They come here to see what people are doing & take reverse positions
I suppose, that is not as easy as being thought.
I am sure many of us know about -
the analyst whose calls were only 10% right got a much bigger rise than the one whose calls were 70% right. Reason is that the fund was doing the opposite of the I analyst and were right 90% of the time!
the shrewd broker, with a business management degree, who took all the client's position himself and hoped to make a kill, and, his reasoning is that the clients always lose money, well most of the time, and, pay the broker.
In reality - Right for 10% of the time, does not mean the other 90% of the time gave whopping losses/returns, for the analyst or the fund, as the case maybe.
In the second case, the investors almost never book profits, when they are in. They book losses when they cant bear the pain anymore. The broker has not visualized the scene of the clients sitting pretty in profits (they dont book though), and he went bankrupt.