I think all of you 'hunter-gatherers' out there are either trading in telephone number sizes or are forgetting your place in the food chain.
I am a mosquito, a tiny little creature than needs just the smallest bit of blood to keep me going. I'll find a spot on the back of some large animal that won't even feel me land or bite. I'll have my fill without my host ever noticing. I'll wait until the evening when he's dosing and have my little suck in safety.
Of course, I could fly over to that hairless arm over there in this tropical climate where the veins are prominent. The food there looks so easy for the taking but of course if I go there I will get swatted.They are on the lookout for me.
Slaying wilderbeest my ass.
If you're a mosquito, what do you do..hmm.. you suck? So if you're happy to be a mosquito you're also a sucker!
Check out this quote from "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" (thank you to whoever it was that posted this recently as a PDF or I wouldn't be able to copy and paste like this!)
"The tyro knows nothing, and everybody, including himself,
knows it. But the next, or second, grade thinks he knows a great
deal and makes others feel that way too. He is the experienced
sucker, who has studied not the market itself but a few remarks
about the market made by a still higher grade of suckers. The
second-grade sucker knows how to keep from losing his money in
some of the ways that get the raw beginner. It is this
semisucker rather than the 100 per cent article who is the real
all-the-year-round support of the commission houses. He lasts
about three and a half years on an average, as compared with a
single season of from three to thirty weeks, which is the usual
Wall Street life of a first offender. It is naturally the
semisucker who is always quoting the famous trading aphorisms
and the various rules of the game. He knows all the don'ts that
ever fell from the oracular lips of the old stagers excepting
the principal one, which is: Don't be a sucker!
This semisucker is the type that thinks he has cut his
wisdom teeth because he loves to buy on declines. He waits for
them. He measures his bargains by the number of points it has
sold off from the top. In big bull markets the plain
unadulterated sucker, utterly ignorant of rules and precedents,
buys blindly because he hopes blindly. He makes most of the
money until one of the healthy reactions takes it away from him
at one fell swoop. But the Careful Mike sucker does what I did
when I thought I was playing the game intelligently according to
the intelligence of others. I knew I needed to change my
bucket-shop methods and I thought I was solving my problem with
any change, particularly one that assayed high gold values
according to the experienced traders among the customers."
Hopefully that might wake a few of you up to reality!