by Zack Miller on December 16, 2008
TechCrunch has a great writeup today abou upstart, kaChing, the most popular investment app currently on Facebook. It’s a pretty extensive writeup so I don’t have a lot to add here. I would say that unlike Covestor or Vestopia/PersonalRIA, kaChing doesn’t require real money to be put to work behind the portfolios. So, when investors [...]
by Zack Miller on November 21, 2008
Most people who trade relatively frequently don’t realize huge profits. Their losses typically match their gains, cancelling out much of their activity and racking up transaction costs. Others, particularly whom I like to refer to as guru investors, just print money.
by Zack Miller on August 17, 2008
Covestor, a leading investing expert community, recently announced a new feature enabling Twitter integration into its trading platform. According to the company, “When you execute a trade with your broker you can now keep your followers on Twitter up to date, per the other members following you on Covestor.” Because Covestor and other expert communities [...]
by Zack Miller on August 8, 2008
I’ve been mulling over the issue of describing risk in expert investment communities. Part of the value proposition of the community concept is the clearinghouse-like pairing of “advisor” to “advisee”. Users looking to tap expert advice in these expert networks need to be able to size up a potential advisor/guru on a variety of fronts [...]
by Zack Miller on July 22, 2008
I’ve written before about expert communities like Vestopia and Covestor (as well as here) and their impact on investment decisions. By creating an open community and applying performance and other measurements to the community, spectators and participants in the community can learn from so-called experts within the community. Experts win with some type of rewards [...]
by Zack Miller on July 6, 2008
Steve Rubel is pondering the future of offline (ie. print) media as inflation soars. In fact, he suggests that print media may experience a perfect storm of decreased readership and increased production and distribution costs. Layer a growing sensitivity to the environmental impact of print and Rubel thinks that the growing minions of 3G phones, [...]
