I'll start it off. I'm still trying to figure out how to be useful in my posting and not post hundreds of times per week. I can't seem to not get carried away. (That's why I never post in the early AM session, where it takes more concentration.) Then I burn myself out, and use up my precious resources that I should be reserving for my health issues. And I'm only posting a fraction of what I'm seeing... It just drives me nuts to see all this and not try to post it. I do have to come up with a solution.

Thanks, Eric. It's amazing to me how highly some people think of me, especially those that get to know me... Yeah, I've never really felt I had a lot to prove, I've always felt confident in what I know. And what you said below, it points out to me just how much I let this bad experience get to me. It changed me into someone who has a feeling of needing to prove something. So, they affected me even more deeply than I had realized, and it wasn't until I read this that I saw this is the case. All the more reason to let it go. I can't let 'them' change who I am, or 'they' really do win.

Hmmm, I do need to think about an area just for mentor students. But, my health is the limiting factor, and I keep trying to act like I'm fine...

Originally posted by EricD

Jim,
I would like to apologize for not realizing the hurt the other people in the outside forum did to you. I would have defended you endlessly. I always felt your personality was like "SUPERMAN", meaning you would walk around like Clark Kent never proving ones self but alwyas knew what "POWER" you had. My "2 CENTS" .....first take care of your heath, 2nd where do you want to go with the forum? You cannnot make mentor and non mentor students happy. It is possible you find a level for both. You provided 1000 hrs on your website, anyone starting out has enough information to process. As they are digesting the material , they need "SCREEN TIME". Posting a few commentary and charts would benefit them greatly as when starting out I feel one needs visualization. I wonder how your mentor students would feel about having a private forum. "I WOULD LOVE THE IDEA". From there, where we can collaborate together on different methods and pick apart differnt ideas. There must be a fee....just like in college, if one needs to expand their learning it always is associated with a cost. Everyone is passionate in here about trading...where can we take it to.

Everything is in place for a good-sized checkback, but will they do it? Or straight up like all the blogs and pundits are saying?

104.27, that's another new high in crude there.

Wow, is crude on the move. 104.44...

104.69 and rising...

104.79 it for now? And why am I even posting this?

That's a good start. But, will it sustain?

Originally posted by jimkane

Everything is in place for a good-sized checkback, but will they do it? Or straight up like all the blogs and pundits are saying?

Okay, super key line here at this 42.50 area (but it's obvious), so let's see how it handles it. I'm hoping we get a 'bigger' correction here than this.

The Euro has some key lines around 2685.

One of the things I've noticed on occasion before even a minor turn, is that the tools I rely on for intraday turns stop working. Yesterday there were setups with abcd into double 1.27 in line that failed to reverse down and a couple of fake out baby drops off other fibs as well....when something in a bigger time frame has to play out nothing gets in the way! That little death defying drop at the open Tuesday was just another gift for traders of the next continuation move....same as Friday....same trick, different day

my daughter the dr says YES THIS really is the way it is

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