ot I lurk here, while doing some dd. I came across this ref to this thread. chart did not copy so the link is better.
Metrics : Stock Talk
Busiest Boards, Tracked by MetaMarkets.com
By Mark Martinez
Metrics Editor
5/7/01 11:35 AM ET
Busiest Boards, Tracked by MetaMarkets.com
Monday, May 7 (11:00 a.m.)
Raging Bull Motley Fool
Portal Software
(PRSF:Nasdaq - news)
FiberCore
(FBCE:Nasdaq - news)
Rambus
(RMBS:Nasdaq - news)
Transmeta
(TMTA:Nasdaq - news)
Lucent
(LU:NYSE - news)
ImmunoGen
(IMGN:Nasdaq - news)
Harley-Davidson
(HDI:NYSE - news)
CMGI
(CMGI:Nasdaq - news)
Apple Computer
(AAPL:Nasdaq - news)
Silicon Investor
MetaMarkets.com
New Market Gems
The Trading Desk
Should God Be Replaced?
Investment Strategy
Sharck Soup
Off Topic Posts
SI vs. IHUB
Shooting Back
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Selling
Transmeta
(TMTA:Nasdaq - news)
Source: MetaMarkets.com
Why This Metric Matters
This metric, provided by MetaMarkets.com , gives investors a heads-up on
stocks that are currently active movers and newsmakers in the market.
(MetaMarkets is an investor site that's home to the OpenFund, a mutual
fund whose managers disclose their holdings and trades on the Web site.)
Throughout the day, MetaMarkets tracks financial message boards: Motley
Fool , Raging Bull , Silicon Investor and MetaMarkets itself. This metric is
useful because the busiest boards tend to be the ones where there's been
news on a stock or a rise in volatility. Usually where there is chatter, there
is trading action. (Occasionally the most popular boards are topic-driven,
rather than focused on a particular stock. Silicon Investor, for example, has
a "President George W. Bush" board.)
The metric isn't a perfect proxy for any one trend. Action doesn't
necessarily portend consistent buy or sell signals. Sometimes the
most-loved message board stocks turn out to be frothy and overhyped. Take
an example from the 1990s, Iomega (IOM:NYSE - news), a disk-drive
maker. Its stock reached great heights as Motley Fool posters couldn't talk
enough about Iomega, but the stock eventually lost some 90% of its value.
In this respect, the MetaMarkets info at times best serves to help decipher
which stocks to short, or to avoid altogether.
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