There are occasional pearls of wisdom to be found here, but I certainly would not take any investment advice from these people. A couple of them provide great stock picks but, for the most part, most do not seem to know what they are doing when it comes to choosing stocks. Overall, it is a really nice forum, with the exception of a few obvious losers. You know who you are.
Cuddles4BS who spread lies and disinformation on the ET message boards should not be giving advice to anyone. Consider the source, anything rotten is not any good. Much like lipstick on a pig. It is still a pig.
It is too bad smallfil has me on /block, because we could get into a refreshing argument about how "Like putting lipstick on a pig" is in my mind an invalid analogy. The correct way to express it is "Like putting perfume on a pig".
I listen to leadership. There is a handful ones. Stocks trading near or at new highs, With dollar volume above 100M per day. Leaders lead the market. If several stocks trading billions like XOM, UNH, CVX, AMGN, LLY, SLB, COP or MRK are making new high, You can be sure the market isn't about to puke. Leaders are currently Energy and Healthcare. CAT (Manufacturing) and MCD (Services) are worth noting. Indexes wise, Everyone expected them to puke, Me the first after that powell meeting on friday. Guess what ? It's holding.