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I am talking a Forex statistic I am not talking Forex education. Regurgitating Forex education is useless and this forum has only a few people giving genuinely good info but the good info is ignored because it is not the collective view of many. A statistic is a statistic I am not reading ebooks and giving advice based on what I just read. I am not copying and pasting from some generic articles concerning trading education.
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From where, then, did you get the statistic?
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Do you even have a point?
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Yes, and it's a point I've already made. Do you have the power to read for comprehension?
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...can you see the difference between quoting a statistic and quoting and ebook. I am not telling everybody 'the way to success is to buy high and sell low'.
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What's that got to do with anything? You're talking against people regurgitating used information, something you cannot avoid doing yourself. Concerning the intrinsic value of the information being repeated, what's it matter whether the information comes from a statistics page or an ebook?
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I didn't start an argument
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I never said you did; I'm responding to your better-than-thou attitude toward certain other traders here.
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I pointed out something James said wrong and he realized it was wrong too by editing his post and removing what he said. I called the other guy an idiot based on factual evidence not on opinion. He was wrong about the guaranteed performance I never said that. He was also wrong when he said that professional traders do not open Forex businesses because they make enough through trading. I presented facts and called him an idiot for opening his mouth without thinking and for not reading properly.
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Okay, so you quoted some facts. Funny, a lot of the 'facts' you submit read exactly like opinions to me. Looks like you might be confused as to which is which sometimes.
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As far as the 95% goes quoting a statistic and quoting/plagiarizing from articles+books is something else.
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And arrogantly stating your opinions as if they were fact is again something else entirely. So? Plagiarism is wrong, I'll agree with that entirely. That doesn't mean attacking legitimate ideas is right, and yes... some of the ideas that you attack as useless are actually legitimate and helpful ideas.
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I am sure people here are profitable but the advice I see given here that is actually listened to is advice that does not work.
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Some of the advice that you claim isn't good and doesn't work has proven itself very helpful to other people. Again, I think you sometimes confuse fact with opinion. What doesn't work for you may really actually be working for someone else. Insisting the contrary is arrogant and narrow-minded.
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I am sure people here are profitable but the advice I see given here that is actually listened to is advice that does not work. The proof is the fact that these same traders after months of taking that advice are still here asking for it. It annoys me to see things like this all these guys clambering for advice and the most listened to guys here are giving pearls of wisdom from some $50 ebook. While the posts that actually say something good get to the bottom of the list in a few days.
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Sure, I can agree with that. Plagiarizing from e-books is cheap and annoying. Mr. James ought to be citing references to any material he copies that isn't is own. Seeing impatient people clamoring for get-rich-quick advice even while claiming they aren't looking for a get-rich-quick scheme is both alarming and annoying. Seeing good advice get ignored, yes. That's annoying too. But you know what else is annoying? Seeing people like you automatically taking a contrarian position toward cut-and-pasted advice and talking down to others like your position on the matter is the only one that can possibly be right is also extremely annoying.
Not all conventional wisdom is wrong, and not all of your ideas happen to be right.