The Beast:
Hot topic!
No, not offended. But the questions I posted, which you have not answered, are still relevant to the premise of your post.
I am inferring [maybe incorrectly] that you assume that new members here fit into some predefined category [perhaps based on your experience, or not]. I don't quite know what your objective was with that post. But if it as I infer [and not neceessarily what you intended to imply], then I would like to know how what you stated in your post sits with the questions I have posed to you. That's if you are inclined to answer.
And yes, I did send out PAN/PAM '26 & '64. But then we are not supposed to say things like that are we? At least, if I am reading some of the threads here correctly. I mean we wouldn't want anyone to think I was being a snobby rich guy, etc. like SamClemmons wrote in that permanent post, which I kinda agree with btw.
Why would anyone send out crapola on a trade anyways, unless they are a scumbag? How can anyone build any type of business relationship with anyone else if they deliver crapola? Would my customers keep coming back to me if I did ****ty engineering work for them? Of course not. It's a one transaction proposition for me if someone is a ****ty trader. That's what a business risk is.
Same thing with a newbie trader, he's either going to be a scumbag or not. It does not take any education or "mentoring" on a cigar e-board to take someone away from scumbag-hood. We are like we are, and I am what I am. So if a trader is a dickhead, he will be one, and remain one. So again, I just question your premise with that post concering this openness with new members.
We must have a different business perspective. You see based on your profile, you have told me nothing about yourself. In fact it is a smart-aleck profile. That's the introduction you have given me of yourself, so I probably would not trade with you. On the other hand, I want people who do business with me to know about me. I won't put personal contact data out there [for reasons stated earlier], but if my profile starts a dialog with a trade prospect via PM, and the comfort factor is there, then we do business. If they don't like my profile [some evidently don't], or say that I am delivering hors d'ouvres to President Reagan, well then we don't do business. But at least they know something about me before they invest their time and money. I sense, by the type of profile you posted, you would rather others find out about you via circulation of your fine reputation. But a new member has no way of knowing that, and quite frankly I don't judge by the reputation, but what I sense from my own dealings with a prospective trader/businessman/customer, etc. Reputation scoping is for the girls who wanted to be popular in high school. IMHO. Enron had a fine reputation, and I refused to do any consulting with them back in their hey-days, because one could tell based on meeting them that they were scumbags. ExxonMobil, on the other hand, which has a ****ty reputation, probably has the best contractor ethical guidelines, that are enforced, that I have ever seen. So, that's just me.
I guess we'll close for now.
Cheers,
4A