
Are you a leader, or are you a follower?
For as great as the members of OSN have restored my faith in humanity, with the kind words, the outpouring of support for the community, the friendships being made, and the unbelieveable displays of commradery we see every day…..Watching what people do when demand dries up tears this faith in humanity back down. People are clearly selling for losses, and it is absolutely amazing to me. We have begged, we have pleaded, we have shown the average trader the way, yet they continue to let emotion get involved, and let the herd lead them to slaughter. 1% of the people in the world own 75% of the wealth. The exact same thing is happening on OneSeason. The small difference is YOU CAN CONTROL what percent you are in right now. When OneSeason CEO Mike Sroka launched the site, and explained the core idea, one of the things he said many times is that he’d hope it would teach folks about market dynamics. People aren’t learning. They are losing their money, willfully, and then these are the same people who will post in the forums, in chat rooms, and whereever else they can proclaim to the rest of the smart OneSeason users, what morons they are. Folks…Like Rodney Dangerfield says from his golf bag phone in Caddyshack, When the market is up Sell! Sell! Sell!, what? the market is down? Then Buy! Buy! Buy! Now, if you are selling at a loss, but moving the cash into other stocks you feel will be a bigger bang for your buck, than I am not speaking to you. You may even be smarter than the long term holder. I am speaking strictly to those who are selling for a loss, because the market it red, and they are scared. In any market, fortunes are made in the dips. What is absolutely amazing to me, in OneSeason’s infancy, is how people react, and freely give their money away. When the buy orders dry up, people panic (the far majority), and start selling for a loss because they want to see their cash safe. They get their cash, sell their SOIs at a loss to do it, and then bitch about the market “taking a dump”. Meanwhile, the smart people (by far the minority), who understand how to make money, are buying shares hand over fist. The opposite happens when the market goes up. The people who are now sitting on their cash wait, and wait, and wait…and at the first sign of green, start buying again.

I know Mr. Broker...I know..
So now it’s a green market, and you’re buying again. Congratulations. You are officially selling low (in red for a loss), and are now buying high (market green). Exactly the opposite of what you do to make money in a market. I know I shouldn’t be complaining, because the majority of people who are employing the strategy above only continue donating their money to the people who understand this, and it’s their own fault…but I have been hoping at some point, people would catch on. The Rich will continue to get richer, the poor will continue to get poorer. Which side will you be on? You have a choice…