Yes, indeed - although for the first couple of years I did pay him, so it was not all luck!
Those names did spring to mind when thinking of how easy it is for there to be a disconnect between perception, reputation and reality. Dial in some ego and if often ends in a car crash, particularly if the underlying talent is itself not all that was claimed.
In terms of my wider presence on the forum thank you for the welcome, but I really don’t think that I will post as I did before the ICT storm any time soon, if at all. I have shelved plans for my own thread on the back of this, and have little to no interest in answering random question threads from newer joiners - I don’t have a myfxbook account, and when I have tried to post generic advice there’s just too much flaming and aggression these days for my tastes, I just don’t need it. I know I can trade, I can see that most around here aren’t profitable, I’m not here for an exercise in justifying myself to aggressive kids, and there are just too many, these days. They’re going to lose their money whether or not I prove my credentials to them, so I’ll pass.
So I’m a sort of partial returner: I’m not limiting myself to HoG’s thread, you’ll see me in others - Niki’s, for instance, I have rejoined this week - and some of the ones that might have a wider impact on the site (such as this one), but as for making hundreds of posts answering lots of small trading questions? Not any more, it’s a mug’s game.
I’m on a boxing forum, too, and on there I roll with the element who like to flame, knock, criticise, get their facts wildly wrong yet belittle others, deploy rudeness as a poor substitute for wisdom, all of that - it’s recreational and helps keep the place fun and lively.
On here, trading is my career, it’s what I do and who I am, I don’t have patience for the idiots, any more, particularly when they’re rude about it, so my head is staying firmly below the parapet on the unimportant threads.
Anyway, you asked whether I find the air cleaner so I answered but now let’s get back to the topic at hand!
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But I think that a mentor grows on you. If it makes sense what (s)he says and lights up bulbs in your head, you tend to listen to him or her more often. Over time, when not being dissapointed, it becomes more natural to take his or her advice. That doesn’t require myfxbook, for all you know he might be trading on it with a EA and you still try to learn from him as a trader. I think the myfxbook helps, but the relation needs to build up over time. That also applies to a paid service.
true!) & I wanted a following, I’d come up with every excuse not to prove it, like “terrorists will get me!” (Yup that one was for real)