Talk:Ed Seykota/Archives/2017

Renaming Edward Seykota
I contacted the subject of this article at info at seykota dot com and he confirms his name is Ed and Not Edward.Trade2tradewell 01:05, 5 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I wonder - how do we know he is or was actually successful at commodity trading? Perhaps his claimed performance is totally fabricated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.214.20.10 (talk • contribs)


 * Indeed, we must be wary of possible attempts to subvert the WP via guerrilla marketing/viral marketing ---CH 10:02, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe that this entire article should be nominated for deletion. There are indeed a couple minor references to an "Ed Seykota" in a couple articles, but most everything else I saw looked like self-promotion.  Also, the book "Trading Tribe" that was listed on the page, was not a real book.  It's not on Amazon, and ISBN 0930083199 is invalid. --Elonka 21:15, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I would remove the "very" from "very successful" in the current version of the article, as that is too subjective. As to the Trading Tribe book, it seems it was specialty-printed by Jack Bacon & Co, so it's still "real" even if you can't get it from Amazon. The "ISBN" appears to be what Jack Bacon uses as "Item Number" in their catalog. --Jma 01:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


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