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So, the rumors were finally put to rest as next-generation financial site heavy, Seeking Alpha, announced today that they would begin paying contributors for their content. As an aggregator, Seeking Alpha relied upon a mutual understanding for years: in return for permission to host investment bloggers’ content, the financial site provided more eyeballs and visibility [...]
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Don’t forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter here In my book Tradestream, I wrote a whole chapter on what I defined as co-lateral research — those sources of information that are decidedly non-financial that investors can use to help bubble up new investment ideas or drill down further on an existing investment thesis. [...]
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Kudos to the Google Finance team. While Google Finance’s first lead, Katie Stanton is off galavanting somewhere within the Obama administration (go Katie!), Google Finance hasn’t missed a step. While I may be criticized as a G Finance pump monkey, I’ve always enjoyed their simple platform. For looking up quotes, monitoring the portfolio and simple [...]
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Is the elusive “Bloomberg for the masses” attainable? Of course, most do-it-yourself investors cannot afford the cost of thousands of dollars per month for these expensive terminals. But, what about making a platform free for subscribers and monetizing the platform via advertising? That’s exactly what SkyGrid is attempting. Until recently, SkyGrid charged $6000 per seat/year [...]
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Very interesting article yesterday at the Wall Street Journal. Entitled, “Stock-Research Reform to Die“, the article describes what’s happened in the wake of Eliot Spitzer’s landmark settlement against Wall Street brokers in 2003. According to the WSJ, this settlement was part of a wider Wall Street wrist-slap against ingrained culture that issued “overly optimistic stock [...]
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I’m not particularly a fan of these Mainstream Media (MSM) overviews of Internet tools. I find, more often than not, that they’re typically short on analysis and don’t help investors really navigate what’s really out there, why these tools are important, and how investors are successfully using them. This short video piece (2:45) ran late [...]
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On the heels of just a horrendous market and game-changing moves by the U.S. Government to appropriate invest salvage prop up large financial institutions, investors are left holding the bag. Equity prices are being driven as much by the outcome of government intervention as it is by long-term views of cash flow. The rules of [...]
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