RE: Snake Oil Salesmen - Please read & bear with me!9 Nov 2020 09:34
Well said Parm.
I, for one, am grateful that this appears to have settled for now.
What this share doesn't need, in my view, almost as much as the bashers are the overt cheerleaders. They're almost as dangerous.
They may (in most cases) be well intentioned in "defending" us but I don't need to be protected from my own investment decisions.
At all points we need crystal clear heads and a laser-guided focus on the objective rather than the journey.
Those of us who say "it's a bit of harmless fun, what's the problem" don't really see that this leaves the door ajar for folk to commence attacks to de-stabalise which in turn provokes a reaction and the whole cycle of disruption continues. Disruption breeds uncertainty and uncertainty leads us to make wrong calls.
All of us need to just calm down, centre ourselves and remember why we are here and if that means filtering 50 people at both ends of the spectrum then that level of BB-enema (enjoy your breakfast, lol) is a must - because most of it isn't research and some of it will stick and lead to errors.