Cap's Trading Diary

[Capitalist]

All I can say is that I'm glad Thomas Edison never had someone like you around giving him advice, LOL. Actually, it occurs to me that if Lichello had your outlook, there would never have been any such thing as AIM because he would have given up.

Here's an excerpt about Edison from this eductational site:

http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/inventors/edison/page2.html
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Edison and his assistants worked without pause through the winter of 1879 using teamwork to try to find the right filament for the light bulb. Copper, steel, metals and their alloys were cut and placed inside a glass bulb. More than 1,500 different materials were tested in all. Each time, Edison had to pump as much air out of the bulb as he could so that the oxygen would not speed up the burning of the filament. But none of the materials he tested worked.

So many failures might have made anyone else give up, but Thomas Edison had two important characteristics, patience and perseverance that made it possible for him to carry on his work. Each failure meant simply that what he was trying to do couldn't be done that particular way, and that he would have find some other way to do it. Thomas Edison finally figured out that carbonized cardboard would work better and last longer as a filament, but to do that he had to learn an important lesson, that to get through life you have to believe in yourself and persevere.
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I have found several methods that work well, and they are mainly based on the statistical idea that gaining a small edge on each trade generates a steady expected return over a long period of time. So I'm not sure where you picked up the nonsense about "hitting home runs", "making the quick buck" and "can't seem or don't yet have a system that works for you."

While you may be satisfied with candles and torches, that doesn't mean that the rest of us have to stagnate too. People like me, Lichello and Edison want progress. We want more knowledge. We will never stop looking. We want the light!