Like Tim I was, am and will continue my own quest to learn and to pass on information in an open manner as befits what I perceive to be the aims of this site. I too had overlooked the obvious to which you have just opened my eyes, despite that fact that at 4.30 am I can hardly open them physically !
Information can be passed on in an open manner but the kind of information that can be passed on is limited.
I begin to understand - Is it possible to discuss ANY of this here or is it a totally fruitless exercise ?
If you were a magician and were able to levitate yourself and view all of this from above, you would be disillusioned to observe and realise that very nearly all of it is a hall of mirrors, which serves to entrap people according to their own perceptions. And these perceptions are perniciously warped as a consequence of these multiple mirrors reflecting reflections of reflections. It is a situation from which for the great majority, sadly, there is no escape.
I have certainly noticed that most postings dwell at the level of generality, which does not really surprise me. At a mechanical level one can pick up the odd morsel, but it requires further processing within one's own perceptual context to add value and to incorporate into one's trading plan. At a deeper level what is said and, more importantly, unsaid provides clues to undestanding the forces behind the markets. It has been a consistent theme of your postings, IMHO, to make us read, truly read and think, truly think, at a deeper level
Yes, precisely, in order to escape the entrapment of the hall of mirrors radical self changes have to be made, and these changes have to be self induced and self motivated. This is very difficult if not impossible for the great majority of people, because part of the problem is that they actually enjoy being entrapped.
I am often frustrated by these threads and their constant re-directions and lapses into abuse and discourtesy, but I realise this is the nature of things. As you have said in the past these provide a respite for the lone trader - a little light relief from TA, FA, astrology, your guru. I also understand now that this reflects trading life, capitalism and life itself. Constanly lurk the Sirens to trick us to linger by their clever, knavish, and deceitful words.
Astrolgy and psychology and psychiatry other nonsenses do not come into it, they are misguided placebos, like bits of a jigsaw puzzle belonging to another puzzle being force fitted irrelevantly, because the root core of the problem is not adressed.
The true route to freedom from the hall of mirrors is the correct application of thought. But
correct thinking is but an extension of correct behaviour, and conversely.
Because the hall of mirrors additionally facilitates behaviour unsuitable for the application of the correct conduct to ensure escape from what is in reality a slave domain then it serves as a perfect trap for those who are out of order. These entities therefore punish themselves, in reward of their very own transgressions.
Indeed - this is the nature of things. This is why, to return to Tim's original question "To post or not to post" it is important to do so, but we should not be surprised by the direction that a thread takes thereafter.
Do not be surprised, for it is not the real world at all, but the apparent world existing to keep the real world as an exclusive enclave, screened off and protected from unwelcome invasion.
Very Kind Regards.
Thank you for an interesting insight.
Charlton
