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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 (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) That's very interesting. On what day of the week do you usually begin Auczilla? Have you tried different days? Do you think it matters? Based on what you have said above, do you think it makes more sense to begin your auction on Friday so (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Different every time, unless same by chance. (...) No -- the auctions run for several weeks. (...) If I were running really short auctions, I'd probably want to launch them at 5 a.m. on Monday morning and hope for them to close by Thursday (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) 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. (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Here's some more data. The stuff above was from analyzing monetary jumps rather than activity jumps per se. That is, the data being looked at for the above statement was the curve representing the total dollar amount tied up in the auction. (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Rilly? I'd want to make sure that the auction runs over both the weekend and weekdays, to catch both at-work and at-home surfers. Steve (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Isn't one a subset of the other? Who's on the net only on weekends but never during the work week (say, in the evenings)? I guess a study would be in order. :) --Todd (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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