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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly: Drilling II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t4texas who wrote (148)	8/18/2001 7:48:39 AM
From: Frank Pembleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36161

hey gang, the reason for this thread was to limit personal attacks -- the problem with SD (unmoderated) anyone could just ambush a conversation with insults and disrupt the flow and leave, only to come back a week later to do-it all over again. This is what killed SISD, it killed the original SISA, but as a moderated forum, Shark Attack II averages 250-300 post per day, it flourished! The only thing off-topic here is a personal attack. BTW, if you have a decent size dog tell us about it, I luv to hear it. :) Regards Frank P. From SI:the member who created the subject can exclude any other member from posting messages to that subject. The member who started the subject has control over who is excluded from posting.

To: t4texas who wrote (148)	8/18/2001 9:18:30 AM
From: isopatch	Respond to of 36161

They're carrying the water for the big investment houses who supply their advertising revenue. It's been that way ever since America had a stock market. Strategy will be to slowly turn up the volume and frequency of negative commentary. The process has been going on for awhile already. But they've clearly shifted from 1st to 2nd gear.<g> A reasonable expectation for the months ahead is for financial coverage of the patch to become increasingly pessimistic. It takes time and persistent conditioning by discouraging spin and scary stories to weaken the resolve of buy and hold investors and fund managers. The most vulnerable to being manipulated is the large %age in both categories with only a few years of experience. By October, expect their articles as well as a lot of comment on CNBC to simply be pounding and pounding away on their trusting readers till they capitulate during the twin scourges of fall shoulder season and tax selling in the patch stocks. Takes a lot of newsprint, verbiage and spin over a period of time to break the very buy and hold habits that the financial media encouraged during the big ramp up in 1999 and 2000. The financial media have played the same role in every bull and subsequent bear cycle I've worked in. JMVVHO, Isopatch