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To: stan_hughes who wrote (343587)9/16/2007 2:31:47 PM
From: CapitalistHogg™  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
it sounds like to me that u are saying that the counterculture of self directed finance has a natural inclination towards bearish/ <private views> to offset the bullish <public views> of Wall Street. at least expressed in investment BB's like SI.

Since sophisticated investors have the wherewithal to engineer financially complex positions, their BB monikers might have self interested tendencies toward short/long systems.

i fall into the bear camp, i invest long term but i try to get the big score going short stuff that seems to have gone parabolic or gambling in futures and FX. i think its 'cause i just don't like "The MAN". i don't like anyone who i think could cause me trouble simply cause they have the power to do so! hedge funds, wall street and big government all fall into that category. since i ain't connected have no relationships with anyone in the government or Goldman Sachs i naturally feel threatened. they can take away my speculative trades and freedom in a less time than it takes to say "i'm a patriot".

my original point though was that for most of us the sky is not falling but yet we insist upon echoing negative outlooks all over these investment boards. me included. but yet if u have been short in this market (of course with exceptions) ur a$$ has been handed to you. so how long as a group are we going to insist that the crash is around the corner? why doesn't the sky fall? i don't know why it didn't fall a long long time ago. my hunch though is two things...American power and psychology. everything else is simply irrelevant. dick cheney understands this and that's why he insists that deficits don't matter. i think that cocksuckers right!! they don't!! only the power at the end of a gun matters ultimately and as long as "pig men" believe it (read psychology) the expansion of Rome will continue. end of rant.

Be bold, stay sold, got gold?

or

Be strong, Get long,
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