the Classified forum.

To all Novice Traders.
It's simple and true but hard to believe, the fact is most successfull traders right here @ FF, don't want credit or kudos for your success, they just want to see you succeed and will help in anyway they can to get you there.

But I have to say it would be nice to sit on the porch in my rockin' chair, pipe smoldering in my hand and have a quite conversation with a likeminded vet of pipfalls and margin calls.
  • #13
  • Jun 21, 2006 11:30pm Jun 21, 2006 11:30pm
Quoting twoblink
As I "survey" all the "For Sale Systems" online, a few of them.. hmm..

As a cryptographer, cracking codes is a way of life (see the search for the secret sauce thread)

But I came upon a trading system yesterday online, and the lines looked VERY familiar..

So I spent the better part of the day going through all the MA-like lines, and finally discovered what he was doing.. I was thinking of "posting" his method..

But this has several repercussions... too many to perhaps handle publically on an open forum..
Hi 2B

Do you think you would be replicating his code? Or, did he perhaps replicate yours?

If you feel that you would be in violation by posting it, I'm off to the patent office tomorrow to claim 3 of them.
Breakout,
Moving Average Crossover
& to suffice for now
News Event.

I 100% agree that if someone devises a method that truley generates pips, then they deserve reward. Monetary and mentally. But that should not put the possibility of me coming close to the same thing by chance, devision or luck in the realms of forbidden ground.

The probability exists that I have already done that but didn't know that someone else was already "Selling" something similar.

Like you 2B, I have I have published some stuff for free in various forums {I tend not to post what I feel is mediocre} only to see that it was accepted as relevent by a large minority.

The only way, it appears, to get someone interested in an unknown system is to tell them it will cost you Big Bucks for me to explain this to you.Or This system generates 2500 pips / month [+/-] { btw. if you think $200.00/month is big bucks for Good advice, you don't know the field you are playing on}

What a crock.
There are systems & [actually I am more interested in ] Indicators posted right here at Forex Factory devised and written and unabashedly given for free by FF members that are better, no.. miles better than hyped up revalationary systems pushed by failing traders that feel there is no way they are leaving this industry without getting back some {most} of the money the lost in it. I know it. I bought a few back in the dark ages before forums and free education pathways without the potholes.

Geez. What a Rant. I know it's borderline & if it doesn't make it to the board, that's ok. I feel better to have it outta me.
I guess my feelings on the marketing gurus who will tell you "No you can't use this particular combination of MA's & RSI without paying me money" are partly why I'm a huge fan of Forex Factory.
  • #14
  • Jun 22, 2006 1:11am Jun 22, 2006 1:11am
Hey 2B are you a "real" Crypto I used to work for "No Such Agency" in a former life. I kinda miss it. I had to go from code to Thai to code to English. (I hope they are not tapping into all of this) Lossa fun. The Crypto-Gram in the funny papers just aint no fun at all.
Nolite dormiens pungere ursum. -- Latan Proverb.
  • #15
  • Jun 22, 2006 1:18am Jun 22, 2006 1:18am
Quoting diallist
Hi MrWhipple, glad to see you posting more frequently again. I missed you!

I do it the easy way, 'cause I'm too lazy to do it the hard way. That's why I started trading forex, 'cause I'm too lazy to work hard at a regular job.

Forex trading is so much easier!

Dial
Yea, the health is good, but I keep blinking in and out of the 12th century. (see sca.org) It is tourney season and being a hearld, bulding a few websites, cleaning the pool, my wife to kill, and Guilder to frame for it. I swamped.
Nolite dormiens pungere ursum. -- Latan Proverb.
  • #16
  • Jun 22, 2006 6:20am Jun 22, 2006 6:20am
I'm a computer programmer, worked as a security specialist for 7+ years..

I "would" have taken the crypto course at my college (wa back when) but I downloaded the midterm and finals, and I finished both in 2 hours.. So I guess I didn't need the class :

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N00b rant:

<To Squid et al>

Everybody was a n00b once. Heck, compared to Dial and Vegas, I'm sure I'm a newb the problem isn't a "n00b" problem at all..

It's ok to ask questions, that's how "improvement" begins. It's ok to ask dumb question.. None of that is a problem IMHO.

What __IS__ a problem, is when n00bs ask something THAT WAS ALREADY ANSWERED IN THE THREAD BUT THEY DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T BOTHER READING THE THREAD BEFORE ASKING. Comments like "Hey, I'm too F@@@@ lazy to read all the information you've provided, can you give me the cliffnotes version?" Is the real turnoff.

It's like the kid that misbehaves and everybody loses their recess. it sucks, that a few stupid ones ruin it for the majority of the people, trust me I know..
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  • #17
  • Jun 22, 2006 6:27am Jun 22, 2006 6:27am
I backtested this guy's system.. and WOW.. very very nice...

For those of you whacked enough to have read my "searching for the sauce" journal, in one entry, I had drawn what I thought to be the "ideal" line, that an indicator would yield. So I was in search of that, when I saw it on a website..

So.. after I knew it was possible, it was only a matter of time before the right combination of indicators and tweaking would yield me the same line..

Can I guarantee it is 100% the same system? NOPE. But can I guarantee PDC (Pretty Damn Close) Yes.


However, in a few "private' discussions, I have heard quite the badmouthing of some people I hold in pretty high regard; and bad mouthing was due to "stupid" people who think "free systems" that are openly shared on this and other forums, must SUCK, because it if was any good, why would they "share" instead of "sell" it?

What is odd to me, is that this same group of people are the ones that buy other people's systems, not bother to study how it works, lose money on it, and start calling people fraud of shysters..

And then there are the freeloaders who say "I don't want to know nor care how it works, just send me an indicator that shows arrows on my chart." Those are the ones that really get my goat..
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  • #18
  • Jun 22, 2006 6:29am Jun 22, 2006 6:29am
This guy's system, uses a combination of 2 indicators, and is highly accurate. The two indicators are common and readily available. So I'm sure the "problem" he faces is; how do you sell it without revealing it? So he sells daily signals...

On my chart, I can match him signal for signal, and pretty much exactly alike.
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  • #19
  • Jun 22, 2006 6:32am Jun 22, 2006 6:32am
Rant on TwoBlink Rant on. I am witcha.
Nolite dormiens pungere ursum. -- Latan Proverb.
  • #20
  • Jul 6, 2006 2:15pm Jul 6, 2006 2:15pm
2B,


I've read most of your threads, your journals, and always appreciate your point of view. I'm a little older than you but had our paths crossed we probably would have been good friends -- albeit I am a little slower than you...I went for a degree in psychology because that's where the girls were (little did I know most of them were there in search of their own self-help holy grail). ***crazies, crazies everywhere***

Anyway, I digress. I'm a lurker NuB -- read everything and only post when I have a legit question or I find myself amusing (even if others don't) . Even as a NuB it gets a little maddening to have people pop into a serious discussion to ask where the PF is and how to get there. I don't have any problems offering as much help as I can give but context is mucho importante.

Can you give a little theory behind the indicator your discussing?
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