September 8, 2005

Stock Spam

It would be kind of interesting for someone to see what happened (or rather, the magnitude of the losses incurred) if you bought $1000 of every stock which you received a stock spam about, and held on to it for 1 month. Would you make money out of any of them at all? Or would every single one be a loser?

Of course, you would do this using the web and a bit of paper, not with real money :-) If anyone wants to try it, I have a multi-hundred-megabyte file of spam they could use...

Posted by gerv at September 8, 2005 7:14 PM
Comments

So where's the link to the file? :)

Posted by: Ray Booysen at September 8, 2005 7:55 PM

If you really want it, ask me and I'll zip it (or rather, them) up and put them up on FTP somewhere. But there is <checks> 1.3GB of it.

Posted by: Gerv at September 8, 2005 9:02 PM

Better, would be to short the recommended stocks. Which the spammers must be doing, some time after the announcement.

Posted by: paul perry at September 15, 2005 2:08 PM

I'm up for some interesting coding. Link please. :)

Thanks

Posted by: Ray Booysen at September 24, 2005 2:06 PM

Look here, someone is already did it:

www.spamstocktracker.com

Posted by: Squishy at October 6, 2005 3:02 AM

Squishy: Cool - thanks for the tip :-)

Posted by: Gerv at October 6, 2005 10:55 AM

Anyone find the cure for this disease yet?

Posted by: Don Boone at May 9, 2006 7:01 AM