RECENT EMPIRE

ALERT: My Share Price is Dropping and It's On Purpose !!!

2010-06-27T06:45:00.000-07:00

I'm proud to say my share price took a little dip today (-0.631). And Yes! It's not linkbait it really is on purpose. It dropped because of my little activity yesterday (and probably today). If you've been here a while you must already know Empire Avenue is pretty much a massive timesuck. Bit Time! I get so lost working it I'm already afraid I might miss out on my daughter's sweet 16th birthday party... And I don't even have a daughter yet!

So I promised myself to (against all urges) check up on Empire Avenue and Twitter and Facebook and Reader and all of that only a little itsy bitsy tiny bit this weekend. Knowing that my price would drop. But wait - don't sell everything you've got in me just yet -

Let me explain, I've tried to recover some of the time that used to belong to me before ea came into my life, so I can work on my site, a lot. There's a set of new features that I'm fleshing out and I want to have them ready by Monday to show off at Empire Avenue's Communiteam meetup. Dups said there would be lots of hacking! And I want them to have my app on their radar. So I'm not crazy, so hold your horses, don't sell me out and wait till I push this thing live - This site, my stock and everything else is going to catch on fire! Empire Avenue is never going to be the same again. PROMISE.

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,

Empowering your Empire

Fallen off a Cliff? Come Back Stronger.

2010-06-25T15:04:00.000-07:00

At around this time last Friday I disconnected from Empire Avenue to go on a long weekend getaway (The best ever). While I packed I knew my share price was gonna get hit hard. Real Hard. -5.73 points Hard. Then came Monday and after absolutely no online activity for 3 days I started working to stop the landslide s.

I tell you, it is not easy. Empire Avenue's inertia is of enormous strength, once your stock starts going south it only picks up speed and your overnight drop is only going to get larger until every last penny is ripped clean off from your (almost) rotting corpse - Yep, that's how it felt.

Once I regained activity and started engaging everyone and pointing them to the new content on my site, tweeting my fingers off, following, buying, thanking, southing, direct messaging, and everything else I could think of I managed to slow down the speed of descent. But to no avail: It still dropped, I made such a huge effort and got such little reward I almost tossed in the towel.

But I wasn't about to abandon all my plans just yet. I kept at it and got back on the up ramp. I must say I put in much more effort to get my share to start growing again than I did to get it to where it was at last week.

Five days later and I'm finally back where I left off. Or am I? Actually I am not. Sure my share price might be almost the exact same figure, but my network kept growing even as my share price kept falling.

I suddenly realized: they might sell your shares, but unless you really deserve it, they won't unfollow you from twitter or empireavenue.com. They will not unfriend you from facebook, or remove your feed from their reader. No, no one did any of that. The connections you make on Empire Avenue are not as fragile as your share price. When I reached for them, they were still there, reading me. I think Therein lies the real wealth of Empire Avenue: True connections. I could quit Empire Avenue right now (but I won't) and I'd still maintain my reach.

Had any similar experience? Found Empire Avenue has enriched your live beyond the game? Think I'm over reacting? Felt like no one loved you? Please, shout out on the comments below.

Ohh, and Empire Avenue is definitely more than just a game!

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,

Empowering your Empire

Top Newborns Twitter List!

2010-06-23T14:40:00.000-07:00

How are you all doing? hope you're good - and better after reading this :)
I started a twitter list #empireavenewborns where i'll periodically list those that occupy the Top 10 newborn ranks at any random moment. Followin this list should help you peek into the newborns and see which is really active on twitter - Grade A research tool just for you! ;)

Enjoy #empireavenewborns !

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,
Empowering your Empire.

How 3 hours can turn into 11

2010-06-22T17:44:00.001-07:00

Yeah... I was supposed to release some features about 8 hours ago. Then fiber went down everywhere - even cell towers were cut off. It's been a nightmare, yet here I am. And I bring gifts... So now you'll notice a link atop of the Recent Riser Rankings that reads Sign in or register - upon clicking on it it will take you to a Google accounts sing in page, and afterwards it will give you the option to see how many shares you own on each share that shows on the rankings spreadsheet.

This is a very simple function, but it's the underlying gem that really gets me all excited. User account integration will allow Recent Empire to deliver you personalized solutions tailored to fit your needs! It's a brave new world out there on Empire Avenue. To test it out head on to http://2.latest.recentempire.appspot.com it's really very primitive - so do so with that in mind. Let me hear any about quirks, blips or blops you find! Thanks!

More features coming in about 3 hours.

2010-06-22T08:54:00.000-07:00

So, I'm about to start showing you the first real glimpse of the grander vision I have for Recent Empire.

A little teaser: Rankings are about to get a LOT more personal...

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,
Growing by helping each Recent Arrival at a time.

New Features are Live !!!

2010-06-21T12:36:00.000-07:00

They're finally here! New Features for you to maximize your investments!

So I went away for this weekend (in every aspect) but not without telling of new features that would come. I hope you are of those who hung around without selling my shares (at least not all of them ) But whether you sold them or not I won't judge, I'm still giving you 2 brand new features of a whole suite I've got planned for the not too distant future.

You can find the new additions on tabs beneath the title (They are all automagically generated for your convenience):

First one's Recent Riser Rankings: Here you'll find the top 20 Recent Arrivals leaderboard reconfigured to show you who's who among the pack, it's not the same being No. 8 after a week than getting to No. 9 on your second day ;). This is pretty much the same as the spreadsheet I was building manually, only now you won't depend on me being timely to get you RRR fix!

Second is the Newborn Rankings: Kids grow up so fast these days! Haven't you noticed all of a sudden you see someone on ea's home tab recent arrivals list with a +2 +3 or even +4 gain in share price? wish you could have ridden that wave? wonder how many more shares like that have dropped of the list, growing exponentially and not on the recent arrivals board yet? Well I've got the solution you need! These rankings are generated on the fly everytime you load the page and there's 40 newborns listed !!! So you still have time to make your investments and gain some hot new followers before they're in full bloom.

I gave some of my loyal shareholders a head start on those fresh shares. And if you get some NRMM you'll also be able to get in on the early action on my future features.

Thanks to those who stood behind me with strong investments while my shares took a dive. Namely CINDYG, ADRIEL, CRAW, ELIAV, KT1018, BINKU, LOA, PETLEY, REIGN and RZR.

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,
Growing by helping each Recent Arrival at a time.

Upcoming new features!!!

2010-06-18T07:52:00.000-07:00

Hello strong traders ! (by now I hope to have helped you build a stronger portfolIo) I have some great news for you all - Recent Empire is going to get a lot more recent. I'll be making plenty of changes to the blog looking to improve the readiness as well as the number of spreadsheets that Recent Empire is going to make available in an up to the minute type of way ;-)
The only downside is that I will not be able to post the Daily Risers again until monday - just hold on a couple of days and I promise to make it worth your while.
So until next monday, Trade strong !!!

Daily Riser Rankings for Recent Arrivals (People) - June 17th 2010

2010-06-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

Hello all !! back with the Daily Riser Ranking for June 17th! A little late with this post, since I had some connectivity problems this morning ! Was diying to share today's standings with you all because it's one heck of a change, all around the board. Great opportunities indeed.

Seems New Arrivals are picking up on the game very very fast since our top 5 for the day are completely new to the board !!! Growth margins are larger and larger. If this keeps up we're bound to see a 10+ growth in one of these recent arrivals, just keep your eyes peeled.

With that said, on with today's chart.

1st place goes to LVIDS with a mind bogglin' +6.30 ! I mean , OMG!

2nd place is WENDYB doin a scorching +5.83, get your mittens before touching this one :)

3rd place is CARLAT I must say this one did NOT take me by suprise. I gave a great tip on her when she was at 11 something and she grew about 4.4 points more since, so i got some great dividends on her this morning ! Go ahead, check out my shout outs, it's there ;)

If you want tips like the one I gave on CARLAT be sure to get some of my shares (NRMM) and hit me up with a direct message so I know to send you some tips ahead of the pack.*

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,
Growing by helping each Recent Arrival at a time.

* PS. I really don't mind shameless self promotion ;)

Daily Riser Rankings for Recent Arrivals (People) - June 16th 2010

2010-06-16T07:02:00.000-07:00

Another day, another Daily Riser Ranking. Only this time around we've got even greater changes than yesterday, a lot of the movement is due to big gains on the newbie scene. MASHA just came in all guns a-blazin' to 1st place and took me by surprise. If i had known this i would've invester more than i did yesterday - I still am going to invest though, and hopefully she will link up a twitter or blog account soon.

Other than that CINDYG is still way up high on 2nd place twittering, trading, unlocking achievements and all the what not! Still think she's a good bet.

GTS is delivering as promised at 3rd place pushing all the right buttons and climbing up fast. Take a piece of that action. Pronto!

I'm also listing the rest of the top 10 here hyperlink stile, so its even easier for you to make that investment ;)
4.NADIA 5.JORGE 6.ELIAV 7.RZR 8.KT1018 9.KEE 10.NIVS

Daily Riser Rankings for Recent Arrivals (People) - June 15th 2010

2010-06-15T07:15:00.000-07:00

First off let me tell I've got some brand spanking new features for the Daily Riser Rankings. As I was compiling the rankings I realized this tools is going to be far more usefull for myself than i tought at first: as it turns out, seeing just a week of leaders is missing out on a lot of very valuable share movements!

And now, on with the show! Today's top three are:
1. CINDYG Impressively again at #1 for two days in a row, averaging a staggering +4.13 increease DAILY (your eaves are safe with her)
2. GTS Who smashed into #2 with brutal strenght! I mean, talk about an entrance!
3. NADIA See? now that's what I call dependability: a player that's sure to stick around the leaderboards at eampireavenue long after she's dropped from the Recent Arrivals.

Ohhh and I don't know how you feel about "shameless self promotion" but i really don't mind: Guess who is a newcomer to the leaderboard? you very own NRMM! I woke up this morning to a whopping +3.416 daily change making my way into #16 in the Recent Arrivals Leaderboard and #5 in the Daily Change Leaderboard. Go on! get some of my shares, I've got huge plans for empire avenue.

A very curious discovery: CRAW, LOA and AVILA made my top 10 yet they've been dropped from the Recent Arrivals Leaderboard due to age (being on Empire Avenue for more than a week) I'm trying to decide how long i'll maintain shares that have been dropped from the list because of age. Maybe with a criteria based on share value, a fixed number of days or retiring to a special board? I'd like it if YOU helped me decide down in the comments or on EA.

Location, location, location !

2010-06-14T20:03:00.000-07:00

Places: That's where everyone is going. Now twitter is going to launch "Places" with Foursquare Integration. Read up here: mashable & twitter and follow @geo on twitter so you are first up when the feature debuts.

A little off topic, I know - I just had to share this.

Recent Empire,
Growing by helping each Recent Arrival at a tim

Daily Riser Rankings for Recent Arrivals (People)

2010-06-14T11:24:00.000-07:00

EA's Recent Arrivals lists those stocks which are less than a week old (Correct me if i'm wrong) and are sorted by there current share price. Little else is told about how they've earned a standing that list.

I must say I admire all the people who reach the leader board. Yet the most attractive stock isn't always the one placed furthest up.

The shares I consider to be the most attractive are those that initially rise faster than the rest.

June 14th's Ranking for People is pictured below. You can see that the fastest gainers are CINDYG, NADIA and RZR with changes of +3.90, +3.35 and +2.29 respectivly. Take CINDYG, for instance, it's placed at No. 18 out of 20 on the Recent Arrivals Leaderboard, yet is is clearly the fastest rising share of the pack.

Recent Arrivals Riser Rankings for June 14

Among other planned goodies, next posts will include Riser Rankings for Recent Arrival sites as well.

Good Luck, Trade Strong!

Recent Empire,
Growing by helping each Recent Arrival at a time.

Recent Empire.

2010-06-14T09:46:00.001-07:00

The basic plan:
Helping out the new at Empire Avenue start off right provides me exposure through them, and provides them of a faster track towards their dominion plans.

So that's my pretty simple truth, i thought i would share it so you know what i'm all about. That way i trust that you trust me since my motives are very clearly stated.

Go ahead and use my tips! Meet me in the market and you'll get more personal and fruitfull tips!

Recent Empire,
Growing by helping each Recent Arrival at a time.

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