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…
So where’s the link to the file? :)
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.
Better, would be to short the recommended stocks. Which the spammers must be doing, some time after the announcement.
I’m up for some interesting coding. Link please. :)
Thanks
Look here, someone is already did it:
http://www.spamstocktracker.com
Squishy: Cool – thanks for the tip :-)
Anyone find the cure for this disease yet?
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