Re: journalism the trader can rely on, I think Jubak
illuminates an important point in this recent
article when he discusses "why the differing attitudes
towards fed policy between those investors" he'd talked to in NY and those in Las Vegas:http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles/invest/jubak/3356.asp He contrasts two groups and two sets of tools, basically those who manage other people's money are in one camp, and those who are do-it-yourself'ers are another.
The word from writers like Cramer is by, for, and about the OPM'er crowd, while GBS and IBD slant toward the DIY'er. There's room for a good rag tailored to the DIY trader; thestreet.com doesn't really fit the bill. I read it to see where the elephants are grazing but as someone mentioned here a couple of times, they seem to have deliberately, for some reason, hired deficient writers on the DIY side.
Of course, as Ogden Nash allegedly said, there are two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't... |
