DislikedCouldn't help but agree wholeheartedly with this. It is one thing to battle your own pride and learn to accept losses as part and parcel of the game we are in, but to know that many people are following your live calls, even willing for it to be wrong so they can mock you etc (that's 90%+ of the posters on ADVFN!)... nah, not for me either! I had my own blog, mostly somewhere to be a diary, but realised it was even happening to me there too. A bad trade hit me harder than it should have been because of my pride... The old adage; 'those who can,...Ignored
My opinion is this: I am going to trade my account according to my plan and whatever the results, I am the only one who knows for sure. If any anonymous citizen of the world wide web wishes to doubt me, that is within his or her right to do so. I'll neither take the bait, nor offer a defense of myself. Someone can read my posts and determine for himself whether I am merely talking the talk, or whether I might actually know enough to imply that I am indeed walking the walk. If I say something that someone finds useful or helpful, that is great. I really hope that I never say anything that causes someone harm.
I thought of doing a blog as a sort of public diary of this little project, and then thought the better of it. I'd rather stay "hidden" here in Divergence's thread. Someday, maybe my second time around, I'll do a separate journal here at FF or a blog, but for now, this project is for my own benefit. I journal it here as a way of contributing to the group here who have inspired me to step out of my comfort zone and to grow as a trader. The next time around, maybe I'll do it to inspire others. But right now I am focusing on the first planned compounding campaign. I do not want to distract my focus by trying to be a blogger as well. And I will never be a teacher. You couldn't pay me enough to take on that responsibility to someone else.