Cramer's mentaility is that of a hedge fund manager's who (mostly) gets paid for beating an index. A way to do this to bet on a basket of high-beta stocks: bull market he wins, bear market - his customers lose. This is a bad strategy for those who manage their own money.
I would gather that if you looked at the TSCM Yahoo Message boards, you would find out why there is no Realmoney sponsored board (or other financial news site sponsored board for that matter). People hide anonymously and say whatever they want, truth or untruth and if Realmoney censored it, it would be criticized for trying to keep discussions on track by deleting certain posts. It would be a nightmare to police and brings no real value to the core of what Realmoney was supposed to be, an opinion site from various writers. Liked or not liked, it is what it is.
I am truly amused at the caliber of criticism that is usually leveled at Mr. Cramer. If you know what I mean. Booya.
After five months and the recent big rally 7 out of 10 are still underwater. Not to mention the huge drawdown in between. Great picks, Jim! Will this newest bunch do as well? goog dna tol intc unh c glw mot emc brcm yhoo http://www.thestreet.com/p/_tscs/rmoney/jamesjcramer/10226102.html http://www.thestreet.com/p/_rms/rmoney/jamesjcramer/10226092.html
he will do better now on his tv and aa picks. with the mad money show he is able to pump any given stock pick of his at will. how can he miss? i am critical of his picks at times and cant stand his in your face style but you have to give him credit for goog and shld plus gme,cost,unh,zmh,to name a few recent winners. he pretty much pumped them by himself. i do give cramer credit for putting it on the line. he makes a lot of mistakes but at least makes the calls. i listen to gary kaltbalm on the radio at times also and that guy has a 2 hour show and never says anything specific.
If you think Cramer can pump a stock and keep it up, get out of the game now, before you hurt yourself and your innocent family.
do you have trouble reading. where did i say keep it up? he can move stocks short term now. every pick he makes for his aa portfolio gets hyped on mad money. how can he not do better in his aa portfolio?
And yet you people keep starting idiotic strings to talk about this man that last for weeks. If anyone's paying attention to this man, it's all of you.
stock777 is an idiot. He never has anything worthwhile to say about anything, I think he gets a nickle every time he drops Cramers name in a positive light. Cramers AA portfolio is junk and he has pissed away half a year with negative returns and holding onto things like Lucent, Tyco, and Symbol with 20% + losses. Nothing quite like getting paid to lose peoples money EHH CRAMER?? Do yourself a favor and do not listen to Cramer or his ADD antics on his show, his prime has come and gone long ago.
Cramer is cool. People who hate him probably just followed his advice and lost money. But if you day trade his action alerts or Mad Money stuff, you can't lose if you're fast enough.