But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night... Seriously, Mods, can I stay here at ET? I promise to stay in the basement.
Are you saying you have never placed a single trade in your life? Not a one? Surely you placed one by accident.
No word from the gods. Back in the latter part of the '90s I was trading, I guess you could call them swing trades, using the strategy outlined by, not sure I recall correctly, The Armchair Investor. Portfolio spread across US large cap, US small cap, and foreign companies, roughly one-third each. I actually did fairly well, and just out of luck (going into business at that time) sold everything near the top. I guess the so-called Bush bubble was mostly responsible, ie. don't confuse a bull market with skill.
So why do you have over 8k posts on a website dedicated to trading if you don't trade? I mean I wouldn't post over 8k times on say, an equestrian web site, even if on the bottom of the forum there was a chit chat section. I would only post there if I had an interest in horses.
I had some questions here at one time. In theory, I could have stumbled on a forum like P&R that was not related to the host domain's main topic, say horses.com/offtopic/politicsandsuch, which the domain owner created for off-topic chat. That's quite common, actually. : )