Comments on: Jim Cramer’s Cult of Personality

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:25:29 +0000

Of course! It’s a gimmick.

By: John Singer

John Singer — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:26:20 +0000

Some more of Jim Cramer’s stock performance on Mad Money for your reading pleasure – http://www.stocktagger.com/2007/05/jim-cramer-takeover-targets-performance.html

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:23:21 +0000

I think the biggest business strategy today for anyone on tv or in the media is to create a cult of personality and watch the cash roll in.

-Oprah
-Suze Orman
-Cramer
-Robert Kiyosaki

Etc.

They all follow the same strategy of…you either passionately love them, or hate them. They are way out there as lightning rods. They’re so polarizing, you can’t ignore them.

The ones that are passionately loyal (hypnotized?) will buy anything they sell (look at the stuff Oprah sells…The Secret, and new age pyscho babble).

If you examined cults and these cults of personality, is there really much difference?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:38:32 +0000

Jim Cramer has to come up with several new stock picks every night. Certainly, he doesn’t have the same conviction in each one of his picks. Don’t be the sad clown who buys CWTR. Apply the same weight to all the picks and you’re bound to lose out to some arb hedgie. Why are so many people complaining about how Cramer is a fraud and a phony when they don’t know half the truth? Some enterprising statisticians at stocktagger have come closer to conclusive evidence than most.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:08:42 +0000

I wouldn’t say that Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC is about personal finance at all. It’s strictly about picking stocks. Suze Orman is CNBC’s personal finance guru, and if you watch them both you see a very clear difference between the two. I like Cramer’s show, but I don’t watch it on a regular basis, because I am not a very active trader and I tend to buy in the areas of my expertise, and not Cramer’s or anyone else’s.

By: BxCapricorn

BxCapricorn — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:48:54 +0000

I’ve watched his show here and there and I’ve been surprised at how strange it is compared to his contribution to thestreet.com. He is very candid in his analysis of a market, stock, or trend and his insights help me to better gage my own reactions to the daily stock reports.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:54:38 +0000

Yea, Jim is a little crazy, however I believe he does it for two reasons. One, he is genuinely passionate about the market, how it works and making money from it. Second, he really wants others to share in that passion. Yes I find him entertaining, but lets face it, stocks and the market by themselves is pretty boring and he adds a sense of excitement to it. I can relate because what I do for a living I am passionate about, but it too is boring for almost everyone else but non-programmers.

If he can help people understand and make money, and do it by using his antics, more power to him. I think what gives him more credability is that he constantly tells people to do their homework and he won’t buy one of his own recommendations for at least a couple days after he airs them.

Love him or hate him, he is helping a lot of people take a real interest in the markets and that is good for all.