Ramy3 said:
Always had issues with publicly posting my things. May get over it one day,. would not hold my breath though, lol. :/
The issues I have with it relates to people shadow trading me. There's no way I can transplant my brain into someone else so it's impossible for them to understand why I'd cut a trade short, not take a setup I just talked about, stop and reverse mid-trade... etc... you can teach methods but you can't transplant thousands of hours of screen time and experience.
Back in my "chat" days (when I'd spend most of my trading day on a trader's chat provided by Thinkorswim) I used to call out my scalps in real time on a few FX pairs.. and people took notice when they saw my hit rate (which was a lot more impressive back then upon recollection.. lol..)
One guy asked what my opinion of a short was on EURUSD, and I replied that I wasn't interested until it got up about 30 pips north of where the market was. He interpreted it as I was going to short and had a pending order up there, which wasn't the case.
The EUR rallied straight up in a few minutes, with a really strong move and nearly no pullbacks... so what did i do? I went long, screw the short idea, the EUR was going up way stronger than I anticipated and I trade what I see happening.
Of course, buddy (trying to shadow trade me) went short and watched the EUR blow well past his entry. He exploded on chat asking if I was "still short".. and I replied that not only was I not short, but I had gotten long and I took profit on the long already. He blew up, ranted, followed me from chat room to chat room to heckle me. It was pretty bad. He got slapped by the chat mods but still gave me attitude whenever in the same chat room as me (even when nearly all the regulars who knew me would tell him off.)
It was entirely buddy's fault, not only had I not confirmed going short, but I didn't even say I was going to trade it short, just that I was interested in looking for shorts should we get to that given level...
After that experience, I stopped giving out live ideas of what "could" be done and just stuck to calling trades as I took them. Later I got kinda bored of the chat since most were trading on TOS (being the company's chat) and TOS doesn't provided aggressive enough spreads for people to scalp the same setups... so I felt like I was just talking to myself and traders who could only swing trade.
In a way, it was a good thing, since I moved on to forums and eventually found you guys.