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Buy Value - Cramer's Lightning Round (7/29/08)

Once one is a Cramerian one must always be a Cramerian or one may lose one's shirt. We're to become puppets and lemmings. If he talks to masses, masses will react and someone who doesn't jump with the masses--in and out like a trained seal--will get hurt. That someone may end up being thousands of faithfull buh-yahers over the long run.
Probably one should watch his show and think of a strategy somehow parrallel to what he's suggesting, but probably not exactly what he's doing. If Cramerica is all doing it, who's ahead in the game? Not the innocent person who bought when advised, but missed the magical program that says sell, sell, sell (because he isn't advising us on buy and hold.) I'd say it's generally better not to buy companies he's commenting on, especially when you see everyone jumping in on them. I don't know, perhaps check volume of shares sold and movement up in the P/E ratio to see if those items are getting over purchased.
Anyway, there are people jumping in like sharks to feast on some of the Cramerian innocents who are only doing what the C said to do, but perhaps only heard the first half of the message, because they didn't see the subsequent program when the guru said to sell.
The format of the program is too frenetic--not organized in a professional enough way. Otherwise he would tell and show in a timely way graphics about changes in previous advisement. A logical chart of some sort telling about whatever was mentioned could even be posted online--or tendencies and dramatic changes at the beginning or end of the program (updates) could be scrolled down briefly instead of having so much of the corny Stueck that has become a part of the sensationalism of the program. The antics are not teaching people to invest with calm logic and doing homework, as he says he wants us to do. They are teaching us to react viscerally. I think that investing should be done with a cool head, as much as one can, not with unnecessary childish antics to illustrate the point. We're not dolts, as this attitude of talking to us might imply.
No doubt about it, Cramer knows much much more than most of us ever will, but he would better serve us by modeling a more logical approach, not ranting. I've had my say (or rant.) (Obviously, I'm not interested in ratings--which is probably what the antics end up being about. His producers like them, too, no doubt.) However, I believe one can be informative and creative and humorous--and have good viewer numbers--without being sensational.
Cramer, I seriously hope your health holds up. Tone it down, man, and speak with us instead of shouting so much on the program. We'll all profit from the cool and you'll last longer on the program. You've got a really great t.v. personality without the extremism.