The bear market rally is now done - Monday starts another downtrend - see attached

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Is 82 your birth year, btw? In that case, I was trading when you were three. This is to stop any of the usual stupid-ass responses posters like you seem to pull from their nether regions.

(BTW, as well, you are only the second poster outside of the Politics forum to whom I have posted an answer like this. I have a lot of patience, but it's not infinite. You are by far working on my last nerve.)
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Well, well . . .
Speak of the devil.
Yet another classy ET alias at work.

And no, I was not born in 1982.
That was the year that I first became a member of an exchange.
And you say that I'm "working on your last nerve"?

I'm very flattered!
But thanks for your genuine concern.
Very classy of you.
:)
 
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landis82:
Why not just ask to be a Moderator, in that case? Simple, stupid solution.
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It's not as simple as that. Moderators only have so much power, and cannot perform the tasks necessary to restore the site to the state Landis is suggesting.
 
I can operate the wayback machine and can see exactly how this website looked.

I think you are just a spammer here to throw our discussions off topic.

Here are samples of the informative posts back in the day:

bungrider
Senior Member

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 321


06-04-02 08:11 PM
Greenspan 6/4/02
If I called Greenspan and asked him to do me a favor - namely, to shut the fuck up during market hours - do you think he'd do it?


Romeo
Senior Member

Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 107


07-08-03 01:27 PM
S&P 500 looking very toppy
My quantitative analysis tells me that we are in the process of forming a major top in the S&P 500.

The formation looks to be either a head and shoulders formation, or a double top pattern. Either way, the indices are beginning to point lower.

Any comments are welcome!

Romeo


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The fungus is among us


Quote from Landis82:

With all due respect, you are wrong.

This website used to contain much more substance and value, especially in the TRADING FORUM by people that actually traded for a living. Unfortunately, many "senior" experienced traders have left because the content of these forums on ET has fallen by the wayside, and is now on par with that of a Yahoo message board. The continued "cut and paste" posts in this Forum ( as well as others ) to support grandiose Bull or Bear predictions on the market is strong evidence of this. Real traders aren't concerned with such predictions . . .

ET didn't used to be this way.

ET used to be frequented by actual TRADERS who traded for a living and didn't need to seek out any validation from posting such "predictions" on an anonymous website on the Internet superhighway. Besides, they had the MARKET tell them ( and their ego ) whether they were right or wrong. That was enough for them.

I would hope that for 2009 and the New Year that ET and its membership is cognizant of how much better this website could be.
Perhaps a subscription site would be constructive in paving the way towards more valuable content, while cutting down on all of the childish and insidious aliases that currently frequent the site.
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Baron's site is ranked 20,000 on Alexa which is the highest rating it has ever received. The type of site that Landis suggested existed when the membership was only around a few thousand strong and wasnt even ranked.

Its impossible to ever bring it back. Then again, there were quite a few useless posts back then too.

You cant expect to come on to a website with hundreds of thousands of users and expect it to be what you want.

My suggestion is, that if you are so well connected, then start your own site which many of the previous membership did. They started their own private blogs and boards and made a profit off it.

Quote from Ivanovich:

It's not as simple as that. Moderators only have so much power, and cannot perform the tasks necessary to restore the site to the state Landis is suggesting.
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Quote from Ivanovich:

It's not as simple as that. Moderators only have so much power, and cannot perform the tasks necessary to restore the site to the state Landis is suggesting.
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Unfortunately, that may indeed be true Ivan.
That is why I have often made the suggestion of turning ET into a pay-site; at the very least that would serve to cut down on the alias factor.
 
I dont have that many aliases here on ET.

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Unfortunately, that may indeed be true Ivan.
That is why I have often made the suggestion of turning ET into a pay-site; at the very least that would serve to cut down on the alias factor.
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Of course, that being said, the objective of any forum is to encourage discussion about the subject desired - in this case, trading. Sometimes Landis gets pissed off at the posts that are made, but I see nothing wrong with them. I attribute this to the fact that the posts are so beneath Landis's level of knowledge that he loses patience and responds in a harsh manner.

I am no where near the level of trader/investor that Landis is, so when I see a post that has some level of detail and can encourage any discussion at all that might have one iota of value to someone ( and not just a pro, but anyone ) I leave the discussion where it is.

This post by Port was lacking any original insight, but it did encourage a discussion about technical analysis wherein I had hoped people would get into a conversation about what was wrong with his chart, or what it had lacking.

They did this, but in an argumentitive fashion - and THAT is one of the major problems about the site. People just need to remember that some of us are newbies, and this is also a place where we learn. It's not just about the elites, despite the name of the site.
 
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