quackaphobe,

Lets say you own a store. You have been in business for a long time. Things are so good for you that greed takes over just a bit and you allow some mafia types to hang around your store. You rather enjoy it because they spend good and tip good. But your regular customers complain that these wheels are taking their parking, calling them names, telling them lies, telling them how dumb they are. You listen to complaints but do nothing because things are going too good. 

Someone sees this problem and decides to open a business across the street and doesn't allow the mafia types to hang around there. The customers are happy because they can go about their shopping in a friendly environment.

The customers begin a mass migration and suddenly your bottom line is dropping as well as the number of people visiting your store and if they do visit they don't say. They leave as soon as they can preffering not to engage or be engaged by the mafia types. 

The mafia types realize that without the regular customers, they have nobody to bully, to cheat or to steal from. They scratch their heads and wonder what they will do?

Some of them, those with the smooth personality will infiltrate the new store and attempt to change minds, look for info etc... so one really must be careful. Every once in a while the truth comes out because God made it almost impossible to change the stripe on a skunk. They stink and are easy to spot even in a room full of cats.

There are many new names on this board. Unfortunately many of the longs have cashed in and moved on. Who do you trust??

My suggestion is to utilize the inbox and ask questions. Read between the lines of every post. Its your money and your future. It is incumbent upon every investor to learn as much as one can re trading. Utilize every tool. If you are new and don't know who to call, I'll give you some time. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but I do have an idea who is good and who isn't.

So in closing I say the Quack is bang on. That was a good post....

Good luck all

Don

PS don't inbox me on this site because I still haven't figured out how to find them. I just found my email on the  competitions new beta board. I answered them even though they were dated the 19th..LOL