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Hi,
A further thought on a difference between private and public responses to
posts; and the benfits of posting to those who post to Realtraders.
The earliest private responses seem to be more likely to be copied to the
forum by the respondents.
The paradox is that crowd support appears to be most often sought when ego
is involved, when general posts are taken personnally, and so support by
the crowd is less likely to be given!
It appears that positive responses are less automatic and more considered.
Negative responses are also seem less common when the crowd appears to
agree with the post.
This is not really surprising when related to trading:
emotional responses to the market are often made rapidly to get immediate
crowd approval before the common occurrence of later crowd rejection.
Decide in haste, repent at leisure.
Please do not be discouraged from posting by an experience of some negative
replies. One of the purpose of reponding both privately and publically is
self-justification.
If I look back on my own life experiences - it is precisely when I needed
to feel justified that my case was the weakest.
Thus a negative PRIVATE post may be a negative post with a lesson,
a negative PUBLIC post may be a negative post with a lesson,
but a negative post which is both PRIVATE AND PUBLIC is telling you more
about the responder that anything else.
My experience is that positive responses exceed negative posts by about two
to one.
I feel that even the negative responses are positive - it usually helps to
get the emotions out and visible to the owner of the emotions. The ideas
in the positive posts can be helpful; I also find lessons about my own
inadequacies from the negative posts - it is sometimes easier to see your
own faults mirrored in others rather than directly in yourself.
Don't sit on the sidelines - get the most learning you can and give the
most assistance you can - your experience is valuable to you and others
when shared.
POST - giving is good for you.
Regards, Ric.
P.S.
If you say something you upset someone,
If you say nothing you upset someone.
This is how we learn best - by experience.
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