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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Yeah.
I mean some of the anger comes from the fact that this cements just how awful the Neal signing turned out. This is like taking a big loss on a stock and selling to avoid any further bleeding. Which tells you how bad the Flames wanted him GONE.
If some of the posters really really hating the trade were consistently saying Neal was misused and unlucky then I guess I’d understand a little. Not that I’d agree.
We bought real high on Neal and sold real low.
Like I said in the Treliving thread, I don’t advocate just throwing your hands up and saying it happens. There were reasons to sign him which have been enumerated and there significant risks. Since it’s the same management group that signed him last year, I can only hope they’re learning something.
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I'm a futures trader.
One of the things that really helped us in building sustainable profits/growth was to stop treating losses differently than wins. If you make a call and you're wrong the worst thing you can do is sit on it hoping it turns around. Have a stop loss point and get out.
The Flames clearly had that on Neal. It could be because they think it's only going to get worse. It's only going to get worse with his opportunity in Calgary, or they completely misread his personality and effect on the locker room.
But get out if you deem it bad.