Your apology is certainly accepted and I personally would like to welcome you back to the thread.
<< I have read and reread the PR today,... >> I made that suggestion right after it was posted today and whether you saw that post or not is unimportant. The fact is that you did read and reread it... and "read between the lines"... something every intelligent investor should do (there are, IMO, too many garbage PRs put out in a regular pattern by too many companies all with the intent of hyping their stock). Your interpretation of its' importance to TSIG is the same as mine and for the same reasons. It gives an overview of the concept to be used as part of the TSIG/CCI marketing plan and the success I strongly believe it will have. And, IMO, there will be many more to come in the near future. Last week I spent a few hours with one of the most outstanding and reputable marketing persons in the western hemisphere... he had over 30 years of highly successful selling and marketing experience before becoming a marketing consultant and trainer for a number of Fortune 500 companies... and he only works with a five (5) year contract... not "one shot" deals. I discussed the TSIG/CCI marketing plan with him. He was quite familiar with this type of marketing and was very impressed with the manner in which TSIG was planning to implement the strategy. As he said, it is always a slow start, but it grows geometrically and expotentially and should be explosive within a reasonable time.
I still believe you are a short-term trader and I have no objection to you choosing your own style. Perhaps the financial pressures of school have made you look for the "quick ones" to meet your extraordinary obligations. But I do believe, IMO, your actual goals might be far better served if you were a long-term investor in TSIG. I repeat...that is just my opinion. Along those same lines, I have never objected to intelligent criticism of TSIG... if it is done with the intent of helping the company and your investment. But I do object to the boisterous ranting and raving of some posters who sit on their glut. maximus, are unwilling to do any real DD on their own or contribute anything of substance to the thread, and cry and whine all day. And then there are the schizophrenics who one minute post positives and the next minute are bashing TSIG. And it's always about the stock price at that minute. Their goals would perhaps be better served if they vented their feelings in a positive way to management through Liz S. at TSIG. Many of their points may have validity, but they're not talking to the right people. This thread consists of investors... not the management of TSIG.
Success requires patience and patience IS a virtue. You, as a medical student, should know this more than most. If you think it's rough now, wait until after the match and your years of residency begin. You'll learn very quickly how to "bite your cheek" and just keep on going and going and going... and there will be very little time (if any) for trading during those years. Oncology will teach you a great deal. Sit in on some of the weekly team conferences (particularly the pediatric ones) and you'll soon realize that 90% probably won't make it... but the 10% that you help make it will give you a joy that very few will ever experience. Sort of sounds like BB stocks, doesn't it... except stocks are only money and you do have some control over your investments. Medicine is much more humbling!
Well, I've talked enough for tonight and I do welcome you back to the thread with the hope that you will now direct your comments to those that can help resolve your concerns. And, BTW, in case you're curious... I was in practice about twelve (12) years before you were born and paid my dues with a five (5) year residency after graduating with honors. Instead of playing golf, however, business and the market have always been my hobby and avocation. But, I enjoy keeping busy. Not only was I Chief at both Cornell and New York Eye & Ear years ago, but I held professorial rank at UCSF and Stanford when I moved here in 1983. In fact, I still teach parttime at Stanford while maintaining a private practice on campus and in San Francisco. My point is simple and certainly not meant to "toot" my own horn, but only to point out that you should always be careful about what you post. You don't know who is behind some of these aliases and names. As I have always taught my residents... "put brain in gear before putting mouth in motion"... and, IMO, you do have a good "brain". Welcome back!!
Best always,
Marty |
