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Ok, I figure I've made enough blogshare coin to give anyone who actually stops by a how to guide on making some serious blogshare coin... Still here cool... Ok assuming you have registered and have your $500 initial stake. Now if your site is anything like mine with absolutely 0 incoming links and most likely little chance of ever IPO ing, you better invest smart.

First things first, I better explain the constraints on this game. You are not allowed to buy more than 25% of all stock in 1 transaction. For example if there are 5000 shares total (the norm unless it has split, more on that later) in said stock, you can only buy 1250 shares at once or 25%. There is no limit on the sell side of things though which makes it interesting.

You are only allowed 20 transactions in a 24 hour period. The time you must wait between transactions are as follows for same stock transactions: (you can buy or sell different stocks without delay, just watch you don't run out of transactions)
Buy >> Buy wait 20 mins
Sell >> Buy wait 0 mins!
Buy >> Sell wait 6 Hours!
So you should be able to Buy >> Sell a couple times a day which is all I have done. P/E (Price to Earnings) is the multiple of the stocks price to it's valuation. It should be in the 3-3.7 range. If it is in that area it is fully valued and will usually not go any higher, so don't bother buying it at this price. (There are 2 exceptions to this explained shortly).

The how to part....

• 1. Always attempt to keep an eye on the stock ticker... Why you wonder? It is updated before any of the other pages are. After a transaction is made it will show the updated price 3 times and that's it.
• 2. When your first starting out watch the "Hot Stock" page closely it seems to be updated about once an hour. It may be updated more often than that, not positive, no more than twice an hour though. What your looking for is the bargins and available stock. Anything with a P/E less than 2 is a bargin (P/E less than 1 is a steal). Now spend what you need to get 1250 shares of your bargin stock. So if your just starting out any shares under $0.40 will net you 1250 shares. After this transaction you will see a nice 15%-40% increase in the share price. Now your stuck idle for 6 hours right??? Sorta unless you bought say a $0.05 stock to start, you should have enough to buy it again in only 20 minutes, that's the trick to making big $$$, buy lots of the same stock.
• 3. If you had an hour to burn and used it purchasing the same stock 3 times you now hold 3750 shares of said stock and its value should have at least doubled from where you started, it should also have a P/E approximately double, possibly higher if someone else bought as well. Now you wait your 6 hrs to sell....
• 4. Now the fun part SELL IT ALL!!! The price will crash as you've sold 50-75% of the shares and you will have almost doubled your money and you can do it all over again with the same stock or go find another :)
• 5. After you hit around $10,000 Net Worth strategy changes a little, the hot stock page no longer is your best source of stocks as almost all of them are stocks in the under $1.00 price range and you need higher priced stocks to keep making money as fast before running out of transactions. The top 500 page and of course the stock ticker becomes the places to look. You need to find stocks in the P/E range of 1-2 that you can afford to buy 1250 or 2500 shares or more with luck.
• 6. IMPORTANT: Look at the incoming links and check that the valuation of those links is approx the same as the valuation of the blog. If the incoming links are much higher you may want to hold the stock until it is indexed again and make a nice profit that way; however, that may take more than a few days... If it's much lower sell it quick...

Brief list of don'ts:

• 1. Don't buy shares in a blog stock that has split unless you can buy 25% in one shot (good luck). The reason is you can't buy or sell enough shares to make the price move... how can you make money if the price doesn't change?
• 2. If the P/E is over 3.7 Don't Buy it, Sell it... The ONLY exceptions are if there is a buy order for a higher price... you will still have to wait 6 hours to sell and by then the order will probably be long filled, or you see the incoming links are worth lots more than the current valuation of the blog stock and intend to hold the stock until it is reindexed. (that may take days/weeks)
• 3. Don't buy shares in a blog with a high valuation and incoming links which are no where near that value... your just asking for trouble... it may get reindexed while you hold it and the new price will be far below what it is now. The reason it has a high valuation is probably because it had a link from a blog like Moveable Type or Slashdot or even blogshares when the blog was last indexed but now those links are no longer there. (Don't say I never warned you)

Tips I've come to love...

• When a blog stock is reindexed it first shows on the stock ticker with it's new price (did I mention to keep an eye on the ticker... yeah I did). Giving you a brief (approximately 5-10 mins) opportunity to buy or sell before the other pages are updated.
• After you have sold all of a particular stock there is a option to remove that stock from your list of owned stocks... don't do it. That is your own personal stock ticker with the added bonus that it shows you the stocks P/E ;-)

That's about all I can think of... see ya in the top 100 :)

Hehe a good 24hrs!

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Approaching the fabled top 100 player list.

I've found my new time wasting passion... well for this week or so anyhow. I'm starting to get the hang of it now :)

Cash Balance             $103.25 
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Home Page                Hair Straight Back 
Total Portfolio          $14,597.07 
Total Worth              $14,700.32 

If that does not look familiar better go hit this page, site goes live in t-minus 6 days.... lessee how much coin i can make by then.

Another Meme:

is my bloggercode. You too can generate you own highly informative silly code. This should be on an About page, however, I don't have one so, here will have to do. First sighted this particular Meme at Disarranging Mine's site, er the about page :)

Lesse some metabloggin ummm... I now own more shares of Chris' Empty Bottle than he does hehe.. had to sell my Moveable Type and EmptyPages to buy em though.

Canucks Win!

For the third time in franchise history, Vancouver Canucks rally from a 3-1 series deficit, (first time against Winnipeg Jets in '92 second vs Calgary Flames in '94) winning Game 7 in their first round series vs the St. Louis Blues. Second round opponents are going to be the Minnesota Wild who also won their game 7 vs Colorado Avalanche.

hehe I know I just made Emptypages a fair bit of coin... well blog coin anyhow, but I made some too.

Well after mucking around for a few days I've managed to acquire a few shares which should do well :) Blogger and Moveable Type. Seeing as Blogshares has split so many times it's kinda tough to see any value in those shares anymore sigh... Fishrush has a great idea give out a dividend to your shareholders in the form of gifted shares. I like that :) In fact that deserves one of my worthless links laff.

I'm inclined to believe blogshares is going to be the next big catalyst to entice people to seek out new logs/sites, it certainly has me bouncing around a multitude of different sites, which I'm sure I would have never seen otherwise. The hyperlink market grows :)

This site is written by a gentleman working for Google as a data miner... he has a very interesting hobby of game writing in his spare time. The heuristics of pathfinding in a gaming application look like... well... search engines have to find relevant results in the shortest time... don't they?

Houston, I wish to inform you that the mission has been a complete success. The "Spiderman" rip-encode went with narry a hiccup.

Gaming has run it's course for the last day or two so went wandering about blogsphere today/tonight here's a few I hit upon that looked interesting Dave Raynes nice layout and a nifty little moveable type plugin to track your blogshare stock price. Now if only mine were actually worth even 1 solitary penny I'd be ecstatic hehe. Speaking of which i was reading the blogshare manual and thought this was rather interesting...

Valuation: A blog's value in BlogShares is the sum of the values of all its incoming links.

Hmm, think I'll buy blogshares when it goes live. It can't possibly go down in value, think about that.

So I was looking around at other sites that may have shares left. So proceeded to blogrolling top 100 and lo and behold #1 on the list Ain't to Proud to Blog, Robyn a chick with attitude and nice boobies too. Can't forget the guys reply to that with The Penis Blog. Following the boobies around I ran into Kristine #16 on the list too... Greymatter cool. Followed up with Yvonne's site, good gawd I even left a comment... yeash what's the world coming to. All in all a rather interesting evening of surfing.

Finally managed to rip-encode-view one of my favorite movies "The Matrix" as I was commenting on yesterday er day before doom9.org has been invaluable in aiding me in this bloody quest for viewing pleasure. If by chance your having a hellish experience yourself, download the Gordian Knot Interface/frontend for divx encoding. Read all the guides you can find, and maybe it'll work for you as well.

Oh yeah last month got a haircut hehe. I just knew you would be thrilled to read about that, so there :P

Blogshares send me some! Gifts always welcome... laff

Well nuff said off to work on "Spiderman".....

Almost 2 months since I've been inspired enough to actually decide to typo something. New computer up and running "Shit eating grin" I went with Intel.. P4 2.53 Gigahertz, 512 Mb DDR ram, MSI mobo using SiS 645DX chipset... was a little concerned using a non-Intel chipset but, It seems stable. Mobo also has onboard 10/100 ethernet, USB 2.0, and RAID 0,1 ;)

Way cool Mike Weir wins the Master's Golf tourney in Augusta Ga. this past weekend and NHL playoffs are underway... I'm a lil concerned with my perinnial losing Vancouver Canucks as they are currently down 2-1 to St. Louis in the first round, but hopefully Crawford and crew get their act together.

DVD viewing and ripping is a pain in the ass. Searching high and low for the right programs to do what you want is one major pain. I've stumbled across a few sites that give some directions but best one so far seems to be doom9.org. Guides are well written with links to programs needed, which helps immeasurably, though finding the proper guide is... well... not very user friendly. That site and windows update seem to be the only places I've been for last while.

Yay, no more messing with <table>, <tr>, <td> tags etc. Cascading Style Sheets (css) rock my world :) Gracias to Owen Briggs, glish.com, brainjar.com, tantek.com, alistapart.com and of course www.w3.org for making it all make sense.

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