Darline, the Hot Subjects list merely rates the activity on the various threads throughout Silicon Investor. The most active and popular threads go on the Hot Subjects list, until they lose their momentum. It is measured by scoring the number of people bookmarking and posting recently. There is an explanation on the Hot Subjects page somewhere. Nothing to do with stocks, whatsoever.
We do our own trading, so we are not constantly discussing our moves. Just those that are significant. . .and unfortunately, rarely the losing ones, but always remembering the winning ones. Some go to chat rooms, like daytraders irc, but most don't. Some look at the stock threads, but many just pick a handful of threads and stay there. Look at profiles on individuals to see where they have posted recently.
We post stocks we are interested in on this board. It has shown to be relatively safe lately from rapid effects, so we have time to discuss prospects without affecting price. That is important in a board, and I work to keep down the momentum effects. That is why we don't see many coming here hyping this or that. . .they have finally figured out that there efforts are ignored here.
Hope this helps
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