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JW,
With all respect, do you really consider a post about a small
commuter plane crashing to be a "major event"? I call that fanning
the flames in view of the prior postings to which I referred. And I
don't like my magazines having advertising inserts falling out from
between every other page.
Mark
--- In realtraders@xxxx, "Me Tarzan" <ibe98765@xxxx> wrote:
> Sorry, Mark, I have also been a member since near the beginning
> (using different email addresses) and I have to disagree with you.
> External, indirect events do affect the markets and general
> pyschology and I for one, believe it is useful to know about major
> events. While your focus may be price action, others don't
> necessarily follow your trading methods. Yes, many here are more
> technical in focus, but TA doesn't provide all the answers. If it
> did, we would all be successful and rich <g>, but I'd be willing to
> bet that isn't true. The basic rul;e is that like a magazine, if
> there is something you don't like, then skip over it <shrug>. Of
> course, it would be a lot easier if we had a real web forum with
> better software (where you could hide people you didn't want to see
> posts from) rather than Yahoo's poor excuse for forum software.
>
> JW
>
>
> --- In realtraders@xxxx, mark_baze@xxxx wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Actually, I've been a member of this group since the beginning of
> the
> > year, I believe, and I have made at least a few posts in the
past,
> > although certainly not nearly the number you have (my e-mail
> address
> > can be searched on in the archives of Realtraders which are
located
> > at www.purebytes.com/cgi-local/swish/swish-cgi.pl).
> >
> > During that time I've carefully read each and every post to this
> > list, including a good portion of the posts in the archives from
> > years past, and I am very appreciative for the great majority of
> what
> > people have to say, with the exception of the series of posts I
> felt
> > compelled to finally write about. Since my bent is more
mechanical
> > system trading (and coding of the same), I'm not the prolific and
> > capable chartist-analyst that so many of the people here are,
with
> > their often remarkable abilities to ascertain support and
> resistance
> > areas, turning points based on time and Elliott wave structure
and
> > the like, and so I usually don't feel like any contribution that
I
> > could make would be up to the level of the other posters, and
would
> > be more of a guess than anything else.
> >
> > (For example, I felt that there was a 50:50 chance that the
> formation
> > that completed yesterday in the broader market could have been
> viewed
> > as either a descending triangle with the potential to break to
the
> > downside, or as a bullish flag/pennant apparent on multiple
> > timeframes with the potential to break to the upside; similarly,
> > from a longer term point of view, I think there are about equal
> odds
> > of the market having now put in the final bottom already, based
on
> > the very strong "V-type" pattern that in other market time
periods
> > has successfully continued to move to the upside without a
retest,
> > versus the market having to in fact do a retest of the low made
> after
> > the attack and basically do a little more "shaking out." Not
very
> > useful, I'm afraid.)
> >
> > With the foregoing in mind, to a certain extent then I view this
> > group as somewhat similar to a magazine to be read, as I'm sure
> many
> > others do as well - judging from the fact that there are 780
> members
> > in the list and obviously not all of them are posting. As such,
I
> > suppose I was making something akin to a "letter to the editor."
> It
> > is apparently your opinion that nothing Dorothy has done has been
> out
> > of line. I take a much different view, and I'm sure that there
> must
> > be at least some others who feel the same way . . . assuming that
> not
> > everyone is a chronically long-term bear, that is. :)
> >
> > Mark
> > --- In realtraders@xxxx, "Michael Ferguson" <wl7bdn@xxxx> wrote:
> > > Dorothy,
> > >
> > > I don't know where Mark came from, I have been on this list and
> its
> > > predecessors for several years and have never seen a post from
> him
> > til
> > > today. It is pretty safe to ignore him. The REAL traders will
> > certainly let
> > > you know if you are REALly out of line. :-)
> > >
> > > Michael
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