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(Quotes from Ed in Red)

Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Weight Loss Reply to -

Thank you for sharing your process.

Lots of Paper

can indicate unwillingness

to experience overwhelm.

Clip: http://www.passionfire.com/

Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Progress Report: Snapshots

Hi Ed,

I want to share my recent progress. Two meetings ago I present my snapshot to the group. While presenting I have a feeling that reminds me of standing in front of class when I am about 10 years old.

I am giving a presentation and I put a lot of effort into the presentation. When I stand in front of the class I don't present the material well because I feel embarrassed.

I don't want others to judge me so. Other tribe members point out that I am not really presenting my snapshot, I just hold it up and say "this is my snapshot". I take the hot seat and really get into the feeling of not wanting to present my work and not wanting to clarify to others what I want. After my hotseat I feel good but not spectacular, I am not aware of a big aha.

On my way home I realize what I really want: I want to be free to use my full potential. I want to be free of self-imposed limitations. I feel good about having this realization and intend to create a new version of my snapshot. I am not complete on this, however I notice following positive changes in my life:

- I meet my ex-girlfriend out for dinner. I realize I am done with her, and tell her that I care about her a lot and that I am moving on. I end our date right after dinner even though we have further plans. (we break up a year ago, but now I feel free for the first time)

- Without planning on it, I go grocery shopping and buy a bunch of healthy food. I have an issue of going out to eat a lot and choosing unhealthy food. Without consciously trying to change, I stop eating unhealthy food and start eating nutritious food, just like how I want to for a while already. I feel more energetic. I also don't overeat anymore.

- My relationship with my current girlfriend improves: I have a great time when I am with her, I don't have a desire to meet other women.

- My trading account makes consecutive new highs since the meeting.

- I complete the development and back-testing of my trend-following trading system and start trading the system.

Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Thank you for sharing your process.

I do not consider your send to be an attack - as much as an opportunity to encourage you to be just the way you are, even more so.

In TTP We Learn to Not Plug In

to the sender's dramas

by supporting the sender

to be just the way he is

and isn't.

Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Pounding the Dollar

Hi

I see you have updated the website to show details of workshop, I am interested in coming however I see you require payment in the form of a cheque in US Dollars,

The Early Bird rate is $2,499.

For persons who cannot convert from £ to $, I am willing to accept a cheque for £2,499 in lieu.

I also have a 5-ounces-of-gold plan for barter-basis enrollees.

You Can Have Any Thing You Want

if you are willing to do

what it takes to get it.

Mon, 10 Apr 2006

Interesting Point

Dear Ed,


The psychological issue that you address with your site is a complete deviation from all of the "in your face" holy grail trading sites and products, that the investing consumer is constantly bombarded with.

I remember seeing you once in Toronto in the 90's and someone stood up and asked you where you thought gold would be. Your answer stunned the crowd and disappointed them as you replied: "I don't know".

Boy we're they disappointed when we were heading back to the office. But having read market wizards, I began to realize that one could not predict the future outcome of an event. I therefore chuckled when you gave your response because I understood.

And no matter how many times i kept telling the guys, they wouldn't listen. 99% of all of the guys in that room still trade the same way. And they still unfortunately experience the drama of the market. I on the other hand decided to follow success and I discovered that I would rather be boring and profitable rather than have sizzling stories of defeat, just as you explained in your TT site that losers continue to loose because they want to loose.

I wonder if there's a correlation between you defining the emotional attributes of a human's feelings and how this preparation is necessary to succeed in the market and one's faith in a single divinity.

The  process of experiencing  feelings seems essential to a rich and fully expressive life.

TTP Seems Consistent with Most Religions.

and seems to help

people from one religion

accept people from others.

Clip: http://www.uuwausau.org/Images/

world%20religions.jpg

Sun, 9 Apr 2006

XML Source

Sun, 9 Apr 2006

Weight Loss Reply to April 1 Post

Effects of a Support Team

Ed,

The primary benefit of having a support team and the effect that team has on me sticking to the program is they/you hold me accountable.

There have been times during the program where I have wanted to over eat or binge, but I have refrained from doing so because I knew it would have a negative impact on the progress that I report each Saturday.

Making a public declaration and having to report my weight each week helps me stay on the program, because I do not want to fail publicly at my intention of losing weight.

Sun, 9 Apr 2006

Teilhard De Chardin
1881 - 1955

The Roman Catholic paleontologist thinks about how religion relates to science. He holds both love of God and love of the world.

His most important book, The Phenomenon of Man, is both a scientific and religious classic interpreting the epic of the evolution of Power. It contains an introduction by notable scientist, Sir Julian Huxley, and the Roman Catholics call it as "the most significant achievement in synthetic thinking since Aquinas," this after they forbid him to publish any more of his writings during his lifetime.
 

He sees the world heading for an exciting convergence of systems, an "Omega point" where the coalescence of consciousness will lead us to a new state of peace and planetary unity.

Teilhard de Chardin passes away ten years before James Lovelock proposes the "Gaia Hypothesis" which suggests that the Earth is actually a living being, a colossal biological super-system.

Chardin holds that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, is growing a new organ of consciousness, called the noosphere. The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a "planetary thinking network" -- an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication.

In these days of the Internet, Chardin might claim the planet is developing her cerebral cortex, and emerging into a self-conscious awakening -  approaching Chardin's the Omega Point.

This convergence however is not to be a convergence of merely minds or bodies -- but of heart, a point Chardin makes most fervently.

"It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts ... Humanity ... is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it ... find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved."
 

Clip: http://noosphere.cc/teilhardmenu.html

Info: http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/

reverend/12chardin.htm

Sun, 9 Apr 2006

Gun Control

How do you feel about gun control?
 

Sun, 9 Apr 2006

Spending binges may indicate you're trying to distract yourself. You might consider taking your feelings to your Tribe before you indulge in any more retail therapy.

Shopping, like Eating

can provide necessities

or help to manifest drama.

Clip: http://www.istockphoto.com/

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Sun, 9 Apr 2006

Snapshot Process
 

At the Incline Village Trading Tribe, we are working with Snapshots in several key areas.

Our Snapshots represent our overall greater global view of where we are going. 

We use a Challenge Round to share critical feedback and then an Advocate Round to champion each other's Snapshots.

For each Snapshot, we make a commitment to bring some specific evidence of moving toward completion to the next Tribe Meeting.

Sun, 9 Apr 2006

Sun, 09 Apr 2006

I wonder if you are willing to provide examples of SVO-p/3P along with your experience of using it.

BTW: "is pretty darned interesting" is in passive voice.

R2D2 and 3CPO

practicing SVOP-p/3P

Sat, 8 Apr 2006

Big and Small

 
Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very interesting page on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten. 10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and then it finally reaches a large Oak tree. If ever there was a witness to creation, these folks have captured it for our viewing pleasure!  Once you click on the site, the software does all the work. Sit back and imagine how perfect our universe is! You can play it forward and backward to be amazed over and over. At the end it says AUTO - click on that and review the process in reverse!


http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/

Sat, 8 Apr 2006

The Charts link, above leads to gif stock-chart images and, at this time, no additional high / low information.

The current generic numerical format facilitates my uploading a new chart series each day, without having to re-generate an associating instrument-specific html file.

I can more easily provide a flat list of the stock symbols in either .txt or .xml format.

Sat, 8 Apr 2006

Chart Too Big

Ed,

My weight this morning is 246lbs. Attached is the chart in gif format. I am having trouble sizing it to 250 X 250.

Thank you for sharing your process.

You might consider reporting your feelings about down-sizing your gif file - and if they are similar to those about downsizing yourself.

Sat, 8 Apr 2006

Cambridge Workshop, Breathwork and Tribe Listing

Hello Ed,

Fri, 7 Apr 2006

For a contrary opinion on the ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) for gold symbol: GLD, see:

Fri, 7 Apr 2006

You might consider taking all your feelings about this stock, before during and after purchase, right up until now, to your Tribe as entry points.

PEIX through Friday April 7, 2006

(two days after purchase)

Fri, 7 Apr 2006

Thu, 6 Apr 2006

Catching up on Email: Responding to an Applicant

Copy of a Letter from [City] Tribe Leader

Thu, 6 Apr 2006

Wants Futures Charts

Thu, 6 Apr 2006

Request for DVD’S

Dear Ed,

I notice your “radiation snapshot” which is a picture of you and others broadcasting TTP to the world. I also notice you occasionally mention and encourage taking TTP into other communities like doctors, lawyers, politicians. I fully support both of these goals -- and similar goals. I view the Tribe techniques as extremely powerful and worthy of far more common use. I make my own efforts here locally to attract more members and tell other communities about TTP.

In my opinion, video of Tribe processes is the best, cheapest and easiest to create means of teaching others how to do Tribe processes. TTP videos on DVD would be useful to:

1) Demonstrate and explain what the TTP is to prospective members and to other entire “communities” – such as the medical, therapeutic, legal, scientific, academic, political, etc.

2) Teach new Tribe members how to do the various processes correctly, powerfully and confidently. Make it much easier for startups and small tribes to recruit new members and become competent receivers and willing senders.

3) Allow you to more easily and quickly teach new Tribe processes worldwide.

I am of course very aware that TT culture values confidentiality, anonymity and “what happens in the tribe stays in the tribe”, etc. However, if the commitment is there and if any obstructing feelings are taken to the Hotseat, perhaps that present culture could be transformed into one which better supports tribe growth.

It is possible to create excellent DVD’s that protect the privacy of anyone who remains concerned about that.

There are probably many Trading Tribe members who would be very willing and even honored to be associated with the Trading Tribe and Ed Seykota by means of being featured on a “How To” video documentation of the TT Process.

You would not need to put the entire IVTT membership on camera or even have them present at a video session if some individuals chose to stay off camera. Probably the only person whose face needs to be seen clearly is Hotseat. It is of course important that the words of the process manager be heard clearly – especially how he says them.

I must respectfully disagree with the notion that the only effective means of teaching the process is in person. I and many others have learned a lot just reading the website and then the book. Video is exponentially more effective for teaching something like TTP than reading text. A DVD is also much cheaper, faster and easier to produce than a book. You only need to create a few at a time and with DVD’s you can easily keep up with improvements to the Tribe processes which are frequent lately.

Too many people today simply do not read with skill and are used to learning from video. Even when a person does read well, watching a video to learn something like the TT Process, you can see and hear aspects of voice quality, emotion, attitude, enthusiasm, timing, pace, intensity, facial expressions, body postures, Forms, etc. It is also relatively simple for you to edit “footage” of Tribe processes with additional explanations and comments by you, to increase the teaching power of the final (DVD) product.

Showing a video to prospective members of a tribe has “entertainment value” to a prospect. It is simply easier to watch a video than to read a transcript or a report. One learns more and can watch the process over and over until it is easy to do it correctly and with confidence.

Your recent notice indicates that FAQ’S has 50,000 visitors per month from 130 countries.

However, as you often say Ed, the Trading Tribe Process works when people do the process in a competent Tribe, not from reading the website.

As of Jan. 26, 2006 the Tribe Directory lists 26 tribes worldwide - actually holding meetings.

Total membership (in viable Tribes) is only 127 people worldwide.

Breaking it down there are 17 “W” tribes (lead by a Workshop graduate) with 90 members total (5.3 average).

There are 9 “Non W” tribes with 37 members total (4.1 average).

There are 21 Startups listed – 3 of these are “W’s”.

There are also 13 listings “in the gray” or about to be removed from the Directory. Before Jan 2006, many other Startups die and are removed from the Directory without ever becoming a viable tribe.

(Since Jan 26, the number of people in Tribes and Tribes themselves has probably increased somewhat.)

While the number of people who visit your website is impressive, is the number of people currently in tribes anywhere near equally impressive?

One of my intentions and goals is not just for there to be exponentially more tribes and more members but also for the Trading Tribe Processes to be used by and powerfully influence the therapeutic and healing communities and many other “communities” besides traders.

You hint in FAQ’s several times that you have this desire too. You (and all of us) are developing a powerful and wonderful thing Ed.

TTP, like playing music or making love, involves the full intention of heart and soul, as well as mastery of technique.

In all these cases, and more, direct personal contact and lots of practice tend to promote proficiency.

If you feel strongly about producing a training DVD, you might consider sending me one of your own Tribe - for possible distribution on this site.

Meanwhile, you might consider taking your feelings about wanting to impress people to your Tribe as an entry point.

Cheap, Easy and Fast

is not always so

cheap, easy and fast.

Cheap: http://www.cheryllavender.com/

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Thu, 6 Apr 2006

Advertising the Tribe to Get Members

Ed -

This is a flier that I have used in the past in an attempt to interest people locally in the Tribe. Maybe, you will find it of interest.

This version is tweaked for Traders - there are only two trading firms in my city.

I have another version that is tweaked for therapists, counselors, healers, etc. An area of interest for me.

A few people have expressed interest, but no new members have resulted so far.

Thank you for sharing your process.

Your results (slow growth) are consistent with trying to "sell" the Tribe. 

You might consider taking the feeling of wanting to make people want to join up - to your Tribe as an entry point.

Tribes grow by receiving applicants, not by convincing them.

Say an applicant shows says:

Well, it seems interesting and maybe a bit intense for me.

 

You might consider avoiding sending per:

 

No, it's not too intense.  It's actually really mellow.

 

And get back into receiving mode, with:

 

Thanks for telling me that.  You feel it might be too intense"

Some Attempts to Promote Growth

can lead to a wash-out.

Clip: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/

Thu, 6 Apr 2006

You might consider noticing that I, too, am responsible for the correspondence - as is everyone else in the world. 

Thu, 6 Apr 2006

Shocking

I correct my mistake in my TTID ... I feel shock of my stupidity.

You might consider taking your feelings of shock to your Tribe as an entry point.

A Positive Intention of Shock

is to help keep us out of trouble.

Shock in a k-not

can lead to electrifying experiences.

Wed, 5 Apr 2006

Weight Loss Chart

Attached is the chart in GIF format as I committed to provide.

Thanks for your support and I hope all is well.

Wed, 5 Apr 2006

Libertarian policies are by nature incompatible with the growth of government. 

At some point during the growth of a small Tribe or Community, it finds it can no longer accommodate "one person sending at a time."

It begins to divide into sub-groups and centralize some functions for "convenience" or for "efficiency."  The people at the center initially view themselves as supporters and coordinators of the sub-groups.

Soon, however, they succumb to the temptation to implement policies that favor increasing their own central power rather than supporting the sub-groups. 

These policies develop various twists such as "screwing from the right" and "screwing from the left."  The former tends to appeal to people with fear k-nots; the latter, to people with guilt k-nots;

Libertarianism, that favors a reduction in central authority and a return to local autonomy, is incompatible with the ever-increasing gravitational pull of the center. 

In the late states, society implodes toward total central control and then collapses. Screams and warnings from fearful Libertarians confirm the realization of totalitarianism.

This is the "slippery slope" toward totalitarianism.  I do not know of a case of this trend ever reversing.

As a Trend Follower, I bet on the trend continuing.  As a naive idealist, I'd like to help turn it around.

One problem with the Libertarian Party is that it tries to be what it can never be: namely, a Political Party. 

If such a Party really intends to succeed it might rather assume the form of countless Parties, each one a community of people that gets together regularly to help each other stay clear.

To Find Yourself On This Chart

take the tests, below.

To trace the typical evolution of societies,

start at the red dot

and keep moving down

any path you like.

Clips & Short Quiz: http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html

Wed, 5 Apr 2006

Stock Pick

Thank you for sharing your process.

You might consider reporting how you feel about the transaction

In particular, you might notice the extent to which the feeling of wanting to be right, in a big way, right away is an important form relating to staying in position over the long-term.

K-Nots about Persistence

and Following Rules

and Honoring Commitments

tend to intertwine.

Clip: http://www.dribbleglass.com/

Wed, 05 Apr 2006

Communication Trading

Chief Ed,

I notice FAQ Ground Rules constitute a complete trading plan for getting long and short incoming FAQ-communications. I see clearly that Ground Rules constitute the trade setup conditions under which the FAQ system may or may not choose to put on a FAQ-communication trade.

I notice that some FAQ-communication trades result in a trade exit. FAQ-communication trade exits take various forms. Typically, these trade exits are usually exits of the total trade size established when the position was established. At times, however, some portion of the original FAQ-communication trade is trimmed, probably to reduce one or more forms of perceived risk to FAQ. In all cases, FAQ-communication trade exits have the effect of immediately reducing FAQ-portfolio heat.

I notice that total liquidation of FAQ trades are often abrupt, and characterized by a sudden expansion of outgoing FAQ-communication volume, and range. These final-exit FAQ trading events may be (and often are) preceded by what appears to be a high-probability narrowing of incoming and outgoing FAQ-communication range, frequency and volume on a per-position basis. Such narrowing is often a very good indicator of impending range, frequency and volume expansion.

I notice that FAQ from time to time re-establishes all-new positions in earlier FAQ-communication trades, whose entry setup or trend may have failed, or may have otherwise signaled a trade exit.

I notice the FAQ-communication trading system has a long bias, but that FAQ does actually engage in short sales of incoming FAQ-communications, from time to time. I notice these trades are very rare, and are often characterized by a sudden and immediate spike in outgoing and incoming FAQ-communciation volatility.

I notice that most FAQ-communication positions tend to trend, with an upward bias, and exhibit low volatility.

I notice that the holding period of typical FAQ-communication trade positions tend to be long-term, and often span several years.

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You might consider providing a personal example of your theory along with how you feel about it.

Wed, 05 Apr 2006

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

Phone TTP &

The Rest of the Story

I just got off the phone with a dear friend and Tribe Leader in another State, over 1000 miles away. He is in a state of semi-bliss over the last few months since becoming involved with TTP.

However, today is a tough day for him, and we discuss it over the phone. He knows I do not judge him; I consistently provide a Field of Encouragement through my friendship (paraphrase). During today's deep conversation about life's "normal" stresses he begins to experience Forms on his end of the phone.

His legs tap, his back tenses up, his arm swings back and forth. He informs me it has been going on for about two minutes, and that something I said that he strongly related to brought the Forms about.

I encourage him to go with it -- to get into what / where he is feeling. His forms lead into nausea and he feels a strong urge to vomit. After vomiting and heaving multiple times, he again feels "something" in his back and revisits the form.

Once he fully follows through with this Form, he is at the Zero Point, and thanks me for supporting him in his process. The entire process lasted less than five minutes.

It feels great on my end, knowing I assisted a close friend help himself through a particularly tough day.

 --- The Rest of the Story ---

Very nice.  Thank you for sharing your process.

Come Here Watson

I want to work out a form.

Clip:http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/

Telecommunicationsage/Thetelephone/

Tue, 04 Apr 2006

Double Dog Dare

Ed,

With deepest respect I humbly submit my thoughts for your consideration.

This communication is being inspired from within, and is the result of an insight and intention in the moment that is directing and guiding my actions. I am exhibiting the willingness and courage to follow through with "internal life guidance", regardless of my feelings. In essence, life is saying "Do This" in every moment.

Is it possible that if we focus our attention on the moment, and surrender our will to the insight and direction from within, and follow through with directed action, while finding safe and healthy ways to completely express accompanying emotions, life will provide for us in ways greater than we can provide for ourselves? I believe this may be true.

Is it possible? There is only one way to find out, and to ensure maximum personal growth, each person must experience the result for himself or herself and weigh the consequences honestly.

If success is about clarification of intentions and goal achievement, why are so many people able to repeatedly achieve goals yet still be unhealthy, and feel unhappy and unfulfilled?

I submit for consideration: Are you evolving TTP? Or, is life evolving TTP through you? I believe the seemingly insignificant difference matters.

Would you consider trying for a day the following: Surrender yourself to life (existence) completely. Ignore the past and future, and set aside all of your plans, goals, dreams and desires. With all of your breath, mind, heart, soul and strength, completely give yourself back to the essence and source that created you, life.

Do only what your insight and intuition (in the moment, from within) dictate, even if it is uncomfortable, and you would rather not.

Why questions are invitations to engage the causal model.  You might consider reframing your concern in the system / responsibility model.

I notice you have the insignificant difference doing the mattering.  You might consider re-writing in SVO-p, per: I feel strongly about the difference between A and B - and then tell about your feelings.

At the Zero Point, surrendering to the flow, realizing intentions as results and taking the E Ticket Ride all converge.

E-Coupon, Formerly E-Ticket

Walt Disney's thing for trains

evolves into train-theme Disneyland

where an E-Ticket originally gets you

onto any ride in the park.

These days you can get

an eTicket on-line

to see a Disney Movie.

Clip: http://www.perrific.com/disney/

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

Thank you for providing an excellent example of manipulative language.

Your liked and dealed  (dealt ?) are both in past tense. Liked indicates you are hiding your feelings now.  Perhaps (guessing from your tone) you are feeling frustration or anger now. 

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FAQ does not claim to deliver trading advice or get-rich schemes.  Indeed, from the FAQ Main Page:

The Trading Tribe is an association of people who commit to excellence, personal growth, and supporting and receiving support from each other.

 

The members of the Trading Tribe trade roles, becoming, in turn senders and receivers for each other.

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I do not see how you derive the term, faggot from this site, either in its sense as a bundle of sticks or in its vulgar slang sense.  Likely it is your own projection. You might consider examining your feelings about this term.

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Per similarities ... are striking:  Here, your passive phrasing is obscure.  You do not identify the properties that you claim Van and I share.

Passive voice is typically the refuge of persons who wish to project frustration without taking responsibility doing so.

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You don't tell your basis for your guess, and what alternative  you might have, or what particular feathers associate the birds you cite or to which flock you assign them.

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If you wish to continue using manipulative language, and hiding your feelings you might consider avoiding SVO-p,  personal growth and both Van's and my books and web sites.

Your behavior is consistent with someone who has shallow, manipulative relationships and who lives a relatively lonely and frustrating life.

If you wish to get on the path toward Right Livelihood, You might consider implementing SVO-p in your language and joining a Tribe.

People Who Have Something to Hide

 typically head for the past

SVO-p supports taking responsibility

and staying in the now.

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

Wipe Out

Dear Mr. Seykota,

I have one problem.

My whole trading career is the same.

For example: double my stake then wipe out, tenfold then wipe out, 200% plus then wipe out, etc. Most of the time I am wiped.

This cycles are counterproductive and I do not understand, why I do not have the discipline to follow the only “law of nature” for success in trading to set stops (for a longer period of time).

You might consider taking the forms you experience around your trading cycle to your Tribe as entry points.

The Wipeout

is just one of many stops

around the trading cycle.

Clip: http://home.earthlink.net/~mikerider/

Tue, 04 Apr 2006

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

OK.  FAQ does not recommend for or against Van Tharp, or anyone else for that matter.  In this case, I am responding to a direct request from Van to provide information for his book.

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

Responsibility

I finish reading "The Trading Tribe." I learn much, and I commit to participate/form tribe and learn more.

One question concerning "Intentions = Results," and "Responsibility."

You seem to be interpreting the word "Responsibility" according to the Causal Model.  In that model, we ask if the woman in responsible in the sense of being the cause, being guilty or being someone (even herself) can blame.

In the system model we notice that in order to perish in the wave, the woman has to be in the immediate vicinity at the time of its occurrence.

Furthermore, we all have to do-operate in order for to be in that situation. 

For example, you and I choose to spend $Billions on the Mid East War rather than on as effective early Tsunami warning system.

Large-Community policies, such as how to spend federal money are not likely to change until citizens become willing to take responsibility for the situation and to experience their embarrassment, fear, sadness and disgust about the way the system works.

Some People Realize They are Responsible

for People Perishing in the Ocean

Others seem to float

somewhere above the realization

Clip: http://www.compulsiveeating.com/

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

Very Low Cap Stocks Off the List

Mon, 3 Apr 2006

Compulsive

Ed,

In your new TID you claim that one of the recent member successes is “Trading is more systematic, less compulsive”.

As a systematic mechanical trader, how can you trade compulsively? Wouldn’t that mean your not following your system?

You also state that “Trading is more profitable”. Again if you’re following your system, how can you be more profitable?

I’m a discretionary trader, and I deal with feelings around compulsion, especially when I’m in a drawdown, and I find my trading is more profitable when other areas of my life are in harmony.

TTP tends to move people away from compulsive behavior and toward effective, systematic behavior.

The Compulsive Cycle

Includes a succession of forms that

precipitate each other in a repetitive loop.

To break the cycle,

you can untie the k-nots

that support the forms.

The traditional approach

of using will power

to overcome the cycle

simply does not work.

The will power phase

is just another form

that occurs along the cycle.

Clip: http://www.compulsiveeating.com/

Tue, 4 Apr 2006

3 Apr 2006

$3 Million Ferrari  ==> Scrap


The California driver only had some bruising ( from the seat belt ) and 2 small cuts.

Before

After

Mon, 3 Apr 2006

In a Rut

Mr. Seykota,


Please provide me with some guidance if you can.


I have been trading full time for a number of years. During that time, I slowly watched both my trading capital and my confidence diminish.

My present trading strategy, which I have gradually improved and refined over a considerable length of time, is quite reliable and profitable, as determined by both back testing and forward testing.

However, I seem to have finally come upon it at a time when I have lost my nerve to trade.

There is nothing else I would rather do, and I have given several years of my life to this pursuit. I think how nice it would be if only I now had the confidence I had when I first started trading, or if I had only come upon my present trading strategy before both my account and confidence took such a beating.

I realize that such “if only” thoughts are just wasted energy, and I try not to dwell on them. Even so, I am like the burned cat that fears a stove even when it is not quite so hot anymore, or like a beaten dog that cringes at a friendly hand that wishes only to pet it.

TTP does not attempt to "fix" you or change you.  It supports you in untying k-nots by assisting you in experiencing, ultimately enjoying the feelings you are avoiding.

You might consider taking your feelings of being in a rut to your Tribe as an entry point.

Sometimes the Way Out of a Rut

is to get into a bigger rut.

Clip: http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/diary/

2003/08/DSCN7129-bike-in-bigger-rut-close_

Sun, 2 Apr 2006

Sat, 1 Apr 2006

Yes, I can still do that if you can help me.

In particular, if you can get some money to me in 1972, I can get you a pretty good compound rate since then to the present.

If you want to place funds with me now, I can tell you now (as I recall telling people in 1972) to prepare yourself for substantial drawdowns and to anticipate profits at your own peril.

If You Want Explosive Performance

You may also have to endure

heat, confusion

and other forms of fallout

Clip: http://webs.advance.com.ar/

Sat, 1 Apr 2006