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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Bid.com International (BIDS)
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To: waldo who wrote (6629)1/20/1999 7:30:00 AM
From: Cush  Read Replies (2) of 37507
 
Hello thread: Anyone else ever wondered why we never seem to make the hot list here at SI? I wondered, so I wrote to the webmistress.
Here's a copy of my note and my reply.

Cush wrote:
> Hi Bob: I've got a request.
>
> Could you or someone else re-write the code that selects hot topics
> so that it reflects Canadian stocks in the same way it does the others.
>
> Lately a couple of the threads I follow (Bid.com and Canadian DayTraders)
> have been
> much more active than some of the hot topics.
>
> I know.  The story is that it's a formula.  My point is that the formula
> somehow excludes Canadian stocks.  Maybe when it was written the thought
> was that who'd care?
>
> As an example; when a Canadian stock like Totally Hip Software has 16 hits
> in a day like today
> -it's on the hot topic list  - it's category is Software not Canadian Stocks.
> Bid.com on the other hand had 84 hits today.  It's nowhere to be seen. It's
> under Canadian Stocks.
>
> Could you have a look at it please?
>
> Thanks,
> Cush

To: Cush
Subject: Re: Hot Topics

Its not that we thought "who cares", but we generally keep the site focused on
the larger-cap U.S. technology stocks, which is the bulk of our traffic.
Hopefully, however, we'll be able to expand the site in the future.  For example,
we have a lot of "penny stock" threads that would "officially" qualify for hot
subjects, but we're not able to concentrate on them at this time...

Regards,
Jill (not Bob)
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