Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor
Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor: "Stock Spam Effectiveness Monitor
Who buys stuff from spam? Usually, there's no way to tell. Spammers aren't exactly forthcoming with their sales numbers. If only those numbers were required to be made public; then we could correlate the arrival time of the spam to the volume in sales at that point.
A pleasant daydream, you say? Well, actually, there is one type of spam where we can see the results: spam that tries to get you to buy stock. Companies or third parties will send out spam promoting a stock to try to drive up the price. Presumably, people then buy it. Since in this networked age we can get stock quotes in near-real-time, it's easy to match spam arrival time to stock price and trading volume.
Below you'll see a graphical representation of the stock spam I received over the most recent day of stock trading. Each stock price graph has been annotated with a vertical red bar every time I received a spam for that stock. On the left side of each graph you'll see any spam that came in after the market closed yesterday but before it opened today. If that spam had any effect it's likely to be all bunched up at the very start of trading."
Who buys stuff from spam? Usually, there's no way to tell. Spammers aren't exactly forthcoming with their sales numbers. If only those numbers were required to be made public; then we could correlate the arrival time of the spam to the volume in sales at that point.
A pleasant daydream, you say? Well, actually, there is one type of spam where we can see the results: spam that tries to get you to buy stock. Companies or third parties will send out spam promoting a stock to try to drive up the price. Presumably, people then buy it. Since in this networked age we can get stock quotes in near-real-time, it's easy to match spam arrival time to stock price and trading volume.
Below you'll see a graphical representation of the stock spam I received over the most recent day of stock trading. Each stock price graph has been annotated with a vertical red bar every time I received a spam for that stock. On the left side of each graph you'll see any spam that came in after the market closed yesterday but before it opened today. If that spam had any effect it's likely to be all bunched up at the very start of trading."
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