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Re: Does auction length matter?
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Wed, 5 May 1999 22:41:24 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In my experience, Mondays and Tuesdays are always the biggest days for jumps
> in activity -- and actually, with Tuesday being a little bigger than Monday
> -- always -- every week -- no exceptions. It's *really* freaky. Every
> single week in every single auction I've held in the past 2 years looks
> exactly the same after curve normalization. There's a trough on Friday
> through Sunday and a peak on Monday through Wednesday.
Empirical, anecdotal explanation, but one that makes a lot of sense to
me, anyway:
People don't do email on weekends! Hence the F-Sun lull. Further, on
Monday, they're catching up from the weekend at work so don't do as much
hobby email. Tuesday, they're caught up and away they go.
Since you don't work a mundane schedule any more, you probably forgot
about that or you would have thought of it yourself.
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| (...) That's kind of what I was thinking. Plus, lots of morning meetings on Mondays too, I would imagine... It still freaks me out though how consistent it is...every single time! Maybe all the little fractal noise just gets drowned out by the sheer (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Not really an opinion, but some data: In my experience, Mondays and Tuesdays are always the biggest days for jumps in activity -- and actually, with Tuesday being a little bigger than Monday -- always -- every week -- no exceptions. It's (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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