There are forums that I do check out from time to time. For instance, being a Sierra Chart user, I do check out the Sierra Chart support forum from time to time, but not more often than just a Swarm Intelligence few times a year. Same with the Bracket Trader forum, that I have not visited for years. Since I don't update these applications very often (maybe once every two years), I also don't need to be particularly concerned about what's going on on these forums and so that leaves me more time for things I consider much more important to my trading career. But the forums like the support forum for Sierra Chart users are specialized forums that I mentioned before. They are okay and hardly dangerous in any way to your trading career as opposed to the general purpose non-focused forums that are like giant malls where you are likely to waste a lot of time and money and then feel hangover when the excitement of browsing (or shopping) is over.
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Some people might insist that perusing trading forums is like doing a homework. I am afraid that these people are really not totally honest with themselves. It's really a lame excuse for wasting your time. If you really want to check out a trading forum, it's better to do this without this kind of silly rationalization. Doing homework usually boils down to gathering information or solving a problem and these days you can do it faster and better by firing Google than by wading through tons of posts on some trading forum. Using Google is also a more authoritative, more reliable way to get what you are after than just asking a question on a single forum. The latter way is likely to result in more biased answers, usually from the "noisy" losers and too many of these fellows, as I observed earlier, are really nothing more than pretentious blowhards.
