To all: . . . . . .What will this weekend's Amazon.bomb be?. . .
And which publication will be selected to do the dirty deed. Will it be the Wall Street Journal's turn? Let's see Barrons had it last week. How about the New York Times?
Here's a solution: Force the editors, publishers and producers of the most "respected" media on Wall Street to TRADE their recommendations with THEIR OWN MONEY for just one year. I would be fascinated to see the results.
Sure, I read these publications. . . .but mostly for the funny pages. If I cannot believe ONE article to be unbiased, how can I believe ANY of them? So the entire time I am reading these "analysts" views, I am feeling like I am being trapped by the vacuum cleaner salesman. . . .or stuck in some time share presentation.
To be successful, we online traders must become our own journalists. We must rely on one another, for unbiased perspectives and critical insight in this fight for dollars. . . BIG bucks against the little bucks. I will read a post on Silicon Investor or Raging Bull with FAR more interest than one appearing in the Wall Street Journal. Because I can sense that the writer has his own money on the line. The individual online investor tends to look at both sides of an argument before plunking down his money.
And I prefer the scummy, scammy and endless drivel from Yahoo's Message Boards to Barrons, where the cover stories have FAR too much impact on the market trading than one paper should be allowed. Are there not regulations against manipulation of the market of any sort? Does the SEC have a double standard?
It is NOT a zero sum game. The brokerage houses and market makers make commissions on each and every "trade" we make, to the tune of billions of dollars per year. We pay them. And when we allow ourselves to be convinced to dump the great companies and run to refuge with the safe ones. . .it is a victory for the big guys. . .at our ultimate expense.
This weekend you will hear how A.T. and T. has made a "terrible mistake" in judgment by going after cable companies with their billions. You have already heard that AMZN is going to bomb. We have heard that EBAY is a joke. This weekend, we will hear something like "the lights are on, but nobody's @Home."
Wall Street is the Wild West. ANYTHING the big money must do. . .any bribe, any lie, any dirt they can dredge up, to suit their "bigger purpose" is fair. And truly anything goes.
Their current motive is to SHAKE shares of the best internets from the hands of the "weak". . . those that cannot afford to take the loss. . . so they must sell, because they read something in a "respected" newspaper. A while back it was Network Solutions losing their monopoly on domain names, so we were led to fear NSOL would be headed back to single digits, by analysts in TV interviews. Yet there was no mention of the fact that Network Solutions will be getting a percentage of all the revenue generated by domain names.
The TRUE revelation is this:
The internet in its many forms is here to stay. . .and the set-top box will bring it into EVERY home in America.
Now do you want to be on the sidelines holding Caterpillar and Alcoa in fear of being a loser? Or do you want to be standing in the light with those that didn't waiver, knowing you stuck-to-your-guns? When Wall Street reverses direction and suddenly Sunday's papers read how the Next Generation Internet is the biggest communications revolution since the Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. . . do you want to read that story with a big smile on your face, knowing that you are well-positioned to profit from market moves in favor of NGI that day? Or the one paying those premiums and scrambling to get in?
I have been down on E-commerce companies over the past 3-4 months, due to market saturation and the dilution that brings. But at the same time, there WILL be clear winners, when this communications revolution hits. But right now, the CLEAR winners are difficult to see. We need to expand our thinking. Broaden our vision. And include in the picture both companies we know and those we have never even imagined.
For instance, why has Wal-Mart waited so long to unveil their E-commerce strategy? My guess is that they are not bothering with the old-technology internet with its limited bandwidth and small percentage of users. . .but rather I believe this retailing empire will be fully focused on the Next-Generation Internet and the many opportunities it presents. Could this better explain why Amazon has been so obsessed with Wal-Mart's internet plans of late?
Yes, there will be a changing of the guard. And as Independent Online Investors, it is "our" job to find those winners now and take our positions while the internet is getting creamed both by the press and by the street. We are merely loading up with the finest winter coats at bargain basement prices during the red-hot summer sale. And don't think for a moment that we are alone in our quest. Look who's trying on that charcoal grey full-length Armani cashmere. Why it's none other than the writer of the Amazon.bomb story.
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