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As to why some substantive threads appear to be short, I guess that when
two people find a subject of interest, they deal with it directly rather
than through the list.
John
>"Roy A. Fellars" <fellars@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>"For example, John Boggio posted a very interesting Symwave opinion on
>Silver a couple of weeks back shortly after the early February high. I
>posted a contrary opinion, which I felt would also stimulate discussion, a
>couple of days later and the thread died right there. If there are people
>around with
>interesting market opinions, they seem to be lurking and not posting."
>
>This is an interesting observation with important implications.
>
>What do you feel about the following opinions?
>
>1) Real traders have several common interests perhaps including:
>
> - money management,
> - psychology of trading,
> - learning from others mistakes,
> - real experiences of discipline,
> - risk diversification or concentration of area of expertise,
> - maximising risk to reward ratios,
> - maximising expected profits,
> - system testing,
> - software tools and general problem resolutions and circumventions,
> - sources of quality data,
> - steadily increasing trading size,
> - self-development and personal growth,
> - inspirational material,
> - coaching resources,
> - mentoring resources,
> - trading other peoples money,
> - tax management,
> - profit withdrawal strategies,
> - typical equity curves,
> - ...
>
>2) Real traders "trade what they see not what they think" (Joe Ross)
>
> "This means opionions and views are worthless - this includes your own".
> Others opinions are just that, until you allow them to influence your
> behaviour. So perhaps the "lurkers" are real traders and a forecast of
> one market in one timeframe is of little interest to a real trader -
> and dangerous to anyone else who may let it influence their trading -
>and so
> lose any discipline they may have enjoyed in follwing their own system.
>
>Perhaps this is why real traders mostly lurk - what do you think?
>
>Would you like to see more posts along the line of the list of common
>interests above? If such a list of common intersts was agreed - would it
>be helpful to have the subject headings reflect these common interests.
>
>Maybe this is the way forward for the forum - what do you think?
>
>Regards, Ric.
John Sweeney, Tech. Editor Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities
Technical Analysis, Inc. The Traders' Magazine
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