The bull market is in hyperdrive and I adore it. It’s been quite lovely to drink with this particular bull. Today, I will showcase the bullish glory with this stat for small cap stocks: $IWM officially up 13 of 14 days for the first time in history. — Ryan Detrick (@RyanDetrick) Feb. 26 at 01:08 …
From: February 2014
Robinhood.com – Silicon Valley is the New Wall Street – Part 2
As a part TWO of my post yesterday take a look at Robinhood.com. Here is a great sit down with one of the founders yesterday: I met Baiju and Vlad (founders of Robinhood) through AngelList (I am an investor) and was ready to invest after a quick meeting in San Francisco (Social Leverage did invest, …
Silicon Valley is The New Wall Street…and Andreesen Horowitz (a16z)
I have not met Ben Horowitz or Marc Andreesen of A16z, but they are not kidding around. It is just one of the many new reasons that Wall Street is moving West. Make sure you watch this interview with Ben Horowitz (finish the post first): I would not bet against these guys and their deep, …
Investing and The Triumph of Optimism…And What’s Next?
February has been a good one for US Markets. The January ‘dip’ was bought. The cherry was last week’s mind expanding, valuation myth busting Facebook acquisition of Whatsapp for $19 billion. Hoohah! The shortsellers are talking to themselves and bumping into walls. They point to silly valuations, margin debt levels, poor Government policy, The Ukraine, …
Microsoft…Yep I Own It
I bought some more Microsoft this morning. I did not buy it for the yield, though 3 percent is a nice plus if it takes a year or two to see some of the gains I expect. I think Satya, the new CEO, might be moving up within $MSFT at the right time. I liked …
Stocktwits Standing Ovations …Kimble Charting and Michael Bigger…Coffee and Plug Power…and The Stocktwits ‘Cashtag’ Awards
I continue to learn so much about investing and trading from the Stocktwits streams and community. I love doing shoutouts, but sometimes, they are not enough. Some ideas deserve ‘standing ovations’ and I want to hand out a few. Michael Bigger is a great investor. I have watched him on the streams for 5 years. …
New Feature – Stocktwits Message Embeds
We have made it much easier to grab a chart and ‘cashtag’ message from Stocktwits to share where you like on the web. We partnered with another portfolio company called Embedly and all you do is click the embed button next to any message on Stocktwits and copy. Here is one I just grabbed. With …
Cable and TV are Dead…Give or Take $1 Trillion… and Price is All That Matters
Tonight Comcast bid for Time Warner Cable. A measly $45 billion. If the deal gets approved, Comcast will be the ‘pipe’ into 35 million or so of America’s 115 million households. My son celebrated by watching more Netflix. I am not sure if Comcast has seen the 1155 posts on Business Insider (since 2009) reporting …
Zuckerberg and the Dead ‘Fracker’ …. Everything You Need to Know about Bitcoins…and Momentum Monday
CNN has a new list to make you feel smaller than ever. Turns out that Mark Zuckerberg is the biggest giver in the country. He beat out the dead FRACKER – Mr. George Mitchell! I would really be impressed if Zuckerberg beats out the Fracker dude in organs donated. More importantly in the world of …
Living and Investing Low Frequency in a High Frequency World…and ‘Big Enough to Frontrun’
We live in a ‘high frequency’, ‘big data’ world. The media has globbed on to this. Here is the latest ‘CHEATING’ article (from The Atlantic) about Wall Street, Hedge Funds and our banks. It’s most likely 100 percent true. The banks are in on this. They were ‘Too Big To Fail’ in 2008 and the …