I received many responses to the two questions I posed in the weekly Trader Ed newsletter, so I thank all of you that responded. I have passed on the answers that said the issue was technical, and those that told me the issue is you, I encourage you to step up and let your voice be heard, as what you have to say is, well, so enlightening, as seen in the sterling response below.
You make an excellent point that discourse is an important part of education. For me, there is this qualifier: fact based discourse is an important part of education. A major short falling of online discourse is that most is at best opinion based, and when accurate facts are given as the basis of the forefront opinion, they are often selected out of context to serve the opinion. To me, your articles are indeed educational; you apparently present accurate facts and write skillfully and candidly to indicate that your interpretations of the facts are indeed just that. Perhaps the lack of reader response to your articles demonstrates that your audience is one of mature learners, glad to benefit from your mastery of investing and wise enough to remain receptive until if and when we have a fact based perspective to contribute – no small feat, especially in these extraordinary market conditions! Consider also that I’ll frequent online educational material (as is yours) where I don’t have to continuously separate fact from fiction or opinion.
Thank you for TraderPlanet and your well written, fact based articles. Perhaps be patient a while longer with your reading audience as we learn and find our sea legs in this momentous storm that is the emerging global economy.
The writer is correct. Reality defines my world, and this characteristic carries over to my view of the trading world. I strive to present facts. You can then interpret those facts as they fit your view, and I will interpret them to fit my view, but I assure you of one thing – you will know the difference because I understand exactly what the writer describes so fluently – “A major short falling of online discourse is that most is at best opinion based, and when accurate facts are given as the basis of the forefront opinion, they are often selected out of context to serve the opinion.” I have no agenda other than to help you help yourself become more successful at investing or trading.
The writer also alludes to another point I believe in fervently – so much of the turbulence seen in the market (and the economy for that matter) is because the global economy is transitioning from the driving forces of yesterday (oil, an unregulated financial system, and over leveraging). The “emerging” driving forces are and will be the developing green industry, a now firmly regulated financial system, and a more discerning consumer, as well as more “enlightened” business operators. Add to this the synergistically rapid evolution in computer technology and we are seeing the emergence of a new technological frontier, which translates to new products and services and more high-tech manufacturing (think nanotech), which will serve the tens-of-millions of new middle-class consumers in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe, South America, China, and India. Truly, the Phoenix is rising from the ashes of the old world, economic order.
By the way, for those of you interested in writing, you would be hard pressed to find a better model of writing than what the quoted writer wrote to me. The writing is careful, enlightening, interesting, grammatically sound, syntactically strong, and, above all, lucid and clear.
Trade in the day; invest in your life …
Trader Ed
