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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Colton who wrote (77669)	12/12/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Bill on the Hill	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 90042

I think that Jack is right about an open forum. I have followed Tim, Jane, Glenn, kathy, Jack, Magic RN and a large host of others that have posted on Wicked and its previous incarnation "No Hand Holding". The cast is like a good broadway play that keeps changing cast members but the play stays the same. No Rest For the Wicked is the long term hit (just look at the number of posts) and the producer and director Tim "CoolHand" Luke has steered his way onto the most bookmarked list of SI and into the bank accounts of countless investors in "Threadland Investing". What this has assured Tim of is that an any moment another egomaniacal pretender to the throne of threadland will step from the shadows in his or her dark style and attack the honesty, charity or style of investing to try to wrestle the crown of threadland from the brow of our appointed director. It also assures him that anything he says or does will be scrutinized, inspected and analyed to the nth degree. If his choices of stocks or for that matter choice of words does not meet the likes or needs of the moment he opens himself to personal attacks which sometimes go even to family matters. Unbelievable. What is it that makes people need to be led? Is it our incomplete mothering we received or our lack of fathering at crucial moments in our formative age? I personally do not think so. I think that when we sense strength in an individual we are given to let that strength rise in that personality. Whether the chosen one likes it or not we begin to draw them into a role of authority where we can say to ourselves, I was told by our leader that this is the correct course of action or some other fabrication that allows us to not have to chart our own course. Then whenever we find that our chosen one has erred....VOILA.... How could we have been led down the yellow brick road!!! Like Dorothy we seem to want the smoke and mirrors and flash to keep us secure in our decision to let someone else decide. I am no different. I want someone else to take over sometimes and make the hard decisions sometimes. Recently I have not had that luxury in my decision making. Suffice it to say that I have found a place in my soul or heart that is a fully functioning adult. I know that no decision could be harder than the ones I have recently made. I also know that giving my decisions over to another in order to release me from the responsibility of my own desicion making is manipulative. I welcome the opportunity to learn from such a fine crowd such as the folks that join in here on a regular basis. This includes the lurkers, beginners, part time traders, pros and yes even jas. The interaction is much better than the soaps. By the way I have eliminated television from my stimulus diet. This learning has included chastisement from time to time and that is just part of the play. This is the open forum theatre that I talked of earlier. Open forum is to me the only choice for this fine collection of people and personalities to continue unabated. What is here is more than a collection of people trying to thicken their bank accounts but we live somehow in each others head. I find myself trying to tell other friends of mine about our conversations here and they just look at me with these blank stares. It is like saying, "You just had to be there". Somehow I think you all know what I mean. By separating ourselves we somehow create more "FIREWALLS" than we can get around. I think that after 77,000 and some odd posts this thread can and is beginning to have a life of its own. It ebbs and flows like anything in life does but in its better moments creates a sense of togetherness and cooperation that can only come from maturity and work. For this reason I hope Wicked remains a completely open forum. Open to the arrogance, egotism, charades, backstabbing, cursing, SHOUTING, helping, caring, sharing that we find here. Tim, your creation has taken on a life of its own. It could go on without your presence but you carry the soul of it with you. Like any good play we all know that it must end someday but after seeing the action this Friday I know that it is not today. If this were a gambling game I would "let em ride". Oh yeah, I forgot. This investing is a gamble. But the difference is with the help of you all I am stacking the deck in my favor. Thanks for your patience, Bill on the Hill

To: Jack Colton who wrote (77669)	12/12/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: Tim Luke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90042

Correct me if I'm wrong Tim, but doesn't an open forum help add people who buy a 'chosen' stock, and consequently help drive the price up? >>> of course that is true but i have said this a million times so i will say it again. my reasons for setting up a password only forum are as follows: 1....so "our" group gets in first, since it is my call i want each and everyone that is in the group to have a fair chance to get in at the same price as i do....also this well give everyone enough time to do a Q&A with me along with doing their own DD....if i just put it out then people just buy the damn thing in panic,...i don't want that because it's not wise investing...were are not momo players. 2...i know this for a fact!!!...the market makers have hired hand who do nothing all day but scan the top stock threads on the web..ie..no rest for the wicked...kim's ..jenna's..last shadow....this is an open diary to what we are doing...who are we?...we are the people and the power who are running these stocks up,,,not these shit for brains stock brokers who have no clue ....they report back to their MM's in real time and this gives them the heads up so they can begin their classic manipulation. 3..the momo playing day traders who would sell their own mother for a point....these guys suck in my opinion, they are nothing but blood sucking leaches...they tout,hype and pump n dump stocks and then when they are gone the little guy is left holding the bag most likely at the top after the stock tanks. 4..the most important!...mark my word i will have a password only private forum with or without gnet's help 5...after we get in then i will put it out on the main forum....