Scam Dogs and Mo-Mo Mamas: Inside the Wild and Woolly World of Internet Stock Trading
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From the Publisher
What do a former burrito peddler, textile-coatings salesman, heating contractor, and government stock-fraud informant have in common? They are all now the top stock-trading gurus of the Internet, with legions of followers and the ability to increase stock prices with the click of a mouse. They and their following move in and out of stock like high-seas pirates raiding fat, treasure-laden frigates. These maestros of the web have led a revolution in finance, empowering investors like never before, but also leading them through dangerous fraud-infested waters. And the insurgent force of Internet day trading ahs only just begun. Filled with personalities with names such as Tokyo Mex and Big Dog, IScam Dogs and Mo-Mo Mamas is the story, told for the first time, of the wild and woolly universe of Internet day traders.
From the Critics
From Library Journal
The author, a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, based this study of the often turbulent world of Internet stock trading on research and interviews with key participants. According to Emshwiller, More than any other communications advance in history, [the Internet] allows the individual directly into the world of stock trading. The computer with modem can serve as your broker, your financial advisor, your source of news and your seer. This book is filled with the colorful characters of Internet stock trading, e.g., Tokyo Mex, who, among other accomplishments, started a Silicon Investor chat, Tokyo Joe's Caf ; and Big Dog, a major player and rival of Tokyo Mex. Numerous case studies of transactions, trades, discussions on bulletin boards, and investigations are provided throughout, as is a glossary of terms for the uninitiated (including bagger, LOL, touting, and SPOOS). The risks to finances and psyches are also underlined. Those considering entering the world of Internet stock trading would be well advised to read Emshwiller's informative, fast-paced, and important work before taking the plunge. Recommended to public and academic library business collections.--Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Libs., Jamaica, NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\
From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly
This rogues' gallery of Internet stock investors, scam artists and tipsters sheds fascinating light on an unseemly universe powered by caffeine, nicotine and the sweet scent of profits. Emshwiller, who covers Internet trading for the Wall Street Journal, trails a cast of often bizarre characters, such as Joe Park, the legendary trading guru who launched the popular stock-discussion site Tokyo Joe's Caf , who submits to an interview sitting lotus-like in front of his computer screens while steadily ingesting Marlboros and orange juice. Then there's Park's arch-enemy, Big Dog, who is actually 41-year-old, 400-pound Mike Nichols, a former textile-coatings salesman turned rabid Internet junkie. And don't forget Cairo-born Anthony Elgindy, the one-time Chevy dealer who finds a new life and a tidy profit as a visionary corporate scam-buster, who conveniently short-sells the stocks he helps take down, profiting from their falling share price. They're all chasing after mo-mo mamas, those momentum-generating stocks that shoot up suddenly and make spectacular money for savvy traders. Emshwiller's reportorial instincts make for an engaging narrative, but his lengthy quotations of inane e-mail chatter (the stock is so cheap!) edge out more essential discussion of the rising power of stock discussions on the Internet. For all their interest, these scam dogs end up snarled in endless e-mail squabbles, revealing a petty and not particularly edifying counterculture. Agent, Geri Thoma, Elaine Markson Literary Agency. 15-city radio tour. (May) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
From Kirkus Reviews
All about Internet stock traders—those weirdo workaholics who make money, lose money, perpetuate scams, uncover scams, spend hours sending endless (often pointless) e-mails, live at their keyboards, and never seem to make enough to retire and get out of the business. Wall Street Journal reporter Emshwiller profiles some of the major players and their legions of followers in this new cyber-reality. Tokyo Joe, a Korean restaurateur, runs an online investment club (the "Societe Anonyme") and peppers his e-mails with stories of drunken adventures at Manhattan strip clubs. The Georgia Bard, a south Georgia poet with five self-published volumes, is a skilled practitioner of the "pump and dump" (which Emshwiller defines as the "art of convincing others that a stock is a great investment and then selling your shares when fools start to buy"). At the opposite end of the spectrum are the "short-sellers," who profit from a fall in stock price. Anthony @ EQuity, a renowned short-seller, specializes in distributing negative material on particular stocks in the hopes of driving the prices down. In order to protect himself from angry investors who are left stuck with stocks he "shorted," Anthony lives with a German-trained killer guard dog and carries a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. Through it all, the suits at the Securities and Exchange Commission, who regulate the markets valiantly, struggle against the odds to keep up with the new developments, stymied in part by the general lack of interest in white-collar crime and in part by their own ignorance of this new world. Specially trained volunteers (called the "cyberforce")helpFederal agents keep abreast of suspicious occurrences in trading chat rooms. Told with wry humor and an insider's view: one can't help but wonder how these wildcatters occupied themselves before 1994.
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