Staying In the Trading Game – My Trading Rules

We've just published a new T2W article called "Staying In the Trading Game – My Trading Rules" by John Bartlett.

Quick Summary: If you are new to trading then having some rules may help and John Bartlett has 42 of them that he has found contribute to successful trading

PS. Don't forget to rate the article after you've read it and share your comments on this thread.

Why is t2w allowing vendors to pump their services effectively for free for the ‘price’ of a relatively skimpy article?

John Barlett is t2w member Zenda. He contributes infrequently (5 posts in the last 2 years) and his ‘rules’ are superficially anodyne at best. It covers everything yet says nothing.

hey B

JB is ok..........i've met him a few times and sure, hes "old school" but means well in his training and keeps it down to earth and simple for beginners

I've seen a lot lot worse out there so just my opinion

N

Hi Tony,
I'm surprised this causes you much concern as it was forever thus - going as far back as the inception of the Articles section (formerly known as the Knowledge Lab) circa 2005. Obviously, your view that this or an other article is 'skimpy' is subjective and not one that's necessarily shared by everyone, evidenced in this case by the ratings which are well above average. Also, of all the people to dump your venom on, surely there are vendors out there far more deserving than JB!

T2W welcomes submissions from anyone but, as I think you know, getting non-vendors to write anything is the devil's own job. That said, if you (or the hare) think you can do better - get typing - I welcome your respective contributions! For the record, it might interest you to know that we reject as many articles as we publish - either because the article itself isn't up to scratch or because there are issues associated with the author and/or their products and services.
Tim.

As I said Tim, this isn't a vendor thing, this is very specifically a John Bartlett thing.

As for your final sentence, it beggars belief. I well remeber you being around and involved when this issue with Zenda was initially aired.

Tony,
You and I have fallen out big time in the past but, in all honesty, i couldn't tell you (or anyone) what our respective beef was. Forgive and forget. JB may have done some questionable things in the past, so have you and, by the same token, I admit to things of which I'm less than proud. If we only ever published contributions by vestal virgins - then the Articles section would be empty. He who casts the first stone and all that . . .
Tim.

How hard can it be to get the average high when there's only 11 ratings, and we've already seen a one post lackey on here defending?

Problems with the article:

Too much personal history which is irrelevant.

Skimpy was putting it nicely. Some of the 'rules'

keep losses small...dont' place stops too close, give it room to breathe...stops should be placed visually...move stops to breakeven once in profit...trailing stops could be the answer...markets are totally random and unpredictable..all markets are bearish...always trade with the trend and a host of other self-contradictory empty statements.

An appalling article.

I’m not confused. Yes, I am attacking for the reasons openly stated.

Incorrect. You are most demonstrably doing the latter. If you weren’t aware that you were, you are now.

I’ll do that right now. They are largely superfluous, often used to ramp a product or service, more often than not by someone who is not either a member of the site or if they are not an active contributor and unfortunately, provide a target for critique by requesting to be specially rated.

Any of these articles if made as normal posts would be assessed/enjoyed/responded to/ignored as for any other posts. As an article there are expectations of something above and beyond the quality of a normal post. The vast majority (there have been exceptions) are not. The audacity of providing mediocre content and style as something special and expecting us to be impressed because it has been specially selected for us by the t2w content manager/editor will tend to draw out more negative responses than positive once disappointment at being taken for mugs sets in

Please see my post #2 which did precisely that. ALL subsequent posts (including mine, JB’s and yours) with the exception of Shakone have been regarding issues with the author and not the article and this is much to do I suspect with the author’s ill-tempered response... Shouldn’t that in itself be telling you something?