I dug even deeper.  These people at tradingchief.com, when asked a question, this is their response:

You are a PaySite!! Why Donations?

Donate

Good Question!

We are a Paysite, we are also spending more money then we take in and will continue to do so for sometime. When you declare yourself a Shareholder Website (which has not been done before), you immediately cut yourself off from all other sources of income! That is a huge leap if you think about it. Look at one of the BulletinBoards that is also a IR Company. They get paid $4000 a month and 200-300K options to tell you how good the company is on their own board? Somehow we feel that is a blatant conflict of interest that does not serve the shareholder. In fact it serves two groups only, IR Firm and the Company because if there was something bad about the company, neither would report it, be assured about that!!

So by declaring ourselves a shareholder site we do not  get revenues from;

-"flash ad-ding,  you to death",

-try to trick you into clicking any ads,

-we don't send tracking cookies

- allow any of the companies we work with like TradeFreedom, QuoteMedia etc to send tracking cookies either.

- take in money by being an Investor Relations Group who gets $Thousands of Dollars$ to promote a stock.

-receive money through Stock options which gives you fresh motivation to promote any Company no matter how bad they are!

Why should you donate?

Only you can answer that! if you feel the site has benefited you, and you believe you would like to assist us, then by all means do so. if you feel the site is worth a larger donation, ie $20, then just join for a month and use our paid services.

Donate

TradingChief.Com

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Pay us and we'll post almost anything???? I rest my case!!!

gumby