I am off to Toronto and Montreal this week for my yearly ‘Le Tour’ trip with high school and college buddies. It’s the 8th year that a group of 40 of us get together to pull hamstrings and complain about our backs. Have not been in the blogging mode so have decided to go back …
From: March 2009
Foreign Tickers on Stocktwits…NOW!
We now have support for these exchanges: FSE (london), LSE (Germany), TSE (Toronto), NYSE, AMEX, NDQ, INDEX, CME, FX The way it works is you can add the symbol as usual $SYMBOL, for foreign exchanges you can do the same but we will default to US stocks if there is a duplicate symbol. IF you …
Selling.
I am heading on the road for a few weeks and I have had a good run with my longs since my beach call a few weeks ago so it’s time to kick out most of my stocks. I am even selling most of my Amazon. I will be happy to pay up for my …
StockTwits Launches New Blog and Subscription Model
It’s not just about 140 characters at Stocktwits or ANYWHERE on the web. I believe that great short form writers can make great long form writers and people don’t just want headlines and ideas and links in the financial world, love them as they do, but some meat and potatoes to go along with the …
Donald Trump discusses my Book – 'The Wallstrip Edge'
Donald The YUTZ Trump called in to discuss my book.
Twitter Following SPAM…An explanation
I am in some insanely dumb argument with TradingGoddess over what constitutes Twitter Spam. Here is what I believe to be TRUE: If you are pursuing a following scam where you quickly FOLLOW people in order to get them to follow you back…you are a spammer. See Jason Calacanis and Trading Goddess. I don’t give …
Obama Moves ALL IN….Should You?
NO. I am terribly confused, but based on all the news, politics and price action, I would be a liar if I could tell you I knew what was coming next. When confused like this, I sell stocks and get light. I did nail the rally with my beach call from the Bahamas a few …
Cupcakes at Twitter…Dinner With WordPress…No Excuses Not to Start a Web Business
It is pretty negative out there and I really want to get outside the negativity that even I have been doling out over the last few months. Yesterday was Twitter’s third birthday. In the next year, WordPress (the publishing platform I use for this blog) will turn 5 and their founder Matt Mullenwag, will turn …
Amazon Will Buy Twitter…
There is a fantastic article, about a year late, about how the Kindle will change the world over at Slate . It’s a fun read, especially if Amazon is your favorite stock. There are many reasons why I knew The Kindle would be loved way back when and I wrote about it often. You will …
If I Was CEO of AOL…
Tim ‘GooglyGoo’ Armstrong is now CEO of AOL. The internets are becoming like the banking business…inbred to impunity. I hear great things about Tim, but my letter to employees would have been a tad different than his. Here is Timmy’s: From: Tim Armstrong To: US Employees; Intl Employees Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:24:54 AM …