Investors have seen tremendous damage to their portfolios in 2008. With a return of -45.5% for the S&P 500 since 21st Nov 2007 it has not been an easy year in the market. Last week the New York Times pointed out that the S&P 500 could have its worst year […]
We have seen a great deal of interest since we announced that we were teaming up with TheStreet.com to publish member blog posts on their site. A number of members have had their work featured and all have significantly increased traffic to their Covestor profiles. To be featured on TheStreet.com […]
Today you may notice on the site that the number of performance stars you have has changed slightly. This is the result of a bug fix spotted by a couple of members, whereby we weren't accurately updating the stars given changes to their historic transactions. The performance stars are […]
Following on from a previous post about useful tools for investors we continue to be approached about new offerings asking us to promote them to our community. We have no association with any of these organizations but thought we might highlight a few more to follow up on directly if […]
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Following on from our previous post about our partnership with TheStreet.com, today we put live the functionality to allow you to have your posts featured on their site. This should be a great way to build your following on Covestor, and your profile as a commentator across the web. TheStreet.com […]
Covestor is great place to follow the meltdown in the US financial system this week as a number of Members are posting their views on what has been happening and where they think this is likely to go. To find out what great self investors are doing with their own […]
Following on from our recent post about sharing your trades on Twitter, you can now also keep track of all member commentary by following Covestors' own feed on Twitter! The feed contains the commentary that members are posting to the site, highlighting the member name, the associated stock (if there […]
A few updates to existing functionality have gone live today that you will notice across the site. A couple of the key ones to highlight for you: Member Search You can now search for members by user name as well as by browsing or using the keyword search. Select the […]
This weeks interview is with Covestor member and rising star Patrick Jo Smith. Patrick has a background in finance, now working as a venture capitalist in Colorado, and spends ten to fifteen hours a week actively managing his portfolio. Patrick has a dual investing approach, about half of his investments […]
We have updated the Alpha and Beta calculations today so thought we would take the opportunity to explain more about these measures and how we calculate them. One of our members had spotted a technical bug in the calculation, which you can find displayed on each members fact sheet. Simply […]
After a short break, the interview series with The Wall Street Transcript is back. This week’s interview is with Covestor member Paul Casimir, aka Yaktipper. Paul is an Internet programmer living in Wisconsin, who also blogs his investment activity on his own site Yakblog. Paul picked up his passion for […]