If You Think Wall Street’s Panicking, Check Out Online Forum Wall Street Oasis

Spending too much time online in the age of coronavirus is a dangerous game. This is doubly true for those on internet hubs for finance folks.

随着更多的空闲时间，更少的监督，更多的焦虑，金融论坛在线，特别是那些主办在Wall Street Oasis在有关全球冠状病毒大流行如何影响从就业机会到对冲基金回报等所有方面的帖子一直在激烈争论。

The phenomenon is not unique to the finance industry. The纽约时报has called it “the unending anxiety ofcoronavirus content.” A senior writer at the World Economic Forum pondered whether, as an increasing number of people work from home, coronavirus could“break the internet.”

Two people behind largefinancial meme Instagram accounts报告说，过去几天交通量有所增加。”我的观点很尖锐，“据Instagram账户背后的女人说@wallstreetconfessions, who spoke with亚博赞助欧冠by phone under the condition of anonymity. “My engagement is spiking. People are sending more things to me.”

The man behind@litquidity同样,他要求匿名,增加that he has seen a rise in Instagram story traffic. “It’s because people are working from home,” he said by phone. “Their boss is not looking over their shoulder when they walk by. They can just pull up their phone during a conference call or when they have downtime.”

Even AQR Capital Management’s Cliff Asness is back online. He recently broke his Twitter hiatus, logging on to make爸爸开玩笑(“If they bail out comedians it’s the Lender of Last Retorts”) and to tweet a photo of himself with the hashtag#面部理发.

But, as posting increases, so too does the proliferation of misinformation.

One of the最受欢迎的帖子on Wall Street Oasis right now is dedicated to tracking changes to summer associate programs for banks and institutions based in New York City. (A spokesperson for Wall Street Oasis could not be reached.) Misinformation about these programs, particularlyJPMorgan’sinternship program, has been spreading like wildfire online. Posters will say that they – or their friend or family member – work at the firm and that internships and summer associate positions are being canceled.

摩根大通发言人通过电子邮件表示，实习和暑期助理职位目前正在如期进行。

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这就是大多数海报所报道的，他们各自公司的消息。尽管如此，焦虑情绪仍未平息，因为人们对被解雇的恐惧也在不断增加。”“我在提交我的网站上看到的是，人们害怕被解雇，”这位“华尔街忏悔”背后的女子说对于实习的担忧并不是很大，而是担心失业。”

Those with full-time job offers that have yet to begin have been posting on Wall Street Oasis that they are consideringcontingency planning以防这些提议被撤销。”有一张海报问道：“有没有硕士课程仍然接受申请？”。另一位提到旅行，尽管评论以实物回答了可能发生在哪里以及如何发生的问题。

“The primary concern is over job stability,” the man behind the Instagram account @litquidity said. “People want to know if they’re going to continue to get paid.”

To wit: an investment banker made a post on Wall Street Oasis wondering whether the market’s downturn will影响奖金. 响亮的回应？是的，很明显。

The forums focused on investing and returns have also been abuzz over the past week or so. But, like many others, misinformation spreads, and gets shut down, at a fast pace.一根柱子speculating on how hedge funds are doing included the caveat: “Weeks like we just had cause rumors and gossip to spread like wildfire, so stay sharp and skeptical.”

Indeed, one poster claimed that hedge fund firm Citadel’s returns were down 20 percent. But when fellow commenters asked for the source of the information, the poster stayed mum. The rumor was soon debunked, too, with aCNBC articlereporting that the fund was down for the month, but remained positive for the year.

华尔街绿洲，像其他任何论坛一样，有一些怪人。大多数都被归入网站的“非主题”区域，坦白地说，混乱占据了统治地位。该场地的这部分用于各种各样的帖子(“Haircuts During ‘Rona”) to likely troll-created content (“女孩叫护航是不是不对？”).

One recent poster took to the off-topic forum to ask forhealth adviceso delicate and personal that you could mistake them – an anonymous M&A intern – for a troll. Even still, commenters responded in earnest with health advice and concerns that the poster could have colon cancer. One poster expressed the obvious: “Why are you asking us? Ask a doctor.”

The forum, of course, is not all bad. One prolific poster — @thebrofessor —used the space to sharea lengthy message for his fellow commenters dealing with “the new normal.” He listed myriad ideas for improving physical and mental health and called for fellow forum members to treat one another with respect, humility, kindness, and perspective.

“We are staring down the barrel of the first recession since 2008, and potentially one as bad as or worse than that,” he wrote. “But let me ask you this: when have we, as a species, never come back?”