G'day Doc, I hope you spent your time away constructively fine tuning your investment criteria and risk assesment methods, i imagine it would have taken some time due to the number of errors within your valuation methods. I know you learn't a few things from me over the period, and after seeing your return and reading the thread i see that you are still searching and wanting to learn so i think perhaps i could be of more assistance.
Firstly i agree people shouldn't just take a HC posters posts as doctrine and if they do, it is ultimately their own fault, after all and at the end of the day, like you, people that followed you and good old AG should have learn't from this experience, its buyer beware country, there are no safety nets. However it attracts all sorts of punters, educated people, entrepenures, mums and dads etc etc thinking i'll have a crack at this i'll just buy some blue chips, no risk in them kind of thing
...... you know how they be. Most will lose and will come to sites like this looking to learn more about the market etc and its those people that run a risk of believing a poster that writes well, sounds intelligent but also has no idea about identifying money making opportunities. Most people will never work it out as its a far too complicated, ruthless industry for the average butcher
to be playing with, one is competing with the best brains in the world. These facts should ring a socially moral bell between your ears, as your well written dribble makes some people think you know what your talking about, it's not really your fault how they be, but the power lies within you to put an end to the possibly unintended collateral damage to others your posts have proven to cause. Theres no reason for you to stop posting, perhaps tone down the influencial buy/sell nature of your posts while discussing the data until you at least understand what your talking about. Take a look at my posts for example, my market pencil is far sharper than yours ever has been and i don't construct posts the way you do, the common man would presume im an idiot when trying to read my posts, only those with a sharp pencil understand i'm not your average butcher.