I have got about 3/4of the way through the “finest in trend trading” and noticed that tymen1 avatar no longer appeared and it says he’s been banned. Anyone know why? Is his method still valid or does this have something to do with the method?
Do you see his thread still open?
If so, then common sense suggests it was nothing to do with the system or method.
Why didn’t you ask on there? It would have saved having to clog the forum up with yet more nonsense.
The guy was high maintenance.
The last thing a busy forum admin team need is to manage someone who attracts high drama wherever he treads. Sooner or later the patience wears thin & they hit the trapdoor lever.
The sun will continue to rise, the markets will still function & life as we know it will plod along regardless.
I’m not suprised he was banned. What is suprising is how long the admin put up with his bs.
In response to your question about his thread/method, reading through it won’t hurt in your trading life as there is some good information in there anyway and chances are, you would have to change little aspects of it to suit your own personality anyway so I’d say give it a read 
totally agree, glad to see the end of him. I can just imagine the emails he would be sending to the admin right now trying to ressurect his membership.
Poor them. He doesn’t come across as a normal person and seems some what dependent on the status that he gives himeslf here. :eek:
[B]Blame the Guru
A beginner entering the markets soon finds himself surrounded by a colorful crowd of gurus—experts who sell trading advice. Most charge fees, [U]but some give advice for free[/U] to drum up business for their brokerage firms. Gurus publish newsletters, are quoted in the media, and many would kill to get on TV. [U]Masses are hungry for clarity, and gurus are there to feed that hunger[/U]. Most are failed traders, but [U]being a guru is not that easy[/U]. Their mortality rate is high, and few stay around for more than two years. The novelty wears off, customers do not renew subscriptions, and a guru finds it easier to earn a living selling aluminum siding than drawing trendlines. My chapter on the guru business in [I]Trading for a Living[/I] drew more howls and threats than any other in that book.
Traders go through three stages in their attitudes towards gurus. In the beginning, they drink in their advice, expecting to make money from it. At the second stage, traders start avoiding gurus like the plague, viewing them as distractions from their own decision-making process. Finally, some successful traders start paying attention to a few gurus who alert them to new opportunities.
Some losing traders go looking for a trainer, a teacher, or a therapist. [U]Very few people are experts in both psychology and trading[/U]. I’ve met
several gurus who couldn’t trade their way out of a paper bag but claimed that their alleged expertise in psychology qualified them to train traders.
[…]Traders go through several stages in their attitudes towards tips. [U]Beginners love them[/U], those who are more serious insist on doing their own homework, while advanced traders may listen to tips but always drop them into their own trading systems to see whether that advice will hold up. Whenever I hear a trading tip, I run it through my own computerized screens. The decision to buy, go short, or stand aside is mine alone, with an average yield of one tip accepted out of every 20 heard. Tips draw my attention to opportunities I might have overlooked, but [U]there are no shortcuts to sweating your own trades[/U].
A greenhorn who has gotten burned may ask for a guru’s track record. Years ago I used to publish a newsletter and noticed how frighteningly easy it was for gurus to massage and slant their records, even if they were tracked by independent rating services. I’ve never met a trader who took all the recommendations of his guru, even if he paid him a lot of money. If a guru has 200 subscribers, they’ll choose different recommendations, trade them differently, and most will lose money, each in his own way. There is a rule in the advisory business: “If you make forecasts for a living, make a lot of them.”
Gurus offer convenient excuses to sleepwalking traders who need a scapegoat for their losses.
[U]Whether or not you listen to a guru, you’re 100% responsible for the
outcome of your trades. The next time you get a hot tip, drop it into
your trading system to see whether it gives you a buy or sell signal.
You are responsible for the consequences of taking or rejecting advice.[/U][/B]
- [B][I]COME INTO MY TRADING ROOM[/I] by Dr. Alexander Elder[/B]
Best regards
[I]“Me quedaré, me quedaré, [B]siempre cubano[/B] me quedaré…”[/I]
Harsh words guys… lest we forget he has the highest hit thread! If you wan’t a difinitive ‘candle’ thread you know where to look. 
Remember he gave his considerable knowledge freely… often in adversity!
There’s almost zero feedback from being an experienced trader on sites such as this and often considerable hostility! We each have our reasons. Personally, I think the site is poorer for his absense. Let he who is without ego cast the first stone! 
I wasn’t a reader of his threads (at all). Could someone tell me exactly why he was so subversive to the community?
Well said, Robert.
Even though I didnt really see eye to eye with tymen on a lot of issues, I have some sympathy for him I believe he meant well he just was unable to deal with the fact this is a discussion forum not a classroom and everyone is not obliged to agree with everything he said.
Other than that I’m sure he has helped a lot of people learn a lot about forex trading and methods, banning him for his erratic behaviour was probably a little harsh but at the same time, I was not suprised it happend.
Tymen’s been banned before, and I’m not surprised it happened again. His personality just seems to rub some people the wrong way.
He’s a tad eccentric, but he’s a good guy and I’m sad to see that he’s gone. I’m not sure why he was banned, but I can guarantee it has nothing to do with his trading methods.
The word “subversive” is too strong a word for Tymen1’s infractions, as phil said he (tymen) was/is a liability to himself & his ethics sometimes were at odds with too many posters. He was also a marked man since getting certain users, who shall remain nameless, banned from this board.
But he is a survivor & even now is attempting to produce another forum (search, goldenforex) & is very involved in the chat room at bolldna.com
If you live by the sword …
ummm, then you die by it?
then slicing bread is easy?
die by the pen?
or the keyboard lol
The sword is the greatest innovation to come along since unsliced bread.
the pen is mightier than the sword but you can’t slice bread with a pen
Tymen getting banned is definitely a blow to learners of this community. I hope we get an explanation from the powers that be of this forum on why this happened.
Regards,
Muthu.