Attention fellow Canadians: You have until the end of the day tomorrow December 15 to enter this awesome contest. Go! StockTwits is pleased to introduce our Canadian members to The Ring The Opening Bell With Questrade Contest from our sponsor Questrade. The Grand Prize Winner will appear on stage at the NASDAQ Market Site in Times …

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The top 4 financial news stories we are bored to death with : 1. Fiscal Cliff 2. Is it ‘Boner or ‘Bayner’ (Boehner) 3. Twitter is at war with Instagram (this war will just lead to layoffs, not actual deathy fyi…) 4. Apple selloff While YOU worry and read old media, Mexico ($EWW) breaks to …

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Growing up in Toronto, hockey was of course the thing. Our biggest worry as kids was finding a goalie for ball hockey or if we had rented the ice late night for a pick-up game, finding TWO goalies. Only a special type of nutcase wants to be a goalie. I was an odd kid, but …

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Fun show today with Ivan and I delving deeply into the Stocktwits50 list of the week and how we use it. I also delve into how a new idea of mine $ADBE gets fleshed out, bought and managed. It is not on the list but seems interesting to me. I also take apart the Felix …

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In October we held ‘Stocktoberfest’ a conference on ‘Investing for Profit and Joy. There were sessions on Momentum, Bonds, Technical Analysis, Banking and Lending and even Startups. There was no talk of Mary Schapiro, Penny Stocks, the SEC or Finra. We could spend months talking about the four subjects and it would all be a …

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Back in September we built a way for StockTwits members to add sentiment when they post a message.  We knew it would help give off interesting information. When Apple was in the midst of it’s 8 week meltdown recently, at Stocktwits, we saw a huge relative drop in sentiment for $AAPL on StockTwits before the correction: …

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I can’t prove Obama is day trading $AAPL, but in the 10 trading days since Obama was reelected Apple has moved more than 30 percent. I am pretty sure Steve Jobs has not died again or been reborn in that span of time. In the end, no real charts were broken, Thanksgiving was huge (always …

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I am witnessing a turning point in my son Max’s life. He is taking hard to the game of golf. For thirteen years I have thought about him liking, maybe loving the game. I have wrestled with how hard to push, teach, get teachers, force practice, play etc…but in the end, just a growth spurt, …

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From my years of investing across asset classes I know that everything is connected. Today we are armed with data sources that did not exist before which helps guys like me invest in a more informed way, if not better. Yesterday, while staying at The Encore Hotel, another Steve Wynn $WYNN Masterpiece, I holed myself …

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Enough about Apple for a while. If you were nervous (I was), today was your day to lighten up. Sell the whole thing. Get short. I know it was wrong to sell into the panic last week because I have been the guy panicking. Today though is another story. Today, even Elon Musk, says Google …

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