I wanted to get something off my chest after recently commenting and being discussed with Paul Scott in his SCVR of the 10th Oct 2014 which is here.

http://www.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-10-oct-2014-mtc-opts-car-mlin-86912/

but I originally replied to this post by Ben Hobson here

http://www.stockopedia.com/content/stop-losses-how-and-why-you-should-cut-your-losses-quickly-86763/

But before I go on I wanted to add that I am not a very good writer and I have never really blogged. I make typos and also confuse their with there, you will probably also find many more grammer mistakes. But I hope through all that I can at least make some sort of sense. One mistake I made was calling a comment Paul in his report 'advise' and got chastised for it. It was a mistake and I really only meant opinion.

Why do I ask the question in the heading? Well it came from the responses others made who labelled me as a trader who THINKS he is an investor. I suppose I do not help myself being called Grindertrader but also during the discussion of Stop Losses I mentioned QPP, GBO... and others which are highly speculative or questionable shares where I made profit after being stopped out.

As we all know the usual label of an investor is someone who concentrates on fundamentals and not really bothered about price movement over the short term. Traders I am told do not really care that much for fundamentals but prefer price momentum, technical analysis, level 2 etc Gamblers well... I would rather not comment on what I think a gambler is.

I could say I am an Investor, Trader and Gambler, but again I find I do not fit into any of these categories and to be honest I am sure most investors trade at times and now and again take a punt (gamble?) and vice versa

So what kind am I? Well according to the excellent and free Stockopedia publication linked below about value stocks maybe I am a hunter investor.

http://www.stockopedia.com/books/value-stocks/

I go through all the RNS trading and financial statements every morning (ignoring mining stocks) and then use mainly Robbie Burns criteria to decide to value the stock and then decide if the outlook is positive. I will enter if I am totally satisfied. So I am an investor? Well I may be a trader because I generally ignore Earnings. Why because earnings confuse me since there is no many versions of earnings that…

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