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= Stock | = Stock Symbols = | ||
News services, financial sites, blogs are various other websites all refer to stocks on a regular basis. Some mentions are part of a news story while others give advice and review the stock or the company. | |||
== The Problem == | == The Problem == | ||
Formulate an unambiguous, machine parseable, representation that can be used when stocks are mentioned. This should work with hReview as it's just marking up the recommended example a bit more to make it easier for tools. (Also see # 9 in [http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview-faq hReview FAQ]) | |||
== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
* John Panzer | * John Panzer | ||
* Sujata Ramchandran | * Sujata Ramchandran | ||
== Real-World Examples == | == Real-World Examples == | ||
* From Yahoo! stocks | |||
Shares of Tractor Supply (TSCO:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) | |||
* From Motley Fool | |||
I made my top pick Quality Systems (Nasdaq: QSII) | |||
*From a stock pick blog. | |||
Today's pick is Time Warner. | |||
*From a spam email | |||
Golden Apple Oil and Gas, Inc. (GAPJ) | |||
- | THIS ST OCK IS EXTREMELY UNDERVALUED! | ||
GAPJ - is our NEXT HOT P ICK, which we feel is most undervalued | |||
stock we have ever featured and should out perform all other picks. | |||
== Existing Practices == | == Existing Practices == | ||
Revision as of 18:42, 2 May 2006
Stock Symbols
News services, financial sites, blogs are various other websites all refer to stocks on a regular basis. Some mentions are part of a news story while others give advice and review the stock or the company.
The Problem
Formulate an unambiguous, machine parseable, representation that can be used when stocks are mentioned. This should work with hReview as it's just marking up the recommended example a bit more to make it easier for tools. (Also see # 9 in hReview FAQ)
Participants
- John Panzer
- Sujata Ramchandran
Real-World Examples
- From Yahoo! stocks
Shares of Tractor Supply (TSCO:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take)
- From Motley Fool
I made my top pick Quality Systems (Nasdaq: QSII)
- From a stock pick blog.
Today's pick is Time Warner.
- From a spam email
Golden Apple Oil and Gas, Inc. (GAPJ) THIS ST OCK IS EXTREMELY UNDERVALUED! GAPJ - is our NEXT HOT P ICK, which we feel is most undervalued stock we have ever featured and should out perform all other picks.
Existing Practices
- Summary of common patterns discovered
- Other attempts to solve The Problem
Proposal
- Early drafts
- Link to related pages as they become available
- -brainstorming
- - proposal
- -microformat
See Also
- Other microformats
- Normative references for tags used