Daily stocks + a Smile
for June 28th. ...............
for your investing in stock.

STOCK INFO ....
Total stocks shares
in relation to volume.
(previous 10 days average)

GOOG: 312M / 5.4M
MSFT: 9.57B / 63M
SUNW: 3.57B / 73.9M
XOM: 5.63B / 27.6M
YHOO: 1.34B / 39.5M

IMPORTANT NOTE: What ever your stock market
trading program or investment strategy in large,
mid cap or penny stocks, from gold stocks, to oil or
technology stocks to financial stocks, the stock info
here is for both stock market bulls and bears (!),
while below you will find what I trust will help
make your trading day a great one through....


A Vigilantes Smile (Part 2)

On June 27th Yahoo! censored Part 1 of this
smile by adding "blogspot links" blocking to
its message posting format. Only in China you say!
The subject censored was some info on the antics
of purportedly wealthy Yahoo! Finance message
board super poster (+750 posts in June)
alistostrome.




Now olistostrome might be as wealthy as
he claims with the quarter million dollar
holding he claims above. It is also quite
reasonable to believe that a person with a
single holding that large would have far
better things to do with his time in the
month of June than making +750 Yahoo! posts.
That was a point I was trying to make
yesterday, in a subtle manner, and in the
face of censorship by Yahoo!. The point is
that if olistostrome does not hold that
quarter million dollars in BPT then his
posting clearly represents securities fraud,
censored by Yahoo! or not. I believe such
things are obvious but there are Yahoo!
Finance message board visitors, including
many elderly retired investors innocent in
the ways of message boards, who could be
rooked in my such a posting.

I myself came under the wrath of olistostrome
recently in what appears to have been a wave
of vigilantes riding out of the petroleum
industry message boards shouting "SPAM" and
calling for action from everyone. olistostrome's
view of my little smile page is noted below.

Now olistostrome was quite right that the
little smile site in question doesn't earn
enough to be able to afford Yahoo! advertising.
At $20. to $50. a day it's more of an artists
pittance, but that's OK by me and as the site
profile at the page bottom link reveals, the site
is not spam (the smiles are free) and the pittance
is going to an important cause. I wouldn't
think Jerry Yang would be against smiles or the
potential tragically delayed cause they're
supporting. Certainly, contrary to the vigilantes
claims, the response to the "smiles" has been
warm over the past year from thousands of Yahoo!
Finance board participants. Those who don't want
smiles have the ignore feature Yahoo! provides.
That hasn't been good enough for the vigilantes.
That raises some very serious questions.

From my own observing of the action on around
250 Yahoo Finance message boards over the past
couple of weeks I saw the sudden rise of the
spam vigilantes. As noted they seemed to mostly
come out of the petroleum industry boards and
my smiles got hit by them pretty hard all over
the boards. While some of the early vigilantes
had observable prior messages showing them as
strangers on the boards they were hitting my
smiles on, as was the case with olistostrome,
they pretty quickly changed to anonymous ID's.
Suddenly on boards I've been posting on for
over a year my posts were mysteriously being
1 stared, on occasion as fast as a couple of
minutes after being posted at 3:00AM!

So that got me thinking on who would go to
all the effort and expense of a vigilante
spam campaign using the likes of olistostrome.
In my opinion the most likely candidate is
one of the rare major stock fraud operators
who uses large scale posting of stock
information influence messages to affect
targeted stocks. Now there are many many
individuals posting on Yahoo! trying to get
their opinion to count. They most likely have
very little if any noticeable impact on stocks.
There are also message posting operations
with an objective of flooding message boards
with stock price neutral posts that don't
have a positive or negative impact on the
price. However, for that rare stock fraud
artist, by US laws quite criminal in nature,
who posts through a network of message board
posters a flow of carefully chosen and
misleading information, spam or any posts
he/she can label as spam represent competition
that if possible should be eliminated.

The maximum impact for such fraud artists
comes from getting their messages to top of
of the board and staying near the top. Every
message from another party, spam or not,
costs them money in additional posts from
their network to keep messages near the top.

So as of this past weekend through the actions
of Yahoo!, in response to the vigilantes, the
greatest beneficiary of the present severe
limits on posting on everyone, and as a small
aside the wiping out of this tiny smile page,
the greatest beneficiary may be the stock fraud
artists who in the past year have built up
highly effective message posting networks
based on the limited posting policy Yahoo!
had in place, removed for a short time and
then put back into place.

Now the above observations come from a blogger
with an old piece of junk computer running
Windows 98 and IE6 and constantly suffering
though a browser jammed by Yahoo! video ads.
In other words these observations from across
some 250 message boards are derived from what
appears obvious. Yahoo! has a lot more powerful
viewing tools to dig into what has happened
and come up with a full story.

It's worth repeating, a sudden rush of anonymous
vigilantes certainly points out to something
very serious, and the response by Yahoo! this
past weekend may very well have been one
meeting the objectives of stock fraud criminals
working the Yahoo! Finance message boards.
One start point is this wealthy or not poster
olistostrome. His prophetic claim that Jerry
Yang would fix things begs the question....
what did Jerry fix?

Now... here's a calm waters smile. ;-)

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