Originally Posted by
YangFui Hello,
I'll make this relatively brief: I received too much support to just walk away and I thank everyone who wrote to me privately and who supported me in their posts. I wasn't being melodramatic--I really intended to abandon this forum. But several people (including a moderator) convinced me to stay.
To reply to just a few comments: I didn't mean to suggest that the forum doesn't appreciate MorganPlus8 as well as others who contribute meaningfully. I only meant to suggest that it's always possible that degraded discourse can alienate conscientious contributors (as it nearly did me--others might leave without saying why...). Also, I might be more sensitive than other users but that's based on my expectation of camaraderie and probably due to my cultural upbringing and conservative personality. I will try to work on that and will resort to proper resolution channels in the future (rather than posting publicly) should I ever have any new grievances.
And to take a moment to reply academically to gohan_bcc (and I mean this to be a peaceful reply): I see your point that there are countless interconnections and that it's not always easy to see how an "unrelated" topic could apply to or affect BBRY. But as far the subject of oil goes, I think that speaking about oil as a commodity and lubricant of the industrial engine we call The Economy is a lot different from trading stock in a little-known gray-market Canadian oil-drilling company. I can sort of see how the former might possibly (and I still think it's a bit of a stretch) affect BBRY's price action; I'm not sure I understand how the latter would do so unless you very creatively employ Gleick's chaos theory. Now that wasn't a jab--I really am trying to be open-minded here. I think everyone seems to agree that there is a reasonable boundary of topics relevant to BBRY and that this boundary is quite large and a bit fuzzy. My only point was to try to add some clarity to that boundary despite my newbie status. I also feel that you might think your PM message was not threatening but, again, there might be a cultural difference that you perhaps don't appreciate (in my culture those are words of sworn enemies which we, sir, surely are not). Enough said.
Moving on: To comment on the recent price action, just remember that when it comes to technical analysis (TA), it's often about what I call "zoom levels". If you pull back and examine a weekly chart versus a daily chart, you can perhaps more clearly see that we're in a pennant formation, as MorganPlus8's angled navy bars depict. While all of TA is not an exact science and (like much of trading) is largely based on the probability that certain trading behaviors will occur--the reality is that trading patterns do repeat themselves with stunning regularity. An up-trend leading into a pennant very often results in a breakout to the upside. Patience, here, is a virtue.
Thank you again, everyone. I'm eager to continue discussing BBRY and banking on its success! (Pun intended.)