[goodtyneguy]

The thing I've noticed in the GTA reports and the interviews is that he complains a lot about his clients wanting short term recommendations, whereas he wants them to focus on the longer term as he believes that's the most important. He often says the short term is a 2 on the Richter scale whereas the long term is a 10 on the Richter scale. So the GTA seems to recommend a fairly broad amount of stocks each month to satisfy all the short term traders that use the service. But I noticed a lot of them are saying do "additional buying" or "buy a pullback to.." or "additional selling" etc. So it's not just highlighting the A+ candidates, but instead seems to highlight all of the reasonable stocks in favourable technical patterns. I think we have to put the March 2012 picks in context though, as as I said at the start of this thread, a lot will have failed short term due to the point in market's Stage 2 phase and I think highlights the importance of overall market timing i.e. doing most of your investor Stage 2 buying early in the markets Stage 2 run and then focusing more on trader continuation buying later in the Stage 2B phase.

Yes, commercial considerations or the customer is always right - even when they are not - always wins out in business. I'm sure you can relate to that. Locked in, in his post above elaborated well on the vagaries involved in keeping customers happy in Weinstein's business. Mike Swanson over at Wall Street Window who (as you know) uses his own version of stage analysis has the same complaints from the subscribers to his investment club. He reckons he regularly loses customers because he waits for the best investor type trades rather than just constantly feed his subscribers with stock picks because they want something to do.

I appreciate the importance of your second point too, patience is a big element in successful investing/trading.