My good friend and blogging mate, THE WOODSHEDDER, has semi-retired from the office of ‘blogger’ at iBankCoin. Although the title of this post is meant to jest, I am saddened by this development, as it was Woodshedder, alongside his caped sidekick, Danny, who started the site with my back in 2007.
As all new things in life, we were quite optimistic about our prospects and wanted to spread the good word. Time has a way of dulling the once sharp knife of ingenuity, as the novelty of ‘new’ wears thin often. I can’t blame him for prioritizing his life, tossing iBC into the urinal for an expeditious flush. Plain and simple, this is public service and at times can be monotonous. I’ve never contemplated leaving because I truly enjoying writing and sharing ideas. Then again, I do this for a living, managing money on behalf of some of the wealthiest and fattest people on this earth.
That being said, Wood is a good guy. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him twice in NYC, during our annual meetings. He’s one of the guys that you instantly take a liking to. You can tell his heart is in the right place and would never lie or betray your trust. I am sure we haven’t seen the end of Woodshedder, as the south has a curious way of rising again.
On a related note, I’ve officially failed at becoming an alcoholic. God knows I’ve tried my hardest to accomplish this goal, coming home and living out the cliche of pouring myself a glass of scotch, neat, after a long day’s work . On the weekend’s, I’ve partaken in one form of debauchery after the next, all resulting in adamant displeasure.
I don’t want anything, none of it is for me. I am perfectly content with a beer or two, and the occasional bottle of Bordeaux from time to time; but the hard drinking is definitely out. Gone are the days when I’d drink a bottle of tequilla on my own, and still have my senses about me. These days, if I can get through a six pack without feeling tired, I am lucky.
Getting old certainly has its drawbacks.
Tributes to Wood.
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Woodshedder is a good man Indeud! Best wishes and hope to see Shedder around on the tweety machine or elsewhere.
Many years ago, was good for a case of beer every other day. Going on 67 now and 2 glasses of red wine put me under. One usually suffices.
Fly drinks like a gentleman. My hat is off to you!
Surely Wood is simply taking a break. Good wishes sir. Found long term value in the posts and discovered the truly technical only side and take on the tape. IBC is the most valuable instrument in America right now. Woodshedder will be missed by this guy.
Wow… You’re obviously suffering from a paroxysm of kindness. I think you’ll soon recover.
Thanks my brotha. There have been innumerable good times here. I spent many a night laughing my ass off with you and others here at the blog. We made money together and traded and survived and indeed prospered during the worst bear market of our lifetime. But more importantly, we gave our readers good advice.
We have watched many snake oil salesman over the last 6 years. We’ve seen them come and go. Some have blown up spectacularly. I am and will always be proud to be associated with this site as we have always striven to be honest, realistic, and transparent.
THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!
Noooo!!!
Sad to see ya go, it has been a great privilege reading your blog, and I always loved your High Tight Flags!
May you soon raise a high tight flag of your own in a Mel Gibson Patriotesque return to glory some day!
Southsiiiiide!
Thanks for your contributions to the site.
I’m a senior citizen now and have been hearing that the “SOUTH” will rise again since I was 5. How right this has turned out to be, folks just didn’t realize how far “SOUTH” was. Welcome to the new south, and speak Spanish like everyone else 🙂
Out
And that second video, the one with Kneale Before iBankCoin, always brings a profound chuckle to my heart.
such an epic time period:
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1178854763
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1181729017
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1204092924
No doubt!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…Relentless bull markets are bad for bloggers!
HAH. Laughing my ass off again at Dennis Kneale. Thanks RC for finding those!
“I see the IBC guys humiliated you again”… my favorite. All the best man. Appreciate all of you’ve shared here.
A hat tip the the Woodshedder!
Not taking this easy alcoholism for granted. Cheers.
shit, is someone cutting onions in here ?
this feels like one of those moments in life that after it you know things won’t be the same
I learned a lot from wood, most importantly to think different.
I can honestly say that over the past year I have learned more from Wood about trading systems than I had in the previous 10 years. I can’t believe he shared so many profitable trading ideas with us, and answered a lot of dumb questions, to boot.
Best wishes to you, Wood; we’ll sure miss you.
Bozo, stay in touch my friend. My email is at the end of my post, in case you ever want to bounce a few ideas around.
I could always count on you to hit me up with a good comment, give me some homework, and keep my mind churning about how something could be made better.
Thanks!
Although I haven’t kept up with the bamboo recently, I enjoyed his posts back in the day. Take care.
/Raises a glass….Cheers
You drink on work nights?
Turns out Detroit is not alone on the exodus of citizens. A bunch of shit weather mid west and north east shitties have the same every one with a brain bailed problem. How can this not be a clusterfuck?
Wow. Everyone here tries so hard to be funny and never adds an any valuable commentary.
I would never do that.
Shed. I’m bummed to see you leave. I don’t this to sound mushy or anything but I did feel a kindred spirit in you. That old time American spirit before this country headed toward becoming Amerika.
Self reliance, independence, hard, diligent work ethic and all that stuff was evident in your missives and those attributes meshed with the gears in my head.
You will be missed by this reader from the land of very large bankrupt cities to the North.
All the best to you and yours, Jeff. Thanks for the bloggery.
So Godzilla goes full Shinzo and nothing but the PM’s are ripping. Uncanny resemblance between Abe and the late great Robert Mitchum. Do they have a nuclear waste free Japanese Hamptons? Where the fuck is the reaction?
Addition by subtraction
Woodshedder was decent, better than Raul that’s for sure, dont think it’s a huge loss tho imo, dude was kind of a clahn
Woodshedder’s destruction of Dennis Kneale will live on eterneal in the form of dark stories whispered behind the curtains of live finance teevee stages
Fly, you should try gin.
The coniferous path keeps the spirits alive
meanwhile, in the stock world FRO ripping
All the best to you
Woodsheddar. Thanks for always being supportive of my work!
Thanks, Woodshedder for your numerous contributions to the site. Have a good life, until we hear from you again.