iBankCoin
18 years in Wall Street, left after finding out it was all horseshit. Founder/ Master and Commander: iBankCoin, finance news and commentary from the future.
Joined Nov 10, 2007
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I’m Old School

I started finance blogging back in 2006, at FlyonWallStreet, where I earned the name “The Fly.” Back then, I had a lot of shit to say, particularly with four letter words. There weren’t any finance bloggers who talked like me back then because bloggers were pussies. In the real world, people who manage money have disgusting, filthy, mouths, cussing at old ladies in wheeled chairs and spitting at the homeless. But somehow, someway, when these charlatans made it online, their salesmen hats went on and they became very prim and proper, coming across as bland, rigid, checkered pants republicans (no Savage).

I revolutionized this blog game, spawning off dozens of copy cats and countless others who mimic me on Twitter.

The reason for the redesign.

The previous web design was beautiful. I loved the black, glassy, look, with background images to match. I liked the format, but quickly despised it for a specific reason. My crew, the elite tabbed blogger apparatus, the all-star squad of staff writers, drowned under the volume of the purblind. Since it was sorted by chronological order, more than ninety percent of the content published under the old design was indeud penned by gorillas with half eaten bananas on their desks, and NOT my staff writers.

At the annual iBC dinner, their discontent was aired and I have responded in kind.

Effective immediately, we are now in the year 2006 and you are enjoying the new design, whether you like it or not. Although you never imagined that orange was for you, it is now your favorite color–next to white and wheat. I am sensitive to no one and will not bend, with regards to living in the past. Back then, things were simpler. Twitter wasn’t even around and Facebook was having its dick cut off by Myspace.

However, if the white is too harsh on your old man eyes, I can have VINCENZO ILLUMINATI (world famous IT specialist) tone it down a little.

As an aside, I am up more than 2% this morning, led by fantastic gains in CTRP, DMND and EXK.

Old school.

NOTE: If you were too lazy to click on the link above, this is what the old site looked like. Odd, no? VIZ.

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44 comments

  1. moolahheaven

    Hail the ‘Fly’ or be decapitated.

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  2. TraderCaddy

    Blue radio,solar lights, and Lady (what was her name-always looking for a man) redux.

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    • MOOBER

      Lady G

      Remember the late night chat in the comments section?

      Good times

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  3. acehood

    You’re inspiring me to start a blog through you, sir Fly.

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  4. Half Blood Pope

    I see you are going with the NYM orange. Excellent.

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  5. tm

    Love the new look…hated the previous content farm news-mill. That was awful…it shouldn’t take five minutes to scroll from the top to the bottom of your main page. I would be a strong advocate of MORE ORANGE, fuck everyone with sensitive eyes (no WYNN).

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  6. Raul3

    Can Vincenzo make clicking on the homepage’s main iBankCoin logo refresh the page?

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  7. Dirk Diggler

    Full circle site design FTW

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  8. matimatica

    we gettin isaac newton up in hyea

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  9. TraderCaddy

    Note- Potential hurricane to be in the Eastern Gulf (or over Florida) by early next week.
    Andrew Anniversary (knock on hard wood) soon.

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  10. flyaway18

    The longer I live (going on 53.8 years), the more old school I get. Hate to be a tattle tale, but Mike is pumping his DMND short on jake’s blog.

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  11. ecchymosis

    Thanks for the new design

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  12. Juice

    like new design .. easier to navigate than the previous one

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  13. TheOSU

    You should try gray with scarlet letters………….awesome ,

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    • ALLPROz

      Gray is gay and not even a “real” color…unless you are a dog of course.

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  14. TheMarketAce

    Why $EXK over $AG?

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  15. ALLPROz

    When I tell people orange is and always has been my favorite color I get “what the fuck retard” looks. With FLY now in my corner my shit no longer stinks but rather can be served on a silver platter.

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    • JakeGint

      Orange is the favorite color of the whole damn state of Tennessee.

      Also my oldest’s favorite color, fwiw.

      _______

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  16. 4fl3x

    The only way to complete the way back machine would be to unban Ducat…

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  17. Heisenberg

    old School is nice… but 2006? I’d like the 1998 glory days “Geocities” look…

    http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=5&url=ibankcoin.com

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  18. hattery

    Is the IBC “game” dead?

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  19. The Fly

    If you click on names, the game still lives, just underground.

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  20. TraderCaddy

    Went into the WayBackMachine and saw you were short LEH in 2008 @ about $40.00.
    Don’t you wish you held on to that short until it went to nil.
    Also went back and saw Jake was President of the Young Republicans in his nursery school and urged all to vote for Barry Goldwater.

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  21. le chiffre

    “….penned by gorillas…. and not my staff…” exactly! way to adapt. two thumbs up.

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  22. TheOSU

    Jeezus , who gives a phuck about colored coordinated web sites ?

    This move in silver is nothing short of spectacular and looks a lot like the Jan . 2011 move .

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  23. The Pirate Trader
    The Pirate Trader

    I like the organization of the bloggers on this new layout. How i can see the three latest stories they wrote.

    Overall good update, the color scheme is a bit weird, though.

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  24. Yogi & Boo Boo

    Love the new old look. Rocks like in the before times. Thank you.

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  25. Forrex

    Seems like an intern eating pumpkin pie designed the header and logo. It should be less stupid and more hipster friendly Like This

    http://shareimage.ro/images/y7rkuo0da0pfv6xpj1vt.png

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  26. Von Lamos

    There are some folks who cram up their business cards with all the information it can hold. This is not done, for a business card is business card and not sales literature. Let the additional info be there on your sales literature and keep the business card as simple as possible. This will ensure that the card will be able to pass across the information it was supposed to convey immediately. Would you rather want that the CEO of a reputed company scanned all through your business card just to find your contact information? A proper business card design should have as much `white space as possible on it. People should be able to access the necessary information immediately.`

    Latest short article straight from our very own webpage
    <"'http://www.caramoantourpackage.com/caramoan-island/

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