Increase... Why don't you and rcanfiel get a room together and create as many polls as you think massage your fragile ego while the adult men and women actually trade while not giving a shit what other people on an anonymous message board think or feel. If you cannot live with knowing if 75% of ET trades this or listens to so and so then stop trading.
I cast my vote for "stock_trad3r" he offers the most insight in the least amount of words. Matter of fact I agree with him about 99% of the time, the other 1% don't matter.
From now and infinity. There is no time frame. Anytime is a buy. This bull market that began in 2002 will continue for a very, very long time due to economic perpetualism. Any purchase made now will make you money. The Dow will go to 15000 by end of year which is huge upside in a short period of time. You can;t fail buying in this market especially now that the indexes are on the lower end of the trading range and will continue to rebound huge in the coming weeks to the upper end of that range.
Now I'm feeling guilty. I've developed my whole present strategy from suggestions that I received here on ET and I can't remember any of their names.:eek: