revisiting investment thesis, page-82

ON THE SUBJECT OF INVESTMENT THESES, THIS ONE IS SOMEWHAT BEWILDERING:

WHEN FAT BLOATER GETS IT "RIGHT"

Poster: Fat Bloater
Stock Code: TPI
Date: 23 January 2013:
Post number: 1326988.
Poster Comment: “Cam it’s good to see you covering yet another of Australia’s best shorted stocks.”
Poster Sentiment: "SELL"
Share Price at time of post: 79c
Last Price: 80.5 + 1.5c dividend
Total Return: Plus 2.5%


WHEN FB GETS IT WRONG:

Poster: Fat Bloater
Stock Code: COF
Date: 6 June 2013:
Post number: 11973145.
Poster Comment (in response to earlier post by Corporate who expressed excitement at having bought some stock and who felt the share price could double): “Based on what? A miracle perhaps?.”
Poster Sentiment: "SELL"
Share Price at time of post: 11.5c
Last Price: 32.0
Total Return: Plus 178%

Poster: Fat Bloater
Stock Code: CTX
Date: 6 June 2013:
Post number: 11947371.
Poster Comment: “I have noticed the more flack I attract the more money I do. Remember those at the back of the herd can never see the leaders only the bums of those coming second last.”?
Poster Sentiment: "SELL"
Share Price at time of post: “$18.05
Last Price: $28.63c + 54c dividends
Total Return: Plus 62%

And then there are all the other shorts that have also gone awry...the shorts in DLX,GXL, PMP, GXL etc etc.

(And then there's FB's biggest, multi-year short of all during his years on HotCopper, namely RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
I wonder how that Short Property Investment Thesis is panning out for the poor guy/gal. Imagine being consigned to the landlord's whim for one's entire life. Fortnight, fortnightly...every fortnight that rent cheque needs to be posted off)