Louis,

Yes it is fun to see them. Chris seems particularly good sport, could he be the same guy that wrote: “On my rare visits to this board, I try to raise the tone a little above the childish name calling”?

Or this:

“This is the last time I will ever respond to you, Louis.”

Wonderful.

And while he lacks the self awareness to notice the tongue-in-cheekiness of your own prediction, he has added his own with all the pomposity of those who are overly fond of first person pronouns.

“I am now issuing a similar warning: On Friday 21st August 2009, this junk rally, this "dash for trash" entered its final phase. When will it end? Certainly within months, probably within weeks, possibly within days.”

And has continually repeated this warning, citing his own superior knowledge due to careful analysis of all sorts, from a falling Baltic Dry index, and Shanghai index to magic numbers and then promptly ignored them when they change direction.

Best of all, (and worthy of repetition is this one) where he got as far as suggesting that if “DJI breaks through the 10,000 barrier, then sensible bears need to swallow their pride and acknowledge that this is indeed a new bull market.”

And when the Dow went past 10000 he ignored his own advice too and here he is again insulting you

Ah makes me nostalgic, wonder what ever happened to Pival?