Tag Archives: tradestream

What if WordPress gets into the financial content game

It’s not a far-fetched idea.  The Nieman Journalism Lab is reporting the juggernaut content management platform’s first foray into curated content, FoodPress.
Powering over 15m blogs with their hosted toolsets and headed by a new content czar, Wordpress could easily maneuver its vertical content activities into a curated investment site, pointing to numerous top investment bloggers [...]

Tradestream Radio now on iTunes

Following up on our first episode of Tradestream Radio published yesterday, you can now subscribe to us on iTunes here.
Check it out and keep the suggestions coming.  We aim to make this the best investing podcast out there.

Investing in Internet-enabled new markets

In Tradestreaming, the last chapter of the book deals with my views (and those of other experts) the future of investing.
One of the memes I hit upon is the formation of new tradeable markets.  We’ve seen older, offline markets made more accessible in the Web 2.0 era — online forex trading (FXCM) and peer to [...]

Is Drudge Report bigger than Facebook?

The Drudge Report announced today that it had passed more than 9 billion page views for 2010.  Yeah, 9 billion.
From the site:
OVER 9 BILLION SERVED! THIS MORNING DRUDGEREPORT PASSED 9 BILLION PAGE VIEWS IN YEAR… TOPPING 2009′S TOTAL OF 7.8 BILLION… 43 COUNTRIES EACH HIT PAGE OVER 1 MILLION TIMES…
While [...]

Turning down the noise and raising the profits: an interview with NFI’s Jeff Annello

I frequently get the chance to speak with some really inspiring entrepreneurs changing the face of investing through unique approaches to asset management and Internet distribution channels.  Jeff Annello is one of those people.  I know him as the author behind Noise Free Investing — which has morphed into a full-blown asset advisory.
Please see the [...]

Yahooaol Finance in the works?

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 [...]

Madcap finish to football (CFL)

I love football.  My parents always joke that they used to find me up late at night watching any football I could find on the TV — girls junior varsity flag football was not out of the question.  Anyway, got to love the differences in the CFL vs. NFL — the rouge is a big [...]

How to trade like an insider: Building an insider trading portfolio

Over on Tradestreaming, I just posted one of the strategies from my book.  Specifically, research points to an interesting, profitable anomaly in the trades made by corporate insiders.  Building a strategy by mimicking a subset of some of these moves has proven significantly outperform the markets.
Not all insider trades are created equal and investors need [...]

Forget the Kauffman Blogger Survey, here’s what they’re really saying

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For the fourth quarter in a row, the top economic bloggers polled by the Kaufmann Foundation have described and forecasted a deteriorating economic environment in the U.S.
Partial list of Kauffman economic bloggers
Some of the names surveyed by Kauffman included:
Robert [...]

Following hedge fund moves just got easier

This post originally appeared on Tradestreaming, our sister site that offers the best deals on financial products — up to 80%. Sign up here.
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 [...]