Douglas McIntyre & Some Other Idiot Help Me Prove What Financial Blogging Is All About
Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 30th of Jan, 2009 08:25:55 AM
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When I ripped Doug McIntyre’s joke of a list of the “25 best financial blogs”, I fully expected/wanted comments to open up debate…check out the one below, it’s perfect (FYI Doug, this is what financial blogging is about–really chatting out all angles of a topic, not just boring news-based posts about actively traded stocks which are good for link baiting, c’mon, you can be better…I think):
It is always nice to see a sore loser Tim. I see that Compete shows you with
39,000 visitors a month. Not a very popular property
That was from Dougie himself, who shows his naivety off by not realizing that while Compete.com is good for showing a blog’s traffic, nearly 75% of his “top blogs” have lower rankings than me. Not to mention that my TIMalerts.com premium website, yes, Dougie, when one finds that his words are worth more than just Google ads, he creates premium services..not that you’ll ever know what that feels like because you don’t say anything worth paying for), has nearly as much traffic as my main site now! Yup, I’ve got 2 blogs that have more traffic than most of Dougie’s friends with whom he did favors.
Not that it matters because like a true caught-red-handed blgoger, he failed to respond to any one of my 10 points, most notably, why his “best financial bloggers” have chosen not to show off the easy-to-embed Covestor badge, a graphic made for bloggers to gain credibility by showing off their trading/investment performance (I proudly show off my #1 out of 15,000+ traders literally for the entire past year right HERE).
Another winner, “Ian”, who strangely has the same IP address as commenters with other names…pathetic, writes:
Tim you top my list. My list of blogs without substance edited by immature, self-righteous petulant children who mistake small capital high-percentage returns and gambling for shrewd investment experience and knowledge. It is clear that not everyone can make money from your techniques at once (crowded trades), and it is also clear that you are not as humble in your approach to investing as you ought to be. Here’s a list of my own:
1. It’s clear you ARE p*ssed you didn’t make the list.
2. It seems you ARE selling books in an attempt to cash in on your muddy-name and your psuedo-celebrity, clearly as a means to supplement any dwindling credible support you might have had.
3. It seems you aren’t aware of the power of networking.
4. It seems you confuse rudeness with humour. You’re neither funny, nor charming.
4. No self-respecting investor with any amount of common sense would invest in your fund. I saw Wall Street Warriors and your pledge to a new investor. It’s amazing how easy it is to see through your crap despite your desperate attempts to get the guys money. Your disrespect for other people is written all over your growing forehead.
5. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to spend the rest of your life walking down the street whilst everyone talks about how much of a f*ckwit you are?
Thanks for the entertainment value though. Both on WSW and on this blog. It’s perverse, but us humans like to see pathetic losers prove themselves in public. A star is born!
Wow, Ian, you got that I was pissed? Congrats, keep using those brain cells and soon you’ll be able to graduate elementary school! You friggin moron, the list is a joke, the same kind of joke as you thinking I give two shits about my book selling more than its current 6,000ish copies. It just an intro story that was just to get so many thousands of people to stop asking me the same questions over and over.
And yes, I’ll disrepect everyone in this joke of an industry because they deserve all the crap I give them and much more, it’s sad that more people don’t do it–instead rewarding them with some BS Doug-friends-list…like rewarding a dog that just shat all over the carpet, you gotta be stern if you expect them to get better!
As for me not knowing about networking, whaaaat, have you not seen my 4,000 Facebook friends? It’s tough to network with frauds, liars and cheats
As for investing my fund, of course it was a good idea others not to invest, did you not read my book, I was too green to run a fund and got exactly what I deserved. Of course, that doesn’t take anything away from my strategy which is still dominating to this day and is ideal for poor people everywhere. When I’m done, no poor person will ever want to trade no-edge stocks like GOOG, GE, AAPL, SIRI, etc. again.
It’s about being transparent guys, trading, investment, income-wise, that’s why people care about what I say/do-because I prove day in day out that I’m more honest/less bashful/uptight than 99% of the finance freaks out there…and it’s the exact lack of transparency that’s gotten us into so much trouble, probly why Dougie’s little ONT company failed/is-slow-motion-failing.
So, expect more form any blogger or “financial expert” you follow or give any credence too. Ask them their specific track record and business income. If they refuse to tell you, ask why…if they have nothing to hide, like I do, then they’ll gladly be open with you because they’ll understand how brutal honesty is a revolutionary business model in this cancer of an industry.
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