Here is the dictionary definition of a sycophant: A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people. Ed is a classic text-book case. I know for a fact that Peter does not know Ed, and Ed knows nothing that was not somewhere on Peter's Agoracom blog (e.g, client list). Peter was forced to respond directly to ED on occasion, mainly to try to get him to stop using foul language (I saw a few of Ed's posts before they were removed).

I remember back in December, when Ed was bashing Chris, Chris asked him to say something useful - like provide a stock pick or 2. So he came up with KMK (which Peter had been promoting) and CRC (.25 at the time) - the area play for EVG (which Peter had been promoting). KMK was able to survive Ed's recommendation, but CRC could not. Ed also stated HTR would be the next one to pop. So if you were to put your dollars into Ed's recommendations, you would have 2 losses and a tie. This, at a time when monkeys throwing darts at the Venture exchange would be up 15%.