Being most active is a marketing tool for Ihub. The public are like sheep and go where the wolf drives them. There were message boards in the past with high fliers and the price fell constantly and the message postings began to dry up. You went from feeling special to feeling like a cheap date when you put out. Look at the message boards in this manner. They are a cheap form of prayer. You have a position you are losing on and wish to be right so badly you begin, along with many others to post only positives, claim MM's are holding the price back (of course they want to accumulate stupid! That is why they hold the price back on EVERY stock from the NYSE to the OTC that should be higher in the opinions of those who bought the stock. They are not going to make money if the price goes up silly!)or there are paid bashers (there are also paid pumpers but that point is forgotten when the wolf is nipping at your heels!) So you post and post and post and pray and pray the price goes up and you don't lose your shirt. If you are making money you post and post and post hoping the price inches up a bit more so you can sell and make your profit and move on. Of course some shorted and post and post hoping to influence the price so it goes down and you can cover. Profitable trading is boring. The excitement only really comes when you get lucky and hit a big winner by luck or you are in such dire straits your heart is pumping because the stress of losing is hard to bear.
I should post the best lessons of trading sometime from a master technical analyst I studied under for over a year. The guy was brilliant and I learned more from him than anyone I have read or heard talk since. He just made so much sense that on the surface he made no sense at all until you stepped back and looked at it then you finally got it.
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