The irony of some of your statements are poetic to me. I can simplify for you. The post was trying to make it sound like everyone who trades is just guessing and getting lucky or using some form of mysticism to pretend to know it. Like reading your horoscope. This is not true. There are techniques that are successful but the trading culture people see is very lazy. The useful stuff is not very public because people who make money want other people to lose money so they make more money. Does this make more sense?