by Zack Miller on September 12, 2010
(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 was [...]
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 [...]
2009 saw crowdsourcing — as a movement — making big strides in practice and PR in a variety of different fields. For investors looking to purely crowdsource stock ideas, Piqqem has been on the forefront of helping investors tap the wisdom of the crowds. Having users rate stocks on a variety of different factors — [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about collaborative research techniques, strategy, structure, etc. over the past couple of weeks. I’ve written about Wikinvest’s wiki structure previously and generally like what they’re up to. But look a little further, and there’s been little written, discussed, analyzed about the future of collaborative research when so much has been [...]
by Zack Miller on January 12, 2009
It appears as if Smith Barney is preparing to leave the Citigroup umbrella and join Morgan Stanley as troubled Citigroup looks to unload assets and raise capital. Over 9 million investment accounts and over $1 trillion in assets look ready to join Morgan’s extensive brokerage operations. As more and more consolidation occurs in the investment [...]
by Zack Miller on December 4, 2008
We’ve spent time exploring expert investing communities on the site recently. Activity in these communities contribute to certain experts bubbling up to the top, thereby revealing and tracking those actions of a select few emergent experts. We now turn our attention to sort of the other side of the coin: crowd sourcing for stock picks. [...]
by Zack Miller on November 13, 2008
Just stumbled onto a Yahoo Media Innovation group project recently launched named Hot Stocks. Essentially, its an application that runds on either MySpace or Facebook. How it works Users vote their sentiment on stocks and can watch Yahoo Finance network videos. Once the social aspect is utilized by getting friends to sign up, Hot Stocks [...]
by Zack Miller on November 12, 2008
As first appeared in Dell’s launch of the first-ever crowdsourced whitepaper: This may not sounds politically correct but much of what we’ve experienced in this era of portable workers is while it’s great to talk about productivity and satisfaction from the employee’s point of view, much of the ROI for the business comes from lowering [...]
