What's with ET'ers and all these dumb ass predictions?

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by Red_Ink_inc, Nov 6, 2008.

  1. Like the title says ...........

    What's with ET'ers and all these dumb ass predictions? They don't even bother giving a basis for their prediction. Just post crap like "The Dow will go up 300 points tomorrow".

    Who the hell cares if you think the S&P will go up 2 points in the next 5 minutes? No one cares where you think gold will be 2 months and 18 days from now.

    It's obvious that no one making these predictions trades with real money.

    Give us back our trader's forum you wankers.

    :mad:
     
  2. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    A recent poll in the Trading forum suggested to me that maybe 1 in 5 ET members have any real interest in trading.
     
  3. People could post predictions well in advance to demonstrate their skill in the markets...
     
  4. joemiami

    joemiami Guest

    Fuck their predictions!! I say...only those people with verifiable trading statements of their REAL MONEY(NO SIMS!) platforms be allowed on ET !!

    Im sick of these wannabees acting like they are real traders. Shoot them all...let God sort' em out :mad:
     
  5. LOL, the web hits would go in the toilet and Baron would have to shut the site down.
     
  6. I predict this thread will die out very quickly because of a lack of interest.
     
  7. AAA30

    AAA30

    The need to be right is great, hence the stupid prediction threads. The want of advice is great, hence the reading of stupid prediction threads.

    I predict McCain will win the election.
    McDonalds will have a hit with the McSpam and Cheese.
    It will rain on Tuesday and be overcast on Wednesday
    Markets will fluctuate.
     
  8. EricP

    EricP

    RedInk:

    A couple of suggestions to make ET a more enjoyable and useful experience. Use the ignore feature to hide posts from wankers making predictions or hawking old Tudor Jones videos. Since I've started doing that, I've found this to be a much less annoying place. :)

    The only problem is that on the wanker-heavy forums, you may only see 2-3 thread titles per forum and not five, as the wanker created forums will not show, and Baron doesn't yet have it programmed to 'promote' the 6th or 7th thread to the main page if any of the top 5 thread were created by an ignored user.

    Overall though, the ignore feature is an excellent wanker abatement tool.
     
  9. this may help, we got it going in feedback
    I figure 100 or so names dillutes the number of wankers.

    the kin
    stock turder dude
    port1385
    landis82
    nyhood
    flipflopper
    stock777
    atticus
    traderzones
    buylosellhi
    marketspammer(surfer)
    joab
    spanish89
    simon 1080
    capmac
    crgarcia
    gamete
    Hack Jershey6
    Hack Jershey7
    I Call BULLSH1T
    Hack Jershey8
    PocketAces
    rapier
    electron
    reamier
    I am...
    C- kid
    Long&Strong
    gammera
    Rhodan
    reeldeal
    realdeel
    ownedu
    bighog
    Mister Fabulous
    rawfist
    rtp100
    Tgod28
    Rawfists
    Port1385
    ByLoSellHi
    omegapoint
    arealpissedgoy
    ZZZzzzzzzz
    iceman1
    kut2k2
    lilduckling
    BlindLemonBoos
    southamerica
    Pekelo
    PocketChange
    zdreg
    insider trading
     
  10. In life, there are two types of people: commentators and the real players.

    Some people enjoy hopping on the soap box and making predictions (with no money on the line), instead of actually taking risks and playing the game.

    The question is: WHY does a person choose to be a commentator instead of a player? It is probably an EGO thing for guys like stocktrader: he is just here to comment on how everyone is stupid for not buying XYZ.

    Too bad the commentators don't realize that they are just meaningless 010101010s in a virtual world.
     
    #10     Nov 6, 2008