When a supplier gives you lemons, throw them back!!!!!!!!

Well, here we go again, 10 trees all set and ready for the third floor deck. Next week, hopefully by Thursday all the joists will be in place and we can get back to the main house. Hopefully also, Rita will blow by to the west and leave us alone.


So after the red cedar posts were in place and cut level to 12 feet 2 and a half inches it was time to place the arched beams. This was done with a new genie lift, the other one turned out to be a nice piece of artwork....during the fire...:)


After the beams across the support posts were set, next we had to set the beams that stretch across the bar/game room. We had entered into a contract for all the post and beam work and in the contract it stated that these beams not to notched or cut to the exact length just 20% cut off the side to make a flat top, so the beams look like they go into the ceiling. I received a phone call while in Denver that these beams didn't fit or were even close. So I called my dear wife and told her to go up and take pictures and call me with what she thought about them....."They look like crap", she replied once she saw them. So I packed up my stuff in Denver and headed for the airport....


As you can see, they not only cut them but they cut them way to short to have a nice tight fit. The cost per day is running about $2,300 for labor along with other expenses, so I don't have time to wait for suppliers to fit their mistakes.


In fact, I was so ticked off that I lost my voice for three day after the supplier came up to the property and I got done screaming at the idiot. I don't lose my temper often, but when I do....the wife, the kids, the dogs, the cat and everyone else seems to vanish. Nothing fit because the idiot was to lazy to field measure anything........So I canceled the $210,000.00 contract because of a paragraph that I had put in that clearly stated that all materials had to be delivered on the assigned dates and had to as the contract stated. So when life gives you lemons, just squeeze them hard and make lemonade...but when a supplier gives you lemons, have them escorted off the property and go to plan B, version 2934.


After we paid him for the stuff he had delivered, I had them cut the ends off and we used them in the exercise room. The beams for the exercise room were to be 10x10 square cut doug fir....but these look great. The doug firs are now in a bedroom and on it goes.


We use Genie lifts and I had bought one and rented another one to help set the posts and beams. We even rented a crane to help speed up the process of moving materials around. There were two rows of beams placed over the support posts to finish the look.


I flew back on Monday from Denver and drove up to Butler, TN about 2.5 hours into the back country to were we had purchased the 46 foot tree with a 50" butt cut and talked with them about replacing the beams. We went out in the saw yard and as I picked out the logs, they loaded them and took them over to the mill, debarked them, and after I marked where I wanted them cut.....they run them thru the mill...it was amazing and I wish I had a camera with me. The next day, a tractor trailer of logs arrived at the job site and we unloaded them while the third floor trusses were being placed by a crane.....those pics later......During the two days it took to replace one vendor with another they worked on the garages and nanny flat.

So never give up on a dream......and never let anything stand in your way......simple as that. On a side note....what a great week of trading it was this week.....and enjoyed busting on everyone in TradersHaven.

the ideal pattern for counter trend trading

I wrote an article for Active Traders mag about a little fib pattern that I called the Crown Pattern. You can go read up on it, but this morning as the market was again in trouble and moving south, it setup up nicely and then triggered at 10:18am ET for a long....now it held there for a while but then took off. By using the internals of the market was able to ride it to the top and make a nice profit.

Oh yea and the first bar trade didn't do to bad either...........got to love it.
Also using money management and with the profits this week we are now trading 25 instead of 20....loading the boat for next week....hehe

3/5 + 2/7 = the square root of 9...just don't tell anyone.

We have all been there....staring into space....trying to think but can't....it seems so simple at first, but as time goes by...it seems to get harder to make money trading.

There is so many things you can buy and way to many articles to read about every subject under the "planet" when it comes to trading. But trading is a very simple process, you either buy it or sell it. But everyone, including me just has a hard time with the keeping it simple.

The key in trading is not the indicators, the time frames and all that noise. It is having faith in yourself and trusting your own instincts. So maybe we can work on this will some ideas.......over the coming weeks.

We do need prices, but we don't need no side-wind-er.......that keeps curve fitting itself with historical market action.

Something we forget about the patterns of cycles.......

Yesterday was a nice example of measured pullbacks as shown here on the chart. The market rallied higher only to be met with sellers at or near the same amount of retracement as the last rally. When we combine this with the ZLR and other tools we talk about in the chat room.......It just all the more easy to take a trade....with defined risk.....oh yea the first bar trade cleaned up yet again this morning....YAWN.

When life gives you lemons...squeeze them hard and make Lemonade

On the second level of the house, we used trees as support posts to give the house a little character. They were all hauled away in one of the dumpster after the fire so we had to find new ones. As luck you have it, they are building a new subdivision and one of my friend called me because they were going to burn the trees they bulldozed down and he thought they would work for me.

So off I went and found a field full of red cedar trees, some as big as 27 inches at the base and they also had the root system in tack. So we cut the tops off and trimmed the branches and loaded them on a rollback truck and hauled them home. Cost....75 bucks a tree...and 85 to have them hauled to the house....I bought all they had........


The reason we took the whole tree and the root system was because I wanted the bottom of the tree to flare out into the floor, instead of being a straight cut. That created a new problem, power washing the ground from the root system so we could square cut the bottom....After 8 hours both my son and I had had enough of this noise......


So we talked to the 4 amigos....and offered them 150 bucks each to clean the trees on the weekend. Well, on Friday they showed up with the wives and girlfriend and they worked on them Friday....then the rest of the weekend the 4 amigos finished them up....


We had a crane come in and set the trees down on the second floor along with other supplies and they were cut so that each had at least a solid 10 inch squared bottom.
Even with cleaning out the dirt, we still used 8 chains as some rocks had grown into the roots and could not be seen....cost 14 bucks a tree....rotfl...at this rate I will have to trade a few more contracts.......


One by one, we lowered them down, cut them square and then set them...all 10 of them. Cost 110 bucks per tree.


By the end of the day, well it looked like a forest to say the least. But WOW, it will be outstanding once we have everything in place....Will post the rest of the second floor and how the beams were laid in later this week....GOOD TRADING

Right to the end........how sweet it was

Today, we had some many great setups in TradersHaven chat room. They just kept coming and we all (I hope) took advantage to it. I was short going into the 3:40 time period and anyone that knows me ....knows that on a trend day we watch around this time for a reversal....and our system bailed.

Then a few minutes later, I said, "That if we don't got have a short covering rally right now, the odds are we will end up lower and if you could hold to 4:13pm and give a little room in case of a jiggle at 4:00 as the stocks close for the day.

When our system spit out another short, I loaded the boat at 654.10 and rode it home.......What a great day. Can't trade, don't post it live.....pound sand!!!!!
I am waiting for anyone ...and I mean anyone that thinks they can out trade me to show up...anytime...any place. What size do you trade......just a couple of rules.

1. Trade up to a 50 lot.....got the stones for that FOOL.
2. The loser has to give what the winner made to the charity of the winners choice at the end of the trading day. Hope you don't have a losing day, besides just being a loser to me.
3. Trade from 9:30 to 4:15 during the open out cry market.
4. Invite everyone that wants to come so it open and free....I'll even pay for room and the buffet, that way you can't hide behind your Anonymouse name. Got the stones to show up for this....I doubt IT.

A lot of traders have sent me emails asking me not to turn on the comments ever again, so if you have a question or ideas you want to share...just email me anytime.
PEACE.....even to you FOOL....
3.

So you have an ideal trade with another reason to add in

The ideal setup that triggered according to the rules.....and then another setup....what to do....load that boat baby.....and notice this was very near the low of the day so far....
Any takers on trading live in person with real money against me....let me know my charity needs the cash.....FOOL.

First trad of the day.....WOHAAAAAA!!!!

OH yea, real time .....and real money....and today it paid big time.....up over 6k and it only less then an hour.......hope you enjoy your job at Walmart....

Trade Management and hanging for the long ball...

Folls asked the question about how to manage a trade for more profits.......and what a great question that is....a classic problem, wait to long and give it all back or take it to quickly and miss the mother load like today.

Well, my trading is divided into three parts to start with. Everyday, you have your first trade of the day and back several years ago I was having one of those periods in trading where I was my own worst enemy. I would end up just sitting there watching 11 times frames with 17 indicators and being a (analyst) fool. Then I would make up a trade and of course the market was more then willing to teach me yet another lesson in life. That is why I now have three types of trades and here they are:

1. The first bar of the bar trade, this is where I got that one out of the way, good, bad and ugly. Of course, today it was ugly was I could not get half off and move to BE so ended up taking a direct hit.........7 ticks on a 20 lot as posted in the chart on another update.

2. The perfect trade as I have defined it, this is the one you should wait for, your research and screen time has told you this is your best odds of making money. In this type of trade, I have rules to take half off, move to BE and then look for another perfect setup to add back in and trail a stop. Now, here is some ideas behind this trade. I watch a higher time frame to determine the trend.


Let's say you were using the stoch on the 15m chart on the right....and it just turned down from being overbought. You know that this could run for a while and has good odds of running for 5 points. Your perfect setup is on the 3m chart or the 250V chart...whatever time frame you enjoy trading with. You take the setup and entry the trade, at some point, using your indicator on the same time frame you found the perfect setup, you take half off and move to BE. Still watching the higher time frame you see the stoch is only half way down....implying more downside and you also see another perfect setup.....you then add back in and make sure your stop is at least BE......and when you trading plan says.....it's over.....then move the stop to just above the last high if you are short.....and keep adjusting it up until it takes you out...

3. Every trader I believe has one problem, "waiting" for that perfect trade...the mother of all shorts, the father of all longs and that brings us to this type of trade. You decide, for whatever reason you just have to take a trade, you can't wait any longer....all your stuff is either mixed or just flat out showing the market going the other way. All the indicators show you should be shorting but the price is moving higher and higher. So you decide, I'll buy the dang thing. Most of the time, you just bought the high.......has that ever happened to you. Well maybe the FOOL doesn't have this problem but I know I have. SO when I entry one of these trades it only for a scalp.....fast in and out at the sign of trouble...this is about the only thing the CCI is good for using the 14/6 settings. By the time, you see the setup, filter out the trades, entry the trade the 6 has almost moved to the other side and we all know that......so don't try and get a MOAS trade with short term setting on any lagging indicator.

So, I have three trades setups
1. First bar trade to get me in the game.....half off and BE....then hope the perfect trade comes along. This happened on the 14th.
2. The perfect trade using the higher time frame to confirm, half off and BE....then look to add back in if the higher time frame still has room to run. Trail the stop until your indicator on the perfect setup says watch it.....and use the high/low of the last bar as a stop.
3. Scaplers love affair......quickies.....easy in and easy out.....don't think this type of trade will earn you big bucks. How many times have you shot an eagle at the golf course using just a pitching wedge????

Great Day in TradersHaven

Well it was a great day in the TradersHaven chat room, well at least for me. I had the first bar trade for a long as Jim-rainman was shorting using his trading plan.
The market pullbacked just enough to knock me out before we got a nice auto trade long and made a few grand....that was posted this morning.

But the fun part was as the morning unfolded, the internals were showing that the market could reverse and go the other way....this happened as MarkB was talking about time and price....resistance on so on. Then we had a bull crown pattern that triggered and at 12:13 I posted in the room a couple of things.

First, I wanted everyone to understand there is nothing personal but if you are long.....good luck and I believe only Dharma was at the time with a runner.
Second I typed in ....way in advance in real time......that this was the mother of
all shorts.....which is the name of our auto trader. MOAS......The Mother Of All Systems....ROTFL.... now the secret is out.
Third, in response to a question about how slow it was....as the short just hung there...I said, it's like a freight train and it starts out slowly.......but picks up speed.......

673.20 was the entry......and we all know what happened after that....it was the mother of all shorts......WOW what a day......

On a side note....I heard today that someone has changed the settings to their sidewinder again.......I guess that means it isn't working the way it should...and don't believe curve fitting a system has never been a good idea.....changing it to 60 or 59 or 58 isn't going to change the outcome one bit.........crap in crap out.
Believe in yourself.....build a plan that works for you....

Another day.....another trade......

The first bar trade again didn't pay and with the tight range we didn't get hurt. Then the auto trader found this nice little long that I shared in TradersHaven on Hotcomm Relay7.,......LIVE.
Oh yea, and it made a few bucks.....so the world is just fine as we wait and watch for the Fed to leave interest rates alone...THIS TIME....

It had been three weeks to the day, and everyone had a mission.

It had been just 3 weeks when the crews showed with just one goal in mind. Going down the ladder and getting back to the business of building a home....not a house.....but a home.

Everything I try to do, works off fibonacci numbers and levels......and it was important that on this day.....day 21......we got back to business. And so they did, this is picture of the contractor and his 2 subs raising the first wall back up.


It might not mean a whole lot to the average person, but I have never been accused of being average .....and that, no doubt is an understatement.


The more interesting thing about this picture is what it doesn't show.....the gunite people were still working on the stairwell. The amigos were still cleaning off the second level deck.


As you can see, it was still about 3 feet high from the fire marshals shoveling and moving it out on the deck.


The guys really got into it, and before the end of the day.....three walls were in place. This is them setting wall number 2. BOTH a fib number by the way.....ROTFL.


The basement level, had very little damage and was protected by the second level concrete floor (now that concrete doesn't look so bad) and one of the first things we had re-ordered was the pecky cypress for the ceiling in the great room. This time of year it is not easy to come by. 6 and 8 inches T&G, here two ....well really one..of the amigos, Tino....applying the first of three coats.

Tomorrow will be 7 weeks since this went up in smoke....and we are up on the three floor framing walls and they will go up tomorrow...pics in a few days. So as the "boss" would say.....there will be NO retreat....NO surrender....PERIOD.

Either lead me, follow me...BUT DON"T STAND IN MY WAY!!!!!!!!......FOOL
Tomorrow eveing I will try an answer the question that FOLLS asked before I turned off the comment section about trade management for bigger returns....stay tuned

Yea I know I only made a point on that trade!!!!!

The auto trader is running just fine again today. The first bar trade was tough but keeping the stops tight helps. But there we have a nice short and got a couple of grand.....how did you do?????? You can see I again erased the account number and trading a 20 lot today....REAL TIME....REAL MONEY...still want to meet and trade live. My favorite charity sure could use some help, even from a fool like you.

OF COURSE.....the comments are back off....WHY???

I have turned the comments back off again and this time I guess it will be for a long time. I am personally tired of one person doing nothing by typing endless crap about anything he can think of instead of sharing ideas or commenting on my ideas. There are about 1370 hits a day to this blog and no one really posts anything interesting except JAB doing a Andy Rooney spoof. If you have anything interesting just email me.

I am not going to open a new chat room....PERIOD
I am not going to spoon feed anyone trades.....PERIOD
I am not going to join any new chat rooms, I am in TradersHaven and plan to stay there as long as I am welcome....PERIOD
It is about as simple as that.......

And by the way I can't trade.....good one.
I decided last week to post a chart with the ninja to back it up.....
SO here it is......other then that.....pound SAND.


Do you trade a 20 lot and add in another 10? Of course anyone that uses Ninja Trader can tell this is real money and not play money. I erased some of the account number, but the first two numbers are still there....now I would not want someone to get that number and screw with me.
SIMPLE AS THAT.

Any time....any place...I will meet anyone and trade live.....real money and let's trade up to a 50 lot just for the fun of it. The only caught would be.....if I make more money then you, then you have to send a check to my favorite charity for the amount of money I made. So stand up and be a man...FOOL.

Back on Track.....and working OT.

After 6 days the fire was declared "OUT" and the fire marshals moved in and they spent 5 days going thru everything....finding fan motors, saws, work belts, walk boards, genie lifts, extension cords, cans, and the list was almost endless at times.
And they asked, where was this, which floor and we had to draw layouts of the interior walls and mark it with everything we could remember. On Friday they turned the property back over to us and we started right after lunch to clean the remains of our dream.

We ordered 40 yard dumpsters so we could haul it all to a landfill and the driver would come up and drop one off and pick a full one up. This went on for 6 more days as we filled 14.5 dumpsters with everything you can think of. While I was still on vacation in Mallorca, I started a list of things that would need to be done first, checking the internet for resources and by the time Monday came I had already called or emailed everyone and asked that they ship the exact same materials.

Our biggest problem was the ECO block concrete walls that were 10 inches thick before the fire on the second level. Down where the footers are, they are 16 inches thick and the first level they come in at 12 inches. Because of the heat, as you can see, all the form was gone and it also had "popcorned" the walls. Some walls were down to 7.5 inches and had to be fixed. So I called and called and called and called every gunite person I could find in NC, GA, AL, KY and TN to see if anyone was between jobs and could come ASAP.

We had a meeting with the city inspectors, both engineering firms, contractor and the subs along with a Gunite firm from Nashville. It was determined to drill 5/8 inch holes and build the wall out to 9 inches. The next problem was according to the engineers there would have to be 870 holes drills in a certain pattern and 870 pieces of rebar cemented in and then hang a wire mesh over that with ties. So off to Home Depot we went and bought 5 new hammer drills and lots of bits. The Gunite people were on station in 3 days.


We ended up buying two trailer loads of fiber gunite before the walls were finished and that comes out to 31 - 2,000 pounds bags of the darn stuff.


The gunite process is an interesting thing to watch as they dump the mix into a hooper and an air compressor shoots it out the end of their hose while adding just the prefect amount of water..


Now the one thing they didn't tell us was how dusty this process was. Clouds of dust would raise as they worked. So we had to make sure everyone had a mask on that was even close to this puppy.


It seems pretty simple, just aim the hose, turn it on, and cover it. But the pressure of the hose was something else to behold.


But talk about a messy process. As you can see by Jason's right arm. The walls are smoothed and the floor is then cleaned as they moved up.


The gunite people were able to finish their work in 3 days and then we had to use a jack hammer to bust up the concrete floor and remove all the plumbing pipes that had
already been installed. The pipes that also went out of the house had to be dug back up and replaced under the concrete floor on the first level. But by day 21 we had a surprise for everyone and will post that tomorrow night..

"Will" said.....is this you Slick Willy?????

will said...
dennis,
are you going to post your trades live in your new room? what is your plan. great to hear.
thanks,
will
September 17, 2005 4:13 PM

Hey, Slick Willie......maybe you still think you didn't have sex with Monica since you still don't know what is.....is!!!!.....ROTFL.
But, I have said 100 times, THERE will not be a new room......or anything near that.......learn to trade FOOL....on your own like the rest of us did. I am not your mommy.....and I am not spoon feeding you because you are either to stupid, to lazy or both to do the homework......so find a new topic and move on before all those great paying jobs at Wally World are gone.

Oh yea, Slick Willie...I always wanted to ask you what the tag hanging around Monica's neck meant.....Grade A.....??????????
Is that why you were smiling??????

DrBob speaks.....SO LISTEN FOOLS

Posted by drbob to TradersParadise at 9/17/2005 05:56:40 AM--
Just to set the record straight, we are open to other trading ideas and anyone is free to post whatever they like in terms of trading styles or indicators. We are not beholdeth to one indicator and one style of trading. I don't know of anyone being told not to post because their method is not allowed in the room. There are people using RSI, fibs, murray math, cci, moving averages, and even price. If you want to share your trading style you are welcome.

This is not an educational room for newbies. We are not trying to create another room full of new traders. Most of us are trading for real with real money and are simply providing a place where we can communicate (with private sessions and private messaging turned on) as a group or individually. Some are posting what they see in the markets and their trades, some do not. We are not providing entertainment in the form of audio moderators. This is not trading 101, and many find moderating with audio and charts distracting. MOst of us are comfortable with our charts and styles of trading, and seeing someone elses charts and listening to their take on the markets is counter productive to concentrating on one's own methodology during the trading day. Again, this isn't a forum for new traders.

It has been said in this blog that our room "sucks". Well, I am not sure what it is that you are looking for , as this is a free room, with an open agenda. If you think it sucks, then speak up in the room and offer an idea as to how it could be better. We only ask that any discourse in the room be non-personal and respectful.

As far as posting trades is concerned, some of us do try and post what we are doing , as there are some who appreciate that information. I suppose we could say, no posting of trades allowed, but that would certainly be odd in a trading room. On balance I think that those who are choosing to post are doing so in a timely fashion. There are some that are not being timely as well. This will be an ongoing issue in chat rooms and I don't think that there is a perfect solution it.

I think we have a nice balance of traders and styles in the room. Some or more short term oriented than others and there is a variety of methods being used. I have been criticized in oms for allowing fib and other things to be discussed as it was not 50cci related. That is not what we are doing here, although becuase of the genesis of the room, the 50cci stuff is prevalent in what a lot are doing there. MarkB's willingness to share his material and techniques for using it is greatly appreciated. If you are not aware, there are places where you will pay $250/month for such material. I don't ever remember Mark posting trades or saying that he would, so I don't see where that is coming from.

Dharma and I are trying to post what we see using our charts when we can. Again, this is a free room and by now the issue of being paid for anything should have went away as it should be obvious that there are no such arrangements here with anyone. So, sorry that the room is not to anyone's liking, but it is to some. If you have an idea on how to make it better, speak up...in the room preferably. I am not hiding behind any anonymous label and no one will get booted unless they are there just stir up controversy.

That was posted in the comment section by DrBob.....of course, the best way to distract from your own behavior is to try and shift the topic away from you and to someone else....remembering that we can see the IP addresses of people visiting and posting in this blog and even if you, as a reader, think there is a whole group of people out there posting crap about this and that......WELL there really ain't now is there Bernice?

Any person, who uses the "anonymouse" feature to hide behind and then tries to throw stones really can't be taken to seriously by any rational thinking humans. But what else do you have to do, maybe you should work on the sidewinder and get it right!!!.....I won't try to hack our systems again or your backend is more then just grass....FOOL....we are waiting for you........

Last two days on the auto trader.......tough going for this puppy.

THURSDAY AUTO TRADER, good grief no money for out.......You're out of here!!!!

Then we had FRIDAY........tough sledding here for awhile...


Not a bad week, I'm sure that you did better.....right!!!!!


Keep up the great posts, but there will not be a new chat room.....and I could care less about your entry, management and covers in real time......show me ideas on how I can improve my trading.......and I'll follow you to the bank.

Just want to say THANK YOU.....great trading everyone!!!!!

I would like to thank everyone that took the inverted ghost this morning......or even the shamu...IN fact I would personally like to thank everyone that even thought of going long today....THANK YOU THANK YOU...
My wife thanks you....
My kids thank you....
My two goldens thank you
The dang cat thanks you....
Heck, my contractor thanks you...
the sub contractors thank you....
Our suppliers thank you...
The ASPCA thanks you....
The App Bear Center thanks you....
The Dolly Foundation thanks you....


First bar trade was a winner again......
Then the 50CCI ZLR (as I define it) then took over and just kept kicking them out so I would like to thank Dr.Bob.....Dharma, Angela and MarkB .... What a nice day....THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANKS.....group hug.

In Denver, Yuri would say that my stuff was nice...BUT then as the day went on he would say it doesn't have any confluences on the market...the spread......no good, the internals are nice but you can't trade off them. Well, of course the short (get it) short answer to that is.....yea I know if my stuff doesn't work Yuri, then the attendees should be paying you for your stuff and your training and blah, blah blah.

So after the internet kept going in and out and a weak signal, just about like last year, you would have data...then nothing for a few seconds to a minute and then back on..only to leave the prices with gaps.......if you updated your data, then everything on the charts would change. So I decided to pack it up and fly back to my second job (will post some pic over the weekend) and from what I have heard that on Tuesday, Yuri made a few bucks in the morning and then gave it all back......

Where do I sign up for that program?

On another note, I see someone.... is trying to get me to start a new chat room, and I have to ask WHY????? I did a chat room and the only thing people did was see if I was trading so they could coat tail my trades. While others spent the day logging in under different Nicknames giving me crap. Some would log in all enough to copy and paste the text and then leave. The odds of me starting another chat room so I can bust my stones to give out trades are about the same odds as Kansas City meeting Colorado in the World Series this year.

Who really cares about the sidewinder anyways?????

There has been some posts asking for help to develop the sidewinder into something that can actually make money. And that is all fine and good, but doubt if anyone would trade it correctly even if it was on auto pilot. You know, you would be sitting there watching the markets and thinking .....reading some chat text....watching those 8 time frames and 13 indicators and so on. Suddenly, there would be a audio alert....GO SHORT and you would start to think about if the computer knows what it's doing, is it really a short....."Trader X" just posted a long and others are backing him up.

Today, my first trade of the day, got you into this market before the crowd figured out what the heck was going on.....then a nice ZLR to add some in and so on. The next trade was after three cycles down and didn't work well....I mean what is a couple of ticks on half? Then we had a nice little rally, off a ZLR, according to my rules and again three cycles up and into a big time set of spikes that we talked about this weekend in Denver........then it takes out the last low and the cover.

Auto systems works, but only if you have a trading plan first......and then get someone to program the sucker correctly.....wonder why this system is "NOT" for sale or lease....yep....I wonder why?

Also there is wonder why, some have spent a lot of their time using the back door feature in hotcomm to spy on different chat rooms hoping to understand how, where, why, what and scanning the text....WATCH WHAT YOU POST and WATCH WHAT YOU TYPE...even in a PM.......They are out there watching.

The force of Mother Nature in full force....

They called her Katrina.........

90 percent....90 percent of the people WHY

During a Trading Markets workshop in Las Vegas in 1999, Lewis Borsellino was speaking to a room full of people who wanted to learn how to trade, about 150 people if I remember right, and when we gave the odds of people actually being successful, by saying that 90% fail.....and out of the 10% that 90% of them would make enough money to keep in the game.....and that meant about 1% of every one there would make a ton of money.....1%.....just 1%.

Then with those facts, why didn't anyone get up, go to Walmart and apply for a job. That why the most interesting question of the entire workshop and even the entire weekend.

So how are you doing at trading?
Are you the one in a 100?
Or are you just in the pack?

I hear tell of any auto trading system now being promoted.....watch out for that one, just think of it this way. IF there was an auto system that was good....would you give it away....would you allow others to use it and have the win/loss ratio messed with....I THINK NOT.

I personally use auto systems and have from time to time posted them.....but it ain't for sale and how it works is even off limits.....that is why some have spent a lot of their time trying to get into our network......come to any workshop in order to watch and see if they can pick up on something. Ask questions between sessions and so on.

There isn't an auto system out there that can adjust to the current market conditions by using just an indicator or a group of indicators. If there is, I would be more then glad to help trade it...and with size. In fact, I would be even more then glad to trade against an auto system live for a couple of days......Me against a computer.........any takers??????

I mean when one of the anonymouses posted I COULDN'T trade...I wanted to meet them in Vegas and trade for charity. And like the dogs they are, no one came. So maybe I can trade against a computer, since a computer isn't full of BSski.

Hundreds of email came in from the Andy piece....here are some....enjoy!!!!!

(CBS) Here’s some of the mail I received concerning my piece on chat rooms.

Dear Mr. Rooney,

You made the comment that the women have soft, sweet names, what’s that suppose to mean? Are you suggesting we don’t have cahones .Let me set the record straight, MarkB can talk all he wants about his expansions and extensions (I notice he doesn’t say much about his time lines). We have symmetry and if you check the dictionary, it says‘correct or pleasing proportion of parts’. We also have slippage; use your imaginations on that one bucko.We get into bonds and crude with the best of them.Ok, I’ll concede we don’t do gas, we’ll leave that to Moose and FloodGate_WI. Finally, “I know Russell; he is a friend of mine. You, Mr. Rooney, are no Russell.”
Sincerely,
dharma


Dearest Andy,
If you ever come across ‘a possible long that needs a triple sling ‘I want to know immediately
Love and kisses
BobCathy



Dear Mr. Rooney,
I have always been a big fan of yours. I’ve seen all of your movies and especially enjoyed the early ones with you and Judy Garland. I still have arguments with the missus about the fact you’ve been married eight times, boy that Ava Gardner was some looker. Anyway time to catch Vanna on Wheel of Fortune, ‘com’on big money’ and then Judge Judy, hubba hubba.
taku


Dear Mr. Rooney,
You Yanks could learn a thing or two from our language. I’d rather have bangers and mash or toad in the hole than bloody chicken wings and hoagies. I’d rather run out of petrol with a liter under the bonnet than drive those bloody SUV’s you drive on your motorways.
You can have your Bud and Pringles; I’ll keep my cup of tea and enjoy a fag anytime.
Cheers,
david_uk



Mr. Rooney,
I take exception to your making fun of my nick. Just the other night I was watching the Simpson’s with Mrs. noemotion and I can assure you when Homer ran out of Duff beer and Marge refused to go to Moe’s to get a six-pack; we both had a good cry. Not only that we’re both distraught about Jackaay and Jaret getting bumped off the reality show ‘I want to be a Hilton’. So don’t talk about noemotion Mr. Rooney, we’ve been there, done it.
Still hurting
noemotion



Hey Andy,
I want to thank drbob on many levels. He fixed my wisdom teeth and I’m smarter, he sorted out my eye teeth and I can see better, he gave me a crown and now I’m the king of CCI, ha,ha,ha,ha.
I don’t need no stinking mouthwash.
Woodie



Dear Andy,
I know the anguish of what nick to use in a chat room. When I was at boarding school the head master made me write ‘I am a wanker ‘one hundred times on the chalkboard. To this day I’m still stressed over whether that should have been my nick.
Distraught,
Anonymouse



Andy,
Checkout my latest cd ‘Lookout Weekend’, it’ll want to make you dance.
Always,
debbiedeb



I don’t have a clue what the following says, but I suspect they like their whiskey, the only Dutch I know from WW11 is keurig of ijs and voulez vous coucher avec moi, sorry that’s French, which reminds me, I’ve got to send some euros to the great grandchildren.



Geachte Heer Rooney,
De Macallan 30 jaar oud is de voornaamste van de klassieke Macallan afkomst, deze onthult tonen als sinaasappel en aromatische hars ontrokken uit het doorweekte eikenhout van Macallan's veel besproken Spaanse sherryvaten.
In deze vaten heeft deze heerlijke drank rustig liggen rijpen, verborgen van al het tumult van de passerende decennia.

Door zijn rijkheid te onthullen tot het volle, heeft de Macallan 30 jaar bewezen comfortabel te zijn en zonodig meer, daar waar de Macallan’s toewijding voor een single malt met de hoogste kwaliteit nodig is.

Kenmerkend gepresenteerd in een aantrekkelijk en blikvangende blauwe houten verpakking, dit voegt nog meer toe aan de mooie en exceptionele whisky.
Oprecht,
rg2jh