Gurus, from Nils Poertner
Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 Alright I am the Messiah
deep seated desire by humans to find a guru in life, in trading, in spirituality, whatever - consciously or not (have the same really, I suppose). eg, friend followed Demark (cult) and his indicators religiously and only later realized he had to tweak it and adjust it and figure things out for himself.
Larry Williams disagrees:
Dead wrong on DeMark.
Nils Poertner responds:
experienced traders like yourself figured out how to use Demark i'm sure. was just trying to say that for most there is a tendency of humans (incl traders) to lean on somebody else but the journey is always a personal one. maybe the obvious.
Larry Williams writes:
Agree we all want someone else to make it easy for us!
How to use DeMark? Tom and I created it together. I was there at day one—we developed it pre computers, talking on the phone every night. He was in Racine Wisconsin, I was in Kalispell Montana—we poured over charts every night making notes, etc. Since then Tom has taken over and thanks to his mind and computers it has gotten even better—-original model gave a buy at the recent low.