07up - You must be very careful who you listen to and who's advice you take. You ask if SlopsterSlasher and tdiamonds are credible when they announce upcoming news. The truth is, only they know their own motives.
In order to assess each's credibility you must pay attention to their posts and their history.
tdiamonds is openly and unabashedly a trader, he has made no bones about his intersets. He uses the same alias on both this board and RB and he is easily recognizable in both places.
SlopsterSlasher on the other hand has a different past. He has admitted to being the reincarnation of a multialias entity from the RB board known as 'hopeful107'hopeful carries the dubious distinction of being removed from the RB board for his antics. If you have followed the comparative careers of some of the aliases here and on RB you can see how significant that accomplishment is. He has professed to be a changed being, and has so far not run far enough afoul of the regulators to be in any danger of removal here yet. His present motives are still fairly unclear.
You must make your own decisions and you must take each's advice according to whatever degree of credibility you are willing to assign them. They both have their own private motives.
And before you get too comfortable with this advice don't forget that I myself have a varying degree of credibility among the various camps here.
Good Luck
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