"Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told--and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity...Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs'...The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion." - Michael Crichton, The Lost World

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Marketing Hype to Avoid

  • If a firm declares longer term secrets to shorter term trading...
  • If a firm calls a system just a small, no-risk investment...
  • If a firm refers to you as friend...
  • If a firm promotes secrets to S&P daytrading...
  • If a firm declares that an offer may disappear at any moment!...
  • If a firm describes everything as simple...
  • If a firm refers to a trading method as most valuable ever...
  • If a firm refers to anything as secret...
  • If a firm tells you to act quickly...
  • If a firm says an offer may evaporate at any moment...
  • If a firm tells you to please send your order now...
  • If a firm calls the trading approach 'exciting'...
  • If a firm talks about day trading gold...
  • If a firm talks about buy and sell signals primarily...
  • If a firm boasts about new break throughs...
  • If a firm says something is limited to only a finite number of people...
  • If a firm states it can precisely time the market's next swing...
  • If a firm touts the secret of exiting the market with profit every time
  • If a firm declares it can pinpoint market turns...
  • If a firm raves about the secrets of seasonal influences...
  • If a firm talks about the opportunity of a lifetime...
  • If a firm says you must buy low and sell high...
  • If a firm states that the markets repeat directly or inversely relative to the total interaction of the sun, moon and earth...

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