Just like technical people, "business people," at least in a public forum, are mainly driven by ego and their desire to demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter. Like in any subject, it should be pretty obvious which individuals are giving well-considered advice vs which are bullshitting or trying to get you to buy their product (and like in any forum, members of the former camp will be very quick to point out members of the latter).
Just for the record, as someone who participates in forums in both the fields of techology AND investing / financial analysis, the financial people win hands-down so far as average level of maturity, accomodating conflicting points of view, and general intellectual honesty. Day-trading forums are definitely an exception to that rule of thumb, although real financial analysts and investors would be quick to point out that day trading is more properly classified as gambling rather than as investing/finance.
I'm at least glad to see that someone pointed out to this noob that investing his fed guaranteed loan in anything other than federally insured deposits violates the terms of the loan, and at the very least would cause the loan to be called with penalties.
Just out of curiosity, do you ever post messages on wsj.com (Wall St Journal) or Yahoo Finance asking what CAS latency settings to use when overclocking your RAM???:-p
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Just like technical people, "business people," at least in a public forum, are mainly driven by ego and their desire to demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter. Like in any subject, it should be pretty obvious which individuals are giving well-considered advice vs which are bullshitting or trying to get you to buy their product (and like in any forum, members of the former camp will be very quick to point out members of the latter).
Just for the record, as someone who participates in forums in both the fields of techology AND investing / financial analysis, the financial people win hands-down so far as average level of maturity, accomodating conflicting points of view, and general intellectual honesty. Day-trading forums are definitely an exception to that rule of thumb, although real financial analysts and investors would be quick to point out that day trading is more properly classified as gambling rather than as investing/finance.
I'm at least glad to see that someone pointed out to this noob that investing his fed guaranteed loan in anything other than federally insured deposits violates the terms of the loan, and at the very least would cause the loan to be called with penalties.
Just out of curiosity, do you ever post messages on wsj.com (Wall St Journal) or Yahoo Finance asking what CAS latency settings to use when overclocking your RAM??? :-p