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I think the Business Model has many flaws

fredericbaud — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:45:06 +0000

I'm not really confident in this kind of business models. The basic of my reaction is some form of belief in what is called market efficiency. But more particularly we have, as you mentioned the questions of "how much past performance assure future ones", then you have the agency problem "if I'm good at picking companies, why should I share the info and not benefit first hands".

Frederic Baud

BarCampBank - P2PVenture
My blog

you don't believe in that?

Nicolas — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:09:56 +0000

I think it is a good idea. The only issue is in the quality of their algorythm. If once they crawl their database of winning portofolio they can come out with stats like: We created a portofolio that has a 70% chance of going up 5% or more in the two coming weeks they can sell that info. The questions are :

- who do you sell the info to (Broker, Bank, people...?)

- if someone is good at predicting the market today, those it show is going to be good tomorow?

Nicolas

bot drupajo7296

Sam Rose — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:27:15 +0000

I'll bet that it is a bot, or a spammer....

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Is drupaj07296 a bot?

fredericbaud — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:04:00 +0000

Hello drupaj07296,

I'm not sure I understand the comment. Is this the action of a bot?

If we keep receiving this comment and we don't really understand why, I'm afraid we'll have to ban this account from posting.

Frederic Baud

BarCampBank - P2PVenture
My blog

time

drupaj07296 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:04:24 +0000

Sorry, it is test. Now is 17 October 2007, 11:45:15

Forward to the Past?

fredericbaud — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:45:28 +0000

I remember having seen a tv show on a similar type of company at the top of the bubble. The idea then was to let people play and put the orders of the best players (even having them knowing bragged the founder). Don't remember the name of the company, probably not many do.

Frederic Baud

BarCampBank - P2PVenture
My blog

Wikinvest: see also...

Sam Rose — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:52:29 +0000

Also, check out http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/wikinvest/

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