ROFL... "Big Hit"? "IR"? Ed, you musta done too many contact sports as a kid 'cause your brain seems a bit addled.
So back in July I sez to Frank a.k.a. The Naked Emperor of the Gorilla Gamers (he calls me The One Who Shall Not Be Named) that just like any other investment strategy, his precious game should be measured by return on investment, which sucks frankly. And contemporaneously I sez to his dashing but ignorant side kick Mike that SEBL closed at $11 and change which makes his front office Gorilla game a washout, as predicted.
Except this dude who demonstrates occasional flashes of brilliant insight clouded by periods of incoherent dogmatic blabber with enough stones (gall) to write investment articles for something called "Rule The World" decides to take one sided sides in a two-sided battle and flame me as an idiot for daring to insult his insulting friends.
Probably wouldn't have triggered the reaction if it wasn't so close to the mark, huh? One thing more mean spirited and unrelenting is this market of ours. Which you probably know by now says "I told you so" every day you continue to hang on to those lofted losers.
Check out the results. SEBL's since been cut in half again over the last 3 months. And some of the die-hard gamers continue to moan about the cruelty of the market even while clinging to pre-conceived but dangerous notions nevertheless and demonstrate a tenacious impermeability to learning opportunities.
In truth, better men have called me an unrelenting, mean spirited jerk, or worse, and been more right about it. So have worse men. Like yourself, for example. You called me a moron for mocking someone I thought was full of himself and full of carp at the same time. I think this is it here: Message 14692579
Check out the context around that, huh? Like where you mock bambs prediction of bankruptcies and collapse? SI is littered with such bon-mots of 'contemporaneous wisdom'.
Like the old saying: If you can't take a joke, be one.
You write I just call them as I see them.... well, frankly Ed it's probably more fair to say that you only see what you already believe and then call that.
Some people think differently, but I happen to think that the proper way of letting someone know they're full of $hit(about to lose a lot of money) is to tell them straight up. And more important why I think so. Or at least describe the situation by odor, color, texture, composition and position to a degree that someone with more than compost between the ears can figure it out. And when it comes to investment strategies, sometimes the way to tell a whole bunch of people they are being fertilized is to take on whoever appears to be spreading the most around make it obvious what they are doing. Naturally these people suffer from the embarrassment that such exposure attracts. Some deal with it in a mature and responsible way, facts being what they are.
A few get down off what they thought was a lightly polluting BMW and apologize to everyone behind them. Others figure it's my fault they chose to commute in a manure spreader and launch into a personal vendetta.
If it was about digital photography or hairstyles or whether or not the older or younger Bush is a better president, and so on, then no sense in triggering pointless conflict. But this is about investment. The point here is to figure out what the heck is going on and move real money in response. If that's not why you're here, sorry if it messes up your day, but that's why I'm here.
Falling in love with a stock is a bad thing dude. Hope you get over it one of these days. CSCO was a pyramid scheme wrapped around a great business. And until the wrapper comes off it's still a lousy investment. Get over it. Cisco's not alone. Many others like that. Could have been SEBL, for example.
Big hit? Nah, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. IR? Hardly. I spent the last half of July and all of August mostly in the woods and parks across Canada and the Western US, and despite those who think the Internet should be everywhere I happen to disagree.
But I'm back now.
Your trusty [unrelenting, mean spirited] thread moron who has no position in Cisco (except by accident through a mutual fund), 'cause I think that would be hazardous to my wealth. For a host of reasonably thought out reasons that so far have turn out to be more correct than originally expected.
aka John
P.S. Yup, here's the sucker rally, right on cue. |
