There has been a lot of renewed talk lately about the infamous “Ghost Orders”. OSN has been telling folks that whatever OneSeason is working on, ahead of Ghost Orders, they must feel is more important. Here is an update, straight from OneSeason, about Ghost Orders…

The ghost order fix is on the schedule. We’ve got things ahead of it that we promise are more important and will have more of an impact on the site as a whole.

So there you have it. Big stuff coming!

I tried to read the entire daily thread and failed.

I got stuck around the $6 split discussion.

More shares will not help the market. I don’t have time to explain the supply v. demand fundamentals of 8th grade Economics.

Why is everyone so concerned that some prices and volume are falling? Who cares?

I imagine most of you do not watch your Fidelity portfolio’s increase and decrease in 15 minute intervals and shit your pants when it goes up or down a few cents.

The FACT of the matter is that if a few thousand people put some money into the real stock market with little to no education whatsoever about how markets, economics in general or human psychology worked they would all lose their asses.

You do NOT put money into a market, move it around as fast as you can and turn your entire portfolio over on an hourly basis like I see people on here attempting to do.

Do a little research, pick a price you are comfortable with and an amount of money you don’t mind seeing frozen for 6 months and buy someone you are confident in.

If prices went up, you would sell anyways.

One Season seems to be doing just fine to me, the faster prices go up and the masses arrive, the shorter our reign will be.

I see nothing wrong with the way things are going, and I don’t understand the near daily analysis of how terrible everything is.

If you can’t stand losing a few bucks then scrape together what you can and hit the road.

OneSeason does not exist to make you rich.

Buy someone you like and log off for awhile.

If you own any of the following SOIs, then you are pretty happy right now. You have come out of today completely unscathed! OSN has been predicting this crash for awhile now, and it seems the smart money has been to take the dollars out of the over-owned(tm) Pre-Hoo SOIs, and buy nice large chunks of these recent players coming out. 2-3-4 people can band together and own 20-40-60% or more of these players coming out, and breeze right through crashes like this, completely unharmed.

In big crashes like this, if you hold a major percentage of an SOI that doesn’t have that many owners to begin with due to the SOIs low outstanding shares, you should have good protection from a crash like this.

The smart money had liqudated weeks ago, and now has cash to pick and choose their spots, and it no doubt scooping up great deals out there now. So, without further ado, your safe stocks of the Crash of 4/27/09 (as of 8pm PST).

If your sportfolio today was made up of entirely or mostly of these SOIs, you were pretty happy today.

• BARB 6683
• BRES 4112
• BSLY 1494
• BUSH 5648
• DNCN 1465
• DPED 907
• DRNT 998
• MOSS 5089
• OWEN 4002
• PORT 1090
• PPRC 1009
• ROSE 924
• SHAQ 1444
• BIGB 1171
• FRTE 845
• TMAC 805
• MCNB 3275
• APET 6044
• CROS 5138
• LTEE 7358
• EMAN 4970
• ALOV 8284
• JCUT 5296
• DMAN 5343
• MANY 4190
• BRDY 9571
• MELO 8168
• YAOM 33344

Post of the Day from pjnc2003:

there are 341,006 SOIs Outstanding.
Today’s Total Trade Volume is 2,422.
2422/341006 = 0.0071025143252611391001917854817804

think of the 338584 shares NOT traded today

This was explained on episode 1 of OSN-TV right at the very beginning. People let a VERY small amount of shares being traded (in this case 7 tenths of a percent) affect their perception of the entire market.

Good Morning everyone! Happy Chris Johnson Day to you! Chris Johnson will end up between 5 and $7,000 Market cap today. Remember, OneSeason was not created to be an investment site. Their goal is not to make you money. Their goal is not to raise the value of your sportfolio. Nowhere, anywhere on OneSeason does it say anything, anywhere about investments. The site was created for the fun and entertainment of Sports Fans, and NOT for investment purposes. The Yahoo! Factor has a lot of people sitting around waiting for another boom again that isn’t going to happen. And now some folks are expecting OneSeason to deliver that boom again. If you are on OneSeason for only 1 reason, and that’s MONEY. You should leave. Now. The site isn’t for you, wasn’t created for you, and won’t be changing to cater to you any time soon. OneSeason will grow the site to the numbers they anticipate at a very slow rate, ensuring there isn’t another crippling boom again. If a crazy boom happens, every last one of us will sell all of our shares to the new users, and we’ll go 100% cash, sticking the new users with our shares. OneSeason knows this as well, and will make sure this doesn’t happen. It may not be what you want to hear, but it’s the truth. Sorry.

For those of you (the majority of OSN and the OS community) who are here to have fun, create side games, have fun interacting socially about sports, fantasy sports, and everything else then you already know all this!

Oh, and there are presents for EVERYONE in the OSN Arcade! SDogg has already been cleaning house in the new additions to the arcade. Have a great Sunday everyone!

I want OneSeason to Drive the Market Upwards. FU#&ing NOW!!! and more cheeseburgers please...

here is a letter I received earlier from a OneSeason Nation member, enjoy

When you look around the world of OneSeason, there are a certain group of people who are screaming for OneSeason to make changes to make the market move. They want OneSeason to advertise on the Superbowl. They want new users to pin their shares that they’re hoarding onto. They want OneSeason to increase the IPO rate. They want OneSeason to slow down the IPO rate. They want OneSeason to bring massive tidal waves of cash to the site………all so they can pin their shares and bad investments in the past on new users.

Newsflash gang. This IS NOT going to happen. OneSeason has ZERO interest in “making you rich”. They have 1 goal in mind right now, and it’s has nothing to do with making the market move. The market movement is based on the users. Stop blaming OneSeason for a stagnant market, stop blaming OneSeason for things being boring, stop blaming OneSeason for your bad choices in spending YOUR money, stop blaming OneSeason for your buddies depositing thousands of dollars and only having $1 left in their account. This isn’t OneSeason’s fault. It’s your fault. You spent your money, and gave it to someone else. Someone else has your money. You gave it to them. They sold you their shares. Now you want a massive flood of new users, so you can back out of the mistake you think you made, and pass those shares onto some new unsuspecting user. Get a grip, dude. Jesus.

OneSeason’s number 1 goal right now, and number 1 priority, and NOTHING will change this fact is that they are building the site. They are adding features. They are working on redesigns. They are fixing ghost orders. They are testing, testing again, testing some more, and then retesting. They are gathering data. They will use this data in the future in helping them make educated decisions with regards to improvements to the site and marketing.

They are not here to make you money. They are not here to make changes to make your shares more valuable. Their sole mission, right now, is to build the site, and make the system the best it possibly can be going forward. Everyone with their bitching and moaning about stagnant markets and OneSeason needing to restore faith in the people who lost all that money in the past……that wasn’t OneSeason’s fault. It is a free market, noone held a gun to anyone’s head forcing them to buy someone elses shares…

but now it seems people want to hold a gun to OneSeason’s head for similar reasons…

/rant off

JMS

OneSeason sent out weekly account statements to users today, that show them summaries of all their account activities. Cool stuff! What are your thoughts? Here is the account of a smart and saavy OneSeason Nation member!

(Just kidding, numbers are lowered from actual numbers….)

Mike Sroka stopped by the OSN Chat room tonight to spend some time with the OSN and answer some questions and chat. He stayed for a half hour longer this time, than the first time, and chatted with OSN for an hour and a half! Some tremendous things were revealed to the Nation.

• We Learned that OneSeason will run a commercial during the closing bell of the market on CNBC in the near future.
• We learned about OneSeason’s stance on Market Manipulation.
• We learned about OneSeason’s favorable position on gifting shares to friends via facebook.
• We learned about OneSeason’s current status on fixing ghost orders.
• We learned that OneSeason likes the idea of major holders of players having access to additional functionality on the OneSeason site!

You can view the entire archive of the chat session here.

Thanks again to Mike Sroka for hanging out with OSN and answering questions! Look for Mike Sroka live on Jewced Up Radio in the very near future!

OneSeason CEO and Co-Founder Mike Sroka will be chatting again with the OneSeason Nation in the OSN Chat Room on Tuesday April 21 at 7pm PST. We had a LOT of fun with Mike the first time he came to chat with us, and no doubt this will be a fun time again! Bring all of your questions for Mike about OneSeason (or non OneSeason if you like! We heard that Mike hates Rex Grossman last time, lol) See you guys in the chat room on Tuesday night 4/21!

Great News for the OneSeason Community! OneSeason Nation Member and regular chatter “OSA” OneSeason Alerts! They have added trading and IPO requests from their desktop tool! You can view charts on players real time, as seen last week on OSNTV. There won’t be much that goes down without you knowing about it. It also works OUTSIDE of your web browser, and can be minimized into the part of your computer down by your clock, and won’t be blocked out from typical work web filters! This desktop tool is absolutely sick. It is very minimalistic, fast, efficient and kicks ass! You can download it at www.OneSeasonAlerts.com

This tool is 100% OneSeason Nation approved, and kicks much ass. Have fun with it!

Tonight is a very special episode of Jewced Up Radio with Jewcer and his guest host Timmy304, moderator and keeper of the OSN calendar. They will be discussing many thing about OneSeason, the community, and the market. They also will have a HUGE announcement from a special guest. Tune in for the show! You can get to Jewcer’s radio page by clicking here, Or you can point your browser to www.oneseasonnation.com/radio

This was taken out of the forums today. It’s something we talk about often, and it is often overlooked. I think it’s important for all users in OneSeason understand what Market Cap is, and what it means. You can’t judge all of your analysis, predictions, and actions based on the Market Cap number. It is a good temperature gauge, but it really is a worthless number. As of this writing, the market is “red” and “down” 1.85%. People are saying that and IPO will not come in a down market like this. I wanted to take a second to point out that this Market Cap number can be, and often is VERY misleading. We are on the hells of the Wright release, and people are very much anticipating the Lincecum IPO. People have certainly sold as less than the ‘average’ or ‘current’ price on a player, trying to accumulate some cash.

When the market cap goes down (or up!), 1-2-3% or more you have to understand that this doesn’t necessarily mean ANYTHING is changing in the market. It just means a few people are buying lower, or higher than the people right before them. That’s all. If I go deposit $200 right now and spend it buying KING at $10 a pop…that would inject $125,000 or so into the market cap, and make it look like the market is up 10%! But what has actually changed? Nothing. There is still the same amount of money in the system. There is still the same amount of users. There is the same amount of active traders. Alternately, when someone dumps a huge position on their player, freeing up cash…and that players market cap takes a hit, it doesn’t mean “that player is tanking”. It just means that someone sold their shares lower than the guy right before them. That’s it.

In closing here is a summary of thoughts from the OSN forums written today.

it’s possible. I think we overestimate the market cap. It put too much value on what it means.
even though the market is down…what has TRULY changed.

Next to NOTHING. No wait. NOTHING. lol.
I would not be shocked at all if Lincecum came out today.
Just because some people are unloading shares lower than the previous sales doesn’t mean there is any less money in the system, or the market is truly going down.

I think the big factors in an IPO release are

1) Money deposited total in the system.

2) New Users

3) Volume rate of previously released IPOs

4) price patterns on previously released IPOs.

I really think the overall market cap has very little to do with it, because it really is a worthless number. it’s just a running total of what people are selling their shares for. OneSeaosn knows this. I mean, if someone wants to drop $200 right now, on LBJ and buy $10 shares of KING….

that would make him jump 60%, add 60% to his MC price…inject what…$125,000 into the market cap? make it look like the Market is OMFG BOOMING!!!! but it isn’t nothing has changed. still the same amount of money in the system, same amount of new users, same same same.

This was kind of done to be funny, but if you take the funny out of it, and listen to the message, it is SPOT on…

Ryan Leaf….a guy that acts like Ryan Leaf…..a real douchebag..Philip Rivers hit OneSeason today at about 12:36PM PST. The official OneSeason Nation timestamp list is here. Get yours entered! Where do you think Philip Rivers will land? I think the market will put him at a 7k Market Cap. What are your thoughts?

It’s been a while since I’ve contributed a substantial post. So let me tell you what I’ve been up to with regards to my Sportfolio.

I’ve got a pretty diverse sportfolio, as you can see if you check out my profile here or just friend me in OS. I decided early on that even if I didn’t like a player, I would still grab a share or two of that player to make it easier to track. This was pre-ticker, and I just wanted to look at my sportfolio and see all of the players so I could get a feel for what was going on in the overall market. What happened was that as I noticed some of these players go way down, and appear to be undervalued, I would add a few more shares. Players that I only bought for tracking purposes ended up becoming a bigger part of my sportfolio.

Let me just say really quick that I’ve been here since pretty early on, some of my IPOs include Breese and Bush, and I put in for Brady too late but bought him on the first day of trading. I rode the yahoo bubble all the way up, and being a stubborn loyal type, rode it all the way down and lost any chance of capitalizing early on. But what I did do was maintain a decent number of shares in a decent number of players.

Now we have the ability to reinvest more money in OneSeason, and prices on many of these players are at historical low values. So I’ve been working on picking all of the players I like as much as I can afford, with the goal of trying to establish at least a 1% stake in as many players a possible. I am up to 11 players at or above 1% ownership, and I have quite a few others that I’m closing in on that mark.

My theory is that the overall value of OneSeason isn’t even near where it’s going to be in a year or two. After they build out the system and do more advertising and the viral aspect continues to push it out we may just see the overall value at 10-20 million like we’ve seen in the past. Having said that, you could throw a dart and buy a player and have it pay off long term. So what I do is pick the players that I don’t like or don’t like as much and just rule them out, maybe just buy a share or two of those. Every one else I’ll keep buying when they are low until I get them to 1%, and buy even more that 1% on the players I really like.

My other thinking here is that it can be hard to buy or sell big blocks of shares sometimes without really compromising on price. With my sportfolio, I can sell a few shares of a bunch of players and raise capital quick without any great concessions on price.

And finally I’m always going to have a sportfolio where there’s players going up, and I can sell off a few of those, and there will always be players in my sportfolio going down, and I can buy up a few more of them. Slowly but surely as this whole thing goes up, I can take advantages of prices that get out of line with market, and maybe even out-perform the overall market. Plus I can insure that my sportfolio is stronger and less likely to be hurt by one or two SOIs.

Now is a great time to start building a percent or two of multiple players. There are some players right now where $100 will buy you pretty close to a percent. That’s just not going to be the case for very long going forward. Believe me, there will come a day when 1% of a player, will be pretty substantial, so just imagine if you had 1% of 20 players or more, it will look like a pretty strong SOI empire.

Great information from a ‘tech’ guy about yesterday’s Deron bug. Yes of course OneSeason tests their changes, but you can never predict what happens when it goes live! Kudos to OneSeason for finding and squashing that bug as quick as they did!

I  manage an IT department for a pretty large outfit.

With that said, I’m not sure what testing mechanisms OneSeason uses to assimilate live trading and a live IPO request, but I’m sure they have something.

In my datacenter, we have a test environment that mimics our production environment (for you techies out there - our test systems are virtual running on VMware ESX Linux). We will constantly run application and server changes in the test environment. Most of the time, if a test runs clean, it will be fine when we flip the switch and go live in production. But, there has been that rare occasion when although test went fine, live production had a problem and the entire IT staff had to scramble. There are some variables that you just can’t account for.

I’m certainly giving OneSeason a mulligan here. Sure, it was frustrating, but being in their shoes a few times I know it’s not a pretty picture when you have a system bug.

Good Insight, Thanks Leprechaun!