Tag Archives: new products

E*Trade further blurs lines between full-service and DIY investing

Full(er) Service and DIY Investing: Investor Fork in the Road There is no doubt we are witnessing a wholesale exodus of assets out of full-service brokers like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. These assets seem to be finding two very different types of homes: boutique investment advisory houses: Built by brokers/advisors who themselves have defected [...]

WSJ: Navigating online personal finance sites

I’m not particularly a fan of these Mainstream Media (MSM) overviews of Internet tools.  I find, more often than not, that they’re typically short on analysis and don’t help investors really navigate what’s really out there, why these tools are important, and how investors are successfully using them.
This short video piece (2:45) ran late last [...]

Twitter attracting new investment research products

Twitter certainly has gotten some great free press as of late, with Ashton Kutcher and Oprah all entering the fray.
All this excitement has not been lost on investors.  Traders have been using a service called StockTwits to trade breaking news, ideas, commentary and data on the broader stock market and individual stocks.  I like to [...]