Tag Archives: crowd sourcing

MarketPysch: Profiting from investor psychology and the Internet (podcast)

On Tradestreaming Radio, we’re interviewing lots of innovative entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers all trying to make investors better at what they do.  Check out our archives.  Subscribe on iTunes. From this perch, it seems like investors are witnessing a Renaissance of tools, data, and research that overlays investor psychology on 24/7 streaming content of the Internet. The [...]

Do Motley Fool’s live CEO chats mark a new era for IR?

THE online social media revolution of the last 5+ years has touched nearly every facet of society with one glaring exception: open and direct online conversation between public company executives and equity investors remains minimal. But as 2010 comes to a close, change is afoot. Public company executives are taking aggressive steps to improve and [...]

Kalengo: Investing with collective intelligence from the cloud

Lots of interesting stuff going on in financial services.  I recently had the opportunity to chat (email, really) with Carol Yuyi Zhou, Director of Marketing for Kalengo.  Kalengo is really a hybrid of a lot of what’s interesting in today’s online investing environment: social, analytics, financial content curation, cross-platform, etc. It’s kind of a cross-breed [...]

Crowdsourcing vs. Piggybacking: An ongoing debate

(this post originally appeared on Tradestreaming)
Just returned from a mini-tour for Tradestreaming which ended with an editorial of mine appearing on CNNMoney.
CNN’s editors thought the tension between investing alongside guru investors (what I call, piggybacking) and following the crowd (which devalues individual expertise) was worth exploring (in 800 words or less).  It [...]

Telegraph invites readers to quiz Unilever CFO (and his PR firm)

THE Telegraph, one of the UK’s largest newspapers, invited its readers to put questions to Unilever (NYSE:UN) Chief Financial Officer Jean-Marc Huet on the day the global consumer products company announced its half-year results last week. Readers could post their questions on a page set aside on Telegraph.co.uk.  Huet committed to answer the questions in [...]

Value-added aggregation? Wikinvest’s Portfolio put to the test

Wikinvest: What it is and where it’s going
Don’t get me wrong. I really like the guys at Wikinvest. I’ve written a lot about how well their crowdsourced information and annotatable charts kicks the pants off of more static resources. I’ve also contended that the way Wikinvest deals with investment data is better [...]

Crowdsourcing investments: it’s all about chosing the ‘right crowd’

We’ve spoken a lot about piggyback investing (mimicking the moves of top fund managers) and crowdsourcing ideas (using crowd sentiment to generate trading ideas) as two ‘new ways’ investors can devise profitable strategies.  The Internet is producing tons of information – the tradestream – that investors can plug into to get at this type of [...]

Crowdsourcing stocks, Piqqem adds missing link for investors

2009 saw crowdsourcing — as a movement — making big strides in practice and PR in a variety of different fields.  For investors looking to purely crowdsource stock ideas, Piqqem has been on the forefront of helping investors tap the wisdom of the crowds.
Having users rate stocks on a variety of different factors — much [...]

Interview with John Schroy, thought leader in collaborative investment research (Part 2)

This is the second part of a two part series where I interview John Schroy, author of Capital Flow Analysis and the founder of Capital Markets Wiki. From the takeaways from our discussions, it’s clear John has put a lot of thought and analysis into thinking about collaborative, crowdsourced investment research.  Just wanted to start [...]

Interview with John Schroy, thought leader in collaborative investment research (Part 1)

I’ve been thinking a lot about collaborative research techniques, strategy, structure, etc. over the past couple of weeks.  I’ve written about Wikinvest’s wiki structure previously and generally like what they’re up to.
But look a little further, and there’s been little written, discussed, analyzed about the future of collaborative research when so much has been written [...]