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That's all well and good. Some (many?) of us know way more than you assume we do. I think it has already been well documented and debated that in trading, knowledge does not equate to success. Your assumption is that ignorance is the cause. That is condescending. For all you know, I have a PhD in mathematics. That also does not foretell of my success in trading. Look at the contrast between THIS (quoted) post and the one where you were presuming people don't know that "live trading" can be faked. Just because one of those youtube traders might have a couple thousand followers doesn't mean that the average person doesn't know live trading can be faked. You can't know that that is the reason for their followers. It could be that maybe you don't know all those followers are paid subscribers! You also don't know that it is NOT real. You aren't the only skeptic here. I would probably skeptic you under the table.
I think you're missing the nuance of my comment. The post I have quoted above is effectively a straw man argument you've constructed as an effigy of the one precipitating my suggestion that you can do better. While I see nothing discompassionate about the post quoted here, I do see your previous one as discompassionate because you're attacking the student for perceived ignorance. Any yes, I DO feel like you were speaking to me when you said it.
A point we can agree on. Now, consider the possibility that the reality is that people are actually smarter than you, despite what you'd rather believe. See if that doesn't effect your compassion a little more. Whether they are smarter than you or not is irrelevant. We are all able to learn something from others, even if it is the shill on youtube.
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"Whether they are smarter than you or not is irrelevant. We are all able to learn something from others, even if it is the shill on youtube."
It's about humility and respect for others. That isn't mutually exclusive to teaching... or learning.
How successful has math made you with trading? Was it you or someone else who posted that Isaac Newton lost millions in the market? It seems to me that you see mathematics as the single, exclusive necessity to trading. It isn't. It helps you. I get that. It helps me too. But for some, just doing, experiencing and practicing will do the same thing. I know people like that. You don't need to be a physicist to know how to strike a baseball flying at 100 mph, with a skinny round stick and propel it in your desired direction 400 feet. I'd even argue that knowing how to calculate the mechanics would actually serve as an impediment. It serves no one, including yourself, to get frustrated because your expectations of others isn't met.
@goodoboy, I agree with @vmodus. I got the joke and I thought it was funny, and you are making a good point in your last sentence. Your follow-up posts are funny too.
Some may not have gotten it though. Those who know you know that you are kidding... I just wanted to say that, for anyone who took it seriously. Sometimes we may not see how others take the things we say.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote