Guest Post by StockTwits Executive Editor, Phil Pearlman. Its been wild watching Arena Pharmaceuticals ($ARNA) over the past 5 months as both the $ARNA stream on StockTwits and the price of the stock have exploded. Social momentum as measured by message volume has increased by over 5000% on StockTwits over 4+ months while the price of …
From: June 2012
The Stock Market in 2012 – Hackers and Chasers
Mark Cuban has long been worried about the state of the stock market. We talked a lot about it in this interview a while back (the second video from the top). It’s not just HFT that should have people worried. There have been some gynormous scams by the big banks (a Rolling Stone must read) …
The New Stocktwits Web….Reimagining The Markets
For the last six months the Stocktwits product and engineering team have been working on better ways for people to experience Stocktwits. A few weeks ago we started testing out the new site and we were thrilled that Richard MacManus gave it a test drive (we did not know). He wrote that we were reimagining …
Federal Express Uses StockTwits on the Earnings Call and Social IR Continues to Evolve
When we launched The StockTwits Investor Relations Suite, we knew we were ahead of the curve. Social media is a new medium for corporate communications and, while it has the potential to improve information sharing and interaction immensely, these things take time. The suite offers a real time communications and infomration exchange platform enabling public companies …
Facebook and Mood Over Math on CNBC
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Bucket List – Being the Smartest Dad and Facebook
I am in Boulder at the Big Data conference and I had the most amazing text experience with my 14 year old daughter, Rachel. Rachel has her very own Fidelity account and owns a few stocks at the moment which I talk about ocassionally. Most recently, she texted me from class a few weeks ago …
The ‘Ultra’ Fund…The Financial ‘Rick Roll’
I am excited for the New ‘Ultra Gyros’ Greek Fund and the ‘Ultra Beuno’ Italian ETF coming out from ProFunds. Their tagline is – ‘We go to ZERO – FASTER!’ If you have invested since 2008, you have tried on an ‘ULTRA’ ETF from ProFunds. You have crashed. You know the dirty secret of these …
Stocktwits Data – Social Momentum and Price Momentum in Arena Pharmaceuticals
There is a ton of interesting ‘real-time’ data we have begun to share in the Stocktwits ‘Signals’ section of the website. We are not so bold as to declare any one data point or set as a causal relationships, but we are going to start to highlight some interesting cases. I have been writing lately …
Momentum Monday…Owning what you Hate…Are Verizon and AT&T the New Tobacco Stocks?
If given a choice, most Americans would sue their telephone (woops wireless) carrier ahead of a tobacco company. In general it’s a three horse race in the hate department: 1. Wireless Provider 2. Tobacco 3. Airlines Facebook ($FB) will be fourth one day I imagine. Today, only one of these three is an investment atrocity …
Price Trumps Mood, Math and Greece
It’s fun to watch people handicap Greece. The country has been broken for a thousand years. This weekend was asking people on Coronado Beach what would happen today because of Greece. To be generous, I would call 99 percent of the responses blank stares. My world I guess is flooded in Greek Discussion ($GREK). The …