The TickerHound Tape

Posted by Wayne on December 22, 2007 – 4:10 am

It’s been a fun and wild week over here at TickerHound HQ. I could write about all of the good things we’ve been doing but I’d rather bring you back behind the curtain and talk about some of the “fires” we’ve had to put out over here this week.

For starters, on the first day of the TickerHound launch our servers started to buckle under the weight of all the traffic coming to the site. It was something we expected, but obviously didn’t prepare well enough for.

So if some of you had problems accessing the site on Tuesday morning, now you know why.

We also had some slight problems with e-mails getting delivered. Just so you know, whenever one of your questions gets answered, TickerHound sends you an e-mail notification in real time. This way you don’t have to constantly check the site for updates.

Well, some of those e-mails might’ve ended up in your SPAM folder so you should probably go take a look or just log back into the site. You’ll find all your Notifications there.

You’ll also want to make sure you add staff@tickerhound.com and tickerhound@tickerhound.com to your whitelist. Click here for our whitelisting instructions.

We also had some fantastic Q&A’s getting posted to the site this week!

I want to take a moment and highlight a few of them as well as some of the members who dug down deep and really put some effort into educating and empowering other investors.

This one is probably one of my favorites – it’s a Q&A session between 3 of our Top TickerHounds this week: EthanR, JoeConlin and ChaosNantuko:

• A different type of dollar cost averaging

I really liked this next one because there’s a bit of a debate swirling around in there – it’s good to see all of the different perspectives on the market being put in one place and hashed out for all to see (and learn from). What’s your take on this one?

• Do you think there will be a major correction in the stock market?

And this one really exemplified what we’re trying to do here on TickerHound – one of our members, redlodge75, asked a question about a specific trade he was working on and two of our Top TickerHounds gave their take on it. I hope it was helpful!

• I sell a covered call, the stock goes down what would the reason be to buy these calls back at a much lower price?

Over a hundred other questions were asked over the last 2 – 3 days so be sure to check the site and answer a few of them. Or, if there’s something you’d like to know, feel free to ask your own.