To: Joe Smith who wrote (5052 ) 2/2/2005 4:19:12 PM From: Chip McVickar Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 12411 Joe you gotta point in your post... An unqualified statement like mine isn't very valuable. However it was posted to an old friend who got the gist. So I accept your concern and am pleased that you find some of my posts to have quality. IMHO.... "certainty" can be acquired and that market traders should be included. We can see this in those who take the time to post their trades over long periods of time. Whether anyone here in cyberspace has that "certainty of ability" can only be proven by posting their trades (live or paper) for us to follow... there are some very good traders who do so...!!! I got tired of posting all mine, but I'll provide an old link for the curious. Perhaps it's appropriate to remind everyone: On the header of this threadAttention Please be aware and take the time to read the numerous disclaimers that are found in conjunction with trading the Bond, Currency, Commodity and Index Futures Markets. We the participants are here to Learn and Share our Interests, Opinions and Knowledge. We are not advocating the buying and selling or taking of any positions in any market. The metaphysical thought... "There is no certainty."... is a fascinating concept and can be argued from many directions. met·a·phys·ics (met'?-fiz'iks) n. (used with a sing. verb) Philosophy. The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value. (used with a pl. verb) The theoretical or first principles of a particular discipline: the metaphysics of law. (used with a sing. verb) A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment. (used with a sing. verb) Excessively subtle or recondite reasoning. [From pl. of Middle English methaphisik, from Medieval Latin metaphysica, from Medieval Greek (ta) metaphusika, from Greek (Ta) meta (ta) phusika, (the works) after the Physics, the title of Aristotle's treatise on first principles (so called because it followed his work on physics) : meta, after; see meta– + phusika, physics; see physics.]