Point taken, and I understand that this guy has been annoying to people. guess I missed a lot of that myself.
but you sound a tad naive yourself. you're complaining that someone might be attempting to (horrors!!) manipulate investors? what exactly do you think happens in the markets every day by the major money players? what do you think is happening every time your broker's company tells him to to recommend a certain stock to you? what do you think IO does every time it puts out a press release on any particular day instead of another?
it's not legally and technically "manipulation," but neither is the way you're using the word, correct?
we are a long, long way from the pristine, idealistic days of the Net. this is just another medium through which certain individuals and organizations work. (didn't you hear about the employees who were being paid by some investment-related company to go onto message boards and try to sway opinion earlier this year?)
quite frankly, I don't care what skinner's motivations were. I make my own decisions, as I'm sure you do, and if people get swayed by him (which I doubt) it usually doesn't effect what I do, unless it creates some obvious cold-blooded opportunity I can use. it's no different than any of the other large and thousands of small factors that do or could effect the market, or this stock in particular.
these boards, like everything that happens in the markets, is best kept at a great emotional distance. emotions make traders and investors lose money. don't let folks like skinner ruffle you in the least. most all of these posts are worth a small smile or two, something to look at, like people magazine (mine included). but why waste the mental energy even considering what he's done or doing or why? |
