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ChkitOut · Jan 25, 2009

The magazine was awful. I hate to see an honest business venture fail but yeah, that mag was shit and quite frankly gave trading a bad name. The ads made it seem as if your typical trader buys yachts and 25K watches. Laughable.

marketsurfer · Jan 25, 2009

it was targeted for the winners and /or high salary institurional trader types

losers could never afford nor want to have the things advertised.

obviously, someone buys this stuff and the marketers know it.

surf

marketsurfer · Jan 25, 2009

Quote from Surdo:

It figures!

nice to see you, surdo.

marketsurfer · Jan 25, 2009

Quote from sammybea:

Kinda sad in my opinion. I got my issues for free, but prob would have splurged the 100 bucks a year for a subscription. Aside from the "top traders" and the ads aimed at the successful trader, I thought some of the articles were quite interesting. Johnny chan's column relating poker to trading was my favorite.

agree.

chan is cool--good articles.

surf

Thunderdog · Jan 25, 2009

Quote from operator:

This sucks, now where will I go to get my jets....

Don't you just hate when that happens?

Thunderdog · Jan 25, 2009

Quote from marketsurfer:

it was targeted for the winners and /or high salary institurional trader types

losers could never afford nor want to have the things advertised.

obviously, someone buys this stuff and the marketers know it.

surf

I suppose that's the reason for the magazine's astonishing success.

martymjp · Jan 25, 2009

They should go to Obama for a bailout

mail2smitty · Jan 25, 2009

Maybe they could come up with a Ponzi scheme magazine, those guys appear to buy similar luxury items as that advertised in TM...

marketsurfer · Jan 25, 2009

Quote from Thunderdog:

I suppose that's the reason for the magazine's astonishing success.

the demographic was crushed in 2008.

more like the cutting of high paying wall street type trader jobs is the cause of the troubles.

i know its hard for you to believe, but traders actually buy the stuff in that magazine. maybe not elite traders but succesful traders.

surf

Thunderdog · Jan 25, 2009

Quote from marketsurfer:

the demographic was crushed in 2008.

more like the cutting of high paying wall street type trader jobs is the cause of the troubles.

i know its hard for you to believe, but traders actually buy the stuff in that magazine. maybe not elite traders but succesful traders.

surf

A fool and his money...

I guess the fool in question parted with both his money and his job, eh?

Conspicuous consumption is, by definition, fashioned to draw attention. Well, it has drawn that attention.