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Let's be realistic here. You all seem surprised/upset/indignant that
magazines should publish more favourable articles than unfavourable ones -
as several people have stated, this is hardly a shock given that a large
chunk of any magazine's revenue derives from advertising; in a small market,
like technical trading systems, it would hardly be prudent for a magazine to
alienate a significant proportion of their clients.
Compare this situation with magazine subscribers; if, as many people have
claimed, most subscribers & system buyers are newbies who give up after a
year, then the best strategy for a magazine editor is to suck up to
advertisers and not worry about subscribers too much.
An analogous situation exists in stock brokerage - how many "sell"
recommendations does your broker make compared with "buy" recommendation?
Yet nobody accuses brokers of doing anything untoward: a major broker like
Merrill Lynch would be mad to upset the Finance Director of a significant
corporate customer like Exxon by rating their stock a "sell", so it quietly
gets rated "hold" and everyone knows what this really means without anyone
losing "face".
Now can we get on with something a little more relevant please?
Rus
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