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I know...and I know you post your results...and lets face it, using a mechanical system that has been back tested on an extensive data sample, the only thing that will put egg on your face is market conditions vastly different from anything encountered in your data sample...most likely a catastrophic event...and many others will be affected too, so you'll save some face.

You've got kahoonas I'll give you that.

If you want to manage other people's money or run an advisory service, then you might find it beneficial to test the waters by posting your trades on a forum first and seeing how you weather the storm.  I know plenty of successful individual traders who don't bother with this.

Trading is hard enough...why make it harder?  Do you seek the opposite of humiliation?

Perhaps, or maybe they just don't care to argue it with people who believe too strongly in T/A or Gann or Elliott or F/A or Astrology or <insert next fad here>.

You got me there.

My suspicion is that you'll get a whole lot of naysayers telling you why your method doesn't work, or why you got lucky in this market.

My philosophy is to protect your psychology, secondary only to protecting trading equity.  If you are a DISCRETIONARY trader and you make a discretionary decision, and prior to making that decision you went to a forum and asked every man and his dog what they thought...how can you know whether they assisted or adversely affected your decision making...SINCE it's possible to lose money and still have done the right thing???  You see my point???  It's gets tough to discern between the purity of your own trading decisions and the effect of bias introduced through arguing with people on a forum...who could be very smart when it comes to their methods of analysis but be utter numpties when it comes to yours.