New to ARIA? Cruising the bulletin boards? Here's everything you need to know to stay sane, and not take any of it too seriously...
Yahoo: 75% adolescent potty humor, 15% pumping and bashing, and 10% absolute gems of investing insight (thank you Bart H. , SullyinFL and MikiesBack). Problem is you have to wade through (or try to block) all the potty humor and pumping and bashing, and that gets incredibly tiring. That said, in spite of the grotesque potty humor, there's something unmistakably honest about this place, which is why I keep going back. At the end of the day, we're just gamblers, however clever we think we are or how many degrees we might have. All that's quite clear on Yahoo.
StockTwits: Good folks, nobody gets emotional, or pathological... There is a fair amount of pumping and bashing (which you'll find anywhere), but also genuine camaraderie whatever your viewpoint might be. People share good intel, links, and it's a fun place to spend some time. Down side is that posts are limited to 140 characters...which, as you'll see in a minute, might actually be an upside. I'm migrating back there, as it's a good, comfortable, smart place to respectfully trade ideas about your investment.
iHub: Just, absolutely...amazing. And infuriating. The site is dominated by two bashers (former longs), sir 2da and Dr. BiotechResearcher (aka, BR) who, like the worst broken record on the planet, play their mournful, pompous laments about the stupidity of Ariad management (in particular its MD CEO) and the futility of investing in Ariad again and again and again. And again. I don't know who these guys are in real life, but I imagine them to be prune like, bitter old white guys whose lives (and investments) have not turned out as they hoped. They are bitter, that much is clear...and they need to move on. That said, there are also some extremely intelligent, insightful and well researched posts (thank you Jesspro, STOCKSEEK and Amplekind) that are must reads for any new investor. I'd just recommend that you put the bitter old white guys on "ignore" from the get go - you'll have a much better experience.
Good luck to all.
TC
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