In the clan of the bears
In this comment thread, note how ‘GubmintCheese’ and I never talk about *why* we want to buy gold, like two junkies discussing slight purity differences between the heroin of different suppliers. At many bearish message boards, just mentioning gold is like shouting “Hitler!” in a room full of Godwin’s laws, but this crowd is fairly relaxed. ‘MarketSniper’ tries to get things going with a physical-versus-paper debate, but no one takes him up on it.
Also note how MarketSniper never talks to me, but only to the people who are talking to me. Exception: here, where he calls me an idiot who doesn't know “the first step in system development”. After some consideration, I have decided that MarketSniper’s comment about detrending is either bogus or exceedingly subtle; my problem is more likely to be overtuning. But he is an administrator at this board, so I try to avoid getting on his bad side.
(Do not click here unless you’re wondering WTF this all has to do with Furry. Booboo’s previous avatar was an anthropomorphized box of french fries.)
Nobody ever comments on my trading journal, although I have received two private emails from people who said they tried to comment but Blogger was too difficult. It has no followers, which is to be expected for a trading journal that isn’t making any money. But Google says my posts there now tend to get about two dozen hits each. A few months ago it was maybe half a dozen hits each. I have no idea how many commenters at SlopeOfHope realize that I have a public journal. I’ve never mentioned it there, but anyone who googles for "pyesetz" would find it soon enough.