Join us this coming Monday May 9th @ 4pm ET for a free online discussion on the “5 Myths About Cloning Hedge Funds”. We’ve been following hedge fund replication strategies (what I call piggybacking) since the early days of this blog and back to 2009 on NewRules. It’s not only a topic I like to [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Stock market
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Also tagged alphaclone, best ideas, cloning, events, hedge fund, industry news, invest, new rules, replication, tradestream, webinar
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February 27, 2011 – 10:00 am
In this week’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio, we interview Stephen Weiss, author of the newish book, Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors. You can also find a full transcript of the show here. Weiss had a long-spanning career on Wall Street (Oppenheimer, Salomon, Lehman) where he covered [...]
October 26, 2010 – 4:35 am
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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 [...]
September 20, 2010 – 6:46 am
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 [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged analytics, broker, crowd sourcing, expert communities, financial content, industry news, interview, invest, kalengo, long tail, new rules, portfolio, tradestream
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September 12, 2010 – 4:58 am
(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 [...]
Just penned some thoughts about the recent news that Yahoo Finance is getting into blogging and curation over at my book’s website (migrating much of my writing over there — head over and sign up!).
Money quote:
This is a risky strategy. In essence, the financial portal is pitting itself opposite all its content partners — [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged aggregation, crowsourcing, curation, financial content, forbes, investing, long tail, new rules, seeking alpha, tradestream, yahoo finance
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===>>> IMPORTANT NOTE: please check out Tradestreaming.com — the site for my new book (launching soon). Please sign up via email and/or RSS to stay plugged in to this conversation. I’m going to begin migrating my blogging activities to that site as time unfurls (or furls, means the same). [...]
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 [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Also tagged crowd sourcing, crowdsourcing, etf, financial advisors, fund flow, industry news, investing, investment, investment newsletter, investment site, mutual fund, new rules, tradestream, trading, trimtabs
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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 [...]
