good post, I'll give Tim a bit more credit in that as a subscriber he also does an audio show with a couple of his technician buddies that write on FSN as well, they did instill or impress on me the need to look at prior bubbles, that everything in baked into price and that for instance peak oil or no peak oil, the oil market was in a bubble, at the time Tim was saying something to the effect of "I dont care if oil goes to $200 but if it does it is unsustainable" it will crash, he was right. Bob Hoye was saying something similar with copper as an example that using price alone, a 20 year bull had been baked into the price.
As for Zapata, clever guy and all but I'll rate hime along side Bob Moriarty and Jason Hommel for the time being
One thing for sure the last year has been some education