Comments on: Trading Blog Accountability: Bill Cara and Tim Knight

by: Jason

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:34:49 +0000

reading this blog a little after a year after it was posted. He wasn’t so wrong on his view of the market…maybe just not quite so right on the timing…..sounds no different from a lot of traders. i appreciate Tim’s comment earlier…simply a journal that the public can view. Good observation though and i do like the idea of all of us, especially those in the public eye, being a little more accountable to all that we do. Good job.

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Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:49:48 +0000

[…] They don’t use any single setup or specialize in a specific pattern. So if you’re a novice just learning about technical analysis, it is a good way to get exposure to different charts and technical formations. What I like about this blog is that it doesn’t waffle or hedge. It gives a clear opinion and follows up on it to see how it panned out (high scores in accountability). […]

by: Bearish on Gold Stocks: HUI and Gold Futures

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:43:09 +0000

[…] Before I delve into this, let me go back to my previous call in this sector (blog accountability and all that jazz). Last year, at the beginning of July, I wrote that the gold sector was in for a rough patch. At that time, the Philly Gold Bugs Index was trading at arond ~340. I drew a neat little head and shoulders pattern, implying that it would head down to form the right shoulder. […]

by: Babak

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:39:55 +0000

Hi Tim,
thanks for your comments. To summarize, what I suggested and took upon myself is that as trading bloggers we go back to our previous calls and revisit them once in a while. btw if you’d like to get an innoculation for permabear-itis may I suggest 50 cc’s of SentimenTrader?
j/k
all the best

by: Tim Knight

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:49:30 +0000

I tripped across this post.

I’m not so sure it’s a matter of accountability……speaking for myself, I don’t avoid putting up some kind of trading record on purpose. Each afternoon, I just share my own thoughts on the market. I don’t run a hedge fund. I’m not an advisory service. I trade for my own account, and I am basically writing a diary that’s open for public viewing.

Listen, I’ve been bearish, and the market’s been bullish, and that’s been bad for me! Simple as that. But I can at least know that I’ve been sharing my own views, right or wrong, in an honest and timely way.

by: I Hate Vonage, You Hate Vonage, We All Hate Vonage!

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:56:36 +0000

[…] Tangentially, since I’ve promised to hold myself accountable in my previous opinions, I’ll take this opportunity to give myself an A+ for this call. The red arrow is when I made my first post about Vonage. The next day it gapped down and fell into the `$9 area, consolidated and fell further. Never to see that level except when it came back a few months later to ‘kiss’ the resistance level. […]

by: Babak

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:45:16 +0000

Thanks for dropping by Declan.
Love your site by the way

by: Friday Tid-Bits « ValueWiki Blog

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:34:22 +0000

[…] This blogger thinks Bill Cara and Tim Knight should own up to the erroneous market predictions on their blogs. I think this is positive. If bloggers want to sit at the same table as journalists in 2007, perhaps we should begin holding each other to higher levels of accountability. […]

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Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:17:25 +0000

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by: Declan Fallon

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:20:37 +0000

I totally agree with the need for accountability. If you want to run the mouth you need to be objective enough to highlight the good calls with the bad. If we got it right all the time the market would be an easy game! One day somebody (who???) will compile the Ticker Sense data on individual blogger opinions and see who is best (and worst) at making the call. I don’t particularly want to do this myself as I know my stats won’t be so hot!

Best wishes,
Declan