This weeks interview is with Covestor member Don Bartell. Don has been investing for over 35 years and is now actively managing his portfolio with a view to his retirement. A former commodities broker, and a great character, Don uses detailed statistical analysis to make investment decisions. In his interview […]
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Today we have put live new Flash driven charts, which you will see on all member’s fact sheets. As well as being faster than the old charts – the new ones allow users to select the time period they are interested in, and to view the actual data points as […]
This weeks Wall Street Transcript interview is with Covestor member Eric Wolff. Eric is a young investor who runs a family office and was cited in our recent BusinessWeek coverage. Eric is the author of popular stock blog Research Intensive Investing and is an active member of both Value Investors […]
We are delighted to announce that starting today we are publishing a weekly series of in depth member interviews, in partnership with the Wall Street Transcript. The Wall Street Transcript typically interview professional money managers and CEOs – this is the first time they are covering self-directed investors. The series […]
One of our developers has created a great MacOS X widget that you can use to keep an eye on your live feed, using the new Covestor data export API. Check it out on his blog – and download the widget directly from there. Let us know of other applications […]
Today we activated the rankings tab to allow our members to benchmark their own performance, and to help users find other members that match their investment goals. We already have significantly more portfolio managers on Covestor than work for any professional firm, and so this feature will help you to […]
As you may have seen in your account already, or read online, we have added a great new feature to help members take greater control of their portfolio data. You can now export your performance, holding and trade data in RSS, XML and CSV formats. We know many of you […]
After a fair amount of debate, we have decided to tweak our performance calculation formulae for single stock performance, to account for short-long crossovers. At Covestor we bring institutional grade measurement to individual’s portfolios, which includes calculation of each members performance by stock and sector. For those interested in the […]
A number of members have noticed that we removed the Covestor management team from the ‘most followed’ list in the last week. Prior to having the rankings live the ‘most followed’ table is a good way a finding great investors to track. The issue was that since we had been […]
Covestor, in its beta phase, is a closed network for highly adept personal investors to share their investment decisions, but you don’t have to be a member of the site to track another members trades. If a member has chosen to keep their factsheet public, or has posted a widget […]
Following our recent launch of the Live Feed feature, we have this week introduced some additional community features. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions. Request a Rationale – if you’d like to understand why someone has a position in a particular stock and they’ve not posted a rationale, […]
In our drive to support members trading around the globe we have added support for all stocks on 22 further exchanges, beyond the US and UK. This means that individuals trading locally in any of these markets are able to join Covestor and build a verified performance record, and any […]