The stream was abuzz with Consumer Confidence numbers, $AAPL iPhone rumors, and an underlying caution amongst some more sophisticated traders.  Here’s the morning buzz:

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I was emailed recently by David Segal of The New York Times because he stumbled upon Stocktwits.com in his research for today’s New York Times piece on Day Traders 2.0 – ‘Wired, Angry and Loving it . David got the wired part correct. In the spirit of ‘all press is good press’, we spoke a …

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As the market chasing has come back in vogue and ‘return envy ’ is back, I wanted to take a few minutes to salute my mistakes and misses. There are some doozies. I have major ‘return envy’ these days. In 2008, things were easy. I was out of the market and having a big hedge …

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Lot’s of reforming going on. There is the big healthcare reform.  If I asked 1000 people what it was going to mean, there would be no good answers. I don’t believe Stocktwits health care bills will magically stop rising 34 percent (it just did) with this great health reform. Instread, I am factoring in 40 …

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CNNMoney.com has launched redesigned ticker pages with a number of new and excellent features including a real time stock conversation widget powered by StockTwits.  So, while researching the individual stocks users are most interested in, they can now scan what StockTwits community members are tweeting and charting as the market happens.  This is very cool! We are …

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We are all sick of our bankers and politicians. For zero percent interest the only thing that brings me joy from banking is just calling my new weekly bank and yelling about a wire transfer that I never made …and than hanging up. It’s the little things that help me through my day. Lately, I …

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As a co-founder and CEO of Stocktwits, and angel investor in so many web deals, I spend a lot of time thinking about web advertising. Is it worth doing it?  What’s the time sink?  How do I measure it?  how do I sell it? Who should we sell it to? Where do I buy it? …

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Can you be too transparent? I don’t think so, but I never went to Harvard or had $1 billion to manage around an algorithm. Google $goog can’t be transparent with their algorithms and had to pull out of China because of it (maybe). I have been thinking about one of my rants on the financial …

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It is a fun day for us at Stocktwits.com . We have been working really hard for 6 months thinking through the features and design that would make people that love talking about stocks in real-time go WOW. We are receiving some great feedback. This tweet made my year from someone I have not ever …

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It’s party time on Wall Street. YOUR problem is that Wall Streeters just booked their sweet gains in the form of bonuses and you are chasing momentum. The market is thick with breakouts and the price momentum is beautiful. There is no reason for 99 percent of investors to fight the tape. BUT, you don’t …

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