There have been several great questions since I announced the MtM Team earlier today. Let me try to address them in public:
- Will MtM become a tease for your paid service? No way! You know, a lot of people do that and it drives me nuts. You won’t come to MtM and see a bunch of “here’s what you could be getting behind the pay-wall” posts. And besides, I’m not exactly trying to get rich $29 at a time… I want to keep the group small.
- Isn’t your free blog supposedly educational already? Yeah, and I also give lots of free seminars with EOTPro. But here’s the big difference: all that other stuff is me talking at you and hoping you take away something useful. As part of the MtM-Team, you will learn by doing.
Look, a lot of people fall into this trap: they don’t get anything done because they are too busy reading books on how to manage their time. You see? People want to know how I become knowledgeable on topics, and the answer is I actually do stuff! So, that’s the kind of ethic I want to instill. I want there to be a real focus on actually doing chart analysis and posting it for others to review. I want to clearly distinguish between real-time analysis and after-the-fact, because it’s totally different. - Will you be calling trades/will there be a live room? One part of the concept is real-time chart analysis. Depending on how things go (I don’t have all the answers) we may move some of that into a chat or shoutbox of some kind. But, I don’t intend to start a trading room where people are there to follow me (or anyone else). See the previous answer about learning by doing. And besides, EOTPro is already the finest example of a live trading room that I know of… and I’m already participating over there so there’s no need to compete with myself!
- You say want a small group. How small is ’small’? I don’t know yet… we’ll have to feel that out as we go. I’d guess if we have 20 or 30 active contributors daily, that will start to feel like too much. But, maybe we can handle lots more, and maybe we can’t even handle that many. We’ll just have to see. I imagine, despite my goals, a fair number of people will mostly lurk, and so they won’t really count in terms of ‘big vs. small.’
- How did you become so amazing and attractive? (ok, no one asked that)
Any more questions?
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Hi Richard,
I like the sounds of your TA Brainstorm community. I’d love to contribute. My question regards the logistics surrounding the cap on the number of club members. If I sign up for 6 months, then travel for 6 months (part of my other job in ethnographic research), would I be allowed to return to the club when I am back to trading and sharing/listening/researching technical analysis ideas? Thanks so much for offering this opportunity of community. -live long and prosper \\//;
Sure BG, if you want to take some time off, we can hold your spot.