money things

[robbat2]

What do all of these have in common?
COHG EPRT FCCN GLOW GTEM HWYI HXPN LYJN MENV NWOG PRTH RRLB SFWJ UTVG VTSS

They are all stock symbols, that were promoted via pump-and-dump scams in the last 4 days.

Let's look at one the that I saw last week for a moment:
Starting Monday Jan 8th, the RRLB went up nearly 120% overnight (from $0.04 to $0.10). Then around midday Tuesday there was a big sell, followed by another big sell wednesday.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RRLB.PK&t=5d&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

Now if we look at the others (these are all the ones that really stand out, the others don't have enough data available for me to make a conclusion).
MENV - 40% growth
NWOG - 20% growth
PRTH - 80% growth
SFWJ - 50% growth
UTVG - 80% growth in less than 12 hours.
VTSS - 10% growth since yesterday, but this spam run only appears to be starting.

I want to make a prediction here, to test a theory. VTSS will gain at least another 20% before Wednesday.

Comments

Markets closed monday

[cshields.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

just an fyi, the markets are closed on monday..

I remember seeing this on many stock forums at the turn of the decade when I was doing a lot of daytrading.. making the move from forums to spam was just brilliant for these guys. (not that I appreciate what they are doing in the least bit).

Cheers!

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

No, but it isn't a foreign field to me.
I'm actually more interested in patterns in general (plus I figure somebody that is savvy enough could make a profit by watching these spammers).

[lamesuperpower.livejournal.com]

How about shorting the stock near the peak instead? Seems less risky because by the time you see the spam chances are the stock has artificially appretiated at east a little, and you cash in whenever the spammer dumps his stock.