Paulson was not taken seriously by experts in 2007, he made a 590% return on his fund while the experts went under.
WB as a kid starting up was never taken seriously even denied entry to Harvard, markets listen to him now.
Jobs, Gates & Branson were never taken seriously coz they were drop outs at different levels.
Point, we all learn while at it & become better at what we do coz of the mistakes we make along the way. Be your own business school by going through the ropes as all you'll get everywhere are opinions from the always wrong stock brockers to Investment banks.
Be you own expert.

The trend at Wazua is, everyone try to give advise and the forum end up being a place to just write and defend one's point of view sometimes with no substance. In this forum you find people who are very smart and understand the concepts well; those are the people who should be doing more writing, unfortunately, people who write often have minimum knowledge of the issue at hand and are driven mostly by what they belief in i.e idiology.

In this forum, we have experts in Money markets, bonds, stocks, real estate to name a few, so if you are not an expert shut up and listen.
Of course there are experts on wazua. I wonder how you will tell an expert is contributing. This forum thrives because we can make our contributions in good faith without "blowing our covers".

If you purchased KenGen IPO shares and made money or if your mama tells you you're and expert in stocks, chances are, you might not, shut up too.
Every member of this forum has a right to make their contribution in good faith. There is absolutely nothing wrong with members sharing their experiences as investors - even if they rub you / us up the wrong way while at it.

There are people with formal education beyond bachelors and some with long years of profession success, those are the people I want to listen to since they probably see a bigger picture.
Good luck finding out who they are. You need prayers and better luck if you decide to listen and shut out those you deem to be "experts" by virtue of their professional training or number of years they have logged on the job. If I listened every time my broker said buy or sell, I would have quit the market eons ago...(and he's suppossed to be the "expert". Ditto different fund managers.
And by the way, if you choose to wear blinkers and tune out "non-experts" you lose out on invaluable, money saving - money making advice.
There's a pharmacist (stockmaster) who's investment decisions are better than my brokers any day, and a non-architect (Pablo)whose advice on construction you'd pay through the nose to get.

Have a good friday

Many, many customers are fools - they pay insane markups and fees...

Fools drive all markets.