Choosing the Most Trustworthy Stock Market Monkey King by Level of Chart-Watching Addiction

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Ok guys, today is a slow day so we can do some DD.

I need to know who the top monkey is in here!

Who is the most addicted and therefore the most trustable source of stockmarket advice (in a second iteration we might calculate ROI over addiction, but let's not overwork our brains)?

Check your phones "wellbeing" stats and show me how often you open your portfolio and stockmarket apps a day!

Screentime for the apps as well, if you want to substitute low numbers 🙄

I'll start:
AVG. a day over the last 4 days (on holiday):

137 times a day

(counting broker and stockmarketnews apps, excluding Reddit, X, etc. which can't be 100% accounted to stonks)

Let's 👑 the 🐒🤴

Post Analysis Summary

Although this post is tagged as DD, it is not actually investment research on any specific U.S. stock, sector, or macro variable. Instead, it is an entertainment-style interaction post within the r/wallstreetbets community. The poster’s core premise is that, on a relatively quiet trading day, users can use their phone’s “Digital Wellbeing” or screen-time statistics to show how many times per day they open brokerage, portfolio, market-data, or stock-news apps, and then determine who is the most “addicted” user in the community, jokingly linking that level of addiction to being the “most trustworthy source of stock market advice.” The poster says that in the future it might be possible to further calculate “addiction-adjusted ROI,” but currently provides no actionable return figures, sample, trading records, backtesting method, or statistical methodology. The poster discloses their own benchmark data as follows: over the past 4 days, they opened the relevant apps an average of 137 times per day, with the scope including brokerage and stock-market news apps but excluding social apps such as Reddit and X that cannot be fully attributed to stock-related activity. Because there is no image attachment, the 137-times figure cannot be verified from a screenshot, nor can the phone system, app classification, statistical methodology, or possible duplicate counting be confirmed. The post’s implicit assumption is that people who check market prices or accounts more frequently may be more engaged, more knowledgeable about the market, or even more “trustworthy”; but from an investment research perspective, this is a very weak assumption, because viewing frequency represents neither information quality nor trading ability, risk control, long-term returns, after-tax performance, or drawdown management. On the contrary, excessive portfolio checking may often reflect emotional trading, sensitivity to short-term noise, or attention being hijacked by market volatility, and is not necessarily an advantage. The post does not involve any ticker, price target, valuation multiple, revenue or profit forecast, balance sheet, cash flow, options chain, institutional holdings, insider trading, regulatory catalyst, or company event, so there is no investment thesis in the traditional sense. The most important flaw is that it makes a joking association between a behavioral addiction metric and investment credibility, without establishing causality or any conclusion that can be verified by the market. If treated as a sample of community sentiment, at most it shows that some WSB users use trading apps very frequently and are willing to discuss chart-watching addiction in a self-deprecating way; but this cannot be used to infer any single-stock direction, sector preference, or tradable signal. Overall, this is more like a lightweight community interaction and meme-style “pseudo-DD” than a research post that can be used to judge stock value or market direction.

Discussion Summary

The comment sample is extremely small, with only one substantive reply. That commenter said they only check once per day after the market closes and believe there is no need to anxiously stare at the market. Because there is no further discussion, no community consensus or meaningful rebuttal can be formed; the existing comment instead provides a slight contrast to the poster’s joking premise that high-frequency checking represents greater engagement.

Fact Check
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The poster said that over the past 4 days, they opened brokerage and stock-market news apps an average of 137 times per day.
The post did not provide a phone screen-time screenshot or other verifiable evidence, and there is no image attachment, so the number cannot be independently confirmed as genuine, nor can the consistency of the statistical methodology be verified.
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The post implies that the more frequently someone checks investment apps, the more suitable they may be as a source of stock market advice.
This is a joke-style community assumption. The post provides no returns, drawdowns, trading records, or any statistical evidence to prove a positive correlation between app-opening frequency and the quality of investment advice.

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