Traffic Goes Kablooey!
Internet traffic has exploded, and I can only assume that its not the latest Maxim photos of Megan Fox.
At 6pm today, I had blown through 100k page views -- a first for the site -- with a few hours still left in the day. (8pm = 127,026).
And, its not just today's selloff: We broke 1 million page views (1,009,304), with half the month still to go. I've never been much over 1.6m in a month. Sitemeter tells me that as of the 15th, we've now equaled the totals of all of December 2007.
I assume other financial blogs have been similarly overrun.
Just wild stuff . . .
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Barry,
It is because these posts and people seem relatively intelligent. I don't get much information from reading,"First!"
Keep up the good (interesting) work.
Bruce in Tennessee
Posted by: Bruce | Sep 15, 2008 7:06:56 PM
John Mauldin's email tonight linked to you.
Posted by: PeterR | Sep 15, 2008 7:08:53 PM
I know that I linked to this site in my blog last night - I imagine many others did the same.
Posted by: mhigh | Sep 15, 2008 7:11:25 PM
I know that I linked to this site in my blog last night - I imagine many others did the same.
Posted by: mhigh | Sep 15, 2008 7:11:38 PM
PS re link
http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/john_mauldins_outside_the_box/archive/2008/09/15/the-fall-of-lehman-and-the-terrible-lessons-of-bear-stearns.aspx
Posted by: PeterR | Sep 15, 2008 7:13:53 PM
Congrats on the traffic. You've earned it.
Unrelated but not totally -- thinking about those Lehman guys who were packing up last night. Most probably did pretty well financially, but tonight they're watching the news and thinking about how the layoffs have hit home. Literally.
"Creative destruction" doesn't seem very creative when it's your pink slip. They've got kids to feed and educate, and no doubt plenty of bills to pay. Now their industry is shrinking and some will have a hard time making the turn.
I hope they land on their feet. For those who return to Wall Street perhaps some won't be quite so cavalier about the impacts of downsizing, outsourcing, and of course inept corporate management as they were in the past.
Posted by: DC | Sep 15, 2008 7:16:10 PM
Barry,
Does that mean that you're calling a (short-term) bottom in the markets?
Posted by: Ted | Sep 15, 2008 7:20:17 PM
Dr. Barry:
There is nothing finer than reading good Chart Porn and then linking to some good Soft Porn (Megan Fox). I was waiting to see if any of our sordid readers would try to Photoshop your distinguised mug on Ms. Fox's stupendous and sultry feminine frame.
Keep up the excellent coverage of the market. I think if you see a play for the stock, better yet, look at the play for the player's debt.
I think this market has played like the giant sea surge of Hurricane IKE. Hold on, it is going to be an incredible wild ride, much like Mr. Toad's in Disneyland!
Posted by: Matt Marino | Sep 15, 2008 7:21:22 PM
Barry, I know this is late and OT but I think you should change to TBP or BP. And let all those bastards cater to you. I appreciate the forum you provide here.
Last night proved what force your blog is when it comes to delivering financial news.
Very cool with you bringing it to the web live.
Posted by: mrkcbill | Sep 15, 2008 7:26:05 PM
Wasn't there a post not long ago about higher traffic and mkt bottoms or am I just hoping that happened???
Posted by: ben | Sep 15, 2008 7:31:13 PM
Booyah Barry! Bravo Barry or Bingo Barry?!
Whatever gets your mojo going...ask Ben to give us 50 BPS cut tomorrow and your trafic will inflate further...you can thank Ben!
Is the season to fall! Cheers!!
Posted by: Nihilism | Sep 15, 2008 7:32:17 PM
Wild Stuff for Wild Times.
Posted by: deboraski | Sep 15, 2008 7:32:36 PM
BR, great work. I don't think that it is a sign of capitulation though...too much hidden stuff still out there. And I hate this stuff, when the pundits say "nobody knows" some know they just are not telling. Asymetrical information at its best.
Posted by: JustinTheSkeptic | Sep 15, 2008 7:42:36 PM
So going by the Blogindicator, do we have yet another temporary swing low / bottom in?
We've got the same divergence as the last few times when page views surged, too...anyone else got anything to invent a bounce from?
Posted by: CottonPicker | Sep 15, 2008 7:50:56 PM
BR,
I'll spin it as: Even in a swirling sea of disinfo, you're a bright Beacon, a Torch, fueled by your Spirit of Inquiry, Illuminated by your Integrity.
I say so, even in flowery terms, because I find refreshing that such is, to this day, still valued.
That that is able to gain, ever-growing purchase is, to me, proof enough, that we can, still, repair our errors and rebuild our Republic.
Posted by: Mark E Hoffer | Sep 15, 2008 7:54:40 PM
It was cool hearing you on NPR today. That's probably where a lot of this traffic is coming from, they mentioned your URL once or twice.
Posted by: Rick | Sep 15, 2008 7:55:59 PM
Dear Barry Ritholtz, sir:
You are a great, great man. You fill me with page view envy. You are the only financial blogger that I follow. You have the courage of a lion, engaging competently in intellectual combat as the Token Bear on old man Kudlow's show with Luskin and the little Ewok neocon fellow. You are a national TV star, which probably means groupies and all that.
But sir, I have you beat in one respect. I doubt you have ever had any of the commenters on your blog report how many times he has pulled his pud to each CNBC female personality: http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.com/cnbc-babe-gallery/#comment-429
Adios muchachos! Keep up the good work, BR
Posted by: CNBC Sucks | Sep 15, 2008 8:02:35 PM
I think it might have been me, hitting refresh. Where do I send a check for the bandwidth? :)
Posted by: pmorrisonfl | Sep 15, 2008 8:21:03 PM
Megan's body posture looks rather pensive; perhaps she's a LEH shareholder?
Posted by: Chief Tomahawk | Sep 15, 2008 8:24:16 PM
BR, thanks for the update.
Feel better about planning to go long @ 2:14 for the crap shoot du jour.
BP traffic + QQQQ volume = lower risk entry point. whoo-hoo.
Posted by: woo-hoo | Sep 15, 2008 8:26:57 PM
Congrats on being able to handle the spike in traffic. It would have killed a lesser blog.
Posted by: toady | Sep 15, 2008 8:30:54 PM
I just wish I'd known about this blog before I bought all that pets.com.
Posted by: Roger Bigod | Sep 15, 2008 8:49:35 PM
How's this as a market indicator?
The curse of the Premier League Shirt Sponsor:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blog/fivelivebreakfast/2008/0/the_curse_of_the_shirt_sponsor.html
http://www.bondvigilantes.co.u/index.php?itemid=232
I guess in English soccer,
Newcastle was sponsored by Northern Rock
West Ham was sponsored by XL Holidays (which went kablooey last week)
Manchester United is sponsored by AIG.
Uh oh!
Hmmmmm... The league itself is sponsored by Barclays. Hope THAT doesn't happen
HCF
Posted by: HCF | Sep 15, 2008 9:04:51 PM
Wasnt Luskin drummed off TheStreet.com years ago? By Cramer of all people?
I always remember his call for a bottom in the Nasdaq the first time the Fed lowered rates in 2001. "they DO ring a bell" was his statement.
I think the nasdaq was at ~3000 that day.
Posted by: mac | Sep 15, 2008 9:07:47 PM
I love how Megan Fox is practicing her f***-me-now pout in a library.
Posted by: nemo | Sep 15, 2008 9:15:17 PM
