****Ed, Martin, Mr Metals please read The Post called me again today and want to do their article on "The Value of the Internet for the Investor"
You may recall the MR METALS/ Jimsy issue with the last 15 meters of good core and the runup.
I have made some notes below here for the Post but would like any other ideas that you can think of to add, and you could either post here or e-mail them directly to me.
So here goes for the value of the Internet:
- provides various quote and software packages with delayed or non-delayed market feeds, and various display/charting capabilities
- online quotes 15 minutes delayed or non-delayed for a fee
- online market depth for fee
- end of day charting
- intra-day charting15 minute delayed
- online searches of compnies by trading price, PE ratios, trading volume
- news releases each day and by category as soon as they are issued
- access to all historical news releases
- access to company web sites
- access to SEDAR & EDGAR electronic filings of company information, prospectus, annual reports, quarterly reports
- access to daily trading house records, and intra-day actual trading
- access to insider trading records
- access to company maps and property information
- access to the corporate structure, directors, share structure
- access to mutual fund companies, performance charts, historical performance and comparison to various indexes
- updates to software packages
- updates and downloading of end-of day market information
- spot price of commodities such as gold oil, copper, nickel, silver
- intra-day chart of certain indexes
- intra-day postings of world markets
- on-line access to other world news relevant to investments
- access to up-to-date commentary on issues and events relative to financial investments
- Silicon Investor specifically
- the Silicon Investor Silicon Investor, is essentially the largest discussion community on the Web, with more than 70,000 messages posted per week and 100 million page views per month
- more than 100,000 individual investors visit Silicon Investor each day to discuss their stock holdings and to discover new investment opportunities. SI has become a virtual Wall Street where information is freely shared by its members for the benefit of many.
The Silicon Investor operates a structured chat room by category, ie each of the following:
Aerospace and Defense Banking and Finance Brokerages/Investment Resources Canadian Stocks Casinos/Gaming Coffee Shop Five Dollars and Under Food Processing and Agriculture Futures and Commodities Gold, Mining, and Natural Resources Initial Public Offerings International Internet Financial Connection Iomega (IOM) and IMP (IMPX) Market Trends and Strategies Miscellaneous (Biotech/Medical) Miscellaneous (General) Miscellaneous (Technology) Mutual Funds Overvalued Stocks Puts, Calls, and other Options Real Estate/REITs Short-Term Traders Specialty Retail Transportation Web/Information Stocks
- a further structuring exists by company and subject in alphabetical order of the title, usually the company name
- members use the chatrooms and assist each other in many ways not limited to the following
- prompt re-posting of company news releases although they are avaible elsewhere
- posting of other analysts and newsletter writers about specific companies and their results
- real time discussion of any posting content which is extremely valuable
- sharing and challenging of opinions about a companies exploration, results, financial situation, joint venture deals with other companies
- opportunity to warn of both good and bad developments in a company, and with respect to management good and bad practices, and sometimes previous involvement
- opportunity to share with others discussions of the progress of an exploration program
- forum to post and discuss cross-releated information such as the results, performance of the price and volume of trading of all companies associated or involved in a particular area
- forum to obtain technical advice and information about exploration results, their significance, and discuss it in relation to previous success stories
- keep each other informed of the latest developments within the companies or areas of exploration developments
- opportunity to warn others of trading activity of certain trading houses
- opportunity to question the stated content and claim of a company news release
- members develop a cammaraderie sharing in formation and of successes and failures investing in the market place
- the chat rooms vary in activity from company to company, but there are always new postings and new information to be read
- the chat rooms offer an opportunity for individuals to stike up mutual interests and to contact each other directly by private e-mail
- through a membership arrangement, the identity can be preserved by the use of an alias
If you have other things to add that I have missed please e-mail me or post to me . Thanks Jimsy |
