Should Brandon Stay or Go

Aphex, are you becoming depressed? with all that talk you have me worried. Lets put away those Nick Drake albums for the winter...

Good luck everyone this week!

It should be interesting.. overhead resistance to contend with, Fed, cisco..
 
Originally posted by aphexcoil
One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead and nobody will care what any of us thought. A few hundred million years from now, all life on Earth will be terminated. Cities will decay, rust and crumble and the only thing that will be left are a few plastic container buried deep within the Earth.

Then a few billion years later, if anything does manage to survive on the Earth, the sun will most assuredly take care of that problem by creating a level 12 shockwave that will rip through this planet and leave nothing larger than a few big rocks that you could hold in your hand.

Then, the Andromeda galaxy will eventually slam into our own galaxy (part of the local cluster of galaxies), and demolish most of the stuff in our own galaxy and any other civilizations that happen to be in our galaxy.
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... what kind of a analogy is that???

So I'll take it further, Aphie...

Let's forget about all the chores and responsibilities in society and do what ever we like. Let's go kill guys we hate, let's steal and eat what we like, let's rape a fine chick walking down the street!!!

Who cares if we succeed in trading, we're just a little spec in the universe and no one cares about what we do in life!!! Screw them!!!


For me...

My life may not be worth much but for me, my life is worth everything there is.
 
Anyone who has ever looked in the mirror to check their appearance has "a touch of narcissism." :)

Since Toni once said Brandon dresses "like a bum", he might not qualify actually. :D

Looks like you have several pages of posts all saying stay. For the Gallup organization that is probably enough to qualify as the voice of the majority of Americans.

I could understand deciding to bail if the posts bashing your existence contained cogent arguments. But they don't...so don't.

:)
 
I see that there has been a rash of referendums on the value of certain posters on ET but one organized by the subject is certainly a first.

Reminds me of that Clash song, "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?", but with a measure of self indulgence.
 
Originally posted by m_c_a98
Aphex, are you becoming depressed?
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You're damn right I'm depressed. Monday is going to open and my MSFT puts are going to be worth absolutely nothing. This will be yet another time that I have gotten creamed from stupidity.

I'm going to go now. I have something important I need to do.
 
Brandon

I see no reason for you to go. In all of my interactions on Elitetrader, including a couple of your online seminars, I do not recall that you hyped your website to the point of being obnoxious. For what it is worth, in my opinion you have offered some great insights into how to make sense of this thing called "The Markets". While I am willing to consider almost any opinion or perspective, it is refreshing to run across somebody who has obviously given much thought to analysis of the market and is willing to discuss it in public and actually make sense!!! While I do not subscribe to your service, you have stated that you post your trades realtime. If that is true, that is putting your money where your mouth is (I hate dangling participles).

For those of you who resent the success of the Trading From Main Street website or just feel like making the gripe de jour, Brandon and his partner, Toni Hanson produce a daily email at "no charge" that gives considerable graphic technical analysis of the markets, along with some thoughtful commentary. At no time have I ever been made to feel that I was getting my arm twisted to subscribe to anything that was not of interest to me. I appreciate the opinions and analysis that Brandon and Toni make available.

Louie Rousseau
 
Originally posted by aphexcoil
One hundred years from now, we'll all be dead and nobody blah, blah, blah...
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Hell, 100 days from now and Baron will have to buy a new server just for your message traffic.
 
Originally posted by Brandonf
One thing I have learned in life is not to stick around where I am not welcome. Over the last hour or so I have been catching up on the discussions here on ET and the more I read the more it seems obvious it is that the most vocal members on ET resent my pressence here and would rather have it to themselves and see me leave. In the spirit of democracy and in honor of our upcoming mid term elections I want to put my continued contributions here to a vote. Should I stay, or should I go?

Personelly I think my contribution here is generally positive. The majority of my posts cover specific trading applications and I feel that people can use it in their own trading. Yes, I do run a successful commercial site, but I have never forced anyone to join. We continue to grow dispite having no focused efforts on marketing. That can say whatever you want it to say. I dont think that the fact that I happen to run a site makes my contributions here less valuable then anyone elses, but maybe this is not the majority opinion. I rarely make a direct mention of my chatroom and I can not recall a single time in the last several months that I have directly solicited a member from ET either in public or private. I have gone out of my way to post info that I feel would be useful to people regardless of them ever joining my commercial service.

I am not going to make a defense of what I do. Those who chose to disregard what I say, or not like me because I have something to sell, never will like me. There is nothing I can do to change their minds. I had though that by posting quality info here people's opinions would change, but obviously there are a number of people who simply resent anyone who has something to sell to traders.

If the majority of people here think I dont offer anything useful then I will be on my way. I have no desire to to be in a place where I am not welcome. If the majority feels my contributions are positive and want me to stay, I would very much like to do that. If the majority want me to stay, then I will take some comfort from knowing that it is only a small group who will never think positively of me simply because of a choice I have made which has given me a lot of happyness and has been profitable as well.

The choices are.

Yes- I think Brandon should leave Elite Trader. He is just like all the other vendors out there praying on newbie's. Everyone would be better off with out him posting on ET.

No- I don't think Brandon should leave Elite. Even though he is a vendor, I think his posts have been positive and he contributes to making Elite Trader a better place. I want him to keep posting.

I will respect whatever the vote is.

Brandon
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I have an alternate suggestion, one that might just satisfy the pro's and con's.

Why not just post under an alias? That way, you can still make your points, share your ideas, and keep your business separate from what goes on in the forum.

If someone really likes what you are saying, you can have them PM you to discuss things.

There is a very fine line between being helpful, and solicitation. It is human nature to want to help, based on our experiences, it is also human nature to want to bring in the business. It is a very slippery slope to maintain integrity when people you run into here at the forum could potentially increase the business you are involved in.

This solution would allow you to run your business, not be accused of solicitation, and allow those who are naturally attracted to what you have to say to inquire privately.
 
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