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So who exactly are JT, Mile High and Colonel?
Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:39 pm
Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:39 pm
I was reading a thread on the Help Board and an old thread from 2010 was linked there. Somebody in there mentioned something about JT, Mile High and Colonel being regular posters on the Money Board. This is not the first time I've seen their names mentioned when the MB is brought up. Who are these guys? Why don't they post here anymore?
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:40 pm to hikingfan
I've never seen any of those 3 post here. The only posters I can say without looking definitely post here are foshizzle and thabigfella (absent lately though).
Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:48 pm to hikingfan
I will never forget Mile High telling everyone to sell their stocks b/c a big crash was happening the next day. The dude called the crash to the day. I wished that I would have listened to him.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:48 pm to hikingfan
JT = JerseyTiger. He had a lot of notable ideas re housing value, derivatives of all types, was atheist and a libertarian as I recall. I have no idea what he did for a living but it seemed to be something in finance/investing of some sort.
MileHigh was some kind of hipster stoner who claimed to work at Wendy's dispite a pretty high level of knowledge on such things as would be discussed on the MT Board.
I think Colonel was a gold bug -- or was that rivers? I def remember a Colonel but he was not as notable as the other two.
MileHigh was some kind of hipster stoner who claimed to work at Wendy's dispite a pretty high level of knowledge on such things as would be discussed on the MT Board.
I think Colonel was a gold bug -- or was that rivers? I def remember a Colonel but he was not as notable as the other two.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:56 pm to hikingfan
JT was JerseyTiger. He quit posting under mysterious circumstances. Not sure what happened. I know his screen name got changed to a different name after he left. He was a decent Money Board poster but would get violently nasty with anyone who disagreed with him. Calling names, making unfounded accusations...that sort of thing. He posted a lot on the Poli Board, too.
MileHigh & Colonel Hapablap (spelling???) portrayed themselves as brothers IRL. They argued with each other a lot. MH's schtick was mainly anti-bankers and anti-banking. I asked him if he had been turned down by a bank for a loan or if a bank had foreclosed on him.
He lived in Denver, he said, thus his screen name. Plus he loved to brag about smoking pot so I guess his screen name had a double meaning.
Col H was less vocal. More of a prankster than a super serious poster. Of the three, I enjoyed his posts the most.
Both MH & Col H stopped posting at the same time. Someone told me they had a dispute with someone on the O-T Lounge Board and got angry enough to quit posting. I have no idea what it was about or if what I was told was true.
MileHigh & Colonel Hapablap (spelling???) portrayed themselves as brothers IRL. They argued with each other a lot. MH's schtick was mainly anti-bankers and anti-banking. I asked him if he had been turned down by a bank for a loan or if a bank had foreclosed on him.
He lived in Denver, he said, thus his screen name. Plus he loved to brag about smoking pot so I guess his screen name had a double meaning. Col H was less vocal. More of a prankster than a super serious poster. Of the three, I enjoyed his posts the most.
Both MH & Col H stopped posting at the same time. Someone told me they had a dispute with someone on the O-T Lounge Board and got angry enough to quit posting. I have no idea what it was about or if what I was told was true.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:01 pm to rmc
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I have no idea what he did for a living but it seemed to be something in finance/investing of some sort.
I think he said he worked for a hedge fund with some kind of specialty dealing with real estate. But he also was knowledgeable about bonds and would make good comments about various fixed income investments.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:13 pm to horndog
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will never forget Mile High telling everyone to sell their stocks b/c a big crash was happening the next day. The dude called the crash to the day. I wished that I would have listened to him.
Thats' awesome. Sounds like a smart guy. Although like LSURussian below you mentioned, it is weird for someone like him to be working at Wendy's.
I'd loved to have read this board during the 2007-2008 crash. Were there any other predictions from posters here that came true w.r.t the market/housing crash? Anybody have any nice bookmarked threads from the financial crisis that we could reminisce about?
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:13 pm to rmc
quote:That was Rivers.
I think Colonel was a gold bug -- or was that rivers?
He once made a statement that his physical gold holdings increased in value by a huge amount (he gave an million dollar plus figure) in one day when gold was rising in price around the time of the 2008 financial crisis.
I did the math and for his gold to have increased as much as he claimed it did, I determined he would have to own something like 2.5 tons of gold.
When I pointed that out to him he got pissed and started calling me a liar.
He got banned (or just quit posting) for starting 6 or 7 threads every day about gold. At least, I think that was the reason.
I remember someone started a thread on the Help Board (not me) asking the admins to clean up the myriad of almost identical Rivers' gold threads and an admin replied he was going to put a stop to it. I don't think Rivers ever posted again. He may have just gotten angry about his gold threads getting deleted and quit posting.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:17 pm to LSURussian
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JT was JerseyTiger. He quit posting under mysterious circumstances. Not sure what happened. I know his screen name got changed to a different name after he left. He was a decent Money Board poster but would get violently nasty with anyone who disagreed with him. Calling names, making unfounded accusations...that sort of thing. He posted a lot on the Poli Board, too.
MileHigh & Colonel Hapablap (spelling???) portrayed themselves as brothers IRL. They argued with each other a lot. MH's schtick was mainly anti-bankers and anti-banking. I asked him if he had been turned down by a bank for a loan or if a bank had foreclosed on him. He lived in Denver, he said, thus his screen name. Plus he loved to brag about smoking pot so I guess his screen name had a double meaning.
Col H was less vocal. More of a prankster than a super serious poster. Of the three, I enjoyed his posts the most.
Both MH & Col H stopped posting at the same time. Someone told me they had a dispute with someone on the O-T Lounge Board and got angry enough to quit posting. I have no idea what it was about or if what I was told was true.
Thanks for taking the time to type that. Appreciate it.
I know you are into some sort of banking. I bet MH and you had some good discussions on banking issues.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:25 pm to hikingfan
quote:I think that was part of his TD persona. He was involved with some type of investments
Although like LSURussian below you mentioned, it is weird for someone like him to be working at Wendy's.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:26 pm to hikingfan
quote:I always thought that was just a running gag with his "brother." He posted an alledged photo of himself one time on the OT and it looked like a typically stoned hippie. I saved it on my computer. I'd post it but I'm on my iPad now and I don't feel like firing my PC up tonight. Besides, it probably was not even him in the photo.
it is weird for someone like him to be working at Wendy's.
Regsrding predictions involving the 2008 crash, I started a thread the middle of February, 2009 when the stock market had dropped several thousand points on the DJ 30.
In my thread I said it was going to be time to go "all in" in the stock market before the end of March. The market low for the crisis turned out to be March 6, so I came close.
I have that thread saved on my PC, too. It's the only time I've ever called the market correctly.
Some of the replies to my prediction thread the day I made it were pretty funny. One poster said there wasn't going to be a stock market functioning by the end of March. Spirits were pretty low on this board during those days.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:29 pm to hikingfan
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I know you are into some sort of banking. I bet MH and you had some good discussions on banking issues
We did but it never got nasty. He was funny. His sig quote at one point, which I think was directed at me, said "The only good banker is a dead banker."
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:33 pm to LSURussian
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Some of the replies to my prediction thread the day I made it were pretty funny. One poster said there wasn't going to be a stock market functioning by the end of March. Spirits were pretty low on this board during those days.
I just started trading in mid-2008. It was terrible timing
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:46 pm to donRANDOMnumbers
quote:Ouch! My condolences.
I just started trading in mid-2008. It was terrible timing
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:47 pm to hikingfan
amsterdam was another poster from back in that era. He was some sort of investment advisor and was pretty level-headed. I remember some of the back and forth between him and the lunatic Rivers.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:49 pm to LSURussian
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I said it was going to be time to go "all in" in the stock market before the end of March. The market low for the crisis turned out to be March 6, so I came close.
So did you do well?
Posted on 2/16/14 at 10:57 pm to GenesChin
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So did you do well?
Actually, yes. I had been about 75% cash since late 2007. I was just treading water.
When the market crashed and kept crashing, I kept fighting the the temptation to get back in. Finally in Feb, 2009, everything looked so bleak, so hopeless, that I used Warren Beffet's famous saying, "When others are greedy, be fearful. When others are fearful, be greedy."
In Feb, 2009 EVERYONE was fearful. I started putting all my cash back in. Within 18 months I had doubled my stock portfolio balances.
Posted on 2/16/14 at 11:09 pm to LSURussian
Seems to me the lucky point wasn't timing the jump back in.
Its easy to look around and see misery.
The hard part in "market timing" is the choice to go cash.
Its easy to look around and see misery.
The hard part in "market timing" is the choice to go cash.
Posted on 2/17/14 at 12:28 am to LSURussian
I thought MH said he had a corporate Wendy's position. Not in the restaurant. I may be mistaken
Posted on 2/17/14 at 6:38 am to hikingfan
There's a fairly natural turnover of lunatic posters/topics constantly flowing in and out of the MT. Wiki and Bitcoins are the current flavor of the week, but i think Baylor was my favorite because he was able to gain a small following with essentially zero knowledge of financial markets, it was quite impressive.
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