Busiest Boards, tracked by MetaMarkets.com

MetaMarkets' Busiest Boards Tuesday, Feb. 27 (11:30 a.m.)
Raging Bull	Motley Fool
Amazon.com (AMZN)	Microsoft (MSFT)
CMGI (CMGI)	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Frontier Airlines (FRNT)	Iomega (IOM)
QQQ (QQQ)	Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.a)
Axcelis Technologies (ACLS)	Rambus (RMBS)
Silicon Investor	MetaMarkets.com
High Tolerance Plasticity	The Trading Desk
Market Gems	Shooting Back
Stock Attack II	Abgenix (ABGX)
How High Will Microsoft Fly?	Think Tank
Clown-Free Zone	Investment Strategy
Source: MetaMarkets.com

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Why This Metric Matters This metric, provided by MetaMarkets.com, gives investors a heads-up on stocks that are currently active movers and newsmakers in the market. (MetaMarkets is an investor site that's home to the OpenFund, a mutual fund whose managers disclose their holdings and trades on the Web site.) Throughout the day, MetaMarkets tracks financial message boards: Motley Fool, Raging Bull, Silicon Investor and MetaMarkets itself. This metric is useful because the busiest boards tend to be the ones where there's been news on a stock or a rise in volatility. Usually where there is chatter, there is trading action. (Occasionally the most popular boards are topic-driven, rather than focused on a particular stock. Silicon Investor, for example, has a "President George W. Bush" board.) The metric isn't a perfect proxy for any one trend. Action doesn't necessarily portend consistent buy or sell signals. Sometimes the most-loved message board stocks turn out to be frothy and overhyped. Take an example from the 1990s, Iomega (IOM), a disk-drive maker. Its stock reached great heights as Motley Fool posters couldn't talk enough about Iomega, but the stock eventually lost some 90% of its value. In this respect, the MetaMarkets info at times best serves to help decipher which stocks to short, or to avoid altogether.

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