Editing Talk:2270: Picking Bad Stocks

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clearly nobody told Randall about shorting stocks [[Special:Contributions/162.158.18.160|162.158.18.160]] 20:57, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

I was going to say that [[User:Arachrah|Arachrah]] ([[User talk:Arachrah|talk]]) 09:29, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Can someone create a "stock market" category, or "economics"? There are a lot of comics referencing this. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.89|172.69.33.89]] 23:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
:You can start by listing these comics here, someone will pick them up to create the category.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.166|141.101.98.166]] 10:35, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
::Yep. General inofficial rule of thumb is, that a new category should have at least 5 comics or consist of a direct series. (the latter doesn't seem to be tha case here.)--[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 10:41, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
:::Stock market related comics:
:::* [[1570: Engineer Syllogism]]
:::* [[1600: MarketWatch]]
:::* [[2094: Short Selling]]
:::* [[2101: Technical Analysis]]
:::* [[2270: Picking Bad Stocks]]
:::Please add {{unsigned|141.101.104.161}}
::::You mean that there is so few people knowing how to create category that they agreed on some rule? And why didn't they told me? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:27, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
:::::As I said it is an inofficial {{w|rule of thumb}}... discussed e.g. [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Kynde#Category_book_promotion on Kyndes talk page] --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 10:58, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

When he said "camping" I thought more of snipers in MMFPS games (or gate-campers in Eve) and I was imagining the robot waiting patiently hidden under the sofa until someone dropped a crumb, zipping out and hoovering that crumb up then zipping off back again. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 11:30, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Shouldn't they be dropping the companies from a basket rather than an index ? From my understanding, indices refer to "official" lists of stocks, and custom ones are more known as baskets. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.28|108.162.229.28]] 12:46, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
:I suspect Cueball is more influential than expected [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.202|108.162.241.202]] 14:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

In BBC Radio 4's Dickensian-comedy-spoof series {{w|Bleak Expectations}} (from memory, during the [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cwgs6/episodes/guide second series/season] - though not available at the time of writing, at least direct from the BBC) at one key point Pip Bin uses his best friend's investment 'recommendations' (Harry Biscuit is also a notoriously bad inventor obsessed with using swans in many of his own Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg devices) to invest in entirely the opposite manner. Not that I think Randall has heard these programmes (or, indeed, programs), so not an annotatable reference for the comic, but putting it out there as a recommendation in general because there's a good chance of humour(/humor) overlap. And it has Anthony Head in it, if there are any Buffy fans/etc, reading this... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.148|141.101.98.148]] 15:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Maybe Cueball is a 21st-Century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter Timothy Dexter]? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.93|172.69.68.93]] 16:03, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

In the last line of the current explanation, it supposes Cueball is connected to and making changes to the portfolio. I read this more as an ironic counterpoint, indicating that even though he's good at picking bad stocks, he is not infallible. [[User:OhFFS|OhFFS]] ([[User talk:OhFFS|talk]]) 17:18, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

The ads displayed for me on this page suggest investing in Irish Whiskey. Given the context here, would it be better to buy or short now? [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 17:40, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
:I'd give a strict buy recommondation. If you loose money on it, you can at least get drunk. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Anyone else find the "This is the job I was born for" statement and situation strikingly similar to #408: Overqualified? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.53|108.162.246.53]] 22:00, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

I think the title text intends to say that he's consistently picking good stock now that he's trying to pick bad ones. Murphy's Law.

Company #1434 --> I lost the game [[User:AoPS is superior|AoPS is superior]] ([[User talk:AoPS is superior|talk]]) 09:06, 31 December 2023 (UTC)