OT: Don’t…Feed…The….Trolls!!

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=deadzone]Zero Hedge is far more interesting/entertaining than this site.[/quote]

In fairness, that’s not a very high bar.

[phaster]

[quote=FormerSanDiegan]Thank you for citing my 18-month old comment and for your response. Quite useful.[/quote]

here are some more thoughts on the topic…

basically, it would be easy to come up with insults like “so your mammas a drug dealer?”

or push a bigger lie something like “so how’s the child porn business?”

but took me all of a second to decide it was pathetic course of action, so just kept things on point

[quote=PCinSD]
January 29, 2017

Anything you post here is fair game. Beyond that, it’s off limits.

https://piggington.com/bg_mia#comment-275617
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another perhaps interesting quick “on topic” thought I actually never got around to expanding/posting on is the psychological investor observation about “greed”

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Greed Is Your Worst Enemy

There’s an old saying on Wall Street that “pigs get slaughtered.” This greed in investors causes them to hang on to winning positions too long, trying to get every last tick. This trait can be devastating to returns because the trader is always running the risk of getting whipsawed or blown out of a position.

Greed is not easy to overcome. That’s because within many of us there seems to be an instinct to always try to do better, to try to get just a little more. A trader should recognize this instinct if it is present, and develop trade plans based upon rational business decisions, not on what amounts to an emotional whim or potentially harmful instinct. (Keep reading about this in When Fear And Greed Take Over.)

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/02/110502.asp
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and that real “successful” traders have some common traits:

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