200K Registered Members!!!

[Sharky]

We've been counting down the days until we hit the 200K mark and I'm very pleased to announce that we just hit it!

:clap::clap::clap:

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who works hard behind the scenes to make the site possible, we'd have never got this far without you. Cheers guys!

 

[MrGecko]

Who was it? Socratease89?

 

[sharky1]

Who was it? Socratease89?

Sharky2 ?

 

[Lord Flasheart]

200,000 members. Thats great,it would be nice to know what number I am.
if my facts are correct about only 1 in 10 who join actually ever make a post and out of those only 1 in 10 become live traders and of those we are told only 1 in 20 ever make money at this game.

That means that anyone joining today has a 1/2000 chance of being a profitable trader.

 

[Lightning McQueen]

julian, if i have this right you are member number 8226

 

[Lord Flasheart]

thanks I didnt think I was that high up the pecking order,how do we tell> I cant see anything anywhere on site.

 

[counter_violent]

thanks I didnt think I was that high up the pecking order,how do we tell> I cant see anything anywhere on site.

LM has special powers

What I want to know is....who is number 666

 

[Mayfly]

Tenth birthday celebrations are coming up, maybe it's time to handout some gold watches to the lucky few?

 

[oiltanker]

careful. people might begin to ask how many are active members [ie made 1 post in the last 6 months], how many are multiple nics, when was the last clean out of dead emails, etc

better to say 2k active trading members than 200k have registered over x years?

at some point less [quantity] becomes more [quality] ?

won't it start to look silly if, over time, people start claiming 1 million registered members etc?

advertisers go by page clicks?

 

[Waterfield]

Actually advertisers on this site are more likely to pay through new accounts being registered and if you didn't clear your cookies, every trade you take will have an extra 0.4-1 pip added or 0.4-1 pip commissioned.

Sharky is making a lot of money through essentially being one massive introducing broker.

Here's a better, but not too accurate, estimate of daily usage

 

[oiltanker]

yes affiliate links gonna have more potential than advertising.

 

[Mr. Charts]

I haven't a clue how much Sharky makes from t2w and couldn't care less except to say having created one of the two biggest trading sites in the world and this one being the best of the lot, he deserves anything and everything he might be making.
And although the mods do things I personally disagree with sometimes, their efforts deserve appreciation as they have played a huge part in making t2w so good.
Well done 200k registered users !
Richard

 

[Lightning McQueen]

careful. people might begin to ask how many are active members [ie made 1 post in the last 6 months], how many are multiple nics, when was the last clean out of dead emails, etc

the active member part varies greatly from week to week, a lot of traffic is indeed new members, they sign up in droves every day. but you would be surprised how many pop in from past years and make up the visit number.

midweek where there were about 400+ individual member visits in a 24hr period, on other recent past occasions i recall 400+ members have been on all at once! it varies. there are sure plenty that stick with the site on a regular basis.

while i'm not privy to how the stats are compiled, the figure looks ok to me, i do believe that if all the multiples, banned spammers and all the general bad eggs that have been shown the door were indeed included, i suspect that the registered member figure would be close to 300k! that's how it is from how i can see it.

so that leaves me to congratulate t2w on this milestone :clap:

 

[Lightning McQueen]

LM has special powers

What I want to know is....who is number 666

well funnily enough the actual member with the mark 666, signed up and has never (yet!) returned, wasn't evil enough here obviously.

but i have found another!

the mark of the beast is 12621

you'll never guess, shocking it is

 

[Black Swan]

the active member part varies greatly from week to week, a lot of traffic is indeed new members, they sign up in droves every day. but you would be surprised how many pop in from past years and make up the visit number.

midweek where there were about 400+ individual member visits in a 24hr period, on other recent past occasions i recall 400+ members have been on all at once! it varies. there are sure plenty that stick with the site on a regular basis.

while i'm not privy to how the stats are compiled, the figure looks ok to me, i do believe that if all the multiples, banned spammers and all the general bad eggs that have been shown the door were indeed included, i suspect that the registered member figure would be close to 300k! that's how it is from how i can see it.

so that leaves me to congratulate t2w on this milestone :clap:

The real value for site owner/s is in the niche database of e-mail addys etc...a real goldmine in the right hands, easily a £1mil+ sales tag for the site as an entity, even in this climate. Looking at these stats I wonder how many of us are active/involved users of the site? I reckon I only spot about 200 regulars on my T2W travels...unless the other 5,500 have me on ignore...which wouldn't surprise me...

Currently Active Users: 715 (178 members and 537 guests)

Most users ever online was 5,571, May 22, 2007 at 7:35am.

 

[mb325]

well funnily enough the actual member with the mark 666, signed up and has never (yet!) returned, wasn't evil enough here obviously.

but i have found another!

the mark of the beast is 12621

you'll never guess, shocking it is

Spanish or Wasp?

 

[Waterfield]

The real value for site owner/s is in the niche database of e-mail addys etc...a real goldmine in the right hands, easily a £1mil+ sales tag for the site as an entity, even in this climate.

Quite, but I'm going to hazard a guess that commission churning is better for sharky.

Capital Spreads said last year the average account opens with £2000. I think they also said it takes around 6 months for the amateur trader to lose this money.

Furthermore most of these adverts have bounce rates of around 3-6%, with probably 50% of those who click signing up for a demo account and 50% of those people, if they're first timers, signing up after the sales call arrives.

So according to LMQ there is / was 300,000 members. I'm going to raise that amount to 400,000 for guests over the last few years but also for the one off visitor from another forum.

3-6% of people = 16,000 visits
50% of those = 8,000 sign ups
95% of those = 7,600 accounts blow
7,600 generates average revenue of £15,200,000
6 months to blow up account = 35-40 trading days = probably 100-200 trades = £400 commission per estimate.

£400 x 7,600 = £3,040,000

400 people churning commissions who didn't blow up. Etc

- Server fees and staff.

All hypothetical and even if you half these figures or distort them. For example I actually expect the hit rate of adverts to be quite high but the sign ups to be quite low. The figures are still pretty nice.

Just a bit of gental daydreaming.

 

[arabianights]

Anyone who thinks Sharky makes £3 million from t2w needs their head examining!

But if he did, he'd deserve it. Imagine if we were all on city bulls

 

[Black Swan]

Quite, but I'm going to hazard a guess that commission churning is better for sharky.

Capital Spreads said last year the average account opens with £2000. I think they also said it takes around 6 months for the amateur trader to lose this money.

Furthermore most of these adverts have bounce rates of around 3-6%, with probably 50% of those who click signing up for a demo account and 50% of those people, if they're first timers, signing up after the sales call arrives.

So according to LMQ there is / was 300,000 members. I'm going to raise that amount to 400,000 for guests over the last few years but also for the one off visitor from another forum.

3-6% of people = 16,000 visits
50% of those = 8,000 sign ups
95% of those = 7,600 accounts blow
7,600 generates average revenue of £15,200,000
6 months to blow up account = 35-40 trading days = probably 100-200 trades = £400 commission per estimate.

£400 x 7,600 = £3,040,000

400 people churning commissions who didn't blow up. Etc

- Server fees and staff.

All hypothetical and even if you half these figures or distort them. For example I actually expect the hit rate of adverts to be quite high but the sign ups to be quite low. The figures are still pretty nice.

Just a bit of gental daydreaming.

Yep, the income streams just don't come from the database, the on-going commissions from the SB firms are lucrative; 1% per clients' T/O and up to £100 per account opening. However, I'd suggest T2W has generated approx. 3,000 account openings over the years...closer to 600K total income...Adverts generate iro £100K+ per year...

Sharky the boy's done well, probably (well definitely)..a lot better than most of us trading for a living...smart...:smart: I'll bet that amount of cash goes a long way on his cosmetic surgery in Rio...

 

[counter_violent]

Spanish or Wasp?

No...the biggest beast of them all...shocking ! quite shocking !!