Trading is a journey of discovery, especially self-discovery.
Recent threads brought up the oft-debated topic of whether traders are "born" or "made".
Probably many of you have seen the "stages" of development of a trader (or indeed of anyone pursuing excellence in his or her chosen field), ranging from the novice, through competence and on to the almost spirtual states of enlightenment.
To begin with newbies arrive here with the inevitable basic questions "how quickly can i become a millionaire", "what is a stop-loss", "which is the best broker", "how can I tell if a trend has completed" etc. Some of these so-called basic questions can be remarkably difficult to answer, but for the most part someone on T2W will attempt to answer.
If we are lucky the thread will generate some fascinating enlightening discussion going in directions we least expect, often prompted by some innocent remark. Many times the threads will degenerat into dross.
In the same way that newbies and more experienced traders will, given time and the correct mindset, sort out the chaff from the wheat during the development of their personalised trading strategies, so too will they do the same here. Indeed evaluation of what is useful here is part of that training.
In fact dross itself can be valuable - where there's muck there's money !! The questions that dross can generate in the mind can aid development, again given the right mind-set. The right mind-set is one that does not take everything that is handed out at face value.
This is why I often advise people asking about the value of training courses to be patient and to post-pone parting with their money until they have developed the sufficient critical faculty to be able to evaluate for themselves the likely benefit compared to the costs involved.
So given enough time studying here and elsewhere, especially charts, and given the right kind of mind anyone who can become a good trader should be able to sort out the truth for themselves. If they cannot then they will not be able to see the true dynamics of the market. Having done that some may stay with this site making massive contribution, others will make occasional contribution and others will get bored and go elsewhere, but whichever path they choose bears no correlation with their success or otherwise as a trader
Charlton