What is this?

Every market day, two stocks get bought:

• The Mob is whichever ticker the crowd voted for the most - through the website, Twitch chat, or Discord chat.
• The Monkey is a ticker chosen at random from a curated pool of liquid US equities.

Both sides get the same dollar amount on the same day. We never sell. Over time, the two portfolios diverge based purely on the performance of the picks.

Can the crowd beat a dartboard? That's the whole question.

The internet is full of people with very strong opinions about which stock you should buy tomorrow. Some of those opinions are paid for, some are vibes, some are spreadsheets. None of them are tested against the dumbest possible alternative: closing your eyes and pointing.

So this site puts the two head-to-head, in public, on real timeframes, with real-ish money - and just watches what happens. No picks to sell. No newsletter. No affiliate funnel. Just the score.

• Not investment advice. Don't buy stocks because the Mob or the Monkey did.
• Not a managed fund. Site visitors don't own any shares. Only the head monkey's personal Alpaca account does.
• Not a service you pay for. Voting is free and always will be. There's an optional supporter tier (Mob Member or Mob Boss) on Buy Me a Coffee to help cover hosting, but supporters get the same vote everyone gets.
• Not a serious trading strategy. Buying stocks at random is a famously bad idea. So is buying based on internet consensus. We're literally testing how bad both ideas are at the same time.

For business inquiries, partnerships, press, or just to say hi - email MonkeyBiz@mobvsmonkey.lol.

Replies come from a real human (the head monkey himself), so give it a day or two.