I am a daily reader of BabyPips and a successful Forex trader. I enjoy the many daily blogs that are posted at BabyPips.com. But I have a bit of a gripe with what I consider a lack of professional etiquette from “Jack the Pipper” in his “currency currents” blog. It seems to me that he has a habit of peppering his blog with political, anti-current US executive administration sentiment that isn’t necessarily an example of his disagreement with the practicalities of the current administration’s actions as they relate to Forex. As a quick and current example I took this snippet from his May 27th entry:
Whether or not one agrees with the strategy of the current administration’s approach to economic recovery is one topic of discussion and a fair one to be having. But to insinuate that the election of the current president of the US was due to a “skewed thought process” is going too far I think, if one wishes to be seen as a professional.
Besides that, the assertion of askew logic is a strange one to me in that the current president was elected through the process that we have used in this country since it’s beginning; we elected who most of us thought would be a good leader for the time being. It remains to be seen if we were right and until one can view things in retrospect it is difficult to say with any certainty how well things are going. That’s just the nature of our country’s political process. If Jack has a problem with the election of Barack Obama then perhaps his real problem is with the American campaign and election process. In any case I see it as unprofessional for him to comment on that in a posting on BabyPips.com as it subtly injects a political leaning into this otherwise politically neutral website.
This is not the first time that Jack has said something that I found very unprofessional. In a posting here on BabyPips that was promptly taken down and now I can’t seem to find anywhere titled something like; “A lesson about defying Mr. Market” (that’s a paraphrase of the title), Jack first caught my attention several weeks ago with his political rhetoric. But as I can’t find the posting I can’t quote from it. Anyways, I’d love to see less political conversation from him. I’m all for freedom of speech. But there is a time and place for certain conversations and as he is a professional I expect him to act with the discretion that fits his role.