Cgra Stock Message Board (2024)

FAQs

Why do people bash stocks on message boards? ›

Understanding Stock Bashers

In most cases, the stock basher will directly benefit from market manipulation by spreading highly negative rumors. The hope is that investors will believe the false claims and sell their stock before it fails.

Stock Message Boards provides empirical data to reveal how online communication not only impacts stock returns, but also volatility, trading volume, and liquidity, as well as an investing firm's value and reputation.

Stock bashing can also potentially fall under securities fraud laws. Securities fraud involves making false statements or engaging in deceptive practices related to buying or selling securities.

Penny stocks are high-risk securities with small market capitalizations that trade for a low price outside major market exchanges. A lack of history and information, as well as low liquidity, make penny stocks riskier. Look out for scams involving penny stocks that want to separate you from your money.

Back in the dial-up days, online message boards were where people would go to ask questions and get advice from other people. These days, people use them to talk about just about anything. There are internet forums for almost anything you can imagine, like sports, hobbies, and even politics.

Discussion boards facilitate asynchronous class discussion and group work, and can be used to encourage students to think critically and share their thoughts before or beyond live teaching.

Open outcry is a method of communication between professionals on a stock exchange or futures exchange, typically on a trading floor. It involves shouting and the use of hand signals to transfer information primarily about buy and sell orders.

If a promoter's campaign to "pump" a stock is successful, it will entice unwitting investors to purchase shares of the target company. The increased demand, price, and trading volume of the stock may convince more people to believe the hype, and to buy shares as well.

A strategy of selling stock shortly after a company announces good news and the stock price rises. Investors believe that the price is as high as it can go and is on the brink of going down.

Why do people clap at NYSE? ›

The opening bell is an important symbol of the success of the stock market under capitalism, and the privilege of ringing it is often reserved for celebrities or VIPs. Traders often applaud when the market opens, particularly if the person ringing the bell is someone famous or highly accomplished.