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Pastimes : AN HONEST PERSON OR A CYBER SCAMMER? WHO DON'T YOU TRUST? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam who wrote (8)	4/28/1998 3:48:00 PM
From: NAUGHTY NOTES	Respond to of 54

been an expensive learning process? you have to figure a good college or university degree will run you over 35000 easily (in canada), so if it takes you 10 to 20 to learn the real way the markets work (guts,emotion and deception to name a few) than you got a cheap lesson. if you are depending on people on these threads for advice you have to be really careful. i've been playing pretty heavily in the junior golds and tech stocks for ten years and still can't claim to be anything close to an expert. i have missed some great trading opportunities on these threads via private messages or what have you, but i also still have a shirt on my back. the number one rule is to trust nobody until they deem themselves trustworthy. with the computer we really have no body language or personal connection which makes it really hard to develop trust. what have you done lately that was a disaster. i was a pro trader for a while and was in such a rut every time i wanted to buy something and knew i was right i would go short twice as much. unfortunately for me that was the end of the rut and i killed myself. but now i trust my calls and have learned to take profit at a fairly early stage. as that saying goes "nobody ever went broke taking a small profit". have you taken any bad advice to lose your money or did you do it all by yourself? anybody you want to blame? remember it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.