I totally disagree, newwurldmn. My online activities appear mad because there is so much about me and so much of it is me posting original content and my commentary. I think in time this will be an awesome thread to re-read. As I said, what may turn some people off is the fact that I'm on a bunch of different sites, but I feel all the links I've shared are acceptable and as far as any of my regulators I know what I can and cannot say and ever since atticus discovered that I've been completely truthful the entire time I guess I'll need to wait until tonight and see if I kept my top 10 mtd on covestor. I'm dreading reporting these numbers but I think if we have problems in the earlier months then show a positive gain that will attract investors. I have over 400 likes on Facebook but it doesn't look like anyone has tried to subscribe so if they were to say I'm advertising I don't have any clients but myself and my ap, so it's not like there's anything to really advertise and the length of time of all of these is essentially less than 6 months, so after 6 months with a month to go I only have to get to around 15-25% up to be in the top 10 on Covestor and that is a goal of mine. I think coupling Sentinel 4's swing trades versus its usual day trades and my pairs models should be a really awesome combination, though whenever I talk about what I'm doing there's some element of embellishment. Every time I talk about new subjects and my ideas I wanted to put them somewhere other than just on my blog because I don't really get any feedback from anywhere from anyone except here, but it's not ever a walk-in-the-park. I don't know if I wanted to make political postures at first, but as far as being able to explain my ideas they are perfectly logical. If you take the time to read them they do make sense; they're just not in the place where you would expect them to be but that is how the internet works so I think if there's really something wrong with what I'm doing people wouldn't like my page. LinkedIn leads explicitly asks people if they wish to be contacted and requests information from them for that purpose. Apparently nobody in the Lexington, Kentucky area is interested, and I had been going out to 4 metro states but I didn't receive a response from that, either. It's a good system if somebody's interested but practically no one is, and I think that's from a lack of performance history, not whether people know who I am or can find me on google+ or facebook or any other social media site. If I had to describe my next steps is to finish my company's website, then complete the SEO optimization with google adwords and that might generate more traffic. I guess while we're on the subject of professional experiences with lead generation systems sometimes I'll get e-mails from people who wanted to contact me on advisorworld, but none of them respond positively when I try to help them, and I think sending out mailers to trick people into calling and setting a face-to-face meeting is a scam so don't go that route. I tried a prospecting system prospect match and I've bought 3 high net worth lists that were supposedly exclusive but I think that they were just recycled and I even hired a call center to try cold calls and that would have worked if I didn't have to go through their manager to talk to the call person who made a nice script but ending up in jail for a month while that's going and getting no messages means that was a total waste. (sigh) I think that would just about cover everything when I think Facebook and LinkedIn are my best advertising tools. I should have never done any of that, but, live and learn. I wasn't able to actually use Facebook until I resigned from SCFIA who didn't want to go through the hassel of amending their ADV and I wanted to be a part of Covestor and they wouldn't have it, so they stole my book and rather than me paying $2,000 for insurance, over $3,000 of leads, they were probably more than happy to let me go because I didn't have any way to keep my clients, and, besides, I saw right through them. They would let me talk up a good game, and then when I decided to tell my clients to liquidate they asked me to resign. For my clients the work crashed 15% within the next two months so apparently as I've said elsewhere telling somebody to sell isn't allowed if you're a financial rep, and that's especially something I despised holding my clients some with 40% drawdowns in some accounts but over 100% rallies from the lows disgusted me because my pairs model was sitting in cash as the S&P reached it's peak and fell over 55% and I knew there wasn't much choice but to ride out that market cycle, but I don't think the next time that that happens it will ever recover. The prospects I had who became clients were told I simply resigned, but I didn't feel like calling them because at that point I didn't have anything to offer them that was legal until I founded my RIA, saw some models I liked and became a CTA, and this stock exchange I'll need a good chunk at least a quarter mil but I have to earn it, and I'm thinking that I'll be able to with some months of trading then it's possible I'll get a better response than the crickets I hear chirping in the peanut gallery, now. If you've just started this thread here, please go back to the beginning and try to understand that there's so many threads on elitetrader but this one definitely has something to say about Markets, Options, and various financial topics I've managed to sprinkle in.
No, it wouldn't. You don't know a fucking thing about me. All you know is that you think I don't deserve that welfare check but I'm saying as you already know there are reasons governments issue those checks. They aren't gifts, and they are medically determined needs based social security programs. You guys will eventually get social security, it's just my career was cut short by disabilities and if you're not passionate enough to understand then you are a terrible person, trefoil, and especially, you, atticus. That goes for the rest of you assholes who really don't have sympathy for the disabled. You are as pathetic as the loser who is terminated and inelligible for unemployment because of the damages they caused to the employer, and no different.
Keep doing something the same and expect different results? Assholes like atticus and trefoil and anybody else who's unsympathetic to me are classless human beings, out for their own, and with no concept of god or a higher power. They will get theres, reaping what they sow, and, incidentally, dying is everyone's greatest fear, so my life may have been cut short for some of the problems I've had and if that angers you or anybody else then I'm sorry but it's not in your control and exactly the reason for the Great Society America is.
Don't let ANYONE tell you that it's NOT sexy to be drawing on the welfare. Chicks and investors eat that shit up. Yeah, that ineligible unemployed guy is really the loser, not you, him. It's not at all hypocritical for a guy to be scamming SSI and calling himself a Libertarian.
Atticus, asshole, atticus. I fear that all this talk of my junk is going to propel me to the top of the google "asshole" page rank.
Atticus, I'm not scamming anybody and I never should have told you that, but it is true most investors will request background checks when dealing with investments like mine and all of it would have come out eventually. You are a pompous, arrogant prick, and have been the entire time. I don't give a shit what you did on c2. It doesn't give you the right to be rude, or nasty to anyone. Your upbringing was probably in the middle class with a divided family, so with no appreciation for family values, and no concept of morality it's easy to see why you'd be angry with somebody whose really put himself out there. Do you find what I write illogical? I earned my education by describing a philosophy called Nexiology, part science, and part philosophy. If I told you what that did for me was get me my scholarship to a prestigious college we can start talking about that and if you want to know if I think it's all right to brag about that accomplishment, yes, I do. I don't know anybody else with such an honor in all of their lifetimes no matter where they're from or who they know.
Principal and AP. That's the extent of it. No subscribers yet on Covestor but they will come. No outside investors in our partnership but only a cool way to finance a trading company without being a passthrough, and, by definition, a CPO which we're not seeing as how he and I are just starting our trials and tribulations together, but that was always my plan when he asked me if I ever needed someone quantitative in college I told him I didn't know enough at the time to know what I could use him for, but I sure as hell do now. He has a perfect credit score and is an accredited investor himself. Throw in a few bucks from mom and dad and it's all kocher. I enjoy forming companies, but I guess I've had limited financial success with it and I haven't had a family that's been very supportive, especially when it comes to futures.
Yes, it is. Start at the bottom at Wal-Mart and you could one day make, you know, manager or something. Keep doing what you're doing and you'll end up nowhere. Which, by the way, is where you are now.