I think that would be the best-case scenario. More likely, Jack woke up on the wrong side of the looking glass one morning and now can't find his way back. In a perfect world, we would all be more understanding. Unfortunately, his self-proclaimed superiority, his condescension and his abrasive nature grates on my nerves. However, what baffles me are the people who defend him and claim to understand the logic of his arguments.
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Should Hershey hit the highway?
- Thread starter William Rennick
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Jack, if you had ever operated in Washington, youQuote from jack hershey:
When I have been interviewed on TV or in the press I have followed a protocol that has been honored. Before the cameras roll there is a clear understanding of what is off limits and what the consequences are of straying.
If I am having a beer in the press corps lounge at Camp David or having lunch at the Press Club in DC, it is just having a beer or lunch with guys. If I am keeping a weekly background interview by phone on a Thursday pm, it is all background. If I am on press call, again it is all background and precisely related to the subjects and NOT about me.
would know that there is a way to walk back a story.
No one here has dishonored any protocol.
We are not reporters.
You are not a high level government source, speaking on background, not for attribution, etc.
You made it about YOU as soon as you started dropping your "off-the-record" hints about incredible trading gains.
If you had practiced what you preach, walked the talk, you would now own everything,
because compounding would have made it so.
Check your spreadsheet and calculator, Jack. Where did those gains go?
Wow Jack... between all the stuff you've listed below AND: flying your GROB 109 (where the gliderport gives you free tows for some reason); dining at the Princeton Inn; driving your 12 cylinder cars; working on your golf handicap of 12; connecting with Equis, Worden Bros,and IBD; considering offers from the "coast" on doing productions; trading 100,000 share lots; trading 750 ES cars at a time, always in the market and on the right side of it; being on the range as a guest of the Bank of Mexico or ranchers in the US and Canada where you cordon off areas with helicopters and educate assemblages about range rotation; overseeing areas running cattle at four times the rate of four generations ago and maintaining name recognition of 50% with the feeders and growers in Texas; mentoring your legions of toadies (all of whom are making money on a level I haven't conceived of), where in the world do you find the time to write the nearly 5000 posts you've graced and honored us all with?
Quote from jack hershey:
You are incorrect on several counts.
It is not my job to set you straight on your mistaken conclusions.
When I have been interviewed on TV or in the press I have followed a protocol that has been honored. Before the cameras roll there is a clear understanding of what is off limits and what the consequences are of straying.
If I am having a beer in the press corps lounge at Camp David or having lunch at the Press Club in DC, it is just having a beer or lunch with guys. If I am keeping a weekly background interview by phone on a Thursday pm, it is all background. If I am on press call, again it is all background and precisely related to the subjects and NOT about me.
It is hard to imagine what you would be doing if you were making any money. People who make money do not think or behave as you do.
Do you know what people do with money?
Can you imagine what it is like to have 35 speaking engagements in one college semester? Do you know how many air miles that is? Can you imagine what it is like to be autographing books?
This trading stuff and making money is only a part of my life and I am an amateur. Up until now I haven't gotten around to even writing books about it.
To the recent posters. Thanks for engaging..... it has been fun.
Looks like we have covered the bases and the perplexities that you have and have brought up. They are a good thing for anyone to give a run through for drawning conclusions.
The market is the standard of what is possible and I am certainly not any kind of standard to look at.
The message that I got from you is that it is difficult to see the markets and what they offer and it is even more difficult for a person to figure out anything about the markets.
I put a lower level called Assessor as a preface to the Novice level in what I am writing. I am certainly glad I did. It is a very good idea for anyone contemplating trading to look very hard at the elephant in the room from every angle possible.
The way you look at things is very important to point out and to have in the space.
Looks like we have covered the bases and the perplexities that you have and have brought up. They are a good thing for anyone to give a run through for drawning conclusions.
The market is the standard of what is possible and I am certainly not any kind of standard to look at.
The message that I got from you is that it is difficult to see the markets and what they offer and it is even more difficult for a person to figure out anything about the markets.
I put a lower level called Assessor as a preface to the Novice level in what I am writing. I am certainly glad I did. It is a very good idea for anyone contemplating trading to look very hard at the elephant in the room from every angle possible.
The way you look at things is very important to point out and to have in the space.
Will there be a level called phoney or poser or wannabe, etc.?
Quote from jack hershey:
I put a lower level called Assessor as a preface to the Novice level in what I am writing. I am certainly glad I did. It is a very good idea for anyone contemplating trading to look very hard at the elephant in the room from every angle possible.
So, no, you are not going to tell us what televison shows you appear on or who's books you are autographing?
Quote from jack hershey:
To the recent posters. Thanks for engaging..... it has been fun.
Looks like we have covered the bases and the perplexities that you have and have brought up. They are a good thing for anyone to give a run through for drawning conclusions.
The market is the standard of what is possible and I am certainly not any kind of standard to look at.
The message that I got from you is that it is difficult to see the markets and what they offer and it is even more difficult for a person to figure out anything about the markets.
I put a lower level called Assessor as a preface to the Novice level in what I am writing. I am certainly glad I did. It is a very good idea for anyone contemplating trading to look very hard at the elephant in the room from every angle possible.
The way you look at things is very important to point out and to have in the space.
Jack, were you at Camp David during the Reagan, Carter or Bush I adminstration???? Wow. Do you know Karl Rove? Cool!Quote from jack hershey:
If I am having a beer in the press corps lounge at Camp David or having lunch at the Press Club in DC, it is just having a beer or lunch with guys. If I am keeping a weekly background interview by phone on a Thursday pm, it is all background. If I am on press call, again it is all background and precisely related to the subjects and NOT about me.
Were you ever in a broadway play?
I just had to laugh when I read about Jack's autographing books. I mean, can you imagine trying to be Jack's editor? How does one edit the indecipherable?
One of my favorite new quotes from the "Way of the Turtle" which I just finished reading is:
Jack is a pseudo-trader, able to baffle with his bullshit but certainly unable to explain anything at all in clear and easy to understand terms.
Truth is clear and easy to understand.
Prevarification and protification absconds its clandestine purpose in the profound labyrinth of byzantine obfuscation and pompous tergiversation.
One of my favorite new quotes from the "Way of the Turtle" which I just finished reading is:
The reason I laughed when I read this is that Jack came to mind within one second after I read these words.One sure sign of a pseudo-expert is writing that is unclear and difficult to follow. Unclear writing comes from unclear thinking. A true expert will be able to explain complicated ideas in ways that are clear and easy to understand.
Jack is a pseudo-trader, able to baffle with his bullshit but certainly unable to explain anything at all in clear and easy to understand terms.
Truth is clear and easy to understand.
Prevarification and protification absconds its clandestine purpose in the profound labyrinth of byzantine obfuscation and pompous tergiversation.
I agree. And it should come as no surprise that the author has visited this site. No doubt, Jack came to mind for him as well when he wrote that passage.
(I expect receipt of the book from Amazon by mid week. It should be a fine read.)
(I expect receipt of the book from Amazon by mid week. It should be a fine read.)