Basher Techniques
Top 40 Most Common NFI Basher Tactics and Rules of Bashing
1-Be anonymous.
2-Use 10% fact. 90% suggestion. The facts will lend credibility to your suggestions.
3-Let others help you learn about the stock. Build rapport and a support base before initiating your Bashing routine.
4-Enter w/ humor and reply to all who reply to you.
5-Use multiple ISP's, handles and aliases.
6-Use two (2) or more aliases to simulate a discussion.
7-Do not start with an all out slam of the stock. Build softly.
8-Identify your foes (Longs) and the boards "guru" Use them to your advantage. Lead them do not follow their lead.
9-Only bash until the tide/momentum turns. Let doubt carry it the rest of the way.
10-Give the appearance of being open minded.
11-Be bold in your statements. People follow strength.
12-Write headlines in caps with catchy statements.
13-Pour it on as your position gains momentum. Not your personality.
14-Don't worry about being labeled a "Basher". Newbies won't know your history.
15-When identified put up a brief fight, then back off. Return in an hour unless your foe is weak in reasoning powers.
16-Your goal is to limit the momentum of the run. Not to tank the company or create a plunge in the stock; be subtle and consistent.
17-Kill the dreams of profits, not the company or the stock. Establish reduced expectations for the stock. Mock anyone who dissents.
18-Use questions to create negative/critical thinking. Statements to reinforce pseudo-facts.
19-DO NOT LIE, NAME CALL or USE PROFANITY, unless your ID is designed to disrupt the board using those tactics.
20-Encourage people to call the company. 99% won't. Discourage people from believing Press Releases. Again, encourage them to call the company. They won't out of laziness — they'll take your word for claims made. If they do call you can always find something that is inaccurate in how they report their findings.
21-If the company’s history/PR's are negative constantly point to that. Compile a list of these data prior to beginning your efforts.
22-If the price rises blame it on the hype or the PR, temporary mass reaction, the market, etc. Anything but the stock itself.
23-If other posters share your concerns, play on that and share theirs too.
24-Always cite low volume, even when it's not.
25-Three or four aliases can dominate a board and wear down the longs.
26-Bait the Longs into personal debates putting their focus/efforts on you and not the stock or facts. Introduce non-relevant issues for debate: e.g., political personalities, nuclear developments, etc. Divert their attention from facts.
27-Promote other stocks that would-be investors can turn to instead of the one you’re Bashing.
28-Do not fall for challenges on the "values" of what you are doing, it's a game and you are playing it with your own rules.
29-When in doubt, clog the board with meaningless posts, making it hard for anyone to read and get anything of value.
30-Use technical analysis as a predictor of “weakness” or a tool to sow doubt. TA can be interpreted any number of ways, so you will never be proven wrong and could gain a following of like-minded souls.
31-Always bash board regulars whenever they make a mistake. When no mistakes are present, create a straw man argument and attack that.
32-Bash and ridicule any analysis based on facts or fundamentals. Facts are not your friend.
33-Bash any attempts to post positives. Refer to company defenders or board gurus as pumpers or dreamers or liars.
34-Imply that anyone with anything positive to say is “pumping and dumping.”
35-If possible, create one persona that is a long who is trying to get more info. Always frame questions from that persona in a “when did you stop beating your wife” manner. Try to avoid making overtly negative statements, but hint that you suspect something is afoul. Make negative statements in the guise of seeking answers, and then apologize but don’t retract when called on them.
36-Choose non-threatening ID’s. Old people are good, so are females. People tend to defer to those, so you will be given more leeway to create doubt and uncertainty. If possible, post a sympathy-creating circumstance now and then — death in the family, accident, job loss.
37-Have one ID be reasonable trader guy. He can make dispassionate observations which will just coincidentally be negative when needed, especially on any rallies and when any weakness appears in the stock price. Make sure he makes some positive statements when it doesn’t really matter to preserve the ID’s integrity.
38-Have one ID be set up as a long who has now turned on the stock/company. This can take months to set up, but is worth it. Post positives which contain little substance for at least 60 days, post about being a long time holder, post about having a bunch of shares. Then one day, post that in your opinion the tide has changed, so you have sold it all.
39-Accuse board regulars of being multi-posters. Or paid pumpers. Or anything negative that would call their posts into question.
40-AND THE GOLDEN BASHER RULE: Never admit to being a basher. Especially if you are being paid. Avoid any direct answers to direct questions about your bonafides. Deny everything, demand proof, attack attack attack.
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