I am glad of your return and revision of your thoughts about leaving. I don't want people to leave, I want them to post their thoughts on stocks.
Regarding some of the tempestuousness that takes place throughout our SI boards:
I assume bias on all posts, I don't care for personal attacks no matter the evangelical urge to reveal the truth. Nothing is ever simple, especially investing in speculative instruments. Stock board posters are equally as mercurial as the venture stocks we pursue, one cannot come to a new school, walk in the classroom and understand all that is taking place and what personality traits affect what is being done and said, it takes time just as it takes time to come to grips with what a morass speculative jr. stocks are. Allow people to form their own opinions of posters, glean what positives you can from posts, accept all failure as your own. Adjust your views going forward based on experience but don't try to mix that up with revealing what you think a poster is up to, or engaging in duels, it serves no purpose. Just share your heads up, your DD etc. and let that stand on its own.
I have gained much from so many posters here and I have also tried to incorporate and assign behavioural characteristics, based on my experiences, to the weight I give to posts. It is often said you only buy what you can afford to lose and I believe that same axiom applies to accepting the recommendations of fellow posters here on SI or any other investment chat site.No matter the "presumed" motivation of a poster's heads up, I generally consider them all a chance to look for myself.
I have but one person on SI, after 20 years that I simply refuse to engage with and that is how I have chosen to deal with that someone I consider too over the top. I simply do not engage,bother trying to refute, disparage them, or hope what I say can reveal them for what they are for the benefit of others. I just leave it alone.
I am pleased our group of boards have become, once again, active and fertile ground for money making ideas. We have suffered years of lousy jr markets and severely reduced SI activity, in the past 18 mos or so, there has been a great turnaround. Lots of good ideas have been presented, short term, long term, downside risks, pure pump only etc. , no matter what or why, the thoughts are flowing. For that I am grateful.
On that note, for the second time this week , I am declaring HSLATT on VLE. Don't think my reccos are attention grabbers within the community, I am not a first line player, and clearly not an agile day trader but each and every recco here is an opportunity for others to take a look , do some DD and decide if they think an opportunity has presented itself. I like the stimulation of ideas from our forums !! |
