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That's what I do....start corresponding directly. We all should
probably keep addressing reply's to RealTraders Discussion Group, for
the benifit of all.
Tim Proeber
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Sweeney S&C [SMTP:JSweeney@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 1998 10:38 AM
> To: RealTraders Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: REALTRADERS
>
> 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.
>
>
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