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Gathering competitive intelligence is an often overlooked strategy for ecommerce merchants.
Sometimes the best way to take your ecommerce store to the next level is by gaining a deep understanding of how your competitors operate. If you don't know what your competitors are doing, it's difficult to make intelligent decisions that will keep your current customers, and entice new ones. This guide will show you how to identify your top 5 competitors and show you 8 tools that will help you gather in-depth information on your competitors strengths and weaknesses.
Identify Your Top 5 Competitors
You'll want to see which competitors rank the highest in Google for keywords specific to your industry. Make a list of the top keywords that bring you traffic, and enter them into Google. If you don't have an ecommerce store yet and are doing pre-launch research, simply search for relevant keywords. Make sure you're browsing incognito and you're in the appropriate regional zone (if you want US search results and you're outside the US add &gl=us to the end of the search URL). Make note of who is ranking on the first page. You should also type "related:www.yourURL.com" in the Google search field to get a list of companies that are similar to yours.
List the Good, Bad, & UglyNow that you know who you're up against, start browsing through your competitor's online stores. Get a good feel for their site, and make a list of all the things you like, and all the things you don't like. Ask yourself these questions:
- How do they emphasis their value proposition?
- What are their prices like compared to yours?
- What is their product photography like, and how are their product descriptions?
- What are their shipping options and prices like?
- Where are their call to actions, and how obvious are they?
- Are they trying to build an email list?
- Is their site optimized for mobile?
- What is their social media presence like; which platforms do they use; how often do they interact with customers, and how do they speak with their customers?
Now that you have a list of your top 5 competitors, and you have done basic research on how they operate, it's time to dig deeper. Use some of the tools below (some paid, most free) to gather in-depth information on what they're doing.
Gather Competitive Intelligence Using These Research Tools
AlexaAlexa's been around since 1996. It's a (mostly) free service that will help you analyze traffic on your competitor's ecommerce store. Type in your competitors URL and Alexa will give you their global traffic rank, number of sites linking in, search analytics, audience insight, average site load time, and a whole lot more. You can really dig deep with Alexa, but it's important to note that there are inaccuracies with Alexa's information, since they get their data from those who have installed their toolbar for IE and Firefox or installed their Google Chrome extension. Take the numbers with a grain of salt.
SEO Book: Page Similarity Comparison ToolWith this service you can easily compare page titles, meta information, and common phrases on your competitors homepages. I suggest including your URL in a search with your top 5 competitors. I used Coke and Pepsi as an example:
Google AdWords Keyword ToolThis service will allow you to easily analyze keywords and the amount of traffic generated by those keywords. It also allows you to narrow down your search by including URLs and specific categories, such as apparel, cosmetics, or whatever. You can use Google AdWords Keyword Tool to estimate how much your competition is paying per click for their ads. Also, you should use Google Traffic Estimator to find out the number of ad clicks and current bid prices for various keywords.
Internet ArchiveInternet Archive has been crawling the internet and taking snapshots of webpages since 1996. Using their free Wayback Machine you can see what a website looked like throughout the years. By looking at the history of your competitors websites you can plot trends in design and pricing changes. Do they dress their homepage up for Christmas every year? How has their positioning changed - could they be moving to address your market? Sometimes you can learn a lot from the subtle changes your competitors make on their site. Since 2006, Internet Archive has taken over 600 screen captures of Shopify's homepage. As an example, below you'll see what our homepage looked like on November 2, 2009.
DomainTools: WhoisType your competitors URL in Whois and you'll receive a comprehensive record of that domain, including: date registered, contact info, server stats, links in/out, and other domains the registrant owns.
SpyFuThis is a paid service ($79/month) that lets you spy on your competitor's AdWords and keywords. SpyFu really lets you dig deep. You'll be able to see what worked and what didn't work for your competitors AdWords campaigns. When you can trace the steps of your competition, you can avoid the mistakes they made.. it's like they're doing market testing for you.
Open Site ExplorerThis service has a limited free plan and a paid service that is $99/month. Here you can compare your online store with up to four competitors on page authority, domain authority, linking root domains, total links, and with the pro version, you can also compare social stats. I like using Open Site Explorer to quickly see who is linking to the Shopify blog and what kind of impact it may have on our SEO. You can search your competitors ecommerce store and see not only who is linking to them, but what authority they have.
Google AlertsWith this free service from Google, you can receive email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries. You should already have Google Alerts set up for your online store name, but it's important to set up alerts for your competition as well. I would also suggest you get alerts for key industry terms, so you can easily monitor the broader market for new developments that could affect your ecommerce business.
The AftermathNow that you have assessed your competitor's sites, you'll want to start analyzing your own ecommerce store. Try and objectively look at your online store and see how it can be improved. Use all the tactics you used on your competition and be as critical as possible. It's also important to bring an unbiased set of eyes in to give their opinion.
So now that you have all this information, what should you do? Use your learnings to optimize your ecommerce store. Try and take advantage of your competitors weaknesses. If they're clearly beating you in some areas, pull up your socks and become more competitive. Remember, to remain competitive it's important to operate with flexibility and be able to pivot your direction. But that's not to say you should simply try and please everybody. You don't want to bite off more than you can chew, and you certainly don't want to lose whatever it is that makes you unique.
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June 07 2012, 12:20PM
Great list of tools. A few additional ones to add:
Quantcast: Get demographic information on your competitor's visitors
Compete.com: Traffic estimates and trends for any website
Blekko.com: A search engine that also provides some decent SEO stats on the listings
June 07 2012, 01:03PM
Andrew: Thanks! Great addition to the article – I totally agree that Quantcast, Compete.com, and Blekko.com are solid competitor intelligence research tools!
June 07 2012, 08:26PM
Awesome! I haven't used some of these. compete.com shows US only traffic. I find https://www.google.com/adplanner/ the most accurate traffic info for competitor domains. Shows similar sites, topics, and visitor demographics as well! For competitive research on text and banner ads I've been using http://mixrank.com
June 08 2012, 12:47AM
I have used a few of these to study the best way to position my business and services uniquely…a fabulous and comprehensive article! Great for developing modern market intelligence!
June 08 2012, 09:26AM
Very interesting list of tools. What other tools do you guys use? Any one has any experience with www.adthena.com or www.adgooroo.com? It would be interesting to see what other competitor analysis tools are there rather then plain simple keyword tools.
June 08 2012, 10:21AM
Mike: Thanks for mentioning mixrank – great tool.
Melanie: Thanks for the kind comment, I appreciate it.
Jerry: I don't have experience with either, but they look like solid tools.
June 08 2012, 11:29AM
SEO Centro has a nice keyword rank tool with a competetive comparison feature. It shows rank across Google, Yahoo and Bing. It has some other features too and there are other nice free tools there for analysis.
June 11 2012, 06:41AM
The information shared by you is really useful and would help a lot, I would definitely try the tools to get the right vision of my competitor.
July 17 2012, 07:56AM
Great list! I also use:
1, Adwords Ad Preview to check ads for different Google domains and locations
2, CompeteMonkey to follow which services my competitors start/stop using
July 23 2012, 02:02PM
Wow-lot's of really good advice here. I have been working on my website for over a year now and you couldn't find me when you googled sterling silver jewelry. Today I came in on the second page 2 down. I am so pleased, yet all your info here should help me even further. Cheers Cindy
July 25 2012, 12:25AM
Thank you for posting this! (We have shared it with our payment gateway clients.) It's also a good idea to use a tool which monitors social media chatter (e.g. Radian6) in order to assess customer sentiment about your competitors.
Kind regards,
The eWAY Team
October 11 2012, 07:49AM
Nice as always but I would like to add one more tool in play. Which is also more enough potential for competitor analysis and called it as "Traffic Travis"
Here is the link if you are curious to test it out. http://www.traffictravis.com/
November 19 2012, 12:31AM
Kick off your competitive research with http://www.tregia.com, discover content and marketing tools used by top publishers.
March 11 2013, 11:56AM
We use Open Site Explorer to monitor links to www.StandoutDesigns.com. SEOMoz has lots of other great tools too. Not so sure Alexa should be on the top of the list – except maybe alphatically if at all – given your statement "Take the numbers with a grain of salt"!
March 11 2013, 02:07PM
You may also want to consider adding Majestic SEO to your list of tools. Its without a doubt the best tool for tracking your competitors inbound links.
April 02 2013, 05:04AM
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May 08 2013, 08:09AM
Nice as always but I would like to add one more tool in play.
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May 17 2013, 10:53PM
This is a good resource
May 29 2013, 05:52AM
Another new tool worth adding is wwww.similarweb.com
June 07 2013, 01:49PM
Great list of competitive research tools. But take some of the traffic stats data with a grain of salt. Some stats will vary wildly from what the websites themselves report. For example, Compete.com reports 345,143 unique monthly visitors for www.arstechnica.com but Ars themselves report 8.5 million unique monthly visitors. Of course, your competitors won't ever disclose actual data, but if they have advertising on their site you may be able to request traffic stats through their ad network.
June 26 2013, 01:04AM
Yes !! This information is really useful and helpful.
August 04 2013, 03:38PM
Can anyone explain to me how to add quantcast to my shopify site? I understand I have to copy and paste coding into the HTML of all pages but I have no idea how to access this info…
September 11 2013, 12:49PM
Thanks for the post. I'm looking for a competitive research tool that shows mobile advertising and what my clients competitors are doing in the smartphone & tablet space.
December 27 2013, 04:43PM
Easy to follow. To the point. RICH with information!! THANK YOU. I took notes and then more notes.
May 06 2014, 04:09PM
In my opinion the MOST important thing of all is KNOWING your customer.
Good to understand what your competitors are doing, but failing to understand WHY they are doing it, you simply become a follower.
By knowing YOUR customers, you can lead the pack by implementing the right solutions that appeal and attract your customers. But anyway the article is very helpful, thank you.
So don't miss the TRUE objective, Learn from and Understand your customers first.
July 11 2014, 09:14AM
Good list of tools. Have you heard of InsideIndustry? It is a search intelligence tool based on data from the top 20-25 most searched and competitive generic keywords in an industry. It's a great tool to get an unbiased view of a company's position in Google, as well as identifying the top competitors in themarket, and their search marketing strategy (for both paid and organic search).
October 15 2014, 11:41AM
Thank you to all for giving us your personal preferred methods! I feel more comfortable using your ideas because I know no one paid you tell us – as I feel the others were such as Alexa that says to take the numbers with a grain of salt. What? Why would they even suggest that we use them then???
Also, since everyone seems so helpful…Any ideas on the best way to find the best product(s) to sell? I tried one online store and it was a flop so this time I want to get it right. I do a basic search for top selling products but I feel those would have extreme competition, i.e. books, electronics..
Thank you SO much in advance for any suggestions!
November 05 2014, 07:45AM
I'm surprised you didn't mention pricing intelligence tools like http://www.profitero.com/ or http://competera.net/, they certainly will do a good job for ecommerce businesses
September 12 2015, 09:19PM
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September 14 2015, 12:25PM
Thank you to all for giving us your personal preferred methods.
September 22 2015, 05:46AM
hello Mark
Really appreciable ! Many many thanks It'll help me lots
February 16 2016, 12:43AM
Alexa does not have any information for "free" -its a paid service.
Also be aware of their policy regarding register on their website: "We don't delete accounts, but we can deactivate your Alexa account for you. Note that we will only deactivate your account if you do not currently have an active Alexa Pro subscription.
To request deactivation, please submit a help ticket."
March 12 2016, 09:56AM
At first, I want to say thanks to you because of your awesome article. Here you mentioned some awesome tools which are really helpful. SEMrus and open site explorer are my favourite tools. For More
April 20 2016, 05:11AM
You've mentioned some great tools here, with a few that I have yet to try out. Competitor analysis is very important to get success and numerous SEO tools can be a valuable asset. Read my evaluation of 13 SEO tools that Neil Patel recently put together: http://www.yarraweb.com.au/959/13-seo-tools-review-neil-patels-review/
June 13 2016, 10:36PM
I need help on getting products and inventory to post on my page how do I do that????
August 01 2016, 10:12AM
SpyFu doesn't show data on my blog subdomain. Is it included in the general domain data? I checked with serpstat and semrush, and it seems like there's no data on subdomain in Spyfu.
November 12 2016, 07:30AM
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Anyone have any ideas for improving seo and getting more traffic for my shopify site www.easymedshealth.com?
March 15 2017, 09:18PM
..nothing free about Alexa FYI…
April 13 2017, 02:25AM
Here is my 2 cents:
I use http://www.visitorsdetective.com/ to monitor competitors traffic. Gives a bunch of useful data, and it's free of charge.
May 23 2017, 04:23AM
Here is my other 2 cents:
I use https://www.getrackify.com to montior competitors products, It shows dails sales, revenue and seo keywords for each products of the competitors over time.
June 16 2017, 06:50AM
"Gathering competitive intelligence is an often overlooked strategy for ecommerce merchants" is a remarkable read.
I found a great deal of value sharing all the different useful research tools to help new entrepreneurs with an advantage and to get to know more about their competitors.
An informative article.
Thanks for all the comments comments sharing their useful ideas too.
August 27 2017, 12:01PM
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September 21 2017, 07:04PM
I'm pretty new to SEO trying to rank my own businesses website, and alot of these research tools are a big monthly investment. In one of the entreprenur groups on facebook i saw a service offered for beginners or business owners that wanted to know how their sites ranked compared to their competitors. Well that's what I needed, but the service went ahead and found 3 keywords for me that had way more traffic between the three of them then all my keywords combined! The gig basically doubled my traffic and sales, and gave me a small plan that gave me instructions to achieve results within 6 months, but it only took me 1 month to see results and 3 months before I was on the first page for these new key words.
Here's the service .http://www.konker.io/services/30466-competition-analysis-for-seo-and-keyword-research-money-back-guarantee
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November 20 2017, 06:25AM
Hi Mark, I agree 100% – researching your competition's site is the real low hanging fruit, and we do it all the time.
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The Opera team has released version 10.10 of their feature-rich browser. This is the first Opera release to come with Opera Unite, which combines the web browser with a web server, so that users can share data directly between one another, without the need for a third party.
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Scott, any thoughts on getting this fixed? http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...939#post811939
No CRUD can be be done with any Store or TreeStore until fixed...
Ext.util.observable is broken. I'll file an official bug report soon.
Ext.util.Observable.js/prepareClass seems to be broken, the instance variable won't have property hasListeners, created. It only has the capitalized varible, HasListener, so addListener code, and many other event handling code parts related to Ext.util.Observable fails.
Are you mixing it into your own custom class? If so, be sure to call the observable constructor.
Yes, I've mixed it in to a custom class created by me. If I remember right, calling the Obervable's constructor was not mandatory in previous versions, was it?
It was, it's just that by chance it happened to work ok without it. You should call the mixin constructor.
Ok, it works fine when calling the constructor. It was just a bit misleading, that it was never mentioned in any of the examples I've seen previously, that if the Observable is mixed in, it's constructor must be called. Thanks for opening my eyes!
Maybe it would be wise to mention it in the documentation also.
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name: 'number',
type: 'string'
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name: 'street',
type: 'string'
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name: 'city',
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name: 'zip',
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extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
fields: [{
name: 'id',
type: 'int'
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name: 'name',
type: 'string'
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name: 'address_id',
type: 'int'
associations: {
type: 'hasOne',
model: 'Address'
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address_id: 20,
name: 'John Smith'
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One-time highflying Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein accused Charlie Crist of selling judgeships while serving as Florida governor during courtroom testimony this week in an unrelated case as reported by Marc Caputo for the Miami Herald: "Crist had tapped Rothstein to the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Fourth District Court of Appeal and the Broward Circuit Court," and "under oath, Rothstein portrayed the former Republican governor, Crist, as someone who essentially sold 'a few' unspecified Broward County circuit court judicial appointments in return for political contributions."
Predictably, Crist denies the allegations as he runs to get his old job back, and his campaign dismisses Rothstein as a convicted felon with no credibility who is looking for a reduced sentence as a cooperating witness with federal prosecutors investigating political corruption in South Florida. Rothstein ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme involving his law firm as a front to sell phony legal settlements to investors, and got fifty years in prison for the crime.
No doubt Rothstein is a fraudster but at least some of his allegations in other matters have proven true with corroborating evidence.
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And Crist is hardly in the position to challenge another's credibility. The former Governor is aptly called Charlie Hypocrist in the Sunshine State because he's a political chamelon and unprincipled opportunist who changes his parties and positions more frequently than Sybil changes her personality.
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I realize it's still early, but there has to be an available LH hitter better than Willie Harris. I guess he's this years version of Willie Tavaras, Corey Patterson, Edgar Renteria, etc. Any ideas?
I realize it's still early, but there has to be an available LH hitter better than Willie Harris. I guess he's this years version of Willie Tavaras, Corey Patterson, Edgar Renteria, etc. Any ideas?
Willie Harris is Dustys worst creation yet.
Possibly even worse than corey patterson. Defnitely a worse career than corey patterson. So no upside what so ever. I have no idea how dusty managed to squeak him through to the roster without somebody slapping him.
It is clear that he is going to have to step it up, at least have an idea when you come to the plate. He is just going up there hacking - that's one thing if you have the potential to hit the ball out of the park, but Harris is not a home run hitter.
He'll be the first DFA of the season, imo - and unless he gives us something soon - that will be sooner rather than later.
.239 Career hitter is your LH hitter off the bench? I noticed Johnny Damon is still available. Wonder what it would take to sign him. I read that his agent stated he wanted to get in the neighborhood of 400AB's. Don't know if he would get that many with the Reds.
Him making the team out of spring training is the perfect example of Dusty's thought process or lack thereof.
I'd jump on the Johnny Damon bandwagon... What the heck, right?
Harris is 0-7 this season and getting paid $800,000.00 for his services. It's ridiculous.
Harris is a lifetime .239 hitter
Damon is a career .286 hitter
While Harris is four years younger, Damon has Series experience, and 9529 AB's to Harris' 2404. I think he'd be a great guy to have on the bench and plug in as a LF/CF/RF when someone needs a day off.
Harris might not be the answer, but if Damon were the answer, he would be on another team right now. He is done as anything other than a DH or perhaps 1B. I think we have a decent first baseman right now and no need of a DH.
Damon works the count too much to be on the Reds. I'd like to have him on the bench....the guy is a winner that gets it...few of those guys never hurts.
Compact contact swing....works the count....been there done that...still hungry....I'd love to see him a Red.
Again, Damon has absolutely zero value as a defender. Scratch that - decided to check on Baseballreference.com. He had a -43 in in defensive runs saved against average. To put that in perspective, Adam Dunn's last full year as a leftfielder for the Reds was -17.
The Reds can't carry a bat on the bench who they can use for one pinch hitting appearance per game. Damon makes Dunn look like Brooks Robinson in left field.
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Lawmakers are fighting back against the American Civil Liberties Union with a bold piece of legislation that would allow North Carolina to establish a state religion.
It is a bold move because House Bill 494 asserts the First Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from establishing an official religion, does not prevent states, counties, towns or schools from doing so. The bill also contends that a move to establish a state religion cannot be blocked by Congress or the courts.
The Defense of Religion Act was introduced to the North Carolina legislature by Republican Rowan County Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford and is sponsored by seven other Republicans. The bill does not specify which religion would become the state religion.
The bill is seen as a response to a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU last month to stop the Rowan County Commission from opening meetings with Christian prayers.
North Carolina's state Senate has offered a Christian invocation during most sessions since 2011.
Section 1 of the bill says "the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion."
Section 2 reads: "The North Carolina General Assembly does not recognize federal court rulings which prohibit and otherwise regulate the state of North Carolina, its public schools, or any political subdivisions of the state from making laws respecting an establishment of religion."
Many critics are focusing on the bill's interpretation of the First Amendment, contending the measure is a violation of the Establishment Clause, which reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
But the bill's backers say that clause does not apply to states. The legislators appear to be pinning their hopes on the Tenth Amendment, which reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
House Bill 494 says "the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States prohibits the federal government and prohibits the federal courts from expanding the powers of the federal government beyond those powers which are explicitly enumerated."
"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the bill also states.
"Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion," it adds.
That Tenth Amendment argument has been used to try to nullify a variety of measures, from the Emancipation Proclamation to Obamacare.
But, the North Carolina legislature may have a revered Founding Father and constitutional expert on its side.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1804, "The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch."
Some argue that the government long ago let religion into institutions such as schools.
Attorney and author John Calvert wrote in WND that when proponents of John Dewey's nontheistic Religious Humanism sought to replace traditional religions, they merely renamed it Secular Humanism in order to dominate "institutions of science, education and much of the 'mainstream' media."
Calvert added: "Since public schools can promote the secular but not the religious, it's a slam-dunk. Secular humanists and atheists go into the public schools demanding the exclusion of 'religion' (defined as just belief in God) and any of its religious teachings such as those found in the Bible. Once God and His wisdom have been excluded, it's pretty simple to fill the vacuum with the tenets of the new stealth religion now dressed in the garb of secular health, science, history and social studies."
And, writing in 2008 about PBS' "Nova" series documentary that disputed many key elements of the Bible, WND CEO Joseph Farah wrote, "The U.S. government funds propaganda promoting what has become, de facto, the official state church in America – secular humanism."


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Členem od Feb 18, 2010 11 zpráv(a,y)
Sep 05 2010 at 14:15
who has some more informations about the magic champ?
I know it`s a small company in Germany, you can get the developers on the phone, everything seems to be ok.
But before burning my money, I want to ask, if there is somebody who has some experience with the company and the system.
Thank you and best Regards
Členem od Mar 22, 2010 24 zpráv(a,y)
Sep 10 2010 at 16:55
Hello Gunnarr,
I have bought a one-year license for EUR 990, - for the system in March 2010.
I use a conservative strategy with a maximum at the beginning of 2% and since May 3% Loss per trade. the system is very good, above all very safe - you can not lose in one night your portfolio.
My profit since 30 March 2010 to today = 42%
My goal with the sytem is 100% per year
You can call the developers and phone calls with you. This company has test is the only one I know the real money in live-depot.
All other companies have only backtest and empty promises.
sorry for may bad english
Regards Jo
Členem od Feb 18, 2010 11 zpráv(a,y)
Sep 11 2010 at 22:53
Hi Jo,
Thanks for your informations. I started last week with a one year license too.
If you like, you can watch the account here: https://www.myfxbook.com/members/gunnarr/gusch1/48798
The setting is conservative at the moment: 2 % risk per trade + adaptive MM. My broker is FXPro.
What`s your broker ?
If the system runs, like the way I`m expecting, I`ll buy an unlimited version and use it with another broker.
Never trade your funds with only one broker;-)))
Have a great weekend and excuse my pidgin english too
Členem od Feb 16, 2010 1332 zpráv(a,y)
SolarFX (forexma)
Sep 11 2010 at 23:44
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I'm monitoring this EA's performance for few months and all I can say is it's great. It had big DD but successfully managed to recover and continue with the profits. I think this is one of the few commercial EAs that's worth the money. No marketing hype, useless pictures or unproven claims, just facts and live account results for more than half an year. Of course what's good ain't cheap.
Členem od Mar 22, 2010 24 zpráv(a,y)
Sep 13 2010 at 11:51
my broker is Fxpro too. In 08-2010, I have bought the unlimited Version for EUR 4899,--
Best Regards
Členem od Oct 28, 2009 1402 zpráv(a,y)
Steve B (stevetrade)
Sep 13 2010 at 11:58
You spent nearly 5000 Euro on an EA that returns around 16% per month.
Wow, is all I can say.
Členem od Mar 22, 2010 24 zpráv(a,y)
Sep 13 2010 at 13:54
@ steve
if you trade more than 100.000, - € Account-deposit is nearly 5000,--bargains.....:-)
Best Regards
Členem od Feb 18, 2010 11 zpráv(a,y)
Sep 13 2010 at 19:03
I don`t know how much EA`s you have in work, which are making 16% a month, proven forward tested over a period of 10 month. Like Jo I`m not trading a microlot account and after a test period I`ll pump some more funds into this account.
But if you have some cheap billionaire maker, please let us know.
Best Regards
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Steve B (stevetrade)
Sep 13 2010 at 21:26
I'm not saying I have anything better, certainly not traded live over 10 months.
Personally I think it is possible to make more than 16% per month with an EA though. So 5000 euros seems very pricey to me.
I guess if you've got the capital and trust that the EA will keep performing then it's worth it.
Členem od Jun 06, 2010 8 zpráv(a,y)
Oct 05 2010 at 18:37
nun frage ich euch hier...990 euro für ne lizenz ist schon heftig... bin seit juli dabei...lief ja ganz gut hatte fast die gebühr wieder raus...und nun hat er einige trades versemmelt....und bin wieder fast am anfang... nun wie er in einem jahr darsteht...ansonsten ist zwar ein guter service auf deutsch da...die trades stimmen fast überein...
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Golden State did exactly what it wanted to do: slow down the NBA's best transition team. Only problem with that was that put it put Andre Miller in play.
Golden State was on the verge of stealing Game 1, despite a subpar performance from Stephen Curry and an injury to David Lee. But Miller broke their hearts with a driving layup with 1.2 seconds left, handing the Warriors a 97-95 defeat, souring an otherwise gutsy performance.
JARRETT JACK: "We're not into moral victories. In a simple phrase, we played good enough to lose."
The Warriors' defense contained speedy Denver point guard Ty Lawson and silenced forward Andre Iguodala, holding the Nuggets 11 points below their average. But Golden State couldn't come up with an answer for Miller. He scored 18 of Denver's 26 fourth-quarter points and finished with a game-high 28, taking advantage of the one-on-one defense he faced.
It was a dramatic end and a riveting start to a series most expect to be highly entertaining. The Warriors, even with the loss, head into Game 2 on Tuesday with plenty reasons to be confident.
"I thought we did some things very well," coach Mark Jackson said. "What I told my team was that nobody came in here thinking that we were going to sweep the Denver Nuggets. You have tow in four games to advance and you can't act like it's over. So take the blow and be ready to make adjustments and respond."
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Hingham ties up Needham
The Herald's Bruce Lerch checks in from a New Year's Eve matinee top 10 showdown between Hingham and Needham.
One thing you can say for certain about Hingham's Tim Driscoll: he has a knack for scoring big goals in big games.
The Herald Dream Teamer of course is most famous for his Super 8 clinching score against Catholic Memorial at TD Garden to end last season. He also had the game-winner against Needham in last year's regular season as Hingham rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the third period to knock off the Rockets, 3-2.
Driscoll was back at it again Wednesday at the Babson Skating Center in Wellesley, notching a hat trick while scoring with 14.4 seconds left to help No. 3 Hingham secure a 3-3 tie with No. 8 Needham on a New Years Eve afternoon.
Following a timeout with Hingham (3-0-3) trailing, 3-2, Driscoll found himself with the puck behind the Rockets net, carried it out to the wing and just sent it toward the goal. Several players for both teams found themselves in the Needham crease with red-jerseyed Harbormen trying to jam it through and white-shirted Rockets trying to clear it out.
Eventually, the puck found its way back to Driscoll, and the senior tucked it past Needham goalie Evan MacDonald (22 saves) to lock up a hard-fought draw between two potential Super 8 contenders.
"He's been a little frustrated this year," said Hingham coach Tony Messina of Driscoll. "He's got quite a bit of assists but only a couple goals so far. People are keying on him and he's been a little snake-bitten but today it was great to see him break out."
Driscoll heroics loomed large because it appeared as though Needham (2-2-1) had the game won. The Rockets took a timeout with 3:06 remaining before starting a power play, and with just a second left on the extra man advantage, Tommy Coleman (two goals) fired a shot from the low circle to goalie Derek McInnis' right for a 3-2 lead with 1:37 to play.
Needham fought the reigning champs tooth and nail after allowing a Driscoll goal just 54 seconds into the game. Captain Tommy Coleman pounced on a giveaway in the Hingham zone and beat McInnis (21 saves) to tie the game at 1-1 midway through the first.
DJ Walsh put the Rockets in front when defenseman Chris Joyce fired a perfect pass to him inside the low right circle. Walsh buried the one-timer and Needham held on to take a 2-1 lead. Driscoll tied the game just under five minutes into the second stanza when Hingham caught Needham in a line change and broke in 3-on-2. Matt Hughes hit an open Driscoll with a crossing pass and he snapped it through.


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I don't know about y'all, but I get pretty annoyed with all the writers and RP'ers on Literotica stories, forum, and chat that want to write a trans character but clearly have no idea what they're talking about. To that end, I've written a "How To" guide that I intend to submit to Literotica's "How-To" stories section. Before I do, though, I was hoping that some of the other trans posters here might be willing to read through and give me some feedback. If you're interested, please read the guide below and comment or send me a PM for any changes or suggestions! Thanks!
PS: This guide is 8 pages long. If you are not in the mood for an 8-page read, just ignore this post altogether please, I don't need a whole slew of "tldr" comments. Thanks
How to write realistic transsexual characters
Table of Contents
[1] Introduction:
[2] Who are transsexuals?
[3] Who are cross-dressers and transvestites?
[4] What are cross-dressers and transvestites like?
[5] How can I relate to my transsexual characters and get into their heads?
[6] What terminology should I use?
[7] What terminology should I avoid?
[8.1] What do trans women look like naked?
[8.2] What do trans men look like naked?
[9] How do trans people have sex?
[9.1] What are some details for trans women?
[9.2] What are some details for trans men?
[10] Closing Notes
[1] Introduction:
Since being on Literotica, I've been asked by several people for advice on how to write, approach, or even please transsexual women. I've also seen several people asking these questions of others or asking this question on the GLBT forum. Unfortunately, a great deal of the fiction available today (erotic or otherwise) portrays transsexuals in a completely unrealistic manner that can be very off-putting to a transsexual reader or anyone who is close to a transsexual person in real life.
I believe that everybody is entitled to their own fantasies, and everyone is entitled to write them down and share them if they want to; but I also believe it's valuable to know what parts of your fantasies are unrealistic. So with that in mind, I'd like to lay out some guidelines about writing realistic transsexual characters. Since this is being published on an erotic literature site, this guide will be written with erotic fiction in mind. The emphasis is on trans women, since I am a trans woman and that is what I know best, but I've tried to include helpful tips for trans man characters as well, which information comes from my knowledge of the several trans men who have been my friends and lovers in the past.
[2] Who are transsexuals?
Transsexuals are people who have been born with the physical characteristics of one sex but the internal gender identification of the other. A transsexual woman was born with a penis and will develop male secondary sex characteristics through puberty (facial hair, no breasts, etc) but this does not change her internal self-identification as a girl or woman. Similarly, transsexual men are men who are born with a vagina, and through puberty develop female secondary sexual traits (breasts, no facial hair, etc); but this does not change their own internal self-identification as men.
[3] Who are cross-dressers and transvestites?
A transvestite is a person who gains sexual pleasure from wearing the clothing of the sex with which they do not identify. Normally, this means a man who has a fetish for wearing women's clothing. Cross-dressers are people who wear clothing of the opposite sex for any other reason. Maybe they enjoy the shock value; maybe they just have odd tastes, but it doesn't change the fact that they identify as a man even in women's clothes (or vice versa).
Transvestites and cross-dressers ARE NOT TRANSSEXUALS. And transsexuals are generally not cross-dressers or transvestites. There's nothing wrong with writing a story about a cross-dresser or a transvestite, but please don't call them transsexual realize that there is a big difference.
[4] What are cross-dressers and transvestites like?
Couldn't tell you. I'm not either of these, I'm a transsexual. If this is what you're looking for, it's not going to be covered in this guide.
[5] How can I relate to my transsexual characters and get into their heads?
If you are a male author, imagine this: you catch a rare disease which causes your penis to collapse in on itself and form a vagina where you used to have a penis instead. Your facial hair all falls out, your muscles wither, and your chest grows fat deposits so that to someone who doesn't know you, they would probably guess you were a woman just from your appearance. Don't apply any mental changes; don't apply stereotypes about what you think you would be like as a woman you aren't changing who you are, you just have this odd disease affecting your body that confuses people who don't know about it.
Now, this is where many people get it wrong: what you are imagining is NOT what it's like to transition, it's NOT what it's like to be a trans woman, what you are imagining is a rough analogy for what it is like to be a trans MAN; aka: a man with a female body, someone born with female genitalia who seeks to medically and socially transition into being accepted as male. What would you want to do if you had this disease? Would you want to have your new breasts surgically removed so that people would stop seeing you as a woman? If a chemical treatment could get you back your strength and facial hair, wouldn't you do that? You never asked to be a woman you aren't a woman! It's just this disease that the doctors can try to fix as best they can. This is analogous to the mindset of a transsexual man; the process of having this disease fixed is analogous to a transsexual's transition process.
For a transsexual woman, just imagine the situation in reverse. For the female authors out there, imagine an opposite disease struck you your clitoris grows to an enormous scale and your vagina seals up; your labia grow into dangling, tender lumps people who see you undressed think you are a man. Your breasts wither away, your shoulders bulk up, and hair starts sprouting from your face. There may be a few people who would shrug and say Well, I guess I'm a man now. but most would seek medical treatment to have these effects reversed. This is analogous to the experience of a transsexual woman.
Always remember that transsexuals are people first and foremost, and like most real people sex or specific sexual acts are usually not our highest priority in life try to write people, not sex objects. People can have sex too!
[6] What terminology should I use?
Transsexual: Someone who has an internal self-identification of their own gender that does not align with the physical sex they were born into.
Transsexual woman or trans woman: A woman born into a male body (Do NOT mix this up with trans man!)
Transsexual man or trans man: A man born into a female body. (do NOT mix this up with trans woman!)
Woman: This is a good term to use for a trans woman if there is no need to specifically call attention to the fact that she is trans. Even if she's been acknowledged as trans earlier in the story, there's no need to obsessively point it out. Just like if you had a blonde character you wouldn't have to refer to her as a blonde woman every time you mentioned her, it would just be belaboring the point. It can also be off-putting to any transsexuals reading your story if it seems you are using trans not as a descriptive trait but rather as a qualifier which indicates that you do not actually think of trans women as woman, or of trans men as men.
Man: Just as with trans women, if you're writing a trans man, there's no need to belabor the point. Just use man when it makes sense.
Two more good words to know:
Dysphoric: Refers to a transsexual person's feeling of the fundamental wrongness of their body, and the extreme discomfort associated with have a physical sex that does not match your true internal gender identity.
Cissexual, Cisgender, or just cis: The opposite of Transsexual, transgender, and trans a person who's true internal gender identity matches their external sex. Most people are cissexual.
[7] What terminology should I avoid?
Avoid using qualifiers that would indicate you are thinking of this character as something other than their own identified gender. If you're writing about a trans woman, don't put woman in quotation marks as if it's only partially true, or strange or funny that she thinks of herself as a woman.
Along the same lines, unless you want to alienate any trans people reading your story, don't make a big deal about sex with a trans person being wrong or perverse or taboo at least not due to the person being trans; you could have the sex be taboo for some other reason, I suppose. Trans people are allowed to have sex like everyone else, talking about having sex with us like it is some dirty sin just because we are trans is going to make your trans readers feel that you must not have a very high opinion of us to think that it should be taboo just that we have sex lives at all.
Don't use inaccurate terms like cross-dresser if you are not describing a cross dresser. This indicates that you think of a trans woman as a man in women's clothing otherwise she would not be cross dressing. This is equally true of words like gay and lesbian. A cis man with a trans woman is a straight pairing, to call it gay means you are thinking of the woman as a man, which she is not. Don't refer to a trans man as a lesbian, dyke, etc trans men are men, not extremely gay girls. The same is true for trans women don't call us homos or fagots or gays or anything like that, we are women.
As an aside on that last point, note that overlap is very possible many trans people are also gay. But remember, a gay trans woman is attracted to women. A trans women attracted to men is straight. Same is true in reverse for trans men. Some of us, of course, are bi- or pan-sexual as well.
Absolutely never use slurs or anything that belittles the person or their identity. Examples include: Tranny, She-male, He-She, Lady-boy, Trap, It (in lieu of he or she).
These words are all often the precursors to harassment or even violence. Any trans person reading your story will find this a huge turn off. If you are writing a story in which discrimination is central to the plot, you might have a bigoted character use these terms as an intentional slur but in your capacity as the author/narrator you should never refer to your own characters this way, nor should anyone who is intended to be friendly or supportive. Having someone use an offensive term out of ignorance and be corrected would be realistic, since most people do not have much exposure to this topic until they come into close contact with a transsexual friend, lover, or relative.
[8.1] What do trans women look like naked?
There are as many right answers to that question as there are trans women in the world. Always remember that like any other group of people, we are diverse. However, here are some tips about the transition life-process and what it does to trans women's bodies:
1. In early life, transsexuals will look like the sex they were born into. All transsexuals go through at least some portion of their life during which they try to conform to the gender they have been assigned before they come to terms with who they are and decide to try to live and be seen as a member of the opposite sex from that which they were born with. Some people realize this as early as grade school others don't decide to transition until later in life, some even after retirement. My personal experience is that many people at least take the first steps towards realizing they are transsexual when they hit puberty, and boys and girls start to differentiate more while their own bodies feel increasingly wrong as secondary sexual traits develop.
2. Once a person decides to live as the opposite sex, they will most likely want to try to be perceived that way by the outside world. The art of passing as it is called is complex, but it generally involves clothing, hairstyle, and sometimes makeup. Some people are lucky enough to be able to pass effectively without any medical treatments; however, many others are not so lucky. It is in this earliest phase of transition that a person is likely to look wrong or give off the man in a dress vibe or something similar. Like a teenager going through an awkward and uncomfortable phase of puberty and sprouting acne all over their face, this is something most transsexuals will be both distinctly aware of and distinctly ashamed of. Many choose not to try to pass at all until medical treatments have given them a better chance at not being noticed as transsexual.
3. In general, the first step in a medical transition is hormone therapy trans men will be given testosterone, whereas trans women take estrogen and a testosterone-blocker. This will cause them to develop many of the secondary sexual characteristics they desire, and for many people it is all they need to feel comfortable in their own skins and to pass reliably in public. Once on hormones, a trans woman will begin developing breasts. Her body hair will become sparser, and her skin softer, while her muscles become smaller and less pronounced. She will also generally become more curvy with fat being deposited more on her butt, thighs, hips, and breasts rather than concentrating so much on the stomach as in men.
4. Estrogen will not change a trans woman's voice or facial hair. Specific facial hair removal is usually needed, and can be one of the most important steps in passing as it gives you a much softer, more feminine looking face. The most common method of permanent hair removal is known as electrolysis, and involves burning the base of each hair with a small electric shock. The process is long (months of appointments with a specialist, at least weekly), painful, and expensive but generally very rewarding in terms of lessening dysphoria and improving a trans woman's confidence in her appearance and ability to pass. Some trans women undergo vocal training to sound more feminine, others are fine with the voice they've always had.
5. There are several surgical options open to trans women, the most common of which is referred to as SRS or Sexual Reassignment Surgery. You can look up the details of how this is done on your own if you like but modern SRS is very effective at giving trans women a vulva that looks and feels very analogous to those of non-trans women, and removes the penis/testicles entirely. Others may choose to have their testicles removed, but keep their penis due to medical complications, monetary cost (SRS can run in the vicinity of $20k, having the testicles removed is only about $2k), or fear of losing sexual sensitivity. Even trans women who decide to have SRS often go without this option while on hormones for quite some time just to save up the money to afford it. Most doctors who perform SRS will also insist you be on hormones and living full-time as a woman for at least one year before performing SRS on a trans woman.
6. Other surgeries that are common include facial surgery for those who feel their face is too mannish. Surgeries to reduce the Adam's apple are also common; but many trans women also decide to do without facial or tracheal surgery. Hormones generally leave trans women with fairly small natural breasts, which develop through the same biological process as other breasts and feel and look completely analogous, but many trans women choose to get breast augmentation to help them pass and avoid having A-cups all their lives. Many others decide they are fine with flat or small chests and choose not to do this.
7. No surgery today will change your overall skeletal structure, so trans women will tend to be tall compared to non-trans women, though obviously there is individual variation.
[8.2] What do trans men look like naked?
The overall process of discovery, hormones, and then surgery is similar for a trans man as it is for a trans woman. However, the effects of the hormones and surgeries are notably different:
1. Testosterone will cause a trans man to develop pronounced muscles like other men, leading to a more square frame and a less curvy look. It also leads to facial hair growth and a deepening of the voice. However, it will not do anything for their chest.
2. Breast removal or extreme reduction usually follows, giving trans men a flat chest. Prior to this, most trans men will choose to do what is known as binding using a tight under-garment that wraps around the torso to compress the breasts and make them less visible/pronounced.
3. SRS for trans men is less effective than it is for trans women, and more trans men than trans women choose to avoid it entirely meaning that, much their own annoyance, most trans men are left with female genitalia.
4. No surgery today will change your overall skeletal structure, so trans men will tend to be short compared to non-trans men, though obviously there is individual variation.
[9] How do trans people have sex?
As is probably obvious, people have sex in a wide variety of ways and it's based a lot on personal preference, so two different trans people may have very different turn-ons and preferences.
When a man and a woman, neither of them trans, decide to have sex, there is a very natural social-script for how it is supposed to go: The man climbs on top, puts his penis in the woman's vagina, and thrusts until he's done and then sex is over. Now obviously this isn't the only way that men and women have sex, but it serves as a good starting point for most people.
Trans people don't really have that. There isn't a default script for how sex should go. It's very hard to generalize about people's sexuality, but as a guideline there are two conflicting factors that come into play for all trans people, both men and women:
1. Sexual Pleasure. Obviously, having our genitals generally rubbed, squeezed, petted, licked, or otherwise manipulated tends to feel good, just like for everyone else.
2. Gender Dysphoria. This term refers to a transsexual's sense that their body is not right in that they feel they belong in a body of the opposite sex. While it's a discomfort people learn to live with, it's still not something people like to be reminded of. Overt reminders of how different our bodies are than what we would want or expect are uncomfortable, often upsetting, and usually a big turn-off that has the potential to stop sex dead in it's tracks. If you're writing a sexual fantasy, you may want to minimize this. Most erotic stories don't dwell on all the little things that in reality can make sex un-sexy when not handled properly. But with that being said, you don't want to stray too far or the amount of un-reality becomes jarring as transsexual readers can begin feeling dysphoric just from reading a story that ignores this too much.
These two opposing forces of pleasure vs. dysphoria need to be balanced for a transsexual to have a satisfying experience. You can avoid a lot of dysphoria by never undressing or touching, but obviously that's not much fun. Conversely, diving right in could cause too much dysphoria, and stop things short.
Remember that most trans people spend significant portions of their lives feeling the need to repress their true identities out of fear, and many are wary about revealing that they are trans at any point in their lives. As a rule of thumb, this leaves many trans people with less confidence and more sensitivity than their non-transsexual counterparts, at least until they've had the time to adjust to being accepted for who they are after a successful transition; and sometimes even then.
[9.1] What are some details for trans women?
First of all, the most common scenario I see on Literotica is one of the trans woman penetrating a man in some way. However, for most trans women, penetrating is a hit-or-miss endeavor at best. Rather than being something we crave, for most of us penetrating is just a big reminder that we have a penis instead of a vagina and very few trans women are comfortable enough with that idea to use their penis for something they absolutely could not do if they didn't have one. Personally, I have had some positive experiences with penetration but it's difficult to maintain arousal and not as good as other options like hand-jobs or frottage.
Though the testicles themselves are typically a source of dysphoria, the sensitive scrotal skin is what would be shaped into labia during an SRS, and even before the surgery many trans women find it very pleasing to be touched there. The penis can also be a sensitive, pleasurable area if it is treated as one would treat a large clitoris rather than as an object for penetration. However, any genital touching runs the risk of causing too much dysphoria, and the pleasure vs dysphoria balance will vary from person to person.
I have heard mixed reports from others about receiving blow jobs I personally find them very dysphoric and am not a fan. Receiving anal sex is often better for trans women than it is for cis women, since trans women have a prostate making anal as pleasurable for us as it is for gay men.
Remember the non-physical aspects as well. Trans women are women and being treated as a man or having a partner give any indication they think of us as a man is a guaranteed huge turn off and a complete deal-breaker for many if not most trans women.
[9.2] What are some details for trans men?
I've come across very few stories of trans men on Literotica, which is a shame since trans men deserve to be seen as desirable and attractive as much as anyone else.
The same general rules apply to trans men as to trans women anything which absolutely could not be done with male genitalia is probably going to be dysphoric. My experience has been that receiving vaginal sex is usually not a positive experience for a trans man unless he is already extremely worked up; and even then it's hit or miss. Drawing attention to the vagina or calling it a vagina/pussy/any other exclusively female name for genitals is probably not going to make him feel very good. Some trans men do like their clitoris stroked and rubbed as one would stroke a penis.
For every pre-op trans man I've ever known, touching their chest is an extremely dysphoric experience. While I'm sure this isn't completely universal, it's at least extremely common. Don't refer to a trans man's chest as breasts or worse, boobs or boobies. The fact that their chest is larger and squishier than most men's is just about the last thing they want to be reminded of, particularly during sex.
Just as with trans women, be sure to remember the non-physical aspects as well. Trans men are men and being treated as a woman or having a partner give any indication they think of them as a woman is a guaranteed huge turn off and a complete deal-breaker for many if not most trans men.
[10] Closing Notes
Always remember that trans people are as diverse a group as any other group of people. Most of us have had shared experiences of having to hide, of fear of what people will do or think if and when they find us out. We all share the pain of dysphoria, though the details vary from person to person, and most of us have had both negative and positive experiences with the process of transition and coming out to friends, family, and loved ones.
But beyond that, we are each individuals. There is no one way that transsexuals act, no one thing that we all like during sex, no one group we are all attracted to. Remember to write a person first, give them a personality, make them something more than just trans. Give them a career, a family, a history, a hobby trans isn't a back story or an archetype, it's just another trait that goes into the complete picture of who a person is and where they have come from.
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Luckily, my trans woman in one of my stories is a tad more well rounded.
The other one is only out for blood and the other one in the other story is like mentioned here.
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Great point! He never really was good, but the better talent around him carried him to a certain extent.Originally Posted by njherdfan;4710981[B
Sanchez didn't regress. He's the same QB he has always been. His first two years here he was a turnover machine and was highly inaccurate just as he is now.
Sanchez was horrible in 09 and was merely below average in 2010.
The 2009 and 2010 teams were very good and with just average QB'ing the Jets would have had 12 wins both seasons.
The difference isn't Sanchez, its that the team around him isn't as good to disguise his numerous flaws.
Sanchez sucks because he's inaccurate, can't read a defense, and of course is a turnover machine.
Why didn't Kyle Boller work out? or JaMarcus Russell or Joey Harrington? Bad coaching? Not enough help on offense?
Some players just suck in the pros including QB's. It happens and there's nothing that could have been done to avert it.
Great point! He never really was good, but the better talent around him carried him to a certain extent.Originally Posted by njherdfan;4710981[B
eva longoria. he started going downhill this season right after she dumped him. sanchez just thinks too much. he has never been able to just react. that's why his throws are always late. very tough to coach that out of him.
He was never that good but the Jets handled him terribly. He should have never seen the field in 2009.
Woody was obsessed with having a face for the organization and saw dollar signs with a young handsome latino QB.
He probably could have been a decent game manager if they went about it correctly, but looking back spending a top 5 pick on a guy who has average at best measurables was absurd. 16 starts in college to top 5 pick. Just insanity. He's built like a kicker for christs sakes.
Woody is a doofus and we'll never win anything with him unless he changes his ways or sells the team.
Who are the great players on the Packers offense? The Saints? The Colts? The Redskins? The Steelers? Was Wes Welker that good on Miami? Do you think Gronkowski puts up huge numbers with Sanchez?
At some point you need to recognize that some players aren't good enough. Mark Sanchez never had what it took to succeed. No more excuses for this fraud. He has no accuracy, is soft and isn't smart enough on the field.
The 2010 Jets would have finished 7-9 if Mark Sanchez didn't lead 4 miracle comebacks after the defense blew leads late.
In one calendar year, from Week 12 2009 to Week 12 2010, the Jets went 16-4, Mark Sanchez started every game, he won 16 of 20 games and complimented Rex Ryan's master plan to win on defense and ground & pound.
Where things went south for Mark was where things went south for the Jets as a team. There's a defining moment in time that ended the Rex Ryan Jets, it occurred in Week 10 last year at home against the Patriots.
Going into that game, the Jets were 5-3 and Ryan had boasted about how this was the time we were finally going to pass the Patriots and take control of the division. We'd smoked them in the playoffs, we could take first place, how it was "our time" and the team was going to "step up", all that crap. And, as usual, we got blown out.
Going into that game, we were on a 25-11 streak, including the span where we went 16-4.
Since that game, the Jets are 7-12.
In 2009 and 2010, there were a lot of games where Sanchez stepped up and won games. Late game drives where he'd make five or six good to great throws. Heady pocket play, scrambling for more time, or getting out of the pocket and running for a critical first down. Manufacturing comeback wins.
That's why Jets fans thought we'd see a guy who, in year 3, 4, 5 and beyond go on to be a franchise quarterback.
Yes, his stats were "rookie QB bad" in 2009. But he showed flashes of elite, game-winning talent, and that's what got many of us on board. That guy is nowhere to be found.
And, yes, the team got much worse in 2011 and 2012. Maybe he's a bubble player; good on a great team, lousy on a bad team.
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2009 they ran the ball every play and all Sanchez was asked to do was play action one read passes and roll outs. The Jets were running a HS offense in 2009, with a traffic light on the sideline. And he still almost managed to mess it up.
He played well at Pittsburgh and Chicago in 2010, I thought he was finally starting to get it a bit. But overall those first 2 years he was covered up by a great defense. He's been bad his entire career as a passer.
Nor is there another team in the entire league that pretends to be 'elite' that loses by surrendering an average of 31 points a game and has a lead rusher averaging a paltry 50 yards a game.
Reminder: We're built to win on a stout defense and a punishing running game. We got neither. Our quarterback is not very good, but he's not the reason we suck.
There was no reason to move up when a guy with better measurables would have been on the board in our initial draft slot.
As you state, we traded up for Sanchez. Had to. There were no good prospects in free agency, Favre wasn't returning, Pennington had left.
It sounded good on paper- rookie HC and rookie QB growing up together. Problem is, Tannenbaum indulged Rex's defense with all the support in the world and he ignored Sanchez.
Look at the number of game winning/4th qtr comeback drives in 2010. That's elite territory.
Look up the same stats for Aaron Rogers, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning. Of those three, only Manning ever put up more in a single season.
And it wasn't the Jets just running it. Sanchez was hitting big throws in many of those games. It wasn't an accident that many Jets fans got on the bandwagon. And we weren't alone. A lot of NFL commentators saw the same thing.
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Reality???? He is a pick machine. Other posters recall a pocket presence. I don't remember that. he seems to always not sense what's behind him.
sad but he will be a solid backup somewhere. David Carr like.
The made for TV moments always get overrated in the scheme of things. Sanchez still sucked back then too...a few things broke his way in dramatic fashion which skewed peoples views of him.
The kid could never play. He's another Joey Harrington.
I'm in the neveranygood camp. The D used to be good enough to bail him out. We'd have lost sunday if the Cards QB wasn't even worse.
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Couldnt read whole thread, but definitely the end of last season. When the top 5 defense and run game went away, so did Mark Sanchez's chances.
To be honest, Santonio Holmes could be the biggest hand in sabotaging Marks career.....
Signed as a #1WR : No Way
Not a good guy in the locker room : Affirmative
What a waste. Mark is not very good, but the management "scheme" is by far and away the worst assailant in all of this.
Sad for us fans. Go Jets.


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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:38 AM
First, teeth counts: the book is wrong, every book I have heard about is wrong. It is NOT 40.5/44 tooth on the two sides. It is three more: 43.5/47, the marks on the timing belt are correct. I'm sure there are some engines out there that work with this belt, but the 2000 2.5L SOHC from an Impreza does not seem to be one of them. What doesn't help is that the Subaru shop manual states the lower, incorrect, figure. Everyone also seems to be able to use the lower, incorrect figure.
Second, how to get the timing belt back on. The general consensus seems to be to remove just one pulley, the cogged one sitting right next to the water pump. You should definitely remove this one to get the belt off, it gives you heaps of slack and makes it real easy. It's a pain to get back on, though. It's easier to take of the other, lower pulley as well. Then put the belt on and then the cogged pulley, lastly put the other lower pulley back on. This gives you just a little more slack, when you are fiddling round to try get the cogged one in. The little bit of slack you gain makes it so much easier, it's then really simple to put the other pulley back in. This length of belt is now the longest possible and really asy to deflect and put the last pulley back on.
Third, make sure you get that tension belt fully compressed and don't put something that will flex in it. I started with something that flexed a little (only about 2-3mm, but enough). This made it almost impossible to get the belt back on. I used the largest (it was SAE) hex key I could fit in. If it's thick enough it won't flex and will work. The tiny amount of flex meant the belt wouldn't go back on.
Fourth, make sure you move the rubber seal from the old water pump to the new, if you change it.
Fifth, make sure you take of the camshaft sprocket before you take off the timing belt.
The last two allowed me to perfect the timing belt replacement. I ended up doing it 3 times in a week. The big thing I want to emphasize is that you can ignore the teeth counts. Just look at the belt and line it up with the sprockets. It should come close to the marks on the engine, but might be off by a cog or a half.
Posted 14 December 2005 - 03:04 PM
To start things, while trying to figure out the tooth count, I found a really useful little pdf file. It has the numbers for the replacement parts for, it seems, every subaru since 1990. It's an endwrench article and here it is:
That file will be a sweet reference, thanks!
Posted 14 December 2005 - 03:40 PM
nice post. "teeth counts" has been a regular topic here lately. i have replaced many subaru timing belts and have never once sat there and counted teeth. just line up the cams and the belt properly and you'll be fine.
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what advantage does a belt have over the chain? less friction?
I would guess more silent and no need to lubricate.
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Posted 16 December 2005 - 09:07 AM
Another thing could be the orientation. Once again when I think of timing chains I think of them running mostly up-down. This means that gravity won't cause it to sag as much. Whereas with the boxer there has to be a lot of lateral length of chain. With a heavy chain, rather than a light belt, it might sag too much.
Posted 16 December 2005 - 12:05 PM
The manufacturers went to belts sometime in 70-80's due to less stretch in belts vs chains. Supposedly queiter too, but a minor thing.
The move back to chains in the 90-00's is to prolong service intervals and increase reliability.
Subaru went back to chain in H6 for mere space savings.
Posted 16 December 2005 - 03:41 PM
went back? when did they ever have a chain before the H-6?
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