Xan! Forum Stats!

[yankees60]

Are there any forum stats available or those that you can provide to us that show how many overall posts there are per day / week / month?

For the last several days here there seems to have been an explosion of them. Takes quite a bit of time to just read them all, and, of course, even more time if I decide to participate.

Thank

Vinny

[Smith1776]

I am getting the same impression overall as well. If we are correct in surmising there has been an increase, I suppose I'd attribute it to:

1) an increase in interest in the PP due to the recent market crash;
2) posters who don't have work to go to (like me) have some more spare time.

[Tortoise]

I know I've been participating a lot more than normal this past week, mainly because forum members are finally discussing something other than just Trump and politics.

[yankees60]

And when I saw that there were some responses to this Topic I thought I'd be reading...."just go here, Vinny, and you'll see all the stats you want regarding the forum!"

Did not so I'm hoping Xan can provide me / us that information.

Vinny

[Xan]

Does this cover what you're looking for?

Date	Posts
2020-02-18	66
2020-02-19	70
2020-02-20	36
2020-02-21	29
2020-02-22	34
2020-02-23	20
2020-02-24	33
2020-02-25	31
2020-02-26	42
2020-02-27	49
2020-02-28	70
2020-02-29	35
2020-03-01	34
2020-03-02	48
2020-03-03	61
2020-03-04	60
2020-03-05	70
2020-03-06	116
2020-03-07	61
2020-03-08	63
2020-03-09	112
2020-03-10	51
2020-03-11	148
2020-03-12	198
2020-03-13	156
2020-03-14	121
2020-03-15	116
2020-03-16	285
2020-03-17	181
2020-03-18	308
2020-03-19 (so far, not including this one)	232

[Smith1776]

*Sits here wondering what the correlation between posts on this forum and COVID-19 cases is*

X-FILES THEME PLAYS

[yankees60]

*Sits here wondering what the correlation between posts on this forum and COVID-19 cases is*

X-FILES THEME PLAYS

You just READ MY MIND!!!!


Vinny

[Smith1776]

*Sits here wondering what the correlation between posts on this forum and COVID-19 cases is*

X-FILES THEME PLAYS

You just READ MY MIND!!!!


Vinny

I'm adding X-Files to my quarantine watch list.

Also, thanks for sharing the info, Xan. Super cool to see interest and activity picking up around the PP and how it relates to the current economic/social situation.

[Dieter]

Has there been more interest in the PP?

I haven't been active for a while, but seems like existing folks talking more.

Now if the market stays down for a while and portfolio comparisons start showing PP favorably to other portfolios, then I expect to see more new people.

Just my perception, anyways.


Any new account creation starts?

[pmward]

Yeah I think at this point there is still a lot of hope for a quick recovery out there. If this drags out to be a typical ~1-2 year long bear market, where say we get a big fake out rally and people think it's over and buy back in, only to start a very slow and painful months long grind down I think you'll see more people start to lose their faith and start getting more interested in the PP. There are two types of people see right now:

Those that have been scared and freaking out about the quick knife drop down. These people are most likely to just go to cash in the short term. I think these people are the ones that would eventually take great interest in the PP. But like the burst in popularity of the PP in the 2009-2011 timeframe, they all will come too late, after the damage has already been done and the new bull market is underway.

Then there are the people that were super intoxicated with the blowoff top just a few short weeks ago. Their intoxication has not completely worn off yet. They still have the remnants of it, and these people are buying hand over fist right now in the belief that in a few short weeks everything will be back as it was. I see this in the investments channel in my work Slack. A lot of these people were the typical young millennial super tech bulls a few weeks ago. They're all clamoring to throw good money after bad and load up on as much TSLA as they can right now, because they all think there is no possible way it will not be back to 900+ in a couple of months. I try to warn them that any stock that falls 70% in a couple weeks does so for a reason. I also warn them about the liquidity squeeze and that corporate bonds could blow up, and a highly levered credit dependent company like TSLA could go to 0 if that happens as their debt would need to rollover at 10-20%, and nobody would be willing to lend them new cash, effectively draining all their cash until they could no longer keep the lights on. But they're still too intoxicated with what was and still in denial of what is. Bear markets are always a time of leadership change. The stocks that led the previous bull market are never the ones that lead the new one. They are also usually the stock beaten down the most in the bear market. I see a couple of these guys say they are down 50-60% right now, almost bragging about it, because the amazing non-profitable story stocks they own are bound to go to the moon in a few short weeks and they are just bound to get the last laugh. It's like the retail investors in 2001 that were not only riding the tech bust down, but continuing to double down the whole way because Dotcom companies were going to change the world and had to survive and bounce back soon. These people will take awhile for the market to humble. Just like in the early-mid 2000's you will see these people eventually break down and shift over to more defensive styles like the PP, value investing, etc. But it will take some time.