Markets around the world are breaking out to major highs: The FTSE in London The DAX in Germany The S&P in the USA The Nikkei in Japan The Nasdaq has closed higher for 11 straight days. The last time that happened was 1992. Those years ahead were good my friends: ChOTD-2/25/15 #2) Nasdaq Composite 9 …
From: February 2015
If The Stock Market had The Oscar’s…I Would Like to Thank the Bull Market and the God of Fear and Greed….
I have long wanted to have an ESPY’s for Financial Markets. If you want to help with this project, please get in touch with me. If I had to give two Academy Awards for ‘bad acting’ in a the the markets in 2014 they would go the bankers (Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) who brought …
The State of The Markets in 2015….The Bears Have Been Lucky and The Public Ripped Off Again
My friend Niv put together this excellent post ‘When Exponential Progress Becomes Reality‘ it is worth a full read. For my market brain this is the most important part: Human perception is linear, technological progress is exponential. Our brains are hardwired to have linear expectations because that has always been the case. Technology today progresses …
Stockwits and The (Mobile) Investor of the Future
A few days ago Stocktwits released it’s first native iOS app. Here it is please download it and try it. Justin Paterno and Eric Alford led the charge on this and our new head of Product Dave Pinke pushed it over the goal line. Here is the blog post that outlines all the features that …
The State of The Markets – FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and FOHB (Fear of Holding the Bag)…
The US markets are all back at all-time highs. I am happy because it feels really good and even right. In a market like this I remain underinvested but am being dragged into positions by the positive price action. Here’s what I see: Apple is being rewarded from profits and execution (I have been selling …
Public Stock Bragging Rights…Paging Dharmesh Shah
The CEO (Dharmesh Shah) of newly public Hubspot $HUBS commented on Twitter the other day that public shareholders did not come with bragging rights. Here is the exchange: @DanielleMorrill That's my sales pitch to future angel investors: "There are no bragging rights from investing in public stock" — Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) February 12, 2015 Dharmesh …
ApplePie Capital – Franchise Financing Made Simple
I am really excited about the opportunity in Franchise financing. Franchising is a huge part of the American economy with $8.5 million people employed in the industry. Last year we invested in ApplePie Capital and the team led by Denise Thomas has been building the platform and the partnerships to launch. Our trusted banks don’t …
Apple passes $700 Billion –Fluke… And…The Death of Distance and The End of Time
First of all …Golf Clap for the REAL ‘big’ Apple. Apple is the first Company to pass $700 billion. To put that in perspective: Apple can buy one Yahoo every 3 minutes. — howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) January 27, 2015 I kid the Yahoo. Here is a chart of the Apple stock price: In 2003 you could …
The Death of Banks…and Wells Fargo Can’t Prove They are a Bank.
Banks are dying. Not fast enough, but life is not a box of chocolates. Your children will never walk inside of a bank http://t.co/Bwm7yKMoqC pic.twitter.com/uv3QkhQVm0 — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) February 8, 2015 It is true in my family. Rachel (17) and Max (15) have never stepped in a bank. I bank with the following: Morgan …
Twitter and Google Finally Search Friends….and Trolling with Hate and Threats
In good timing for today’s earnings call, Twitter has finally agreed to let Google index the ‘tweets’ again. As for Twitter and Google…bravo. This is the single best way for people to discover Twitter going forward other than slapping a big open search bar on logged out users (which they should do already). I never …