After all the posts made in this thread I think we are making progress because some of the posters quit doing it but now new threads are started in the Journal section that are not focused on journaling.

dctrade69 Daily Context Journal With the closing of the great forum thread started by mfbreakout I feel I still need an outlet to discuss my trading ideas and the context I use each day. I have learned so much from many different traders that have participated in that thread and …

Here is a new one, it is not a journal so I think the best place for this is here: https://nexusfi.com/commodities-futures-trading/

I wanted too mention this in the thread but I´am on the starters ignore list. This starters ignore list is like going back 50 years when you could not express yourself, like in Africa APARTHEID.

Bigmike you have too change the option to put people just on an ignore list just because the thread starters do not like your question. This is a forum so if you are not rude then I think no body can put you on an ignore list.

In 2012, there was a nice comment by Brian Lund on Traderplanet about "finding out", that a (pretended, widely known) gap trading blogger wasn't trading at all.

Does It Matter If Your Mentor Is Trading?

First reaction: "I was aghast. I was incensed. I was angry and upset."
Second thought: "Oh, and I was able to trade gaps pretty damn good."

So, whose ego is involved when some complain about others trading sim or live? Whose ego is at stake when some concentrate on irrelevant factors for trading like other's notional wealth?

I don't care, if any author trades 1, 100 or 1000 contracts as well as about whether (s)he is only doing some intellectual masturbation. If his/her idea has a point, I try to learn from that.

@choke35
It doesn't matter if your mentor is trading. It matters if your mentor pretends to trade and doesn't.
It seems the question pertaining to this tread went over your head.

If you understood Lund's article and it didn't go over your head, you see that people disagree.

Understand that trading is more about psychology than it is a certain method (e.g. gap trading method by Mr. Lund)
So if you became successful at trading gaps, it would be more about what you learned about yourself than it would
be what Mr. Lund shared on his trading method.

If he pretended that he was a live trader and he wasn't, yet at the same time you became successful using his method then you of course would be happy. But again it's more about what you're doing psychologically in your trading than it is about any one method.

Fake traders, regardless if you learned something from them are still fake traders. Nobody I know likes a liar. Others may excuse the liar for lying because they made some money. That's funny...

As I see, you neither read the article nor understood that "" declares quotes from it. But I appreciate your opinion.

Dear JJ,

obviously you still didn't get that just like you can write whereever one wants to read your comments, others are free to ignore you - we call this democracy. Everyone can tell whatever he or she wants - but fortunately, nobody is forced to read or listen.

In addition, I can't see the "progress" that you name. Up to now, the community only traded in some of the most-read threads for some self-acclaimed witch-hunter with genius reorganizational proposals for others and repeated public whining about who did which harm to his great existence.

Living up to the goal of post #1 of your own sporadic "journal" and correct what you call your "bad behaviors" would be a good start.


Good trades.