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To: Robert F. Newton who wrote (11131)2/2/1998 7:53:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (2) of 17305
 
13 Unlucky Traits of an SI Egoist

egoist (ˆ'go-Œst, Šg'o-) noun
One devoted to one's own interests and advancement; an egocentric person.

1. Considers himself a trader so he can never be accused of being on the wrong side of the fence.
2. Always points out how he got in at the low and out at the high.
3. Especially after a period of inactivity, makes safe and vague predictions like "This stock is in a consolidation phase and will breakout; the only question is which way."
4. When stock does break out, will always post "just as I predicted" and then provide reasons why they just happened to guess the right direction.
5. Likes to brag about past successes.
6. When past failures are mentioned, will attack the messenger with cut and paste of that person's past failures.
7. Must have the last say in an argument.
8. If no one responds to a post that was meant to provoke controversy, will repost it.
9. Loves to write long posts with links to other posts he wrote.
10. Loves to be first to post news so he can slant it to suit his current position.
11. Posts questions to pursue an agenda, not because he is curious.
12. Loves to insult the management, not bothering to realize they built a multi-million dollar company from scratch and he can't even spell correctly.
13. Will keep posting even when everyone tells him to stop.

- Jeff
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