securitiesnerd
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Iam not a mason (oh no!). I have a bizarre and unexplainable passion for securities speculation. I have been speculating since Iwas around 20 years old. I am now 28. I love speculation. Any true speculator, anyone who truly does this in reality knows the incredible tole it takes on ones own psyche. Jesse Livermore posited once that anyone can be a great shot with a gun, but that doesn't make him a great dueler because how calm and collected and effective will he be with a gun pointed at his heart? The same can be said of speculation anyone can in theory be good at it, but when real money is on the line their emotions get the best of them.
Ilove what is known in our world as discretionary global macro long/short trading. The key word being discretionary which in our world means based on a system with no input from the trader. It is set up as a logical paradigm. If Y event happens then you do x action. The reason discretionary trading emerged was due to traders beliefs that we cannot overcome our own deep lower brained animal instincts. That instincts such as foraging/hording or fear or greed overcome us. That we have lower brained deep animal instincts that make us emotional and unreasonable. If the speculator were to move the decision making from his own flawed self and make all decisions made by a logical system where he has no input then his failings as a man cannot cause him to lose. IF the system works, he works. The philosophical construct of discretionary is one that begins with the ideas that man cannot overcome his animal instincts and emotions so he must use only a logical system in trading.
I have an extensive background in philosophy (I have a Jesuit education). I adore plato, and to a lesser extent Aristotle. I studied extensively their constructs expressed in such works as Republic. I know Aristotle and later Hobbes were a great influence on the founding fathers who were largely masons. I am fascinated by their observation that the Majority can be and is often wrong, and the minority, even a minority of one can be right. The minority can know the truth that the majority is delusional of. The founding fathers instilled an amazing judiciary to deal with this. And your members have done nothing to the judiciary except expand greatly the idea that the minority can know the truth the majority fails to see.An amazing prince hall member (thurgood marshall) wrote in a decision named Patsy that the cornerstone to America was a citizens right to be able to petition his local federal judge for help to protect himfrom his own government. Your prince hall member wrote a wonderful decision that found our country as being an amazing country because it assumes government would wrong its own citizens. Thanks to opinions authored by marshall or voted on by him such as Bivens v Six unknown agents, under his direction we gained the ability to have our local judge protect us from any government even the federal government. Thanks to the work of people in your organization any American can overrule his entire local government if they are doing the wrong things (see Olech v Willock or Plazazzo v Rode island, in olech the government defined the minority as one person, and even if one person is right and the government is wrong the one person still prevails as they have the truth).
What fascinates me about your organization is not your history but your ideas, the ideas that the majority is often wrong. Your jurist seem to form arguments around this premise. I've read your members legal opinions.
Insecurities markets 90 to 95% of participants regularly lose money while 5% make money on a regular basis. Traders argue this proves that the vast majority of people are wrong the vast majority of the time and a small minority of people know the truth. This all reminds me of plato's cave how most everyone is consumed with the shadows with staring at a projection of a shadow show on the wall that doesn't exist while a minority of people wanted to see what was outside of the cave. The light outside of the cave burned their eyes and skin but eventually they were able to see and they saw what was the truth and reality.
I like to study these two ideas 1. that the majority is wrong and 2.that men have animal instincts they need to overcome. I find them to be the same topic as it seems animal instincts are what causes mos tmen to be wrong most of the time. When I study my ideas I keep comig upon articles and books that discuss neoplatonism and gnosticism and then of course reference your (often described as“lucifarian”) organization. It seems your organization has ideas tantamount to those of neoplatonism and gnosticism. Also I occasionally study merkabah or chariot study, and find your organization again comes up in discussions of cosmology and its effects on more emotionally controlled men. I adore the work of George Bayer and WD Gann. Gann was argued as reaching the highest degree of your order. The name Gann in securities is like saying lockness monster because he argues for cosmology's effect on securities prices, however his geometric ideas I have studied andfound his ideas of geometry and securities prices are amazingly accurate.
Doesyour organization in fact study ideas similar to this? Is your“light” the same light as plato's? Is your organization devotedto gnosis?
Thankyou so much in advance
jason
ps.
were Aarron burr and Hamilton both members? I can't see why they would have dueled if they were both members. Our founding father Burr disagreed with Hamilton that we did not need a central bank as the rich would take over. He as the vice president murdered Hamilton and no one said anything... and people think Washington is tough today! I don't see the VP shooting people. But I never understood how two of your brothers could have dueled and one killed the other even if Burr thought he was saving America from oligarchy.
Ilove what is known in our world as discretionary global macro long/short trading. The key word being discretionary which in our world means based on a system with no input from the trader. It is set up as a logical paradigm. If Y event happens then you do x action. The reason discretionary trading emerged was due to traders beliefs that we cannot overcome our own deep lower brained animal instincts. That instincts such as foraging/hording or fear or greed overcome us. That we have lower brained deep animal instincts that make us emotional and unreasonable. If the speculator were to move the decision making from his own flawed self and make all decisions made by a logical system where he has no input then his failings as a man cannot cause him to lose. IF the system works, he works. The philosophical construct of discretionary is one that begins with the ideas that man cannot overcome his animal instincts and emotions so he must use only a logical system in trading.
I have an extensive background in philosophy (I have a Jesuit education). I adore plato, and to a lesser extent Aristotle. I studied extensively their constructs expressed in such works as Republic. I know Aristotle and later Hobbes were a great influence on the founding fathers who were largely masons. I am fascinated by their observation that the Majority can be and is often wrong, and the minority, even a minority of one can be right. The minority can know the truth that the majority is delusional of. The founding fathers instilled an amazing judiciary to deal with this. And your members have done nothing to the judiciary except expand greatly the idea that the minority can know the truth the majority fails to see.An amazing prince hall member (thurgood marshall) wrote in a decision named Patsy that the cornerstone to America was a citizens right to be able to petition his local federal judge for help to protect himfrom his own government. Your prince hall member wrote a wonderful decision that found our country as being an amazing country because it assumes government would wrong its own citizens. Thanks to opinions authored by marshall or voted on by him such as Bivens v Six unknown agents, under his direction we gained the ability to have our local judge protect us from any government even the federal government. Thanks to the work of people in your organization any American can overrule his entire local government if they are doing the wrong things (see Olech v Willock or Plazazzo v Rode island, in olech the government defined the minority as one person, and even if one person is right and the government is wrong the one person still prevails as they have the truth).
What fascinates me about your organization is not your history but your ideas, the ideas that the majority is often wrong. Your jurist seem to form arguments around this premise. I've read your members legal opinions.
Insecurities markets 90 to 95% of participants regularly lose money while 5% make money on a regular basis. Traders argue this proves that the vast majority of people are wrong the vast majority of the time and a small minority of people know the truth. This all reminds me of plato's cave how most everyone is consumed with the shadows with staring at a projection of a shadow show on the wall that doesn't exist while a minority of people wanted to see what was outside of the cave. The light outside of the cave burned their eyes and skin but eventually they were able to see and they saw what was the truth and reality.
I like to study these two ideas 1. that the majority is wrong and 2.that men have animal instincts they need to overcome. I find them to be the same topic as it seems animal instincts are what causes mos tmen to be wrong most of the time. When I study my ideas I keep comig upon articles and books that discuss neoplatonism and gnosticism and then of course reference your (often described as“lucifarian”) organization. It seems your organization has ideas tantamount to those of neoplatonism and gnosticism. Also I occasionally study merkabah or chariot study, and find your organization again comes up in discussions of cosmology and its effects on more emotionally controlled men. I adore the work of George Bayer and WD Gann. Gann was argued as reaching the highest degree of your order. The name Gann in securities is like saying lockness monster because he argues for cosmology's effect on securities prices, however his geometric ideas I have studied andfound his ideas of geometry and securities prices are amazingly accurate.
Doesyour organization in fact study ideas similar to this? Is your“light” the same light as plato's? Is your organization devotedto gnosis?
Thankyou so much in advance
jason
ps.
were Aarron burr and Hamilton both members? I can't see why they would have dueled if they were both members. Our founding father Burr disagreed with Hamilton that we did not need a central bank as the rich would take over. He as the vice president murdered Hamilton and no one said anything... and people think Washington is tough today! I don't see the VP shooting people. But I never understood how two of your brothers could have dueled and one killed the other even if Burr thought he was saving America from oligarchy.
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