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Pastimes : Why teach if you can trade? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harpo who wrote (87)	1/5/2001 11:37:04 PM
From: Benedito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 313

"I have had the "Dear Anthony" thread bookmarked on SI since it's inception, and I don't recall paying to read any of the 65,000 posts there, in fact Anthony has made over 14,000 posts himself, according to his profile, including many "calls", all for free. " Do you understand that there may be a 600 a month per person agenda behind those posts...or perhaps a movement in stock price agenda? By the way, I am fascinated by the aspect of not being able to pay interest on a 20,000 fine. Any explanations of why such a guru whiz who never makes a bad call and makes millions couldn't pay interest on a fine? Assuming of course that he was telling the truth to the court and not committing another felony.

To: Harpo who wrote (87)	1/5/2001 11:46:00 PM
From: parker_meridian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 313

Maybe human nature is such that we want to, and take pleasure in, passing on what we know so it won't be lost. But why charge if the pleasure is in sharing the knowledge...when places like SI provide a convenient place to do it free, particularly if you are already raking in the $ trading? All sorts of people charge to teach various disciplines, I have in my profession, and people are generally willing to pay more for the better teachers. I think the difference in trading is that no other discipline provides the potential earnings practicing the discipline on it's own. Well maybe they do...but tiger Woods isn't going to sell his time offering golf lesson, Julia Roberts isn't giving acting lessons for some $ on the side. Sure there are lots of people offering lessons in these type of things, but no one is under the illusion that the teachers are "the best" in their field. One of the guru's on SI who operates "DA ROOM" claimed today to be "the best at reading P&F there is i know." As regards trading, maybe it's worth a lot of money to be taught by a knowledgeable and talented, if not controversial, personality in private without having to wade through all of the idiotic, mindless drivel we find on SI by persons with nothing better to do than breathe hatred and spew nonsense Most of the gurus who market on SI have moderated threads and yeild a quick finger on the switch. Plus, anyone could use mirc or other free or very low cost solutions for private/controlled chat.