How did you find $$$MR. MARKET$$$??

I was researching

viagra and I used the word "huge" and your site came up

[peanuts]

I won the lottery and Ed McMahon showed up at my door with models, balloons, confetti, and one of the huge checks. But the check wasn't monetary. It just said, Mr. Market is HUGE. Google did the rest, and it's been paying off since then.

[buckhunter]

Ibd

I remember I had posted a comment on the IBD forum about Novastar Financial (NFI). Mr. Market replied to my post saying "That was my winner #xx". I thought, "who is this guy and what is he talking about?". I seem to recall that $$MM$$ had run afoul of IBD and was not allowed to post his website address. But one of his loyal followers posted it on an IBD thread, so I followed it from that post.

My first $$MM$$ pick was PDX in the spring of 2004. My records show that I sold it for a profit at $69/share. I'm not sure if the same company is using "PDX", because I see that stock was recently trading at around $700/share!

[Louetta]

Hah! Don't we just LOVE those muscular handsome hunks with all the brains and charisma and chuzpah! LOL

Actually I remember during the IBD days he gave me a lot of help trying to run his model, telling me where to find tools, etc. I also enjoy his photos, many of which are apparently from his children's sports events. He must spend a lot of time on it. The football photos are excellent. I photograph track and field and bodybuilding which are easy because you know where the participants will be. Not so football. You need to plan to be in a good spot as the plays develop. I do think his rear delts need work. Just use the pec deck facing backwards for starters.

[riverbabe]

Moi, aussi.

Hah! Don't we just LOVE those muscular handsome hunks with all the brains and charisma and chuzpah! LOL

I googled a stock symbol during some DD research and got a link to one of Pete's Money Maker's posts. I bookmarked the site after going thru Mr.Markets past picks. It is very entertaining and educational to read, and profitable to follow

[tiedyed1]

Ages ago; back from the IBD days; and totally enjoying getting old with all of you

[jiesen]

Parked in one of the 2-hours-maximum-7AM-to-6PM spaces Monday night. This meant, in all due paranoia, that I needed to be out by 9 AM. I really need to get my Zone 4 permit, which is apparently $27 for a two-year term, and in terms of the number of spaces it'd convert from two-hours into no-limit, well worth it. But in my present permit-less state, this meant an earlier start to the day than I'd have preferred. Hit a coupla patches of traffic on 520; not enough to make me raeach for the cell phone and call East Coasters for some entertainment while I waited, but enough to be mildly annoying. Got to work and discovered that, for my troubles, the building had been hit with a power outage and was still recovering. The lights were back on, but the network connectivity was completely hosed, and the air conditioning was out. Without a netconnection, there was basically squat-all I could do at work, thus kind of mootifying my early start to the day.

My office should have some natural light. In terms of distance from an exterior wall, I'm across a hallway from window offices. But note that I said "should," rather than "does." The wall of my office that faces the window offices is just that, a wall. The door to my office is on the wall opposite that one, facing a dreary interior hallway (dreary because the building's architect didn't understand the concept of light boxes well enough to have the hallways end in them). If you sit in your light-filled window office and look towards where I sit, you see, not me smiling back at you across the hallway and basking in your ambient natural light, but rather, a giant floor-to-celing whiteboard a good twenty or thirty feet long. For this our outside-inside offices were sacrificed, for this, I tell you.

As of this morning, the whiteboard was completely blank, too. Some brilliant person or persons unknown decided to hang whiteboards in the elevators in the building. Since the stairs are really hard to find and the group is scattered across all the floors (which is a whole 'nother story), people take a lot of short elevator trips, generally with just enough time to scrawl something on one of the whiteboards quickly before de-elevatoring. So I guess all the doodling energy has been sunk into the elevator whiteboards, rather than into the big-ass one in the hallway.

Given that I quite literally had nothing better to do, I decided to teach myself a little math. I opened up my copy of Cohen's book, flipped to the section where he lays out forcing and proves that it works, and started methodically working through the proof, filling up the whiteboards with the definitions and lemmata, much as I guess he did, those thirty years ago. I got through about five pages of text, and filled maybe half the horizontal distance of the whiteboards with detailed, if somewhat inscruitable and horribly out-of-context, notes.

The collective opinion of folks in the group seems to be that I've put up some kind of strange and arcane spell, and that if any symbol of it is altered in any way, our code will break. Well, that and also that the math ought to be by pictures of Godzilla and other silly line drawings. The juxtaposition reminds me of the best title of a math book ever: Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster. So I start typing randomly on the keys, after adjusting the onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. After a few hours of random letters and symbols out pops this string of letters 'mrmarketishuge' which I decide to pop into a url and see what comes up. Voila! Here I am.

Just kiddin'- I found Ernie's post on a Yahoo! message board.

[IIC]

I received an email invite...I had previously been a yahoo member but I think I only posted once...I joined here the day after T-Giving 2003.

Ernie was also a member of my Old YahooCanslimStockPicks Club(later group...Later I deleted the whole thing and all 2200 members)...Doug

[Louetta]

Followed you and Ski here from IBD. Best move I ever made.

Moi, aussi.

[riverbabe]

Followed you and Ski here from IBD. Best move I ever made.

[jiesen]

I followed a link posted by Jeisen on Yahoo. The best link I ever followed.

you're welcome!!!

Ctsh

I was researching CTSH back in August 2010 when I came across a MrMarket write up. Apparently it had just hit his target price, but he was out for the day and didn't sell! It then dropped about 10% and he was like "don't worry it'll get back there soon".

I couldn't believe his nonchalant attitude! In a world of traders where everyone is so uptight about protecting profits and cutting losses, using stops and watching positions tick by tick, MrMarket was out relaxing playing golf riding CTSH with no stop and giving back all his profits. Of course 2 weeks later it came back and hit his target. A similar shock hit me after reading Karel's "Stops are for Wimps" thread. I love the open mindedness on this board and the investing ideas resulting from it. Thinking about some more, I came to the conclusion that there is more to trading than risk:reward. That doesn't account for the amount of time a trader spends researching and monitoring positions. I thought to myself, "MM sure must have a high work:reward ratio!"

Although I only just recently started making MrMarket like picks and aiming to reproduce some of Karel's Marketocracy gains, I'm already up a mildly large 6%! The one time I decided to stray a bit from the strategy came back to bite me. I felt like playing RVBD earnings today so I bought in the morning and am taking a nasty 25% hit in the after hours! Luckily for me I have learned the value of diversification from MrMarket, and only hold a 3% position. Keep up the great work MM! We're not Worthy!! We're not Worthy!!!!

[em26jamie]

I followed a link posted by Jeisen on Yahoo. The best link I ever followed.

Via Google, I believe, back in 2005 or 2006? I took a break for a while but came back after the market crash.