the thing is, political EVENTS or possible events can influence
market direction -- what might happen if Greece goes bankrupt, if
the FED prints another two trillion dollars, if Congress does this
or that..........................those are valid issues for the
blog I would think. But our OPINIONS about those political
happenings are useless for trading, in fact are bad for
trading. So rants and diatribes and emotional opinions just
have no value here.
Michael -- I agree with you completely -- It's shouldn't be hard
for anyone us to post about the possible market implications of a
political event without expressing our opinions on the politics.
Same for articles written by others that you want to post -- if
they are about the market implications -- then great -- but if they
are political rants, they don't belong here.
Tom -- thanks for your post. This is a great trading community,
and we don't need politics here to mess it up.
As always, your post is sensible and considered. I fully agree
with you. I want to make it quite clear to everyone that my
objection was NOT specifically to the opinion expressed by duesy,
but to the fact that a politically provocative statement was being
made. It doesn't make a difference whether it's left-wing or
right-wing, conservative or liberal or whatever, I simply don't
need to have the opinions of others foisted upon me... I similarly
do not care to know whether anyone here is of the opinion that
Chardonnay is viniculturally superior to Sauvingnon Blanc, or the
other way around!
Information about political events that have an influence on the
markets is a different matter altogether. For me as a European it
is very useful to get an insight from the North American members
here, and perhaps I can from time to time give you guys a bit of
information from Germany that might be helpful.
the thing is, political EVENTS
Politics
Posted by Michael on 14th of Feb 2010 at 10:55 am
the thing is, political EVENTS or possible events can influence market direction -- what might happen if Greece goes bankrupt, if the FED prints another two trillion dollars, if Congress does this or that..........................those are valid issues for the blog I would think. But our OPINIONS about those political happenings are useless for trading, in fact are bad for trading. So rants and diatribes and emotional opinions just have no value here.
Michael -- I agree with
Posted by puma on 14th of Feb 2010 at 04:37 pm
Michael -- I agree with you completely -- It's shouldn't be hard for anyone us to post about the possible market implications of a political event without expressing our opinions on the politics. Same for articles written by others that you want to post -- if they are about the market implications -- then great -- but if they are political rants, they don't belong here.
Tom -- thanks for your post. This is a great trading community, and we don't need politics here to mess it up.
Michael
Posted by isplat on 14th of Feb 2010 at 02:19 pm
As always, your post is sensible and considered. I fully agree with you. I want to make it quite clear to everyone that my objection was NOT specifically to the opinion expressed by duesy, but to the fact that a politically provocative statement was being made. It doesn't make a difference whether it's left-wing or right-wing, conservative or liberal or whatever, I simply don't need to have the opinions of others foisted upon me... I similarly do not care to know whether anyone here is of the opinion that Chardonnay is viniculturally superior to Sauvingnon Blanc, or the other way around!
Information about political events that have an influence on the markets is a different matter altogether. For me as a European it is very useful to get an insight from the North American members here, and perhaps I can from time to time give you guys a bit of information from Germany that might be helpful.
Good trading, everybody!
"opinions expiration week?"
Posted by Palladin on 14th of Feb 2010 at 02:22 pm
"opinions expiration week?"
Palladin
Posted by isplat on 14th of Feb 2010 at 04:33 pm
LOL!!! Great comment!