Well, Eastunder, I do.
As you posted
"I focus on different things then you do, which just means we are different. I'm often not interested in the company as much as I am interested in the stock, because of what I feel."
We'll just have to agree to be different. I AM interested in the company AND the way the stock price moves.
The thing that bothers me is that those who do NOT care to look at these things about the company, as you state you feel it to be unbeneficial to you, are always telling the others who are pointing things out to just be quiet and quit posting. That limits poeple like me from being able to see and discuss those negatives that they are bringing up.
Just because some people are the kind of investors/traders that do not care to know details about the running of the company, including the negatives, I do not think they should get upset that the message board discusses such issues, and start posting that they want others to NOT respond to the posters that do like to discuss this information. That limits the use of the board for investor/traders that are long in the company, that fall into the "my types" that are interested in the details. My types of investors should be able to discuss all our angles also instead of being disrespected for our concerns, and be assigned automatic designations of "bashers", or told that we have an agenda of trying to manipulate the stock downward to our advantage against other long loyal investors. We just want to know ALL THE DETAILS surrounding the forces that impact our long-term investment.
Contrary to the "your types" of investor/traders assertions, we want the share price to move up for every long shareholder's benefit, not down for another 2-bit buy-in price. We also would like the share price to have a good chance at STAYING UP, rather than being sold into on every run so that we cannot maintain our gains.
So, we discuss what the heck is causing people to not have enough faith in the company to hold long-term instead of being forced into the swing trading patterns that we are forced into in order to ever keep any profits.
And the "your types" should just read by our posts, or ignore if you want. You can snicker at our pocket holders and short pants, if that makes you feel better, but we like to get into the details - it gives us as much pleasure as those other types who like to go out and just buy new outfits, or new fingernail designs, or WHATever to achieve their high from life.
Let's just agree to be DIFFERENT and appreciate each others interests, OK? That goes along with posting styles also. We do not have to like it, but it would be benificial if we could find some positive input from the sheer variety, for the sake of fun (I know you know what that is) rather than getting egos all caught up in the mix.
