What's with ET'ers and all these dumb ass predictions?

[anvil993]

Messiah complex is a state in which the individual believes themselves to be, or destined to become, the saviour of the particular field, a group, an event, a time period, or in an extreme scenario, the world....People with a messiah complex tend to see themselves as saviors to a specific group of people or a specific field, making claims of their own glory, or claiming a self-awareness of their own gift and how that gift can affect a group of people or a field of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_complex

And some just seem to get off watching their post count increase like their imaginary p&l in their sim account.

 

[uptik2000]

Quote from EricP:

RedInk:

A couple of suggestions to make ET a more enjoyable and useful experience. Use the ignore feature to hide posts from wankers making predictions or hawking old Tudor Jones videos. Since I've started doing that, I've found this to be a much less annoying place.

The only problem is that on the wanker-heavy forums, you may only see 2-3 thread titles per forum and not five, as the wanker created forums will not show, and Baron doesn't yet have it programmed to 'promote' the 6th or 7th thread to the main page if any of the top 5 thread were created by an ignored user.

Overall though, the ignore feature is an excellent wanker abatement tool.

Perfect. Except that I haven't gotten to the point of actually using the ignore feature yet. Part of me likes looking to get a good laugh.
Besides, even though so few of the "gurus" even trade or influence anyone, having these sort of idiots provides liquidity. Even if it's just them taking that last 500 shares of my offer.

 

[TT1]

Quote from Steelhead:

this may help, we got it going in feedback
I figure 100 or so names dillutes the number of wankers.

the kin
stock turder dude
port1385
landis82
nyhood
flipflopper
stock777
atticus
traderzones
buylosellhi
marketspammer(surfer)
joab
spanish89
simon 1080
capmac
crgarcia
gamete
Hack Jershey6
Hack Jershey7
I Call BULLSH1T
Hack Jershey8
PocketAces
rapier
electron
reamier
I am...
C- kid
Long&Strong
gammera
Rhodan
reeldeal
realdeel
ownedu
bighog
Mister Fabulous
rawfist
rtp100
Tgod28
Rawfists
Port1385
ByLoSellHi
omegapoint
arealpissedgoy
ZZZzzzzzzz
iceman1
kut2k2
lilduckling
BlindLemonBoos
southamerica
Pekelo
PocketChange
zdreg
insider trading

On any given trading day there are on avg., 285 registered users and 250 guest on ET

Most if not all these names listed above have nothing better to do with their days except post mindless and childish crap!

Real traders focus on trading and not on posting 35 times a day!!

Have a look at the posters on "Trader P/L 2008" in the Journal Forum! These guys focus on trading and prove it every day!!!

 

[lilduckling]

These "public" ignore lists usually come up during the elections.... mainly due to arguements in relation to politics, not trading.

I know I am on that ignore list, but I also posted heavely during this election against the reps.... thus I made alot of enemies. As far as my trading ability, thats something I comfortably need not defend.

 

[cashmoney69]

I predict 95% of the traders on this site will lose money, after mondays close.

 

[NeoRio1]

Red Ink you must have zero knowledge of daily and weekly fluctuations and swings.

 

[trader56]

Quote from Red_Ink_inc:

Like the title says ...........

What's with ET'ers and all these dumb ass predictions? They don't even bother giving a basis for their prediction. Just post crap like "The Dow will go up 300 points tomorrow".

Who the hell cares if you think the S&P will go up 2 points in the next 5 minutes? No one cares where you think gold will be 2 months and 18 days from now.

It's obvious that no one making these predictions trades with real money.

Give us back our trader's forum you wankers.

Have to say, I couldn't agree more!

Every day it becomes more obvious that not only do so many here not trade, they've never traded.

Fuckheads like apak, stock_turk3y, Hedgefundturder2 (who, mercifully, has not posted in a couple of months after residing in Chat)...the list goes on and on and on and...

 

[Cheese]

I highly rate freedom of expression and therefore those many expressing views irrelevant to trading or common sense can be ignored at the discretion of the individual ET member.

The frequent predictions in ET are worthless as usually they are not based on any data. They simply represent the need of the poster to make a post, to see it in print at ET and to have responses from others. It is shallow ego expression which is nevertheless harmless. Usually I don't go into any threads started by any one of a number of shallow posters.

It appears that many posters do not trade and that most of those who actually trade are not significantly successful. I don't see the evidence for success since I would note the chart configurations, if ever mentioned, which suggest frequent trading nor do I see reference to the way in which certain indicators can be used for repetitively successful trading.

 

[hughb]

This isn't the first time I've heard that the Trader p/l journal is the "real deal". I just read the last three pages of it and it is past posted trades, as in not in real time. Since some of them mention losing days/trades, maybe it is on the level. but that doesn't change the fact that it's boring.

 

[Red_Ink_inc]

Quote from NeoRio1:

Red Ink you must have zero knowledge of daily and weekly fluctuations and swings.

Where exactly do you get this from?