"You are a trader, possibly for a hedge fund which even Jim Cramer admits use bulletin boards to gauge sentiment (he had staff just to do it all day), post FUD to identify the collective fears in prepearation for short attacks or probe for the greatest optimisms in order to post bogus rumours to trade up on.

Retailers, these phishing-style inquiries, oh help me I'm so new/what does everyone think/etc. are shameless methods to mould a big play into a given holding. If you know what the crowd thinks -- because they're dumb enough to tell you -- then you can run circles around them on the trade."

I get a particular chuckle reading this from a poster that announced he sold all. I believe this is probably one of your few honest posts, and it applies to you most of all.