SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[Perseverance71]

I do like to socialize while I trade, but I feel like the ratio of things being said on here that are actually helpful to ones trading, compared to the amount of pointless blabbering taking place is too low. Granted no one has the authority to control the direction of the board, and one is free to stop reading here.

When I first started reading this board in 2013, it was much more useful. Posters like k9painter were the main catalyst for discussions and the flow of useful TA was better. In 2014, I stopped reading here and became a member of this paid stock traders chat room. I met alot of very good traders there. In early 2015 that website closed down and those traders scattered across the internet. I still follow many on their blogs/websites. Stocktwits is a wasteland, so I started coming back here again to talk to other traders.

I think if people would just slow down and stop posting something inconsequential every 5 minutes things could improve here. Often, there is simply nothing to point out. No point in saying something just to say something. Some people on here post upwards of 80-100 times a day (I counted). I don't see how I could post 80 times a day with every post being something actually useful. Of course I could just stop coming here but I do like to interact with other traders, and there's no where else really to go. So I won't stop coming here. I'm trying to get some of the good traders I know from outside of here to come here and start posting to improve the board.