ASF passes another milestone

[Dona Ferentes]

20 years ago today.

Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

 

[Dona Ferentes]

They've been going in and out of style

 

[Dona Ferentes]

But they're guaranteed to raise a smile

 

[UMike]

FB alerts good for somethings.

Been here for about 17.5 of them.

 

[farmerge]

20 years ago today.

Just been scrolling through these posts on ASF from some years ago.
Amazing what is around when the time is there to look.
Quite surprised to see avatars that appear no longer in the current discussions.
A bit sad really.

 

[farmerge]

I noticed when I was scrolling through these old posts a lot of the participants had been large contributors in those early days.

 

[Joe Blow]

I noticed when I was scrolling through these old posts a lot of the participants had been large contributors in those early days.

20 years is a long time. Some people move on for a variety of reasons. They leave the market or their circumstances change in other ways. Some just lose interest. It's a normal and predictable part of life. Nothing lasts forever.

 

[farmerge]

20 years is a long time. Some people move on for a variety of reasons. They leave the market or their circumstances change in other ways. Some just lose interest. It's a normal and predictable part of life. Nothing lasts forever.

@Joe Blow Only wish that I had come across ASF many years ago.

 

[Sean K]

@Joe Blow Only wish that I had come across ASF many years ago.

I was lucky enough to find ASF only a couple of years after it started. I was on another site at the time called Share Cafe, or something, and had just started full time trading. Switched over to this pretty quickly due to some of the quality posters at the time. I learnt a lot very quickly and ended up meeting quite a few members, in person. I even went to someone's wedding and had Joe Blow visit me in Peru after I moved there for a few years. I had a big chunk of my active investing and posting on ASF reduced due to going back to the Army between 2010 and 2018. It's been great to be back. Full time trading at home can be a lonely life so having this contact has been really important.

 

[dyna]

Quite surprised to see avatars that appear no longer in the current discussions.
A bit sad really.

I've felt exactly that too , sometimes.

" some are dead and some are living "

 

[qldfrog]

20 years is a long time. Some people move on for a variety of reasons. They leave the market or their circumstances change in other ways. Some just lose interest. It's a normal and predictable part of life. Nothing lasts forever.

And sadly some pass away..RIP
This is how long this site has lived.
Hopefully, asf will survive us all in a form or another

 

[finicky]

But that doesn't mean the bull market won't last forever does it?!

Impermanence (Pali: annica) The Buddha taught that all things disintegrate and so are impermanent. That is because all compounded phenomena are made of parts and inevitably fall apart. Another way to put it is that everything dies. Our denial of this reality is a fundamental cause of suffering.

 

[finicky]

had Joe Blow visit me in Peru

What's Joe Blow look like?
(Just confidentially)

 

[farmerge]

What's Joe Blow look like?
(Just confidentially)

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@finicky Well, I thought he looked like Marlon Brando's character out of The Godfather.

 

[farmerge]

Though he is obviously a very much nicer bloke.

 

[Sean K]

What's Joe Blow look like?
(Just confidentially)

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Just confidentially, between me and you finicky, he's a fit looking Brando.

 

[farmerge]

And sadly some pass away..RIP
This is how long this site has lived.
Hopefully, asf will survive us all in a form or another

@qldfrog Mr frog though I have only been a member of this fantastic site for a short time, it is going gangbusters.
Speaks volumes for the set-up and number of participants involved.

 

[farmerge]

Just confidentially, between me and you finicky, he's a fit looking Brando.

@Sean K Gee, that was a lucky stab in the dark by me.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

there's a snap that @Joe Blow posted from 2005 of the ASF nerve centre, basically walls of servers and ultramodern computers draining the Qld grid. I reposted it a year or so ago but can't find either.

Anyone up for a search?

 

[finicky]

Anyone up for a search?

Let me keep my illusions