You don't need smarts to be on TV. You just need money, influence or power, or any combination thereof.
Exactly. He has influence. He has market smarts and FA smarts, but not TA smarts, which is why he is always going off the charts with well-known technicians. It is a smart play.
I know what you meant. You intimated he's dumb as a rock when it comes to markets. But that's what everyone said about Howard Stern when he was on terrestrial radio, and he eventually got his gig on Sirius for 100 million per year.
That guy doesn't know the meaning of risk/reward. If he is right, well that is what he is paid for. If he is wrong, well why the fack did you go all 180 on us for? Security see the man out.