Personal Finance and Investing

no matter how ignored or useless or pointless or out of touch it has become.

It's sad, really. I mean, a daily thread titled "Stock Market Watch" could actually be a really good thing if it was monitored during the trading session and relevant news was posted. The key word being "relevant"

The thread went for months and months with a single poster (now banned) putting up post after post of obnoxiously long winded, completely irrelevant bullshit cut and pasted articles from the Journal Economica Obscura (a reference I made in the thread I linked above). It was tedious and banal, and made the thread unreadable.

What seemed to be the case with that thread from the very first days I started paying attention to it, back in '05, was it was handled by people who had absolutely no real investing experience or solid knowledge of securities and the securities industry (as I said, many of them don't know the difference between common stock and livestock) and they just simply think that there is no value to any of it: that it's all a scam or it's rigged or watching the market as it were, was a fools errand, and all they/he/she had to do was wait for a 460 point drop and then put up a post full of ROFL smileys and our point was proven and our day was made!


The current initiator of the SMW thread should just let it die the death it deserves. Quietly. Just give it up already. No one gives a fuck about it enough to even post regularly.


If I had taken it on, I would have stopped posting it a couple years ago.