4aapl
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 10, 2024 8:12:31 GMT -8
It's Sunday, at some random time depending on if you care about DST. We should think about if we want to have a weekend thread, or just tack the stuff on to Friday. Some people have more time on the weekends, while others are happy to not think about the stock market. Like rearranging a sock drawer, yesterday disappeared between doing boring but needed tasks like moving snow and trying to sort the garage. But there are other boring tasks in the world, like being a drone at a click farm. There's not a ton of details in here, like if there is any automation going on. From the "1 click a second" it's more likely they just round-robin it, being paid to click on a certain type of thing. It is much harder to catch and filter, if the website even wanted to, when a user is manually doing the clicking. Even if they are continuously going through 100's of machines/phones. www.cnn.com/style/vietnam-farms-jack-latham-beggars-honey/index.html
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 10, 2024 8:28:07 GMT -8
I put this over on the Friday post, but will add it here too: Since there is no weekend thread and I have no idea how to start one... It's really easy. I'll give steps, but I know that anyone here can figure this out just by going to the weekend thread folder with the desire to create the weekend thread, and so clicking on the 'create thread' button. In the fashion of the Apple iMac ad with Jeff Goldblum: Step 1: Click on the 'create thread' button in the weekend thread folder aaplfinance.proboards.com/board/11/weekend-updatesStep 2: Give it a subject (Friday's date and the weekly stock change), content, and click the 'create thread' button Step 3: There is no step 3. There is no step 3! It's that easy. It's pretty simple, but is a good way to help out. The toughest part is putting in that date and stock price, but just follow the format used in previous weeks. And you don't even have to do the math, since the stock app now does that calculation for you by clicking on the 1W, as long as there were 5 trading days. And just like I have to do, if you forget or make a mistake, just go back and edit the subject line of your post. By having a variety of people helping out in their own unique thread opening ways, we help add a little bit of character to the site. And BTW, non-moderators who start a thread get upgraded to 'fire starter' status, with their name showing as red. I'll likely use a trailing 3 months (the last page of daily updates), but currently have over a trailing 6 months. Thanks Ted for starting last weekend's post.
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chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Mar 10, 2024 19:21:32 GMT -8
I vote for weekend reports, in an attempt to keep the commentary timely.
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Post by mark on Mar 10, 2024 20:24:39 GMT -8
I think we should keep the separate weekend updates. For a few reasons. One, the weekend updates sometimes meander into other things (not recently, but has in the past). Two, usually during the week, including Fridays, we discuss mostly daily activity, starting with selected daily Apple news items. Three, if we use Friday for the whole weekend, Friday posts will become longer and perhaps unwieldy at times. Heck, when a post goes to page 2 or 3, it's almost unwieldy already, like on earnings days. 😂
The board is slow nowadays, mainly because the stock is doing "nothing" or going down. Once we start an uptrend, it'll perk up again like it always does. But we definitely don't want to become like a Yahoo board, thousands of posts with nonsense, politics, junk, extraneous stuff, and essentially useless due to the high volume, and very low signal-to-noise ratio. I think there's nothing at all wrong with days of only 3 or 4 posts, and somedays days with tens of posts. Or a weekend thread with 4 or 5 posts. If there's nothing important to talk about, then there's no point to just talk.
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Post by incorrigible on Mar 11, 2024 5:22:59 GMT -8
Agree with continuing the weekend specific posts. If nothing else, they provide a history of weekly AAPL stock price movement by the thread title listing which can be a handy reference.
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4aapl
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Post by 4aapl on Mar 12, 2024 7:26:19 GMT -8
I do like the idea of a separate area for the weekend thread, and when looking for mid term direction it is nice to look at the weekend thread prices and see that the stock has been moving a certain way for a long time.
But it is always the question of if we really need it, especially on times when no one bothers to start it and there is so little posting.
OTOH, just because you stop by the grocery store at 7:45 some weekday morning, and there is only 1 other car in the lot, doesn't mean they should change their hours. It's more of a long term trend thing. We'll see how it goes, but it seems like the weekend thread has been fairly quiet for a long time. Looks like half the threads average 5 or less posts, but the other threads are often in the 10-15 post thread. So while it seems a little quiet to me because of the ones that are slow, it averages out ok.
Thanks for the input!
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