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Cake Financial sells and bows out to E*Trade

by on January 17, 2010

Cake Financial made analyzing stock portfolios fun and enriching.  I’ve written about the startup on a variety of occasions (see here and here) and generally liked how Cake approached their business.  By providing login information to trading accounts, Cake users received enhanced performance metrics and idea generation for current and future investments. Cake had downsized [...]

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Walt Mossberg eats Cake (and sorta likes it)

by on August 20, 2009

Walt Mossberg is out today with a review of a new service being launched by Cake Financial, called Cake Premium. I’ve written about Cake previously here and am generally impressed with all they are doing.  As opposed to expert communities like Covestor or kaching which try to make you a better investor by aping others, [...]

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Top 11 Investing 2.0 Thought Leaders

by Zack Miller on February 2, 2009

There are many new faces on the scene in online finance.  As we move away from mere trading platforms and portals to more social media-like applications, we’ve taken a stab to enumerate some of the top thinkers/movers/entrepreneurs in the space to keep tabs on. I used a variety of slippery factors like vision and influence [...]

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Cake Financial's end of year investor metrics

by Zack Miller on January 8, 2009

Cake Financial (read our coverage here) is out this morning with their end of year, 2008 overview of investor metrics within the Cake community.  Read the release for the full picture but a couple of salient takeaways I see here: Strong move to cash: While other industry publications get their statistics from fund managers, Cake, [...]

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Financial planning with Cake

by Zack Miller on November 19, 2008

Cake Financial, a leading Investing 2.0 site which I’ve detailed here, is at it again with launch of new functionality.  Cake plugs into your brokerage account and tracks trades and performance data and then in turn, overlays performance and risk data on top (something they have spent a lot of time refining) and then shares [...]

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Cake launches some nifty functionality

by Zack Miller on September 4, 2008

Cake Financial launches some nifty functionality today.  According to Cake, “Cake Financial is an investing website that provides actionable investment ideas based on the historical returns of the Cake Community.  Cake offers a complete view of total holdings across multiple brokerage accounts and measures aggregate investing performance as far back as 10 years. Investors compare [...]

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