The ETF business is a fantastic and juicy bubble. The momentum has only just begun. In the spirit of momentum and eggregious fees and leverage, I have decided to milk my Twitter stream to market a family of ‘Social Leverage’ ETF’s Customers can choose from my : LOL etf – Booze, Drugs, Tobacco and Military …

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StockTwits is pleased to announce that we are a content partner with Yahoo! Finance and that our microblog messages will be featured prominently on the Market Pulse pages across the universe of US equites and ETF’s to be seen by millions of Yahoo Finance users across the globe.  Today, Yahoo! Finance launches a new and …

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Squeezing 200 countries and 200 years into FOUR minutes is an incredible task. You must watch this video to see it get done in a most interesting and exciting way. The mind races. There is all this talk about data. Data is so valuable, but data can be dangerous. It depends who is interpreting it …

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I have blogged before about my approach that I have developed to investing. On illiquid angel investments I want/need to be as cheap as possible.  It means despite my improving flow of deals, I say NO more than ever.  I have learned to embrace the NO and am getting better at it.  When I knew …

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It is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to our friend and CME Group Macher Allan Schoenberg as he makes his way across the pond to London to head up European and Asian expansion for the Merc. There is no better way for us to send Allan off than to mock him mercilessly …

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I can’t understand how slow companies have been to adapt to Apple’s ( $AAPL ) continued domination of retail. Yes Nike ( $NKE ) has great retail, but not exactly places I can access easily and that’s a brand I could associate with all day with my lifestyle. Starbucks is ok and Whole Foods is …

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There is a gold rush. The private investing world wants internet ‘treasures’. There is a second gold rush…in GOLD. The poor man’s real Gold is now Gold?! TechCrunch is reporting that Kleiner Perkins is chasing Twitter down for a $4 billion valuation. That’s some platinum tweet credits. Meanwhile Gold the metal is getting no respect …

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Few of us are thinking of the next TEN years. It’s hard not to get excited and short term distracted with Twitter, Groupon and Facebook adding billions in value as private companies in just a few years. They did this amidst a financial collapse and repapering. All I need/want are healthy kids, a cure for …

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I was reading another great Gregor Macdonald post over the weekend entitled ‘Poverty Soars in California.’ I live on an island, by a navy base so I don’t see the poverty that Gregor talks about, but I see it in the California local news every day. The market has been rising, but it feels like …

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Take a look at the monthly charts of: $BIDU $NFLX $PCLN $CMG $FFIV $CRM $AAPL (long) $AMZN (long) I have been long all but $BIDU at some point in their massive monthly runs. The Stockstwits stream is a ‘pulse’ so the pulse is ticking bullish at the moment. It will tick bearish deep into a …

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