Forum Archive Index - February 2000

["Ben Dutton" <bendutton@sharechat.co.nz>]

Hugh and other forum participants,

First I'd like to thank Hugh and everyone that has replied to the issues he
has brought up for their comments.

I'd also like to thank Derek for initiating the competition -- it's great
that he's offered the prize out of his own pocket and is putting a little
bit of fun into the forum -- judging from the amount of replies, there are
many people that are willing to take the punt, and the increased
participation is excellent to see.

Now's perhaps a good time to bring up a couple of extra features ShareChat
is about to add to the site.

We are going to introduce a web based discussion group.  This will cut down
on the amount of Emails on the forum (aimed more at the traders among us,
users will post their messages onto the web -- not through Email).

We are also going to kick off interactive polls and surveys -- thus
competitions like the one Derek has initiated will be possible without going
through the forum.

Also, please remember that if the number of Emails through the forum is too
great for you, you can read all messages on the ShareChat site, and send
messages to the forum without being subscribed.

If you have any questions about this, or comments on what you would like to
see on ShareChat, please don't hesitate to contact me directly at
bendutton@sharechat.co.nz

Keep up the excellent discussion,

Best Regards,

Benjamin Dutton
Managing Director
ShareChat Limited


----- Original Message -----
From: hugh webber <hugh.webber@clear.net.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: [sharechat] Bubble Whipped Off or Sharechat Ripped Off?


> um, I hate to be the dog in the manger and I've been very tolerant so far
> but we appear to be observing a parallel phenomenon to what economists
> call 'crowding out' (public taxing and spending crowding out private
> investment for example).
>
> I refer to the 100's of messages which consist of 6 letters and 4 digits.
> Um, maybe there's a
> better way, such as announcing the competition and then arranging for
> entries to flow privately
> rather than crowding out sharechat. Sure, new competitions and winners
> could be announced
> but we seem to be turning into a combination of the TAB and a ouija board
> seance at the moment.
>
> Before it all started we seemed to be having some brilliant discussions
for
> weeks but now its hard to
> wade your way through the dross (and I do go backwards to pick up useful
> info and references).
>
> I'm quite happy to read what day trading is about (its a bit of a mystery
> to me) but without all the gory details
> although I'm intrigued like the rest of you to hear about large trades and
> who it might be.
> I'm happy that some people are into technical analysis (but maybe a good
> analogy to its actual predictive
> powers might be say tarot cards) and I'm happy to read about tech analysis
> and speculation (although
> the momentum aspect is primary school 1987 stuff) - its just the continual
> stream of Bubble Whipped Off
> garbage that's getting on my wick. Who cares whether ITC is going to be 66
> instead of 65 tomorrow or 64
> instead of 65 next week. If its something substantive like ITC moving 10
> cents with some penetrating
> discussion why, that's great.
>
> I remain yours etc,
>
> Value Investor,
> Burnside.
>
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