Thanks Sterling -
Its gratifying to see that somebody read my essay :o) I liken the discoveries I described in my essay to one of Buckminister Fuller's geodesic domes; a light-weight, cross-strutted body of ideas and tecnologies, based on Excel.
I have a mantra: risk is risk is risk is risk; you can not denature risk.. If I take a high risk chance, I seek to reduce my risk in some fashion. Thats what my DD was designed to accomplish, and that's what it did for me. And that's what I wrote about in my essay.
I took the time to describe the geodesic dome of ideas and technologies called Spooz so that others would see that the screaming Spooz-haters were not telling them certain facts. I reduced my risk in a wildcat well company called Spooz by excavating its foundational precepts and exposing its ideas to the light of day. The ideas and technologies of which this geodesic dome consists are discussed widely on the web. It is merely a matter of chasing link after link after link, which is what I did.
I did not rely on rumors or feelings or PRs... I deliberately refuse to rely on any such variables. By definition, formulae consist of variables and constants. What I did with my time was that I chased link after link after link so that the equation describing the risk involved in holding onto Spooz stock contained as many constants as possible. IMHO, the fewer variables in a formula, the more predictable the outcome.
Spooz is a geodesic dome of ideas and technologies. The cross-struts in the case of Spooz are made of Excel. Excel is the primary "idea material" of which Spooz consists.
Traders who already use Excel can drop their existing work directly into Spooz's products. I doubt I'm alone with the following "truism", but hasn't everybody personally experienced the situation where they get a new piece of software but the task of getting up to speed on it so that they can become productive is THE chief obstacle? How many folks have bought some piece of software only to find that the commitment to become accomplished using it is more than they can afford (time-wise or idea-wise, it does not matter), so the end result is the software does not get used correctly, and it does not deliver on its promise? Thats the key, folks: traders already have Excel spreadsheets. It is safe to assert they tend to be Excel power users.
Think about it people: Spooz lets a trader who has a spreadsheet he has worked hard on for a long time, a spreadsheet he is proud of and that contains his "secret system" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)... it lets that trader drop his spreadsheet into Spooz software and this trader now has a system he can AUTOTRADE. AUTOTRADE, people. And the learning curve is negligible because he already knows the core piece: Excel. The key is that he can get up to speed with very little difficulty compared to what he would face in a system made of technologies he is not already familiar with. Excel is the cross-strutting of the geodesic dome called Spooz. Its as simple as that.
The essay I wrote that you were kind enough to reproduce here was intended to supply substantive reasoning that serves to intrinsically negate the falacious notions of those who apparently hate Spooz as a company or Paul Strickland as a person. Feelings are variables, people, and hatred is a feeling, as mindless as its opposite.
If people read my essay and decide I'm a liar, then all I can say is that apparently, I'm a great fiction writer.... The new Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud or Stephen King LOL. Fact, folks: If the ideas and inter-relationships in my essay are a tapestry of lies and/or half-truths, then I should quit wasting my time on iHub and get myself a representative to sell my fictions to Simon & Schuster LOL.
I fully realize that I may not recover my losses. Risk is risk is risk is risk. On the other hand, if this Bloomberg deal plays out the way it seems likely to, then this geodesic dome of cross-strutted, reinforcing ideas and tecnologies called Spooz may be the best investment I've made in a long, long time, despite the risk (or perhaps, because of it LOL). IMHO, of course, LOL.
Thanx for the shout-out Sterling, and peace to everyone.... even the nastiest of you posters who so greatly despise both Spooz and those of us who like Spooz.
Peace.
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