I have been thinking of whether to write this message for a while as I may offend a few.

I have been reading i3 for quite some time. Recently I see an explosive of new blogger that turn into using aggressive tactic and also sad to read a lot of rude comments.

I understand everyone like to make money but to use the kind of language that insult others and calling them names should be very shameful of themselves.

I see a lot of newbies that are suffered with huge lost and I hope the following will give you some guidance.

There are a lot of information that is flying around, and we always need to read it with a pinch of salt.

Generally, there are 4 camps of blogger or members.

A. The first type is those who have bought the shares and keep promoting them.

They can be small investor that only buy a few lots but making a lot of noise.

Some are more intellectual that can write very detail analysis. These can be professional analyst or simply

intelligent individual with very good investment background and experience.

A few of them are remisier that may or may not own any shares, but issue buy call for their subscriber.

The last one is some superinvestor that has a large position enough to move the market. Sometimes, the

share may not be good but with their purchasing power and followers,

this can be turned into a self-fulfilling prophesy.

B. Second type are those who keep attacking and spreading fear.

They would like to buy the shares with lower price. Once they bought the share, they will become type A promoter.

The more sophisticated one can be those hired by certain parties that issue warrant so that they don't need to pay when the warrant is expired.

For some, they may simply want a revenge when they notice certain member that have attacked their shares before and is trying to promote another share.

C. Third type are neutral

They have other means of earning a living. They can be a lecturer and running some course.

They may be observer and don't own a particular share but simply like to chip in.

There is one type that is more cunning. They actually go to the hottest stock and give very sensible comment when the share price is being hit.

You will be wondering why they are so actively doing this. For this kind of person, they will come out like a hero or saviour and they will finally promote some shares and gain some follower.

D. Fourth type is the silent one.

Don't underestimate the fourth type. They can the newbies but with cash rich. They can also be serious investor.

They can be some working for investment bank or asset management that are not allowed to post. They come to i3 to read the blog by gathering the information and the sentiment of the market.

You may be surprised that they can be computer armed with sophisticated machine learning and AI that can trigger a sell or buy.

For e.g. the famous 1987 black Monday that caused the market crash. 30 years onwards, the algorithms are much more sophisticated, and you can see the speed of recent sell off in DJIA.

Of course, people said no body point the gun to your head to buy a share and you need to judge by yourself.

However, some very experience blogger can use a lot of convincing points to lure you to buy into their shares or vice versa. This is what I call type A super investor.

For e.g.

There is a super investor that keep stating his good charity work, his experience in buying shares and how he become rich and even teach you how to use margin call.

He may pick some very good shares and if you have followed him earlier enough and leave earlier enough, you may sometimes make some gain. To be fair, many has indeed gained from his advice.

Such investor are cash rich and armoured with abundant borrowing facilities and sometimes more than 100 million of credit.

He can easily push up the price. So what are the risks, you may ask?

He is not obliged to tell you when he sell aggressively!

When his margin account is reduced, he is forced to sell.

With the money he has, he can be so aggressive to want to become one of the directors of any company. Imagine, if his proposal is refused and he will become angry - He will sell all his shares

Even worse, he may write an article to tell everyone that he has sold all his shares and boast about how clever he is. At his point, he has caused call further panic sell after the price drop of his heavy selling.

This kind of super investor will use their politic view and sometimes his religious belief to support them.

For e.g. they may say that he is 'Christian'. You will need to put a big question mark of whether their belief is true. You can easily verify them even you don't know bible.

A few reality checks will know they don't practise what they preach. For e.g.; They keep boasting their good deeds - Bible said - But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does.

Bible also says - When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags.

Sometimes, this kind of investor may publicly name a person and ridicule them just because they don't follow his advice.

A few years ago, they was a member of i3 called optimus ( a type B member). He kept attacking different forum with multiple accounts and of course attacking this super investor. Optimus was a much-hated figure by type A members.

The super investor has used his power to hire someone to find out his identity and publish it to everyone.

He later suicide. Although the superinvestor think he has not caused the incident and optimus suicidal was due to his financial situation, I believe the reveal of his identity played a big part of his decision to go down this route.

I am sure by now you should know who I am talking about.

I don't like to bring back this sad situation, but I want to use it as a warning to all i3 members including the super investor. Life is more than all the money you gain in the world, even just one life including your own life let alone the innocent one.  To use the bible quote

"What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

You may try use different tactics to earn money, but please pause and think, some money go into your account may come from the hard-earned money (or sometimes we call blood money) from some other investor.

Don't go too far!!

There is no doubt that superinvestor has done a lot of good work and many has benefited from his advise and his sponsorship, however, you need to be also careful and use your own judgement wisely and don't follow him blindly. Something that may comfort you is the money you lost may go into sponsoring another student :-). 

 Make sure you invest in long term and don't do day trading if you are newbies.