Freshmeat and Slashdot were the sites then to predict stock prices; by the news that appeared, you could simply know the stocks would go up; anything with ‘Linu

Freshmeat and Slashdot were the sites then to predict stock prices; by the news that appeared, you could simply know the stocks would go up; anything with ‘Linux’ made companies skyrocket or crash. I was in NL so I got up, read the news, placed my orders based on the news, which was simply filtering the word Linux and see which companies were positively or negatively named, and that was it. I remember that VA and Borland/Inprise were just one big party. It was just printing money. This was why I cannot just hold stocks like investors say I should; trading made me a lot then as I was 100% it was going to crash. I am sure of this now again. But now I don’t have slashdot to predict both the up and down movements like clockwork.