Many in the financial world dismiss Stocktwits as a message board. Thank goodness. Gives us some breathing room to build. Yesterday a friend sent me an email pointing out how relatively large the StockTwits community has gotten. He compared the number of messages about $AAPL to both Motley Fool and Yahoo Message Boards. Here’s what …
From: December 2009
Overheard on StockTwits: What Will the $FED Do?
Each day we dig into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning goodness. Here’s what we found today: It appears that Ben Bernanke won Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”. The StockTwits stream was hilarious as usual. I especially like @jfahmy’s tweet. $GS’s Abby Joseph Cohen was on CNBC this morning and, like clockwork, …
Russia Lost the Cold War, but is Winning The Social Networking War
Mother of god. Vodka…Shmodka! Anyway you look at it, Zynga $zynga is history making stuff. It’s a moonshot. So glad I passed on this based on valuation (seriously, I suck balls). It makes sense that you should be able to buy REAL machine guns while playing Mob Wars on Facebook with fake money made during …
Overheard On StockTwits: $BBY and an Economic Shmorgasboard
Each day we dive into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning goodness. Here’s what we found today: Best Buy ($BBY) reported earnings this morning. The market didn’t like it as there were concerns about margins. The StockTwits stream did a fantastic job dissecting the news: @abnormalreturns is running a holiday book giveaway. Make …
Addicted To Connection?
I am. Last Thursday morning, I was trapped in a small elevator for about 3 hours. It was my building in Soho so I was somewhat comfortable. I buzzed the emergency button a few times, but that only irritated the comers and goers to the building. Their daily lives went on without their elevator. They …
The Payback Party… and The Stock Market 'IS' The Game
The payback party has caught most people off guard. Tonight, even Citibank $c has joined the party . I have run a hedge fund since 1998 so NOTHING surprises me anymore. I have long titled this rally/upside crash ‘The Inconceivable Rally .’ It was fun calling for the end of the world and it was …
Howie's Venture CASH Fund
Earlier in the year I believed that someone would soon start a Venture Capital Fund to back high schoolers. It should happen and will. I now have a great idea for a new Venture Capital Fund….The Venture Cash’ Bernacke’ Fund….our tagline ‘Fourty Percent Returns are EASY, try ONE Percent!’ Venture is back. My friend Jon …
Stocktwits Streams – Getting Creative with Filtering and Discovery ($twentyten and $exchtalk)
One goal of Stocktwits is to have the deepest and most detailed suggested lists around markets/finance and we are tweaking them every day. Today, with the help of CME Group we are getting serious about two new streams 1. $exchtalk – This a “Twitterview” program that has been going on for a while on Twitter …
A Tribute to Traders, Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
We have all kinds of Hallmark holidays in America but no tribute to Traders, Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors. In fact, as usual, the government has it very wrong these days. They want to make it tougher for accredited investors to invest. Fred explains it in his post . There is a trader tax that is …
Headlines…The New Bubble
There is a bubble in headlines. Headlines are the newest commodity. It’s not anyone’s fault. It is technology at work and our hunger for speed and thirst for knowledge. Tipping Points, Bubbles, New Media, Old Media, Web 2.0….on and on an on. The only thing you can count on in the world today is noise …