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I would not want to leave posts like those up for very long.John wrote:So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve again?
I was just perusing some trading forums and there is no doubt this thread was being read this weekend in the trading community. This is the first I've seen evidence of that. It appears I left those posts up too long.Higgenbotham wrote:I would not want to leave posts like those up for very long.John wrote:So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve again?
John wrote: > So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve
> again?
Higgenbotham wrote: > I would not want to leave posts like those up for very
> long.
I don't understand. Those posts describe trades that occurred severalHiggenbotham wrote: > I was just perusing some trading forums and there is no doubt this
> thread was being read this weekend in the trading community. This
> is the first I've seen evidence of that. It appears I left those
> posts up too long.
Traders, since most of them are losers who have no idea how to trade or do anything else (probably wouldn't be hired by any employer either) are not a good addition to a forum like this. They will typically spitball other posters with snide comments and garbage posts like this one:John wrote: I don't understand. Those posts describe trades that occurred several
days ago. How would knowing about them now help traders today or in
the future?
Higgenbotham wrote:I'm not saying that a stock market crash will destroy civilization. There will be a stock market crash and the stock market will cease to exist in its current form because the underlying growth rate of the economy will not support a financial system of the type that exists today.CH86 wrote:A stock market crash would not destroy civilization. The market Crash would destroy those entities that heavily invested in the bubble that leads to the crash but largely leave everything else mostly unscathed.
The reason the stock market still exists right now is that it's been massively supported with bailouts that the civilization cannot afford and has come at the expense of massively decaying infrastructure and other problems.
That should get us a few visits by traders.Higgenbotham wrote: > Traders, since most of them are losers who have no idea how to
> trade or do anything else (probably wouldn't be hired by any
> employer either) are not a good addition to a forum like
> this. They will typically spitball other posters with snide
> comments and garbage posts like this one:
CH86 or Cynic Hero 86 is not a trader. He's a semi-nutcase visitingCH86 wrote: > A stock market crash would not destroy civilization. The market
> Crash would destroy those entities that heavily invested in the
> bubble that leads to the crash but largely leave everything else
> mostly unscathed.
The word for that kind of person isn't "trader." It's "troll."Higgenbotham wrote: > That would be a typical post that a trader would make. The idea
> would be to make false assertions about any idea that attacks
> their pre-conceived and rigid notions about how their
> libertarian-based utopia is supposed to work.
> Since freddyv is dead and was a trader who posted on Seeking
> Alpha, I'll refer back to a post he made. He told me that I would
> probably give up on the short side right before the market topped.
> Obviously, his snide comment indicated his ego was super-sized and
> the bubble killed him (at age 55) before it topped.