It’s back. Stocktoberfest, the annual interactive festival centered around investing for profit and joy, will be taking over the beautiful island of Coronado on October 27 and 28. The event is a must-attend for industry professionals who love to discuss stocks and markets all day long — aka YOU. This year’s show is themed around …

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$ADBE is really a Wall Street darling at the moment. Today, even their advertising is the best of Silicon Valley I no longer own the stock but caught a meaty move in 2013. For years it had sputtered. Back in 2006, when I thought of Adobe I thought of ‘flash’ and in the beginning era …

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As I move more time and assets over to understanding the $GRID (an etf I own as well), I have been mentored along by my friend Gregor MacDonald. Gregor has this ‘Tilt ‘ Theory about our move off liquid to alternatives and he lives and breathes in the data and research with an eye towards …

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I loved this Seinfeld bit: Solar Stocks are glowing, rising, insert pun here __________. The Stocktwits streams have been thumping the last few weeks in a bullish tone about them. Even I own one $SPWR for our model portfolio that I have been mentioning. Here is the sentiment over the last few months as they …

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The flight to crazy could be reaching warp speeds. What’s interesting about crazy when it comes to stock markets, is stocks have always climbed climb a ‘Wall of Worry’ not crazy, so it’s quite possible that ‘crazy’ can’t be priced into the $VIX. You follow? Don’t worry, these markets are confusing most, which means it …

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The Dow Jones’ Marketwatch site has rolled out the Stocktwits ‘trending ticker’ bar across their website. You can see it along the bottom of their pages. Here is what it looks like: What’s always been unique about Stocktwits is what Fred Wilson coined about us in 2008 ‘If you love stocks and you love talking …

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With every major this year I have set up a $20 Fantasy Draft with Draft Kings for 50 friends and the Stocktwits community (about 30 spots left). This year’s tournmanet is at Pinehurst where I have played. They beefed the course up to 7,600 yards…insanity – like the $VIX Here is what the screen for …

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It’s time to put this boon in some more context. I really like the way Charlie has framed it: The DiMaggio hit streak of markets was broken this week, 385 days above the 200-day set in '95-96. $SPX pic.twitter.com/3toHvV7apn — Charlie Bilello, CMT (@MktOutperform) June 6, 2014 For you volatility home gamers, the $VIX might …

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Full disclosure – I own some shares in Uber from way back at a six million valuation courtesy of an investment I made in a great angel investor’s first fund. Today, the super conservative and private Fidelity is out chasing down an $UBER (not a car in Manhattan during rush hour, but the company) in …

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This boom is really hard. Not because of lack of opportunity, but because it’s just everywhere I look. A few weeks back I sat with the legend Tom Keene as I always get to do when I visit NYC and Bloomberg of late. I dove into the idea that we have too many choices (more …

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