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Email is reliable, and if you are ''new school'' you should be pragmatic and find a solution that works for you.

That's fine. As I said, cannot satisfy everyone. And cannot force people to make money. I'm pretty sure most people would prefer a service that might not have all the bells and whistles but is making them money, than vice versa.

I too am a new member and was wanting text as well. I received a prompt response from Kim letting me know how to work around this. Again, let me state that the response came from as high up as you can go at SO, Kim. Try this with any option trading site regardless of cost. I have been with many option trading services that you will never have access to the person or persons making the trade recommendations and paid tens of thousands for the their service. Yes, I would still like text, but I have this wonderful access as well as someone teaching me why they are trading, how to do it on my own, all at a very reasonable price! If you have never looked around at the various other "experts" in the option advice business, I encourage you to. You don't know how lucky you are to have come across SO. BTW - all those other services have text, but the information is generally not worth the text over time. Thank you SO no matter how I get the information.

New members might also consider this is not an alert-service, or a 'blindly follow the alert without my own due diligence'-service. When I just joined, I indeed treated it as such. But after some time it eventually dawned on me that I should learn from the alerts. And not blindly follow them. Although following the alerts can certainly be a profitable venture, even hours or days after an actual alert went out, the real value of this service is the knowledge that is shared on the boards. I am now able to set my own entries and exits, sometimes even before the alerts go out. I am still using the first post in each 'trade discussion'-topic as my main information source for placing my own trades (i.e. I am not searching for actionable trade candidates myself yet), and am doing just fine. For me, it is not an issue at all that I am only able to see trade alerts hours after they have been issued. Because, based on the discussion topic that preceded the alert I have already set my own entry criteria and will use those to enter the trade (have to confess that for the RICs I am still a bit at a loss, and am still learning). New members, trust me: a missed alert really is no big deal. BTW, lots of times I am not even able to get the fills Kim or Yowster get. No sweat. There will always be a next trade. Sometimes (not often) my fills are better, sometimes I miss altogether. But I never, ever chase. I used to do that, and got burned. Kim et al are learning us to fish, they are not feeding us.

What we are using IS the latest technology. The forum software (IPS) is one of the best (if not THE best) forum software available today. But obviously we cannot satisfy everyone. If people don't know how to use it and don't want to learn, it's not our fault. But yes, most of the community understands very clearly what SO is and what it isn't, as described by @sakura P.S. Twitter IS used currently. And forwarding emails to text is VERY easy, as mentioned many times.

That 160Bn doesn't sit in Pure Alpha alone, I believe most of it is in All Weather