by Zack Miller on May 9, 2011
Join us this coming Monday May 9th @ 4pm ET for a free online discussion on the “5 Myths About Cloning Hedge Funds”. We’ve been following hedge fund replication strategies (what I call piggybacking) since the early days of this blog and back to 2009 on NewRules. It’s not only a topic I like to [...]
by Zack Miller on May 3, 2011
I’ve always looked up to Ken Fisher. Fisher has written a few essential investment books. He’s appears regularly on financial TV and investment mags. He’s also a billionaire (which helps the panache). But more than that, I’m impressed by how he grew his firm using cutting-edge marketing techniques. One of the largest investment advisors in [...]
by Zack Miller on April 8, 2011
On Tradestreaming Radio, we’re interviewing lots of innovative entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers all trying to make investors better at what they do. Check out our archives. Subscribe on iTunes. From this perch, it seems like investors are witnessing a Renaissance of tools, data, and research that overlays investor psychology on 24/7 streaming content of the Internet. The [...]
by Zack Miller on March 29, 2011
Must like the cliche, writing a book is a labor of love. Tradestream took me about a year from start to finish. And it’s true: Very few people make real money penning their investment ideas. But that doesn’t mean writing an investment book is a losing endeavor. Here’s 10 reasons why you should write a [...]
by Zack Miller on March 13, 2011
I’ve been writing about the financial content bull market from the early days on this blog through the publication of Tradestream last summer . Aggregation sites like Seeking Alpha (of which I was an early employee) are still ramping their content and even finding ways to remunerate their contributors. With AOL scaling back resources in [...]
by Zack Miller on March 8, 2011
Participation media is providing a fertile testing ground for financial services firms to test customer service, new forms of branding, and the building of communities. Corporate Insight, which recently released the report To “Friend” is the Trend: Social Media and Financial Services, has been analyzing the changes, struggles and opportunities facing the financial industry. Here’s [...]
by Zack Miller on February 27, 2011
In this week’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio, we interview Stephen Weiss, author of the newish book, Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors. You can also find a full transcript of the show here. Weiss had a long-spanning career on Wall Street (Oppenheimer, Salomon, Lehman) where he covered [...]
by Zack Miller on January 28, 2011
In this week’s podcast, we interview Mick Weinstein, head of content at Covestor, a new investment platform that allows investors to shop for investment advisor like shopping for Pez on eBay. Mick was previously editor-in-chief at Seeking Alpha. Podcast Powered By Podbean I’ve discussed Covestor and its do-it-yourself model at length both in my book, [...]
by Zack Miller on January 9, 2011
Post-2010 and launch of my book, Tradestream, I’m continuing to use Tradestreaming.com as the place where I discuss trading strategies and stuff that’s useful for retail and institutional investors. So, if you haven’t been there, head over here and sign up via email/RSS. I’ll continue to use NewRules as a B2B site, where I discuss industry [...]