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Reuters Insider: good for financial content but not sure about investors

VOD for investors
Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners.  It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text.
Trader You Tube?  [...]

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 [...]

Validea gets validated in Barron’s

Nice write up of Validea in Barron’s (sub. required).  The magazine profiled the Screening 2.0 service that tracks picks that would satisfy the investment criteria of some of history’s best investors.
Also mentioned was the firm’s recent launch of its pro service which issues trade alerts for high-conviction stocks.
On March 15, Validea launched a new pro [...]

Liking the Stock Twits refresh

Stock Twits rolled out a refresh of their website yesterday with some nice new functionality for users.
One thing that really jumps out at me is that there are even more ways to filter the tradestream: in addition to filtering for authors and stocks, users can slice and dice the stream according to asset classes and [...]

Covestor pimps out search functionality

The investment arm of leading investment community, Covestor (see my coverage of the firm), just pimped out its search functionality.
With the new changes, it’s easier to drill down on managed portfolios by strategy, return, and risk metrics.  From the search results, investors can lean more about individual portfolios or allocate capital to them, via a [...]

The anti-Galleon model: 4 good resources to insider trade — legally

Picking up on recent theme showcasing 6 top resources for following top hedge fund managers (piggyback investing) and the web’s best stock screens, I’d like to spend a little ink on bubbling up the best resources to track insider moves.
Research (much good work has been written about in Investor Intelligence from Insider Trading by finance [...]

Read the fine print, investors: Some mutual fund fees higher than thought

We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap.
As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced:

new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.)
made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies)
provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual Funds that price [...]

Investors and Google Buzz: a threat to StockTwits?

With much fanfare yesterday (they even arranged a blizzard for much of the U.S.), Google announced its social media offering, Google Buzz (see video below).
What is Google Buzz
So, what is Buzz?  I like Matthew Ingram’s description on GigaOm of the Google Buzz service:
Google’s new service looks and feels a lot like many other social media [...]

Investors and Google Buzz: a threat to StockTwits?

With much fanfare yesterday (they even arranged a blizzard for much of the U.S.), Google announced its social media offering, Google Buzz (see video below).
What is Google Buzz
So, what is Buzz?  I like Matthew Ingram’s description on GigaOm of the Google Buzz service:
Google’s new service looks and feels a lot like many other social media [...]

The Web’s Best Stock Screens: Looking for the next winning investment

Stock screens allow investors to sort through lots of different stocks in search for only the ones that fit certain criteria.  Investors looking for the next stock pick for their portfolios can use basic screening tools, available at both Yahoo! Finance and Google Finance. MSN recently retired its highly-regarded stock screening tools, leaving what’s freely [...]