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Sometimes trading for a living can get a bit boring when you are waiting for
moves so in 2001 I started writing on a third party trading site. I'd get 100,000
hits and stop that thread and start another.
The numbers always amazed me. When it was small it just attracted traders but
as it grew it attracted the crowd. Moderators were then hired to asses what was
written. These would be people who had an interest in the market but probably
didn't trade that much. Unfortunately their enthusiasm was such that they used
to change all my posts, deleting parts they didn't like and making rules up about
what could and couldn't be said.
I got so annoyed that I started writing on my own web site and turned what should
have been just trading news section into this blog. Over the years the numbers
have increased and I'm amazed at how many read it every day. I'm equally amazed
at the traders in different countries that read it.
Normally you guys are completely invisible to me, until of course someone sends
me an email. This week I launched the 2 day trading lab and lots of people sent
me e mails. ( Thank you for that )
Some of the traders I knew. I thought wow I didn't know you read my blog every
day. Some phoned me up and we had a chat. Some gave me an update on where in the
world they were and what they were doing.
So thanks for the e mails guys it was nice to get some feed back. Good luck to
you all.
P.S. I was at a trading show this year and a competitor said to me I liked that
bit you mentioned recently on the XYZ move. "Where did you see that?". I said
"In your blog, I read it quite often." That was a huge surprise to me as well.
Which means I suppose that I should be reasonably polite about competitors as
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