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 […]
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 […]