A story in the WSJ this morning alludes to a possible merger of Yahoo and AOL.
In recent days, AOL’s advisers have been presenting different scenarios to AOL officials that illustrate how the two companies could combine their operations and whether the complexity of any such transaction could be surmounted, the people [...]
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Awesome hedge fund and piggyback investing blogger, MarketFolly, just launched a subscription newsletter, Hedge Fund Wisdom (HFW).
A take-off of his great blog, Jay at MarketFolly has produced a quarterly newsletter [...]
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In my book Tradestream, I wrote a whole chapter on what I defined as co-lateral research — those sources of information that are decidedly non-financial that investors can use to help bubble up new investment ideas or drill down further on an existing investment thesis.
Some of [...]
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One chapter of my new book, Tradestream your Way to Profits, was devoted entirely to the subject of expert investing networks.
These communities of investors come in 3 different flavors:
investing marketplaces: these are typically open communities where individuals and professional investors [...]
From David Jackson, Seeking Alpha’s founder and CEO:
After eight months in development, I’m thrilled to officially launch Seeking Alpha’s Investing Applications today and tell you a bit about why we launched them. Investing Apps are professional-grade tools to research stocks, and manage, track and analyze your investments. These apps are [...]
In my book, Tradestream, I describe how I’ve changed my investing strategy as I’ve matured as an investor. My stint as a hedge fund manager taught me to think differently than the crowd.
But still, I continued to think that I was somehow smarter than the market. Somehow, I was cured of the biases that affect [...]
Yahoo Finance, still the 800 lb gorilla in online finance, has a new video aggregation site here.
Now following similar moves in data and news and opinion (see providers here), Yahoo Finance has begun selectively aggregating financial video. This makes Yahoo Finance, in spite of all its shortcomings, just all the more valuable in the research [...]
An interesting new study on influence in the social web was published by the Smart Data Collective and analyzed by RWW.
What’s interesting here is that the study drills down to identify the most influential phrases in social media posts and even the best windows to post during the day for maximum exposure.
From Farnam Street:
Also, [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
