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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 […]

Aug 21 – As many investors try to find new ways to deal with an ever-changing market, online traders move toward Web 2.0 tools like blogs and podcasts for new investment strategies….

  You may have seen the cover story to this weeks Barron’s entitled "Shorting Cramer" which theorizes the relative lack of success you would have had in following Cramer in his picks on Mad Money. As the article summarises: "Our analysis of Cramer’s picks over the past two years, from […]

We have had some fantastic feedback from our members, and want to take the opportunity to thank you all for all of your kind words. Please keep sending these in – the bad as well as the good – and we will shortly add your ‘testimonials’ to the About section […]

Today we put up the first of a number of  Community features to be introduced over the next month or so  – a ‘live feed’ of all activity relevant to you. The feature appears on the ‘My Summary’ page, and will give you a better view of all of the […]

This Saturday afternoon, 08/04, Covestor CEO Rikki Tahta will be appearing on Chicago’s WGN Radio show – The Money Show with Bill Moller: Rikki will be on air at 1.30pm Central Time. Call in with questions or just listen to the show live over the internet by clicking on listen […]

We have made a few changes to the site recently, some of which you may have already noticed, in response to feedback from members. Please keep this coming as there have been some great ideas, and our updates will continue to be led by your suggestions. Recent changes include: Sortable […]

From today anyone with a TradeStation account can sign up to Covestor using the ‘Automatic Data Import’ feature to create a view only data link. All trades and holdings will be automatically reported on execution from TradeStation, to build a verified investment record. We will shortly be adding Zecco and […]

The Tyco restructuring caused momentary chaos as our performance engine faced for the first time a simultaneous reverse split and double spin-offs.  Those early Covestor members holding Tyco would have faced wildly differing return calculations on July 2nd.  Eventually by the close of the following day the analytics teams had […]

One of the debates currently at Covestor is whether we should include the ‘cash’ position of a member’s portfolio as part of their investment record. A number of users have asked us to include this as a better reflection of their overall investment decisions. We decided not to incorporate the […]

A great article ran last night on Reuters, which was then picked up by The Boston Globe among others announcing our partnership with Seeking Alpha and highlighting the rapid uptake of Covestor among the stock blogging community. Many blogs are already displaying Covestor widgets on their pages and promoting the […]

Today our CEO Rikki Tahta makes an appearance on the fantastic daily video show Wallstrip. We are big fans of Lindsays’ so great to see Rikki on there. It is also his birthday today so VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ‘Rikki Rikki Tahta’ from everyone here at Covestor!