Hey guys and gals. I’m browsing threads and sadly a lot of people are being very negative. If I heard some of things said when i first started, i would say hell and be like I’m not doing this anymore. Just remember, newbies are learning usually and they need positive reinforcement. Even if they’re wrong be nice about it, and offer a solution that isn’t going to scare them away. Sometimes they need to learn for their own and sometimes they might do something different to you, but it might work for them in the long run
Remember no 2 traders are exactly alike. Give insight not insult. If you completely disagree with someone rather than saying negative things, just don’t say anything at all. I only say this because it was hell when i was learning and when i got negative feedback it only sent me farther back. Saying that my system doesn’t work so i try different ones when mine worked all along come to find out, or a indicator i use is said to be no good so i try different ones, finding out mine where fine
Just saying be open minded, how where you when you FIRST started trading. Not pointing fingers are saying anyone here is wrong or stupid or anything. Just for the sake of newbies asking some members to just “reword” how you say somethings, ya know?
I can stand up and say that all too often this applies to me. Occasionally, I take extended leaves from Babypips. It’s not that I don’t like helping others, because I do. I seem to go through this cycle, where I come back here, try to offer my two cents of help, and (my help involves recommending a mentor who is controversial on BP) as I see threads deteriorate, I also get really frustrated and angry. Recently I recommended to someone new that they try learning about SR lines which I think are a basic in forex, and a couple of posts later, someone basically said to ignore my advice yada yada…
Personally, I think currency trading can be very easy, especially if you live in the UK or Europe and can be awake super early and you have enough money to just relax and trade. I’ve spent twenty years analyzing numbers and explaining what they mean, and I can recognize good analysis from bad usually. I don’t at all mind ideas that are different to my own, but what I mind very much is the way threads start turning south all too often.
It’s the lack of tolerance for differing ideas, and admittedly I get very frustrated by it. But its not because I think everyone must trade the same way, rather its because people try to dismiss ideas they don’t like etc…
So sorry to hear about this! But you know what they say… Haters gonna hate. Our vision was really to have the folks right here provide more encouragement, especially for beginner traders who are still learning the ropes and are needing some advice on certain matters. Believe me, I know how it feels to have “experts” bashing your ideas or insulting you for asking simple questions, but I do hope you still stick around and be able to get positive reinforcement from forum members who are interested in helping their fellow traders out.
Agreed, it’s sad that people thay are given golden advice get steered away from it :(, thats why I made this post. I want people to really think about what they say to the newbies and be open minded, what works for one may not for another. But it’s like asking for world peace :\ … I hope some more people post here to express themselves, I’m not looking to start a war or bad mouth anyone. I just like positive energy and that will help with trading having a positive atmosphere.
Thanks for being one of those forum members who are really here to help others out! We really appreciate folks like you who take time to give encouragement and direction to the newbies in here and it really sucks that there have been some haters and trolls who merely show off or bash others. I do hope you still visit our forums every now and then to offer your two cents! It’s of great help to this community!
I’m staying for sure! I had some negative feedback back when i first joined, but this post was for some newbies i saw getting negative feedback, wanted to be their voice i guess you could say lol. But I love this place and recommend to anyone, baby pips in general is fantastic and i say one of the top places on the web to learn/do anything forex! The negative won’t scare me away, its anywhere you go in the world sadly
Awesome! Yeah seems like it can’t be helped to have some haters in any kind of forum, but it’s nice to know that you won’t be letting this drag you down. Thanks for the positive feedback on our site!
Indeed true, It is not a easy business, but like learning to play a sport if all the professionals said don’t do it because they didn’t start off great, we’d have no athletes lol. That’s how I look at it personally. ( not arguing or disagreeing with you in anyway! )
I can only say that trading ins a real challenge. I myself am against expressing negative to others, even they’re wrong. Each mistake should bring lesson, but not an insult. Look around and you will notice that most of great professionals tend to help newbies. Those who point with their fingers, in my opinion, are loosers themselves and they want to underline that there are even bigger loosers. I suppose it’s a kind of their self-affirmation. They only forget about one simple thing: an insulted newbie, unlike them all, did not give up and learns further. I’d like to recommend you ingnore any negative from others. They do not express their objective thought about you, but rather an attitude towards themselves.
Here is the thing… So many threads seem to go down hill, if certain mentors are mentioned, because there is a dislike more for the mentor, then the methods. If I were going to teach a new person to trade (as I am with my wife), I would first get the person familiar with charts and concepts by having them go through the BP school, and then give some mentor videos to watch. I don’t trade harmonics or S/D, but I like being familiar with those styles because it makes me a more rounded chart analyst. I recently suggested as an exercise, that a newer trader draw some SR lines and then see how price reacted the week after, and very quickly someone else shouted down the idea. Another fellow, who I can see tries to be helpful, made a point of saying that quick price moves were the result of food / smoking / meeting breaks by traders at the large firms. This trader has no clue what causes large moves, but he’s quick to state things as facts.
We don’t all need to trade the same way, and even if you know with 80% confidence, what the market is going to do, and from where, this is a tough psychological game because the other 20% threatens our real money. Admittedly, I can be a bit of a poopy head, but if you don’t like the mentor I suggest, then don’t go on to his thread and make it awful for others. I win mot of the trades I enter, and I credit certain mentor videos, so I don’t care in the least what happened on MYFXBOOK two years ago; I care much more about my own trades today.
Let’s discuss real trading ideas and methods, regardless of who’s they are.
I only joined this site recently but I have already found it incredibly useful, friendly and positive. The school is brilliantly conceived and written in a fun style about very serious matters - and not too much and not too little!
Sometimes I think it is possible to become too engrossed in the profit-seeking to the extent that one can forget that the forex market has character, interest and worldly associations far greater than simply trying to make money. Its a bit like collecting art simply because one thinks that its value will increase and forgetting to enjoy the art for what it actually is. It is a topic that we all enjoy otherwise we wouldn’t be here and a lot of the pleasure comes from sharing views, opinions, ideas, techniques and so on. I have a basic methodology which underlies my trading, but I love to try out new things on it and hear what others are doing.
So far I have seen a great deal of encouragement, comradeship and empathy in this forum alongside good, solid, concrete advice and plenty of detailed experiences from longer-term traders.
I really feel here the fact that we are all on the same side - long may it continue :35:
I don’t think that I’m negative but if someone is asking 101 basic questions & it’s obvious that they’ve not even looked at Pip School then I think that they’re fair game for being shutdown. If a new trader is lucky enough to have found BabyPips, then they should start the school - it should be their first port of call.
I did call someone’s strategy “idiotic” the other day but they explicitly stated that they were guessing & just holding positions until they were in profit. Yes it’s negative but I stand-by that statement & I was constructive in directing them to the school & advising them to use a stop-loss.
Even if it is a 101 question instead of “shutting them down” I think it would be better, just post a link to the school on their page, then say hey start here from top to bottom you will find you answer in there, if not feel free to reach out to us. Something like that so they get directed to the help they need and get the comfort of knowing if they still have question they can asked.
Very well said Hogarste, The past doesn’t matter if your future shines brighter. That’s a great way how you suggested to teach your wife keep it up! Like you said discuss real trading like professionals.
I agree with most of the above, but it is only a forum I 100% agree, the thing is like I said I didn’t get scared away by people saying negative things, and I didn’t care when they did. It’s not about being tuff its that if someone is new and a senor member is to tell them that they are wayyy off and what the hell are they doing, or their idea is 100% wrong start over, rather than offer solutions to help them. That doesn’t help them at all. It discourages them and who knows, could eventually turn folks away and if this is something they really want to do, that would be terrible.
The difference between a " you’re wrong" and “you’re wrong, but this is how to help you get where you wanna go” could make a world of difference at the end of the day for some people. :57:
