Tag Archives: tradestream

Will Merrill Lynch’s new online brokerage offering make a difference?

This post originally appeared on my new site all about investing in the age of social media, Tradestreaming.  If you haven’t checked it out, you should.  Sign up for the free newsletter as well.
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There’s been a lot of speculation about what or what not Merrill Lynch (now owned by Bank of United States of America) [...]

What is Tradestreaming?

I was getting a lot of inquiries from readers/subscribers who’ve asked me to summarize my new book, Tradestreaming – what it is, how it’s a natural evolution of all the investment trends that didn’t work in hindsight, how it helps investors make better, more informed, decisions.  Essentially, Tradestreaming is the implementation of the New Rules [...]

5 investment industry trends behind launch of new IPOs

This post originally appeared on my new site all about investing in the age of social media, Tradestreaming.  If you haven’t checked it out, you should.  Sign up for the free newsletter as well.
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I like high-level ideas, especially ones that look at industry trends.  One of the best sources of these ideas for investors [...]

Mint.com takes bold step into financial planning

This post originally appeared on Tradestreaming.com, the site for my new book and where I will be posting primarily about consumer financial.  New Rules will begin to take more of a financial industry bent to it.
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So, top-dog personal finance website, Mint.com, just announced a further step into financial planning with some goals-based tools [...]

Chart.ly’s new beta screencasting tool enables analysts to up their games

Free ebook: Tradestreaming and the Future of Investing

This post appeared yesterday on new book’s website, Tradestreaming.  For those of you who saw it, please excuse this posting.  But for those of you who didn’t hear, my new book, Tradestream your Way to Profits: Building a Killer Portfolio in the Age of Social Media officially launched yesterday.
Free ebook: Tradestreaming and the Future of [...]

Yahoo Finance getting into blogging game, like Forbes but different

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 — [...]

Advisor numbers dwindling at large firms, growing outside

Interesting article at SmartMoney entitled, As Market Grew Volatile, Advisors Disappeared.
Tough times for financial advisors at banks and large brokerage houses.
There were 369,928 retail financial advisors at the end of the first quarter of 2010, down from 434,479 the same period last year, a decline of about 15%, according to the Financial Research [...]

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 [...]

Murdoch, Good Content, and Pricing

Rupert Murdoch on Fox News post D8 presentation. He’s pushing the Wall Street Journal as a mainstream paper/product and is pretty blunt about turning off non-payers of premium content.
He also claims that he expects similar subscription numbers that the WSJ.com enjoys on the iPad (1MM+).
Check out the video below.
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