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What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Your friend, who was *not* a successful trader before his software
disappointment, complains that 100 hours with a free piece of software *did
not* make him a successful trader. Well, *no software can*. I have spent
over 12,000 hours (lost count long time ago) some of this on ideas that
turned out to be a dead-end. His "abject dispair" after spending 60-100
hours is also totally out of place for a person who is realistically setting
out to be a trader.
BTW, Oddball is an illustration that simple things "can" work and all
complexity "may" bring you is a smoother equity curve.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beyond OddBall" <beyond_oddball@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: A Mythomaniac Professional comments on Pierre's software - - -
> Counter reply back to Pierre from the Professional who
> wishes to remain anonymous: Note that this has nothing
> to do with being adept at as a trader (he did not get
> to that point) - this is just about getting a friggin
> piece of software to work properly !!!
>
> ****************************************
> Pierre and one of his colleague kept extending the
> time I could try out his software. The software would
> reach a critical point, where the time limit
> ran out.
>
> I would then contact Pierre's outfit, and either he or
> his colleague would send me a small patch .exe, that
> alows the software to continue to work for another two
> weeks or so.
>
> We played this game for at least two months, as I
> recall, and I finally realized I could never get
> Safir-X to work OOS, and quit.
>
> Maybe Pierre thought I would eventually go out of my
> mind, and pay up the $5300. But I never did, and
> didn't get caught in this trap.
>
> As for support, I kept sending e-mails back and forth
> to France, telling Pierre about various markets, and
> time periods I was researching and testing
> Safir-X on. Pierre did make suggestions, which I kept
> trying, as well as my own ideas. Nothing ever panned
> out.
>
> Because of my previous career, which included
> published work on the statistical modeling of the
> medical and psychological factors affecting
> breast cancer severity, I thought my background would
> have prepared me for the vicissitudes of neural net
> modeling of financial market data with Safir-X. Well,
> it helped me tackle the problem, but I never came up
> with OOS performance.
>
> I was very sad. My mate Barbara can attest to my
> initial hopes, gradual disillusionment, and then
> finally, abject dispair about my failure with
> Safir-X. I had spent something in the vicinity of 60
> to 100 hours on it,with nothing to show for it.
>
> As for me, I'm a Francophone. I love France, and I
> love the French people. Barbara and I spent weeks
> touring Provence two years ago. A lot of my
> college French came back while I was there. Barbara
> is fluent. And my son Robin came back from a year
> after high school completely fluent in French.
> We can hardly wait to go back.
>
> The problems in Safir-X have nothing to do with France
> or the French people; they have everything to do with
> Pierre's less than credible marketing style.
> And a questionable product.
>
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> --- Pierre Orphelin <sirtrade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : Beyond OddBall
> > [mailto:beyond_oddball@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Envoye : samedi 16 mars 2002 16:48
> > > A : sirtrade@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Objet : RE: A Mythomaniac Professional comments on
> > Pierre's software - -
> > > -
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you, yes, thank you for that reply to the
> > list.
> > > I know he is reading your comments now and shaking
> > his
> > > head.
> > >
> > > I would only hope now that your comments will
> > motivate
> > > that professional to come out of his shell and
> > defend
> > > himself and expose you . . .
> > >
> > >
> > Should be funny to read because he reported that
> > nothing he bought or tried was
> > working.
> > A good advice to finally understand what is exactly
> > a professional loser.
> >
> > PO
> >
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