I am in beautiful Hong Kong at the moment for the RenRen ($RENN) CEO conference after a great few days in Amsterdam where I was a keynote for the FintechStage show (proof below): I put together a lot of charts for my keynote, but it is these three that have me thinking the most about …
From: May 2016
John McAfee for President? ….The Mysterious Man and The MGT Ticker
In 8 years of watching and writing on and curating the stream I have seen it all. Than of course something happens that blows it all away. In 2007, when I dreamed up Stocktwits, I believed all the best, weirdest and most creative public company CEO’s would use Twitter. We started Stocktwits as a place …
The Death of Retail is The BIRTH of Retail
Amazon started killing retail in 1999. This weekend they announced private label brands from food to diapers. Makes sense to me. No matter what Amazon does, they will never kill all of retail. In fact, they are only helping with a the speed of reimagining. For sure, Amazon is running on all cylinders. Especially the …
GoPro… Any Lessons?
GoPro is in the 9’s today after hitting an all- time low in the 8’s just yesterday. Here is a chart: The stock hit $100 in 2014 so congrats to any shortsellers. If you look closely….. The trickiest and nastiest part of the GoPro riches to rags stock story was in August 2015 when analysts …
Google Is Bigger than Apple Today
All that’s left is for Amazon to pass them both …
Millennials Like to Trade…Not Just Chat…an Update and Stocktwits and Robinhood Integration
In November of last year, StockTwits announced that it had partnered with Robinhood to bring true social trading to the largest investing and trading community. The integration enables StockTwits members to connect their Robinhood accounts, trade commision-free from their watchlist with one swipe, and easily share the trade with their followers. It is available in …
The ‘Sloppy And Untucked’ Market Top of 2016
I really do want to try one of these shirts but I will wait until the buttons offer wifi!
The Double Secret Tech ‘Bubble’ Indicator
In the spirit of sharing my investing secrets…Every time you see the following two indicators appear in May technology stocks crash at some point in your lifetime … And
Apple …What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Apple stock is back below $100 and down $200 billion in market cap from the highs. I am reminded of this favorite Monty Python scene: Apple has given us the iPhone and in the NINE years of it’s existence the iPhone part of Apple has done $500 BILLION in sales and $250 BLLION in gross …
The ‘Feed’ has Never Been More Important
NY Mag has a report out saying that the feed is dying: Yes, is you follow entertainment or any news other than sports and finance, the reverse -chronological feed is not only dying but was a bad distraction. In my world, the financial markets, the real-time feed has always been everything. Anything that happened one …