Online Stock Trading

Don’t worry, as far as treatises go, this will be both the shortest and least treatise-like treatise you will ever read. So, you might be wondering then, “why call it a treatise?” Not a bad question, but, it proves a very subtle point. That subtle point is that the performance of this site is straddled by its somewhat narrow focus; its performance is dictated by the illusory tastes and relative rarity of its ideal readers. Not very many people like treatises, and those who do often stay in shadows.

But anyone who does peruse from time to time the things I have to say knows that I don’t really write treatises. I write to a fairly exclusive audience. To those who can keep still for a few minutes, read something designed to exercise their cognitive skill set, then wrap all that up with a brief stare out a window or into a fire, or even with eyes shut focusing on the chaotic sound of the rain.

Unfortunately for this website, those who do such things seem after all to be enough of a rare sort so as to retard the amount of traffic that does come here. Ultimately, all this doesn’t really bother me, but I have had hopes from the beginning that word would spread at least a little farther, faster than it has.

One thing (slightly disappointing) that I do notice is that the traffic increases somewhat dramatically after I get a good pop from the market. The source of this traffic often originates from e-mails. Someone notices, then tells someone else they think would like to notice too. This is mostly a good thing, but if someone only takes notice right after hefty gains alone, then I am doomed to the task of overseeing frenetic readers satisfied only by spurts of excitement who bore easily and quickly right after; in other words, not my intended readers.

I never said I would annihilate Warren Buffet’s fifty-one years of investing in 180 days, but I do intend to consistently outperform his average yield only so I can reap some other rewards in life long before fifty-one years is over. Nor do I intend to outperform Warren Buffet because I dislike him and think he’s ever, for even a day in his life, done anything remotely wrong, to the contrary: I view my aspiration to Warren Buffet as player does to coach, or student does to teacher. One can use an idol as a measuring stick only because it makes a damned good and useful one. Ultimately, it’s how I prove just how much I admire him.

Nevertheless, two site performance issues are rather bizarre. Even while getting only an average of 30-50 visitors a day (for anyone not familiar with how much this is, think “pail of sand on 10-mile beach”), for some reason, I have an Alexa traffic rank of 780,192, and after having only twenty or so sites linking to me, I have a Google Page Rank of 3. Both of these seem very unusual. I’ve gone to many websites who have hundreds of FeedBurner subscribers, and otherwise seemingly very high traffic who have an Alexa rank of over a million or even two. And too, I’ve been to many sites with hundreds of links to and from other sites who have a Google Page Rank of not much more than mine.

These two peculiarities aside, I hope to continue to reach an ever growing audience. I’ve recently begun submitting some articles to blog carnivals in the investing niche, so we’ll see how that does.