RE:Question for latice, hedgefunder, protrader, and craigbad
You're technically not really addressing me but I'll answer anyway. I trade for a living. Had a job with banksters years ago coding but didn't like working for fat crooks that rip people off. Most investors have no idea how slimly the fat banksters and brokerage desk traders are.
Look at the moving The Big Short to see how bad it is. NYC is home of the top scum driving up real estate prices so it's well beyond the average guy. I was making a really good salary but I actually felt poor there! Same thing in Vancouver, what fuels that market? Dirty money from the foreign markets and the crooks steal from the little guy.
The regulators and governments keeps telling us they want to level the playing field, I'm here with my 8 ton excavator pushing to see which hill has gold and which are SHIIT! This is 100% SHIIT!
SHIIT ! SHIIT ! SHIIT! SHIIT! SHIIT! SHIIT! SHIIT!
Most traders aren't very smart. You see the worst of the worst here compensating for the complete lack of trade intelligence with clown acrobatics. They have to manipulate others to compensate for not doing due dilligence (if working on fundamentals) or can't read a basic chart or TA! Top idiot on another board uses a money and dartboard to pick his entry and exit points. God know that he does with the monkey when the markets are closed!
So now, I'm a "freedom fighter" and trade my own accounts and that of others. I love Marc Cohodes and the little angel here actually. These guys are now my idols!!! "Street smart", "reformed" gone back to real life and fighting scumbags.
The professional shorting guys going at Concordia convinced me that although I found shorting a stress in the past and found it "anti-investment", a little angel has showed me that if you short bad companies, it's actually a good thing. Make me ill that I was going after these shorters and aligning myself and defending crooks! And the thing with me, I don't get mad. I get even.
And I show my full dedication to the cause. Whether short or long. Drives the more conservative guys and gals nuts and some, instead of using the ignore, count my every post. Read them, fixes my typos and even suggest decreasing my word count for the brainless and reducing my post frequencies. Nice no? LOL The only place I get that level of attention is when I get a foot spa! ;-) LOL
In this case, if I can help a little guy (and people who aren't registered but read me) get educated on financial and social engineering, the better I feel.
Philantropy of sort.
And, if you short, you can't ignore your position for long, because BOOM, these professional market players can take you out real quickly. So I'm here chatting away, annoying the hell out of people to determine who is a crook and how is honest. I sometimes peg people the wrong way, I went at Lattice really, really hard off board. A Grade AsssHole if there is such a thing.... But every challenge I threw out at Lattice came back as "not a crook". And, when I stopped the "attack the basher" routine and checked the facts, I quickly saw "WOW, how did I manage to defend this crooked house of cards???" NOBODY has been able to make me feel bad here except myself going after someone looking for justice. For that, I will try to redeem myself.
I'm a student of the markets and I enjoy learning even if that sometimes means pushing the envelop or the salad bowl.