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Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
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harryg
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stefk
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Welcome, you certainly will be happy here......
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harryg
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Thanks. Although that pic says a fair bit about me, here's a proper intro.
On a personal level I am happily married. At age 30 we jettisoned all debt and moved to France. We did the countryside thing of leaving the rat-race, growing own veggies and so on. After 20 years we have just returned to the UK and are currently in a kind of limbo, loving being back in London, going to theatres and so on after all those years in the wilderness, but also thinking about whether or not we want to settle here or go to Greece for a year etc.
I don’t take myself that seriously and have some trouble with people who do. I resist all attempts at being told what to think (and do), but embrace and evaluate new information if it appears to be of interest.
I think that humour is important and useful, and try to make someone laugh every day.
I’m not overly comfortable with sharing personal info, so let’s move onto the financial, which is probably of more interest to you anyway.
I have been self-employed my entire life (50) apart from 3 months in the settlements department of a hedge fund. (I was working in a basement with fluorescent lights and I didn't like it). It did teach me the importance of proper record-keeping, so it wasn’t time wasted.
My first inkling of the markets however was in 1987 when I was still at school. The TV told me that 'billions has been wiped from companies in epic global rout', or something along those lines. Although Economics was one of my Uni courses they never mentioned the stock market, which I thought odd. By the time I left Uni, I chanced across a graph of the FTSE 100 and I saw that the level was higher then than it had been before 1987. But I didn't remember the TV telling me that 'billions has been added to companies in epic global rally'. So that told me all I needed to know about the 'news', and I have never been interested in it since.
I started with Traded Options, because I had read about leverage, and you could make multiples of what you had. That was vital really, because I didn't have much. I purchased real-time prices from LIFFE, which came down the TV aerial via a service called Prestel. I don't remember the exact cost of this feed, but it was smth like £2500, which was a lot. My first trade was a call on Thames Water entered just before the close on Friday, closed out Monday morning for £550. A profit of £550!!! If that had been a loss maybe the rest of my life would have been different.
Traded Options were fun, but complex. No amount of Black Scholes formulae really help. With options you have to get the direction, the magnitude and the timing of the move spot on to do well. It's a big ask. And the market makers in those days were ******s - they would move the prices all over the place even on small orders. I started to use limits and have done ever since.
After about 18 months I decided to try futures ('commodities'). I had read an article that claimed that 95% of futures traders lost money. That's exactly the sort of info that makes me want to try something. I gave myself a very solid grounding in TA, and ended up developing my own trend-following trading system based on volatility breakout. This operated successfully for 12 years on a basket of futures. I never had a losing year, but neither did my account grow that much because this was my only income, so I was using it. I liked the discipline of following a rules-based system.
With futures trading, however clever you think you are (or are), the potential for huge and catastrophic loss is always lurking. At 25 that thought is almost exciting, at 35, and with other responsibilities, less so, and I decided to stop. I still miss it.
Since then I have been involved in the markets the same way as most people by buying shares that I think will go up. My main and consistent mistake with shares is being scared out of a good position. I am working on it.
Hopefully we can help each other.
On a personal level I am happily married. At age 30 we jettisoned all debt and moved to France. We did the countryside thing of leaving the rat-race, growing own veggies and so on. After 20 years we have just returned to the UK and are currently in a kind of limbo, loving being back in London, going to theatres and so on after all those years in the wilderness, but also thinking about whether or not we want to settle here or go to Greece for a year etc.
I don’t take myself that seriously and have some trouble with people who do. I resist all attempts at being told what to think (and do), but embrace and evaluate new information if it appears to be of interest.
I think that humour is important and useful, and try to make someone laugh every day.
I’m not overly comfortable with sharing personal info, so let’s move onto the financial, which is probably of more interest to you anyway.
I have been self-employed my entire life (50) apart from 3 months in the settlements department of a hedge fund. (I was working in a basement with fluorescent lights and I didn't like it). It did teach me the importance of proper record-keeping, so it wasn’t time wasted.
My first inkling of the markets however was in 1987 when I was still at school. The TV told me that 'billions has been wiped from companies in epic global rout', or something along those lines. Although Economics was one of my Uni courses they never mentioned the stock market, which I thought odd. By the time I left Uni, I chanced across a graph of the FTSE 100 and I saw that the level was higher then than it had been before 1987. But I didn't remember the TV telling me that 'billions has been added to companies in epic global rally'. So that told me all I needed to know about the 'news', and I have never been interested in it since.
I started with Traded Options, because I had read about leverage, and you could make multiples of what you had. That was vital really, because I didn't have much. I purchased real-time prices from LIFFE, which came down the TV aerial via a service called Prestel. I don't remember the exact cost of this feed, but it was smth like £2500, which was a lot. My first trade was a call on Thames Water entered just before the close on Friday, closed out Monday morning for £550. A profit of £550!!! If that had been a loss maybe the rest of my life would have been different.
Traded Options were fun, but complex. No amount of Black Scholes formulae really help. With options you have to get the direction, the magnitude and the timing of the move spot on to do well. It's a big ask. And the market makers in those days were ******s - they would move the prices all over the place even on small orders. I started to use limits and have done ever since.
After about 18 months I decided to try futures ('commodities'). I had read an article that claimed that 95% of futures traders lost money. That's exactly the sort of info that makes me want to try something. I gave myself a very solid grounding in TA, and ended up developing my own trend-following trading system based on volatility breakout. This operated successfully for 12 years on a basket of futures. I never had a losing year, but neither did my account grow that much because this was my only income, so I was using it. I liked the discipline of following a rules-based system.
With futures trading, however clever you think you are (or are), the potential for huge and catastrophic loss is always lurking. At 25 that thought is almost exciting, at 35, and with other responsibilities, less so, and I decided to stop. I still miss it.
Since then I have been involved in the markets the same way as most people by buying shares that I think will go up. My main and consistent mistake with shares is being scared out of a good position. I am working on it.
Hopefully we can help each other.
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https://www.harryginsights.com
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SOL
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
@Harryg
Welcome and thank you for sharing so much information. It made for a wonderful read. You have led a very interesting life and I hope life continues to deliver interesting surprises.
You will find there are a lot of individuals here that share your attitude in regards to being controlled. Most Tactical Investors don't want to be told what to do, they don't mind suggestions being offered.
Welcome and thank you for sharing so much information. It made for a wonderful read. You have led a very interesting life and I hope life continues to deliver interesting surprises.
You will find there are a lot of individuals here that share your attitude in regards to being controlled. Most Tactical Investors don't want to be told what to do, they don't mind suggestions being offered.
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The end is always near; its the beginning and how you live each moment that counts the most
The end is always near; its the beginning and how you live each moment that counts the most
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RogueKoiFish
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
I'm a 47 Electrical Engineer by training and live in the USA. Mainly invested in mutual index funds for 401k like VTSAX and VSIAX in Vanguard. Then started investing with Peter Schiff. Peter is a very good debater and great talker but basically a permabear and lost money investing with his group. The shame is one company Exelixis that I invested with him got impatient after one of his brokers was basically churning and making money off me with fees instead of profit by selling stocks I finally left. About a year later that EXEL stock would have made me $200K in profits.
Was one of the first people at my company to invest in Cryptos like Ethereum and Bitcoin but unfortunately timed my exit too late took $32k rode it up to $450k down to $16k and finally sold at $40k to pay off my house. 1 year later that Bitcoin would have been worth over $600k.
So paid off the house and debt free. Almost down to my high school weight and stronger using a eating strategy called DDF( Data Driven Fasting) with Marty Kendall. That is phenomenal using a glucose meter to time when to eat got me past any stall points. 4 more lbs left and I'm at my high school weight of 148 lbs at 5'6" not too bad for my age. So I have my health and debt free is a big plus.
The last person I was learning from and still have some stocks is Ernie Varitimos, who is known for 0 Day trades, also known as the Trader of Futures on Youtube. He is honest and very willing to teach people about 0 day trades using butterfly options, and has longer term trend trading for stocks which I still have some left. His main tool is volume profile and he explains it well. The Asymmetric trades are his long term trades so to pass the time he created 0 day trades to keep people busy until the long term trades were ready to sell for a profit. People were only supposed to use 5% of their portfolio for the 0 day trades but think many are breaking these positions sizes and losing money.
I noticed when I checked some of the entry level prices on the spreadsheet they correlate to the volume profile peaks or nulls. I use TradingView to look at volume profiles of stocks. The only problem with volume profile is it works well for previous historical prices but not for all time highs (ATH) and new pricing.
I noticed all of my biggest trading mistakes were emotionally and reading the mass psychology article described all the mistakes I was doing, along with missing trend analysis tools.
So after reading Stockgumshoe review of TI I decided to give it a try and liked the articles I have seen so far.
So hoping to applying TI's strategy to make me a good investor with solid plans and not make emotional mistakes. There are many opportunities to make money as you can see by some of my fails but another one always comes along and I get better little by little.
Look forward to applying TI strategy to making profit and hope this is the big fix to my mistakes. I consider myself a beginning investor but always willing to learn.
Was one of the first people at my company to invest in Cryptos like Ethereum and Bitcoin but unfortunately timed my exit too late took $32k rode it up to $450k down to $16k and finally sold at $40k to pay off my house. 1 year later that Bitcoin would have been worth over $600k.
So paid off the house and debt free. Almost down to my high school weight and stronger using a eating strategy called DDF( Data Driven Fasting) with Marty Kendall. That is phenomenal using a glucose meter to time when to eat got me past any stall points. 4 more lbs left and I'm at my high school weight of 148 lbs at 5'6" not too bad for my age. So I have my health and debt free is a big plus.
The last person I was learning from and still have some stocks is Ernie Varitimos, who is known for 0 Day trades, also known as the Trader of Futures on Youtube. He is honest and very willing to teach people about 0 day trades using butterfly options, and has longer term trend trading for stocks which I still have some left. His main tool is volume profile and he explains it well. The Asymmetric trades are his long term trades so to pass the time he created 0 day trades to keep people busy until the long term trades were ready to sell for a profit. People were only supposed to use 5% of their portfolio for the 0 day trades but think many are breaking these positions sizes and losing money.
I noticed when I checked some of the entry level prices on the spreadsheet they correlate to the volume profile peaks or nulls. I use TradingView to look at volume profiles of stocks. The only problem with volume profile is it works well for previous historical prices but not for all time highs (ATH) and new pricing.
I noticed all of my biggest trading mistakes were emotionally and reading the mass psychology article described all the mistakes I was doing, along with missing trend analysis tools.
So after reading Stockgumshoe review of TI I decided to give it a try and liked the articles I have seen so far.
So hoping to applying TI's strategy to make me a good investor with solid plans and not make emotional mistakes. There are many opportunities to make money as you can see by some of my fails but another one always comes along and I get better little by little.
Look forward to applying TI strategy to making profit and hope this is the big fix to my mistakes. I consider myself a beginning investor but always willing to learn.
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AstuteShift
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Welcome
Well since you scored massive wins already it won’t be long until you adapt to TI
It’s simple, we follow the trend until the end. Also insights to human psychology and what makes the masses lose consistently time and time again
Well since you scored massive wins already it won’t be long until you adapt to TI
It’s simple, we follow the trend until the end. Also insights to human psychology and what makes the masses lose consistently time and time again
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cristiano7subo
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Hi everyone!
I'm a 25 year old mechanical engineer from southern part of India and currently I'm working in the middle east. It was during my college days that I read Rich Dad Poor Dad and that definitely made a huge impact in spurring my curiosity in investments and ways to avoid the traps the masses fall into. (I don't own a vehicle yet as my organization currently provides me one; I don't own a house yet as I don't see myself settling down anytime soon; neither do i purchase required necessities on credit or installments). Due to my short work experience, I earn pretty much less than the country's average, but I'm still pushing to live below my means and instead direct my savings into smart investments. I had earlier fiddled with Mutual Funds in the Indian market taking advises from my dad. They provided decent returns but I soon realised that the MFs that were being recommended had high expense ratios and we were just ignorant to spot it. This pushed me to explore more options and I decided to make my own choices with a little bit of acquired knowledge.
The pandemic happened and I had a bit of reserve cash which I deployed into Indian MFs last year which provided good returns (all from a hunch that the market would bounce back from the 30% drop. It kind of feels stupid now and rushed with no basis. Guess I was just lucky not to be whipped). Since this Feb, I had my news feeds filled with popular IPOs happening everyday in the US market and like most average individuals, I made the idiotic move to participate in the frenzy. With a little bit of research I subscribed to Motley Fool's basic services and started deploying my funds. Even though I was confident initially with their picks, it seemed odd getting a bunch of mails everyday upselling their more expensive services. I soon started feeling that they were just throwing darts knowing that majority of the stocks in a bull run would just be successful. That's when I decided to take a step back and start looking at the bigger picture as I was feeling I could soon be possibly burning my fingers this way. I stumbled upon newsletter services on stockgumshoe and decided to go through the Tactical investor's ETF service. While going through the website, I could see what Sol was trying to explain and this approach made much more sense to me. That's how I went ahead with the 1 month trial in August, during which I explored all the contents of the newsletter and the member's only section. I got more curious and decided to stick on with Sol for one more year, and looking back now, I guess that's one of my best decisions this year. I did wait for quite some time before going ahead with the subscription because considering what I am able to earn and save, the service was definitely a chunk (my parents would definitely shoot me dead, first for dabbling in the stock market and second for opting a relatively expensive service), but I think there's a lot to learn from Sol and other members like Yodean from this community and I still believe it will be worthwhile when I look back in the future. But that doesn't mean I'll not be hoping to receive discounts from Sol for my next subscriptions on loyalty grounds
3 months into the service, I'd the say the best part is this community, I especially like the thread on alternative healthcare. I got curious with the discussion on Shilajit and I got to try it for the last 10 days and damn, that thing definitely made a difference in my stamina and my levels of attention. Thanks Sol!
Thanks again to all of you in this community and I'm very much looking forward to contribute here
I'm a 25 year old mechanical engineer from southern part of India and currently I'm working in the middle east. It was during my college days that I read Rich Dad Poor Dad and that definitely made a huge impact in spurring my curiosity in investments and ways to avoid the traps the masses fall into. (I don't own a vehicle yet as my organization currently provides me one; I don't own a house yet as I don't see myself settling down anytime soon; neither do i purchase required necessities on credit or installments). Due to my short work experience, I earn pretty much less than the country's average, but I'm still pushing to live below my means and instead direct my savings into smart investments. I had earlier fiddled with Mutual Funds in the Indian market taking advises from my dad. They provided decent returns but I soon realised that the MFs that were being recommended had high expense ratios and we were just ignorant to spot it. This pushed me to explore more options and I decided to make my own choices with a little bit of acquired knowledge.
The pandemic happened and I had a bit of reserve cash which I deployed into Indian MFs last year which provided good returns (all from a hunch that the market would bounce back from the 30% drop. It kind of feels stupid now and rushed with no basis. Guess I was just lucky not to be whipped). Since this Feb, I had my news feeds filled with popular IPOs happening everyday in the US market and like most average individuals, I made the idiotic move to participate in the frenzy. With a little bit of research I subscribed to Motley Fool's basic services and started deploying my funds. Even though I was confident initially with their picks, it seemed odd getting a bunch of mails everyday upselling their more expensive services. I soon started feeling that they were just throwing darts knowing that majority of the stocks in a bull run would just be successful. That's when I decided to take a step back and start looking at the bigger picture as I was feeling I could soon be possibly burning my fingers this way. I stumbled upon newsletter services on stockgumshoe and decided to go through the Tactical investor's ETF service. While going through the website, I could see what Sol was trying to explain and this approach made much more sense to me. That's how I went ahead with the 1 month trial in August, during which I explored all the contents of the newsletter and the member's only section. I got more curious and decided to stick on with Sol for one more year, and looking back now, I guess that's one of my best decisions this year. I did wait for quite some time before going ahead with the subscription because considering what I am able to earn and save, the service was definitely a chunk (my parents would definitely shoot me dead, first for dabbling in the stock market and second for opting a relatively expensive service), but I think there's a lot to learn from Sol and other members like Yodean from this community and I still believe it will be worthwhile when I look back in the future. But that doesn't mean I'll not be hoping to receive discounts from Sol for my next subscriptions on loyalty grounds
3 months into the service, I'd the say the best part is this community, I especially like the thread on alternative healthcare. I got curious with the discussion on Shilajit and I got to try it for the last 10 days and damn, that thing definitely made a difference in my stamina and my levels of attention. Thanks Sol!
Thanks again to all of you in this community and I'm very much looking forward to contribute here
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stefk
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Welcome. Are you from Kerala ? Tamil Nadu ? Dravidian culture, great and rich culture.....
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cristiano7subo
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stefk
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Wel, I dont really travel physically in Tamil Nadu, but imagination is powerful. I just come from my dominical training in the park, and I practiced during one hour an ancient tamil physical workout. Its a sort of meditation in movement with heavy wooden clubbel. In Tamil Nadu, they practice in honor of lord Hanuman, a dravidian deity, when I practice I imagine myself being an ancient dravidian warrior, training his martial art in honour of Hanuman. All these ancient physical practices have the advantage to train you in multiplanar movement. Better than only in sagital plane.
https://youtu.be/-CkDwXOO6B0
Tamil Nadu culture is very rich with ancient martial arts like varma kalai, kuttu varisai, silambam, etc.....
https://youtu.be/-CkDwXOO6B0
Tamil Nadu culture is very rich with ancient martial arts like varma kalai, kuttu varisai, silambam, etc.....
« To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow »
– Audrey Hepburn
– Audrey Hepburn
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RogueKoiFish
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Does anyone know if the Artificial intelligence group still active? I signed up for it on Saturday it took my payment but haven’t got any newsletters or any information yet.
If it’s not active then would like a refund and they should remove that information from Tactical Investor website so no one else does that by mistake.
Appreciate any help on this.
If it’s not active then would like a refund and they should remove that information from Tactical Investor website so no one else does that by mistake.
Appreciate any help on this.
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cristiano7subo
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Wow Stefk! Your knowledge on our martial arts and physical workouts is amazing! One thing I've always been proud about is that my ancestors have been really generous in sharing knowledge and spreading positive ancient sciences to everyone who was willing to absorb it. I recently read that traces of tamil culture and references to it have been discovered in a small village in Oman in the middle east. I have noticed some Arabic words even having roots to tamil. It has never stopped to amaze me.stefk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 2:23 pm Wel, I dont really travel physically in Tamil Nadu, but imagination is powerful. I just come from my dominical training in the park, and I practiced during one hour an ancient tamil physical workout. Its a sort of meditation in movement with heavy wooden clubbel. In Tamil Nadu, they practice in honor of lord Hanuman, a dravidian deity, when I practice I imagine myself being an ancient dravidian warrior, training his martial art in honour of Hanuman. All these ancient physical practices have the advantage to train you in multiplanar movement. Better than only in sagital plane.
https://youtu.be/-CkDwXOO6B0
Tamil Nadu culture is very rich with ancient martial arts like varma kalai, kuttu varisai, silambam, etc.....
One thing I'd like to add is that Hanuman (and related deities like Ram, Sita, etc.) does not come under the Dravidian roots. It was more of the concepts that arose when Aryans moved into the present land of India from the north. Gods like Ayyanar & other Kaaval Dheivams (Literally translates to "Security Gods"), various Ammans, occupational gods, etc., are more of the Dravidian origin. It was during the times when upper class Aryans (like Brahmins) got close to powerful kings that gods like Ram (or Perumal), Hanuman (also called Anjeneyar), etc., began to influence the regional people. And when the British decided to identify people on religion, anyone other than a Muslim or a Christian, was majorly categorized as a Hindu, irrespective of which kind of God you worshipped. Thus began a hybrid scenario and right now there are just too many Hindu gods (in a way that was good, as it kind of subdued god-based discrimination). Please don't mistake me as preachy, but I just thought you might find this interesting.
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Yodean
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
A.I.T.T. (Artificial Intelligence Trend Trader) is indeed active and profitable. Join the AITT forum and learn about Sol's recent fisticuffs, LMAO. And get rich, eventually.RogueKoiFish wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:31 pm Does anyone know if the Artificial intelligence group still active? I signed up for it on Saturday it took my payment but haven’t got any newsletters or any information yet.
If it’s not active then would like a refund and they should remove that information from Tactical Investor website so no one else does that by mistake.
Appreciate any help on this.
Buy Fear, Sell Euphoria. The Neonatal Calf undergoes an agonizing birthing, while the Bear falls into hibernation.
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stefk
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Of course its interesting for me, first time in my life I can converse with a Dravidian Indian. Concerning Hanuman, I trust you, but the important for me, he is the god of power, strength, devotion and concentration, maybe its the reason he was adopted by dravidian martial artists.
« To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow »
– Audrey Hepburn
– Audrey Hepburn
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RogueKoiFish
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Re: Tell us a little bit about yourself and or your trading experience
Sol,
Can you add me to the AITT (Artificial Intelligence Trend Trader) forum and newsletter.
I can't message anyone to add me and thought it sent a message to the admin or board but doesn't show any messages in my outbox. Maybe I don't have permission yet to do this.
Would appreciate your help to get added to the group. If you have seen a message for this you can disregard it. Couldn't message directly so posting in the forum so it gets someones attention.
Look forward to learning about Tactical Investing, trend lines, mass psychology, and artificial investment opportunities.
Thank You
Can you add me to the AITT (Artificial Intelligence Trend Trader) forum and newsletter.
I can't message anyone to add me and thought it sent a message to the admin or board but doesn't show any messages in my outbox. Maybe I don't have permission yet to do this.
Would appreciate your help to get added to the group. If you have seen a message for this you can disregard it. Couldn't message directly so posting in the forum so it gets someones attention.
Look forward to learning about Tactical Investing, trend lines, mass psychology, and artificial investment opportunities.
Thank You