Why so many downers in here?

OK, time to chill...

I just get frustrated by all the nit picking that seems to go on around here. People seem 10x more likely to point out what they perceive as a mistake than they might be to offer compliments. You aren't even one of the main culprits krispy, and I sometimes find myself doing it too.

 

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Maybe the ability to scrutinize so well comes from how adept or how well trained we have made ourselves at looking at coins, notes, bullion prices, etc.

 

I will have a mountain dew. In fact, I will get one right now.

OP, we might be a contentious board, but there is a lot of good stuff to learn. Like Jeff, many of us do enjoy a good debate, but also are willing to change our minds. I have changed my mind on a few issues regarding PM since I came here. The best part about a good debate, even if it does not change your mind, is it forces you to clarify to yourself why you believe something. Some philosopher somewhere once said, "an unchallenged belief is not worth believing". I find this to be true.

 

so lemme get this straight.... the OP makes an oblique reference to penny stocks in a thread he started about negativity in bullion investing on this forum, and we get like a page and half of replies related to penny stocks (and here I'm adding to it! ).......... carry on.

 

Kind of... but not quite straight, yet... The page and a half were not really related to penny stocks at all, but rather the contradiction the post itself made. A technical matter but one the OP got once it was pointed out to him. The suggestion that penny stocks were an "oblique reference" also shouldn't stand to imply (by way of an opinion) that this was a waste just because it took others a few posts to sort out how the words, which I felt twisted and mischaracterised what I had writ to the OP, were meant. Thread page count is not really wasted in the sense of something which potentially could go on without end, unlike paper were we consuming it in discussing these technical points. But you are correct, you have done your part in adding to it! LOL!

 

I pose a time travel question for the unstacked: If you could go back in time before any investment disaster and talk someone out of investing in that soon to be disaster, will you have made them smarter and stronger by preventing their pain and loss?

Give a man a fish and he'll have food for a day. Give a man a fishing pole and he'll trade it for bottle of Mad Dog and knock on your door tomorrow for another fish.

 

SO best just give the mad dog straightaway and eliminate the inconvenience!

 

Hindsight is 20:20 and we haven't any such ability (yet) to travel back in time. The conditional factors make for mere fiction to come, at best, in an argument that can't be won with answers contrived on unknowns by those who only know these markets without the aid of time travel.

The question poses the issue also of what comes from insider information. How will the man who uses that power handle himself and this power? Will he be responsible, or a tyrant? Will he later be judged good, bad or selfish no matter what he does knowing that information... for whom he shares it with or by withholding it from others? Will he be socially banished or imprisoned if he caused others distress, loss, or greater financial disaster to his community, nation, world?

You can teach a man to fish and feed himself without going back in time and telling him where in the pond to cast his line.

 

Penny stocks? I thought they were complaining about WalMart's cheap socks from China.

Chris

 

Guess I wasn't clear, so, screw tact, diplomacy and spin doctors.

If anti PM's posts are intended to save stackers from some perceived folly or boogie man promoter, I DON'T WANT TO BE SAVED. I'll eat my mistakes and evolve from them.

 

It could be because silver has been down so long it seems like up to me...

 

That is fine. What about everyone else? You don't think a newbie has the right to hear the other side of a pm salesman's pitch?

Btw, I know most here consider me "anti-pm", but that is not true. I am only anti-pm in regards to PRICE and PERCENT OF PORTFOLIO. Yes, I was anti-pm when silver was $40, vocally so. I am also very anti-"I am selling everything in the world and buying silver". PM is a great asset, at the correct price and the correct percentages. Those to points can be argued endlessly of course. Btw, I have bought 3 ounces of gold and maybe 150 ounces of silver in the last month. Now the price is of interest to me, and I am buying again. Tell me how anti-pm I am again please. I have a price point, and a REASON I wish to invest in pm.

 

I think all sides should be aired, for/against. I like more thought put into posts and dislike short, poorly written, off the cuff comments that don't enlighten the reader as to someone's position, even if they have stated it before and elsewhere. This I feel is necessary for any discussion, not just the topic of this forum on PMs.

 

You're comment is better now that you went back and revised it! Thank you.

 

I was thinking it could be because "stackers" haven't "stacked" across a wider spectrum of prices to protect themselves from loss when the prices move drastically in the undesired direction. Many a "stacker" was not "stacking" prior to the bull market in PMs of the last few years and a period like we are in now presents an unexpected or unknown category of feeling, that might get expressed negatively in the new-ish social side of this realm of investing.

 

So in other words, they come here and take their anger and frustration out on us?

 

Forums and various topics posted on video hosting sites do seem to resemble or act that way, or as a community support group, at times. I'm sure they do help some members find like minded people who will listen or with whom they can scrap with about a given issue or topic. It's not such a bad thing to have at ones disposal, and anyone can choose to participate or find something else to read or respond to.

 

I think it's a good time to stack now, but when it was around $40 an ounce, not so much. I knew it was the end when I went into a coin store around 2011 and a young woman emptied out all her money on the counter and said "you can't go wrong with silver". It was only a few months later that it hit its peak and crashed hard.

 

Likewise.

 

Although, none of my posts were revised since you joined in and began posting in this thread, so I'm not sure how, "likewise" applies in response. But, I digress as you might revise again.